Podcasts about neo pagan

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On The Hermetic Hour for September 2nd, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. host Poke Runyon will be joined by Jo Carson for a discussion about the life and work of surrealist painter, poet, Neo-Pagan philosopher and ceremonial magician Frederick Adams. Fred, with his consort Lady Svetlana, founded "Feraferia" in 1969. Feraferia was the first, and still the most elegant, expression of Goddess worshiping, Nature focused, Neo-Pagan religion in America. Jo Carson's recently released film "Dancing With Gaia" features Fred giving instruction in land-form yoga, and also displays his marvelous art work. Fred Adams was certainly a master magician. He and Svetlana recreated the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries and perfected a joyous round of nine Seasonal Ceremonies. There would be no O.T.A. Seasonals without the original inspiration of Feraferia. Tune in on Thursday and connect with this beautiful and vital expression of modern magick.

In this episode, the Super Sleuth teams up with Pastor Wade from Apologia Utah for a powerful interview with Pastor John White. Together, they dive into his mission of equipping pastors to confront the rising tide of neopaganism spreading across the Western world. What's the best way to engage with our Neo-Pagan neighbors?How can a deeper understanding of their worldview empower us to share the Gospel more effectively? Tune in to find out! Please consider partnering with us to continue this ministry: HERE

For the final episode in this first 13-part series of Magic and Medicines, Eleanor explains the origins and subsequent interpretations of Ogham, the ancient Irish language of cuts.We start by exploring how we define what Ogham is, and its origins in the 4th century A.D. From there we dive into how the system works, our earliest sources (including The Auraicept na n-Eces, The Ogham Tract, and The Book of Ballymote) some associated mythology, and points of crossover with other runic languages such as the Elder Futhark.After that, via a bit of Medieval misinterpretation, it's onto the Neo-Pagan revivals and characters including Iolo Morganwg and Robert Graves, whose speculative works served to further muddle our understanding of Ogham, while also birthing a series of quite nice ideas! Encompassing methods for using Ogham in divination to the Celtic Tree Months, links between Ogham and the legends of the Tower of Babel, Lebor Ogham, 'orthodox' and 'scholastic' scripts, and much more, it's a fascinating journey into a rich, technical topic which may, in truth, forever remain a little bit of a mystery...Martin will be back on Saturday for our Local Legends interview with Dr Francis Young, and we then hope you will join us on Monday for our next county episode, in which we will be exploring the history and folklore of Worcestershire!The Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon.Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England's 39 historic counties, exploring the history, folklore and traditions of the area, from ghosts and mermaids to mythical monsters, half-forgotten heroes, bloody legends, and much, much more. Then, and most importantly, the pair take turns to tell a new version of an ancient story from that county - all before discussing what that tale might mean, where it might have come from, and the truths it reveals about England's hidden past...Bonus Episodes are released on Thursdays (Magic and Medicines about folk remedies and arcane spells, Three Ravens Bestiary about cryptids and mythical creatures, Dying Arts about endangered heritage crafts, and Something Wicked about folkloric true crime from across history) plus Local Legends episodes on Saturdays - interviews with acclaimed authors, folklorists, podcasters and historians with unique perspectives on that week's county.With a range of exclusive content on Patreon, too, including audio ghost tours, the Three Ravens Newsletter, and monthly Three Ravens Film Club episodes about folk horror films from across the decades, why not join us around the campfire and listen in?Learn more at www.threeravenspodcast.com, join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/threeravenspodcast, and find links to our social media channels here: https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy All Saints Day!  Daniel fights off the Halloween ghoulies with BT (Brandon Wallace) of the Unrefined Podcast and Truth & Shadow Podcast.

What words would you choose to describe our current culture in regards to God and spirituality?  How has it changed?  How do we relate to it now?

Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this episode we explore the most prolific occult lodge of the German speaking world, The Fraternitas Saturni, delving deep into its quixotic metaphysics and dark philosophies. With Steven Flowers as our guide, our journey begins in pre-world-war Germany, stars Aleister Crowley as a leading progenitor of the drama which slithers into classic German expressionist film, spans two world wars and threatens to reveal the hidden truth of this world! In the first half of the show we dive into the history of the big occult names in Germany, the catastrophic influence Aleister Crowley had on the scene and how the Fraternitas Saturni rose triumphantly from the ashes of the chaos. In the second half of the show we dissect original cult documents to get a better idea of the ideas and esoteric philosophies inside the Fraternitas Saturni which has remained a tightly held secret for generations. Thank you and enjoy the show! In this episode we discuss:The Black Lodge of David LynchCompassionless Love?Saturn, The DemiurgeThe Luciferian PrincipleBaphomet, The Goat of MendesGerman MasonryAdonism of Franz SättlerTheodor Reuss and the German OTOAleister Crowley, the Chosen One In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go much further to discuss:The Evolution of Thelema w/ Karl GermerThe Rise of AriosophyChakravartinDoctrines of the Fraternitas Saturni9 Paths of GnosisThe Saturnian ArchetypeGOTOSInitiatic GoalsLucifer's Crown EmeraldEach host is responsible for writing and creating the content they present. Where to find The Whole Rabbit:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitTwitter: https://twitter.com/1WholeRabbitMusic By Spirit Travel Plaza: https://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSOURCES:Failed Trump Assassination Timeline from CBShttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-trump-rally-shooting/Failed Trump Assassination Timeline from Sheryl Attkinsonhttps://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/timeline-of-trump-assassination-attempt?triedRedirect=trueSupport the Show.

It's time to kick around an idea that gets brought up and used quite a bit these days. Unverified personal Gnosis are the terms used to describe a belief gained through personal subjective experience, not things which are confirmed by traditions or in groups. They usually inform the belief system of those that experience them. On this episode, we will be talking with someone whose entire practice is based around Unverified Personal Gnosis. That's right! It's the long-awaited return of author and animist sorcerer Aidan Wachter!

New Age practices in the Church are on the rise. To understand what is meant by “New Age” it is basically a combination of metaphysical beliefs, spiritual techniques, and ancient rituals that have become popular in Western society over the last few decades.They often involve a mix of Eastern Mysticism, Neo-Pagan religion, and occultism. These practices tend to focus on personal transformation or enlightenment by tapping into universal energies or developing psychic abilities.Frighteningly, many of these occultic practices have infiltrated the Church and are being taught to unsuspecting Christians – (many of whom are really Christians in name only) - as being part of their faith. Some of these “New Age” practices may appear to look innocent – but it must be understood that even the most innocuous practice is backed by Satan and his intention to keep as many as he can, entangled in his lies and falsehoods. In this Podcast, we expose several of these demonic practices with a call for the legitimate children of God to contend even more earnestly for the true Faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. (Jude 1:3)Support the Show.Visit our website: https://agapelightministries.com/

The Hierophant represents my guest today on The Tarot Table. This card embodies dedication to learning, studying, and preserving the knowledge and traditions of the past. It represents the importance of education, mentorship, and the passing down of wisdom from one generation to another. The Hierophant card often depicts a figure in a position of authority, such as a teacher or spiritual leader, holding a book or scroll. This symbolizes the accumulation of knowledge and the role of the scholar in disseminating information and preserving cultural heritage. As a scholar of folklore or history, The Hierophant reflects your commitment to understanding and uncovering the stories, beliefs, and traditions of the past. It signifies your role in interpreting and sharing this knowledge with others, providing insights into these narratives' historical and cultural significance. The Hierophant also represents the importance of structure and established systems of learning. It suggests that you approach your studies with discipline, respect for academic traditions, and a willingness to delve deep into the subject matter. Furthermore, The Hierophant encourages you to seek guidance from mentors or teachers who can impart their wisdom and experience. It emphasizes the value of learning from those who have dedicated their lives to studying folklore or history, allowing you to gain valuable insights and perspectives. The Hierophant represents my guest today, Ben Stimpson.  Who Is Ben Stimpson? Ben Stimpson, BA (Hons), MBACP (He/They/Them) is an integrative therapist, spiritual director, author, podcaster, and independent scholar of folklore and history.  A member of the modern NeoPagan and queer communities, Ben's personal life helps to inform his professional and research work.  Ben holds a BA in Medieval, Classical, and Religious Studies from the University of Waterloo and a post-graduate Diploma in Spiritual Psychotherapy.  As a therapist, he excels in working with members of the queer community and other marginalized populations and ascribes to transpersonal, systemic, and narrative approaches to therapy.  He hosts the Essence podcast, a weekly show interviewing fellow authors and practitioners in alternative spirituality and therapy.  His debut title, Ancestral Whispers: A Guide to Developing Ancestral Veneration Practices, was released by Llewellyn Worldwide in 2023, and he is currently developing other projects for Crossed Crow Books.   You can connect with Ben on his site, https://www.benstimpson.com. He is also on Instagram, @benstimpsonauthor, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/BenStimpsonAuthor, and YouTube. Also, check out Ben's podcast, Essence with Ben Stimpson. Check his publications here! Now you have it! I will talk to you again next Friday and next week and chat with the one the Empress represents. My guest has been helping women step out of all the “should do's” the holistic and modern wellness industry has been pushing at them. And we will talk about how she does that. Follow me on Medium at msmir.medium.com, Instagram at miriamreadstarot, and check out my site at miriamreadstarot.com. And, of course, follow The Tarot Table Podcast. You can also join my list to get a week ahead tarot reading each Sunday so you know what energies you are facing at miriamreadstarot.substack.com. Next week. Until then, see you next time, ciao for now.

