Category: Articles
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The Death of a Dream: Churches, Seminaries, and Other Uphill Battles
Categories: ArticlesTags: personal experienceIt was a long struggle for Taz and I both to realize that we, by ourselves, didn’t have the resources available to support the sort of infrastructure that we were trying to build.
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Abracadabra: Having the Courage to Create What We Speak
Categories: ArticlesSpeaking up, speaking out, speaking aloud, speaking confidently is an act of will, an act of magick.
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The Web: Dancing With the Universe
Categories: ArticlesThe Web is more than the natural connections between all beings, be they animal, vegetable, or mineral. It also incorporates concepts of wyrd, karma, and mana.
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The Way: Walking in the Footsteps of the Great Teachers
Categories: ArticlesThe Way, at least as I currently understand it, is a practice that emphasizes the sorts of universal truths that underpin many of the world’s religions and philosophies-of-life: love one another, harm none, honor the divine, exercise compassion, help those in need, defend those who cannot defend themselves, safeguard all children, respect your elders, enjoy…
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The Work: A Tale of Two Wiccas
Categories: ArticlesIn Traditional Initiatory Wicca, there are working rituals and celebratory occasions that have a distinct pattern, symbolism, and lore attached to them. And then, there is the other stuff. And the other stuff, at its heart, can really only be defined as purpose-driven and intuitive ecstatic practice.