image enhanced from Education by Louis Comfort Tiffany How do you keep myth from becoming dogma? Heather Wiech suggests it takes both science and religion. – B. T. Newberg Joseph Campbell said that religion is supposed to give meaning to…
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As I poured a libation of barley tea, read aloud the Hymn to Demeter, and called out to the Two Goddesses, Demeter and Persephone, a dull frustration was in the air. The words rang empty. Then, as my fingers dug into the dirt and deposited the pendant into the ground, a rush came over me. Through my mind flashed a voice: “Let them die.”
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image enhanced from original, original, and Demeter, Attic red figure, c. 480 BC – by B. T. Newberg It is time to put words into action. I am taking the coming week, starting tomorrow, as a seven-day Humanistic Paganism retreat. …
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