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What transcends you?
2012 Thing on Thursday #1 Humans seem to have a need to be part of something greater than themselves. As a naturalist, what transcends you? I don’t mean transcendence in the sense of something supernatural, nor something merely greater in…
Read MoreWhy do we do ritual?
– by B. T. Newberg It’s often claimed that ritual without literal deities or magic must be meaningless. This post aims to explode that idea. Many Pagans say that ritual is beneficial, whether or not deity “exists” or the magic…
Read MoreCosmic Calendar: First life emerges
On Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar (illustrated as a comic strip here), which maps the entire history of our cosmos onto a single year, September is particularly interesting. Today, on the 21st (3.8 billion years ago), prokaryotes, earth’s first forms of life,…
Read MoreWhy basic research methodology is important to magical knowledge, by Lupa
Recently on Livejournal I wrote a response to a post someone else wrote about proposed experiments to try to “prove” the objective existence of Otherkin. These experiments ranged from Kirlian photography to try to get pictures of phantom limbs, to…
Read MoreMeditation on the Five +1
– by B. T. Newberg How do we experience our world? …through touch, taste, smell, sound, sight, and introspection. The following meditation grounds a person deeply in these six foundations of experience. One by one, awareness is brought to each…
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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