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About monist Pagan mysticism. Published under the banner "Neither monotheist nor polytheist, Spirit is Infinite Consciousness. Godhead is simultaneously Many and One and is present throughout the natural world."
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Ritual for Blessing & Animating Democracy Explained
Peace! I hope to be posting more and more regularly soon. Here's an interesting video from MagickTV of interviews with organizers of a Jan. 19th ritual of blessing in Washington, D.C.. It runs about 16:30.And here is a much longer video of the ins...
Some Problems with the West
[Image available as a poster]The prevalent Western worldview is hampered by intellectual structures and practices that limit capacity, conceptual imagination, and our ability to adapt to reality.Here's the first and perhaps most central problem: the...
Mage of the Day
A fun and insightful few minutes. (I will add the comment that magic needn't be as strictly inward as this segment, by itself, implies)....
Free Mystic
The most attractive self-name for me—more than Pagan or Witch (both of which I accept and use)—is Free Mystic. I like that better because it’s looser and freer, and because it describes my transcultural sources and my refusal to commit to ins...
Solstice Blessings & Altar Pictures
It's been a while since I felt moved to develop the kind of essay I publish here on Manifold Oneness. This blog is more for the ideas and concepts I'm deeply committed to, the aspects of my practice that "stick" forever or for long periods of time. O...
On Unity, Epistemology and True Will
The world used to be trapped in a construct of magic, then of faith, then one of philosophical reason, now perhaps one of engineering. More likely, now is fragmented between competing camps with different kinds of power. Via the root concept of tec...
Cora Anderson, 1915-2008
Cora Anderson, 93, left her body at 1:00am on the Eve of May. Cora was the co-founder of the Feri Tradition, along with her beloved partner, Victor Anderson (who crossed over in 2001). These two pioneers gave birth to a vision that has influenced man...
I Stand with Rev. Jeremiah Wright
In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth is a revolutionary act.George OrwellThis man is being vilified in the press for telling the plain truth. To my eyes, he looks like an authentic prophet... or at least a temporary oracle. In Christian te...
Proceed According to "Instructions"
And here's another quite similar set of instructions....
Dialectical Spirituality
Inviting Abraxas invites contemplation of the dialectic and its role in the exploration of consciousness. (Abraxas also has me cooking some thoughts about the Buddhist "three poisons" and how they can be worked with in Abraxian practice as a basis f...
My Abraxas
Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed wordwhich is life and death at the same time. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.-- Prophet Carl Jung, ...
More about Savory Things
Savor sufficient to lure the wispiest ghost into corpulence...Israel Shenker Dance with pleasure, sing Life. Join the rocks and trees in chorus.Wrap your legs around the mountains And let your lips caress the river.Join with Life in this moment and S...
Awakenings and Ecstasy
The Gods and Spirit Powers of Pagan religions are very Real forces with manifest personalities and intelligence, not mere metaphors. They are accessible to us according to our willingness and level of preparedness. Gods respond to freedom and opennes...
Rasa: Savoring both Spirit and Matter
ALLEGORY OF THE FIVE SENSES Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.Oscar WildeFor there is no conception in man’s mind,which hath not first been begotten upon the organs of sense.Thomas Hobbes The ...
Bring Back the Old Gods
Dogma vs. Ideation: Methods of Plotinus
PLOTINUS EVOLVI: THE KNOWER UNROLLS THE KNOWINGI'd like to share an excerpt from a book that's very valuable for understanding the Neoplatonic school of Pagan mysticism. This except is about a crucial choice we have to make in relation to ideas and s...
Front and Center
MAHA SHRI YANTRAPlay with language often produces real insight and can help us tweak our inner worlds. Such play can open lots of meaning, and I sometimes think that the potential for such tweaking has been planted for us to cultivate. The differenc...
Vision Questions
Tree of Life, American ShakerI think that it would be good for American Pagans to inquire deeply what it would mean to us, psychologically and emotionally, if we were 'reduced' to having basic needs met in very simple ways. What do our authentic resp...
