"How did you get to be such an Artisan chef ( Read more... )

The age old question... when it comes to religion and spirituality, which is more important? Personal philosophy, or personal experience ( Read more... )

"Experience without thought... the pulling apart of experience into isolated moments, and saying, 'this moment is pleasure,' and 'this moment is pain,' is about the best way I can think of to bury your consciousness of time so that there is no narrative... no awareness of the profound sadness of what we are doing to reality. For fuck's sake, man. ( Read more... )

Just before I woke, I had this dream about Dionysos, which, while brief, was both vivid and lucid, and also completely uncharacteristic of a dream of the sort that people usually have about gods ( Read more... )

"Dionysos gets a bad rap. He's not who people think he is. He's not a drunk. He's not an addict. Addiction is the very opposite of everything Dionysian. He's about freedom, and will, and being your truest self. Enjoying life. Addiction prevents you from enjoying the substance. If you're a pagan, and I know you are, and you ever have trouble with ( Read more... )

Today, I had a few beers, and gave Bill dating advice. This was especially hilarious because the dude is ten or fifteen years older than me ( Read more... )

To complete my analysis of Shekhina, and whether she bears resemblance to Earth and Nature deities, the answer is no. Allow me to expound.

Shekhina is the personification of Malchut. If you were to look in a Kabbalistic dictionary, this is basically what it would say. The Zohar mentions her interchangeably with "the tenth emanation." And any ( Read more... )

I'm still researching Saturn creatures ( Read more... )

So, we gave calling Centaurs a whirl, in the context of being a Jupiter spirit ( Read more... )

Question: What is the difference between Shekhina, who is the personification of Malchut, Gaia, who is the personification of the Earth, and Mother Nature, who is the personification all natural forces. Or are these all philosophically equivalent, but with different masks?