On Thursday June 6th,2024 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review and discuss the new expanded Second Edition of "Celebrate Wildness, Magic, Myth and Love on the Feraferian Path" with author Jo Carson, president of Feraferia, Inc. America's first and still foremost nature and goddess venerating Neo-Pagan tradition. Lady Jo will be our call-in guest. The beautifully illustrated book is now on sale at < pokerunyon.com > for $45.00 free-shipping in U.S. Lady Jo is an award-winning film maker and creator of the Feraferian documentary video: "Dancing with Gaia" which is also carried in our bookstore. The book and the video can be bought together for $55.00. The late Frederick Adams has been called the American William Blake. He was a wonderful artist and magician. Join us and celebrate the goddess. Evoe! Kore!

In this episode, Matt speaks with John "Apollonius" Opsopaus who is a magician, scholar, and computer scientist who has practiced magic, divination, and Neopaganism since the 1960s. He has more than 40 publications in various magical and Neopagan magazines and designed the Pythagorean Tarot and wrote the comprehensive Guide to the Pythagorean Tarot. He is the author of The Oracles of Apollo, and The Secret Texts of Hellenic Polytheism. John's Website: http://opsopaus.com/ Read the first chapter of Pythagorean Theology: http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/ETP/I.html warmachinepodcast.com Music for this episode: Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine French Inhale, bsd.u Flare, Frederic Robinson Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

GUEST: ANDREW DeBARTOLO, Director of Operations, Liberty Coalition CanadaTo borrow a popular term today, the United States is in “transition”. Whereas the nation once “identified” as a broadly Christian nation (the Declaration of Independence refers multiple times to the Christian God), a real transition (in contrast to the imagined transitions and marriages of the transvestite/homosexual movement) has and is taking place to a present-day post-Christian, neo-pagan nation, where Satanic statues are displayed in state capitol buildings and a reworked Marxist-based, anti-Christian religion of woke-ism has captured many minds and all institutions.How and why has this happened in a nation so known for and influenced by Christianity? Is it…Infiltration of nefarious forces (e.g. globalists and Marxists)?Leavening principle of sin over time?Compromising churches exerting less influence?Christians unengaged from culture and politics?Judgment of God “giving over” the nation to unrestrained sinfulness (Rom. 1)?Whatever the reasons—and no doubt there are more—here we are in our present state of depravity and foolishness (i.e. thinking and living as if there is no God).So what should Christians do now? Broadly speaking, there are three general responses:FAITHFULNESS: A primary focus on personal sanctification, family discipleship, and the local church, along with some civil engagement such as voting, running for public office, and supporting organizations that advocate for Christian-based policies. Example: G3 Ministries, John MacArthurACTIVISM: a more muscular posture that aims for spiritual and cultural change, including local church advocacy in politics and issues, on-the-street confrontation of sin, and a willingness to unite across theological divides to accomplish political objectives. Example: Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk.DOMINION: the belief that Christ reigns over all and thus a mandate that institutions and society be reclaimed, possibly by force if necessary, to reflect overtly Christian laws and magistrates. Example: full-throated Christian Nationalists, some in New Apostolic ReformationWhich response most honors God and the example His Son and His disciples set? Join us this weekend on The Christian Worldview as Andrew DeBartolo, Director of Operations for Liberty Coalition Canada, describes what is occurring in his country and ours and what he believes Christians should do.

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/jay-sanalysis--1423846/support.Another deep dive analysis with @JayDyer and Tristan on the classic 1973 British folk horror film The Wicker Man and the 2006 remake starring Nicolas Cage. We discuss the cultural phenomenon of neopaganism through festivals such as Burning Man and the cultural revolution of the 1960's, and the engineered reimagining of the "Old Gods" as a tool for power and manipulation.New live event! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hollywood-conspiracy-comedy-jamie-kennedy-jay-dyer-jamie-hanshaw-tickets-825819417107?aff=oddtdtcreator Send Superchats at any time here: https://streamlabs.com/jaydyer/tip The New Philosophy Course is here: https://marketplace.autonomyagora.com/philosophy101 Use JAY50 promo code here https://choq.com for huge discounts - 50% off! Set up recurring Choq subscription with the discount code JAY53LIFE for 53% off now https://choq.com Lore coffee is here: https://www.patristicfaith.com/coffee/ Orders for the Red Book are here: https://jaysanalysis.com/product/the-red-book-essays-on-theology-philosophy-new-jay-dyer-book/ Subscribe to my site here: https://jaysanalysis.com/membership-account/membership-levels/ Follow me on R0kfin here: https://rokfin.com/jaydyer

