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How can a naturalist emerge in Paganism?
As in the animation above, multiple currents move in the Pagan community, often in seemingly opposite directions. – by B. T. Newberg Tanya Lurhmann, in her anthropological study Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft, asks how an otherwise mainstream person can…
Read MorePagan ritual as an encounter with depth, Part 2, by John Halstead
In Part 1, I discussed how I try to create ritual that is an expression of the unconscious. Today, I will explain how I try to maintain the connection to the unconscious after the ritual is created. The routinization of…
Read MorePagan ritual as an encounter with depth, part 1, by John Halstead
We are not one Jungian-based Paganism begins with the proposition that the human psyche is not unitary. We are not one; we are many striving to become one. As James Hillman writes, “every sophisticated theory of personality has to admit…
Read MoreIsis in Big History, Part 4: From the Cosmos to Daily Life
– by B. T. Newberg Big History is the entire story of the universe. In the scale of cosmic time, human life can and perhaps should feel dwarfed – it puts us in perspective. At the same time, the story…
Read MoreIsis in Big History, Part 3: From the Middle Ages to the Modern Era
– by B. T. Newberg What happens when a myth goes through an extinction event? Pagan cults were stamped out as far as possible under Christian domination, but Isian strains survived through radical adaptation. This post is the third in…
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