This is a post written in response to those who condemn petitionary prayer as a way of making oneself feel better about things without actually working to change them, a doing-something flavoured way of not doing anything. There's a general tendency to cast users of petitionary prayer as deluded and smug, doing nothing but sitting back and talking ( Read more... )

I was hoping to get into some of the recent topics in more depth today--especially the topic of spiritual abuse etc--but I'm basically just too sick at the moment. A variety of factors seem to have precipitated a crash in my mood, and all I can really think about is the symptoms. So I'm going to write about the depression. ( Read more... )

There's a lot of confusion surrounding this term, which I'm hoping to help clear up ( Read more... )

Sometimes, the connection goes down.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: for those who work for, with, over or around spirits, downtime is a feature, not a bug. You need the breaks in contact to process what you've recieved so far, to maintain your mundane functionality, and just generally collect your face. None of which necessarily ( Read more... )

If you want to be heard, speak up ( Read more... )

So, the idea of writing in a more general, detached way about the topic as a way of processing the anxiety and fear over this summer's forthcoming work was very successful. Until I finished the piece, and then it all started to ( Read more... )

So I went back to that piece I posted the other day and cracked it open with the intent of pruning/cleanup. And... it was kind of like the topic scruffed me and wouldn't let me go, you know? I felt like I just HAD to add all this extra stuff. Now instead of being shorter it's about 3 times as long, GAAAHHH. I ended up writing more on the ( Read more... )

I'm facing ordeal again in a couple of months, and as you'd expect it is on my mind to an increasing degree as the time gets closer. To help me process, I've been writing about ordeal work: what it is, what it's not, why do it (and why not). Maybe clear up a few common misconceptions ( Read more... )

Some readers will already be familiar with Wayland Skallagrimsson's essay Racism in Asatrú, a thorough disembowelling of Folkist belief and ideology. He's now written a follow-up piece, Responses To Folkish Heathens, where he revisits the themes and notes that in all the years since the original essay was first posted online, not one single person ( Read more... )

I'm an ill-tempered git at the best of times, quick to anger and supplied with a very short fuse. There are certain things, though, that will chop off that fuse altogether and set off the whole dynamite cache like a Wile. E. Coyote cartoon. One such thing would be this book.It's kind of a perfect storm of "send Mordant into a steaming rage"-ness ( Read more... )