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Summer Solstice Music Mix by Bart Everson
Summer solstice songs are few and far between. Sure, there’s any number of pleasant if generic instrumental electronic jams that reference the longest day in their titles, but substantive connections are harder to find. In fact, if it weren’t for Shakespeare, we’d have mighty slim pickings indeed. Props to the Bard. Enjoy, and Happy Solstice!
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The Mix-Master: Bart Everson
In addition to writing the A Pedagogy of Gaia column here at HumanisticPaganism, Bart Everson is a writer, a photographer, a baker of bread, a husband and a father. An award-winning videographer, he is co-creator of ROX, the first TV show on the internet. As a media artist and an advocate for faculty development in higher education, he is interested in current and emerging trends in social media, blogging, podcasting, et cetera, as well as contemplative pedagogy and integrative learning. He is a founding member of the Green Party of Louisiana, past president of Friends of Lafitte Corridor, sometime contributor to Rising Tide, and a participant in New Orleans Lamplight Circle.
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HP Pride: Meet Trellia
HP Pride is a new monthly column where we interview members of the Humanistic Paganism community and other like-minded friends. One or more interviews will be published every month. If you are not a “Big Name Pagan”, or if you have never written online before, all the better! We want to hear from everyone! If you’d like to be interviewed, just click this link and follow the instructions. Today we are interviewing Trellia. Read More
The Human Animal, by Paula Barkmeier
We encourage our readers to use these Mid-Month Meditations as an opportunity to take a short break from everything else. Rather than treating these posts the way you would any other post, set aside 10 minutes someplace quiet and semi-private to have an experience. Take a minute to relax first. After looking at the art below, take a few minutes to let the experience sink in. If it feels right, leave a comment.
When I caught sight of the work of Paula Barkmeier at a recent art fair, I knew the HP community would be interested. Her human-animal hybrids suggest something many of us feel but can’t easily express: our essential oneness with nature.
But there is also a certain tension: beautiful as they are, these hybrids also feel alien, occasionally even monstrous. Can we ever fully accept our animal nature? – B. T. Newberg Read More
PaGaian Cosmology Meditations CDs
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My name is Glenys Livingstone, and I am the author of PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion (Lincoln NE: iUniverse 2005)
For over two decades I have been teaching and celebrating Earth’s sacred annual cycle, and for each Seasonal Moment in the preparation classes there has been an experiential meditation evolving – that I have shared with my students: it is a potent creative process, an eco-psychology, when the whole cycle is tasted … it is a geo-therapy (thanks to cosmologist Brian Swimme and geologian Thomas Berry for that term) that can heal and whole and create. Participating in the sacred process of the Wheel of the Year, celebrating GaiaEarth’s creativity is a Poiesis – the making of a world, and these meditations have enabled a taste and experience of this magical process for participants, including myself.
It is time now to share it further – especially for those around the globe who would like to have participated in the PaGaian seasonal ceremonies, and/or the ceremonial preparation classes over the years, who may like to taste it now – and in one’s own space, and perhaps with others. My creation of the CDs is for any who desire, and perhaps already have, deep conversation with the Mother, our sacred place of being – the meditations will meet a person at whatever self appointed place. In these times of deep change, a return to sacred ceremony seems more necessary – medicinal, even urgent – for the wholing of each and all, for the remembering of who and where we are. Read More
“Why Are So Many Women Embracing Vesta & Contemporary Paganism?” by Debra Macleod
The rediscovery of ancient faiths like Vesta, as well as other pre-Christian polytheistic belief systems, has been skyrocketing for years now. And while both men and women are embracing these, I’d like to focus here on why women are doing so. Read More
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