Posted on January 24th, 2010.
The sixth annual Conference on Current Pagan Studies is about to take place January 30-31, 2010, through the Claremont Graduate University. This year’s keynote speakers are Donald Michael Kraig and T. Thorn Coyle.
The American Academy of Religion now recognizes Pagan Studies as a legitimate field of study. This, along with an expansion of peer reviewed [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2009.
Contrasting cultures: the female witches are winning in San Francisco, but in Africa women are dying.
Yesterday I celebrated my wife’s birthday, and we went to see Wicked. This is a highly successful play, musical, it’s been to Broadway, and has many companies playing all over the globe.
I was so very pleasantly surprised.
Culturally speaking witches have [...]
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Posted on September 15th, 2009.
Buried in ancient Roman soils for over 1,500 years, archeologist unearthed three clay figurines of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. According to the researchers, it was clear that the pagan worshippers of Aphrodite had wished to hide the three goddess figurines, as they were found complete.
“It is possible that during the fourth century [...]
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Posted on September 14th, 2009.
Marion Weinstein 1939-2009
It was 1978 when Positive Magic: Occult Self-Help was written by Marion Weinstein. What she brought to the pagan table was a sweet, personal book of shadows that showed the world that a witch could live gently as a witch within society, practicing her magic in an everyday fashion.
By using the word “positive,” [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2009.
There’s so much discussion in the greater pagan community about who worships what, what tradition is better or worse, whose god or goddess is better than any other, etc. And it’s really not so different than the discussions pagans have with Christians over whose god is more legitimate.
But fact is, whether you worship a dead [...]
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