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In a private message, Ianphanes asked:
It occurred to me yesterday that you are one person who could speak with some authority on a question that has floated around the more experienced practitioners in the Central Illinois pagan/magical community for ( Read more... )

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Over at The Wild Hunt, Jason Pitzl-Waters has produced a fascinating and well-documented series of posts on Christian Dominionism.  For those of you who aren't familiar with the expression, it is a blanket term used to describe a number of militant right-wing strains of Christianity.  Speaking of one of the most prominent of these ( Read more... )

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I was unsure of what I was going to post today, until Brother Christopher's comment on my earlier post provided me with inspiration.
that's a delightful pastoral fantasy to which I call bullshit. All of the items of "personal gain" that you have pointed to a Neoshaman are also things that a tribal shaman would also need to produce for ( Read more... )

On Topix winnemuccamomma informed me:

You really need to stop spreading half-truths...

You ARE a hate crime waiting to happen.

Perhaps you might want to wait for the truth to be exposed, especially since the wife finally confessed as to some realities? And that this is really all about 2 white boys who have been fighting for years and it just got ( Read more... )

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One of my longtime Livejournal and meatspace friends, Hugh Eckert
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On May 24, Paiute Indian Johnny Bonta and his family were involved in a confrontation with several young white men in Fernley, Nevada.  Accounts differ as to what happened next: the Bontas claim they were attacked without provocation by the men, who called them "niggers" and "river monsters" while beating them with baseball bats.  Then ( Read more... )

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Since the popular Pagan board MysticWicks appears to be down, I thought I would post my response to a thread on the forum concerning that ever-popular bugbear, Neoshamanism
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I was recently speaking with a dear acquaintance of mine about Reiki, Sue Satayana Yarnes.  She's a Reiki teacher and practitioner whom Kathy and I met at Free Spirit Gathering: we have received Level I attunements from her and she has provided invaluable assistance at the Universal Temple of Spirits' annual FSG ritual.  We ( Read more... )

Since my earlier post about the Sedona sweat lodge deaths, James Arthur Ray was found guilty on three counts of negligent homicide. Cherokee elder, judge and associate professor Steve Russell offered some pointed thoughts on the subject:For $9,695, Ray promised that Native American wisdom, imparted by him, would make you healthy, wealthy, and wise ( Read more... )

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