interesting read
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-embarrassments-of-chronocentrism.html

http://galabes.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-separation-of-coven-and-state.html?m=1

just some telling statements, that really bug me, and why I totally shun pagandom ( Read more... )

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2015/10/the-rantin-raven-wicca-was-the-tantra-of-the-west/?ref_widget=gr_trending&ref_blog=grails&ref_post=paganI remember the author from the old internet days of paganism (compuserv/aol/listserv's and newsgroups ( Read more... )

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/paganrestoration/2015/10/my-ancestors-are-dead/
quite frankly this one is really dumb.
it seems the author equates ancestor worship with a type of necromancy.
then he undoes his basic premise about 2/3rds down.....

"When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual."
from Dune, Frank Herbert

http://polytheist.com/noeseis/2015/07/23/principles-of-mythological-hermeneutics-i/Read more... )

"sermons" from the mound ( Read more... )

so the theology thing has come around again. it's taken the form of an old christian argument 'faith' vs 'works', except in this case it is more like 'knowledge' vs 'practice'. I still marvel at the duality of the professed monists/nondualists tending to see things as either/or ( Read more... )

I marvel at the idea that the nature of the gods is somehow mysterious, paradoxical, supernatural or unknowable. the key to it has been passed down through millennia, from the oldest Upanishads to the inscription at Delphi, the Smagardine Tablet, to the more modern charge of the goddess and Victor Anderson's 'sutra'. even Joseph Smith.;-)
perhaps it ( Read more... )