On Thursday February 29th 2024, The Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will broadcast a memorial for Wiccan and Neo-Pagan elder Edward Sitch 1937 - 2024, with Pagan leaders and friends calling in sharing remembrances of Frater Ea and "Sitch the Witch" as Tom Snyder dubbed him. Ed was a VMI grad and a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force Reserve. He served in Viet Nam, Thailand, the U.S. and U.K. With Joseph Wilson and Raymond Buckland, Ed brought Witchcraft (Wicca) to America in the 1950s. He worked as a writer and editor on "The waxing Moon," and "The Crystal Well" both leading Neo-Pagan pblications. He was the author of several books, including "A Grimoire of Shadows" and "The Rites of Odin." He was a member of the original Brethen of the Coast Pirate Club; and as a sailor he crewed on Sydney Hatchl's schooner Escape, and was 2nd mate on my schooner Valkyrie. He was a witch and a magician, a wizard and a warrior, a sailer and a sage. He was a Gentleman of the Old School. He will be long remembered and he will be missed.

In today's episode I talk about banishing vs releasing work - when to use each, as well as a frank discussion of mental health, intergenerational trauma, internalized bigotry, and other things that come up when we talk about releasing work and healing. I talk about my year of no, and how saying no can be a way to say yes to what matters most to you. In Witch You Got This, I offer you my daily(ish) releasing practice and elemental connection practice, which helps me feel grounded and like I'm moving in a healthy direction.   This episode was recorded live with a (virtual) studio audience - thanks for tuning in, Sassafras Patrons! Sign up and claim this and other perks at patreon.com/sassafrastarot.   Links to stuff mentioned in this show: Jason Miller: https://strategicsorcery.net Tarot of the Abyss by Ana Tourian: https://www.usgamesinc.com/tarot-of-the-abyss.html     Today's song: Vulture Link to the track for download or purchase: https://roriekelly.bandcamp.com/track/vulture (You can also find it on your favorite streaming site by searching "Rorie Kelly Vulture")   --- Find Sassafras Tarot online: http://www.patreon.com/sassafrastarot http://www.facebook.com/sassafrastarot http://www.Twitter.com/sassafrastarot http://www.Instagram.com/sassafrastarot http://www.twitch.tv/sassafrastarot https://www.tiktok.com/@sassafrastarot https://www.youtube.com/@SassafrasTarot   Order a reading from the Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Sassafrastarot   Find Rorie Kelly music online: http://www.roriekelly.com http://www.twitch.tv/roriekelly http://www.youtube.com/roriekelly https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ZebTvtqcaR8g1QEJzvzgd   Official Video for the theme song, Magick Comin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIluF4mjQS0 Link to the track for download or purchase: https://roriekelly.bandcamp.com/track/magick-comin (You can also find it on your favorite streaming site by searching "Rorie Kelly Magick Comin")

LINKS Declaration “Fiducia Supplicans” on the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2023/12/18/231218b.html  Vatican News write-up on Calendar Change For UGCC https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2023-02/ukrainian-greek-catholics-to-celebrate-christmas-on-december-25.html "CardiNEWS" Background music by David Fesliyan. www.fesliyanstudios.com Tsar Power: https://tsarpowerpod.weebly.com/ The History of Saqartvelo Georgia: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-saqartvelo-georgia/id1567806651  TRANSCRIPT Hello everyone, First, some CardiNEWS! A few days ago, Cardinal Fernández, who, I should note, already made it into the next round of Cardinal Numbers so he's just running up his score at this point, issued a high level document in his capacity as the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith–aka the Vatican's Head Theology Guy–that explicitly allows for the informal blessing of homosexual couples with certain conditions. The document was at pains to stress that it does not represent a change in church teaching. I'll defer to the theologians on that, but in the end I've seen takeaways ranging from “this is definitely a change in church teaching” in an excited tone from the more liberally inclined both inside and outside the Church and the same takeaway in a despairing tone from those more conservatively inclined. Then there are those who say “this is definitely NOT a change in Church teaching”, a take that comes mainly from more centrist folks and but also from the hard left who think allowing informal blessings of gay couples while being at pains to distinguish them from marriage isn't even close to the kind of change they want to see. Basically, whether you think this document represents Pope Francis changing doctrine seems to boil down to whether you were already expecting Pope Francis to change doctrine. Folks seem to be seeing what they expected to see. For my part, I was actually genuinely surprised, mainly because there had been none of the usual rumors preceding the release of the document. Usually you get more smoke before the fire. In the end, I am perfectly willing to say that blessings are good, get them if you can and are inclined to seek them. They're more readily available now than they were last week. The second topic tonight is something I meant to cover in my what to expect update but, well, forgot. I've started labeling my Cardinal Numbers posts with a special symbol, and I do mean special. Roberto from Tsar Power help me out *** thanks Roberto who is also from The History of Saqartvelo Georgia. So yes, the Arevakhach (֎) is an Armenian symbol symbolizing eternity, used in contexts from the Christian to the Neo-Pagan to the secular, always tied to Armenia, so it's kind of a national symbol for them. I admit I'm borrowing it for pretty much entirely unrelated purposes, namely that it's a distinctive looking symbol that also works in UNICODE and should therefore be able to render properly for ya'll pretty much regardless of device, plus outside Armenia it doesn't really have an established meaning that might confuse folks, so all in all those things add up to make it a useful symbol to use to make my Cardinals episodes stand out from the rest at a quick glance. So, with thanks to Armenian culture and my Armenian and quasi-Armenian contacts who assured me it would not be offensive to use the Arevakhach for that purpose as long as I took a moment to explain its place in Armenian culture and as a national symbol, I'll be using it to flag Cardinal Numbers content moving forward, starting with, well, starting with the back catalog stuff I've already started flagging, but then after that starting with the next batch of 12 cardinals which I am hoping but not guaranteeing will begin releasing tomorrow, as I present to you the 12 Cardinals of Christmas! Oh, and mentioning Christmas brings me to one other milestone I wanted to note. One consequence of Putin's invasion of Ukraine is the fact that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has decided to partially adopt the Gregorian Calendar, 441 years after its introduction under Pope Gregory XIII. Orthodox Churches under the Moscow Patriarchate are among the few institutions still using the Julian Calendar, which Pope Gregory revised to reflect solar reality as Easter had begun to drift out of its springtime home. The move is not complete, as the present adoption of the new calendar actually doesn't apply to the dating of Easter in this case, but there is hope that the dating of Easter will be resolved a couple years from now, in 2025, for the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the first great council of the Christian Church. I'm not going to hold my breath on the Easter controversy being fully resolved in my lifetime since it's one of the longest-running points of contention in the history of Christianity, but for now if you know any Ukrainian Greek Catholics, be sure to welcome them to Christmas in the Gregorian Calendar. З Різдвом (Христовим), or, Merry Christmas!  

Francis OK's blessing same-gender unions? Living in harmony with nature: Catholic or Neo-Pagan? Synod holds personal faith experiences as divine revelation? From Modernism to Postmodernism: glorifying disorder. Traditional Catholicism: conviction, not mere reaction. Homeopathy: exciting "vital energies"? This episode was livestreamed on 12/19/2023 Our Links: http://linkwcb.com/ Please consider making a monetary donation to What Catholics Believe. Father Jenkins remembers all of our benefactors in general during his daily Mass, and he also offers one Mass on the first Sunday of every month specially for all supporters of What Catholics Believe. May God bless you for your generosity! https://www.wcbohio.com/donate Subscribe to our other YouTube channels: @WCBHolyMassLivestream @WCBHighlights May God bless you all!

In this episode, MJ, Sean, and Chadd interview Diana Helmuth, author of the recently-released The Witching Year, available wherever books are sold! Other topics include Vampires, regionalism, and conspirituality, plus about 4,000 '90's movies. https://linktr.ee/onriting has everything you need to get cat pictures direct from the witchiest state in the union.

After checking in on the recent horrors unfolding in Gaza, Dimitri and Khalid review the latest paranormal documentary from sus entity understanders Greg and Dana Newkirk, “The Unbinding”. For access to full-length premium episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Spencer Klavan (author, podcaster, and editor) joined me to talk about that horrible Apple clean energy/Mother Nature video, neo-paganism as social and ideological force, quantum physics, epistemology, THE LORD, and more. Watch the Apple video here.“Mother Nature Returns,” Spencer Klavan, Rejoice Evermore“Where Wind Meets Matter,” Spencer Klavan, Claremont Review of BooksListen to Young Heretics, The Round Table, and The Close ReadBuy Spencer's book: How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises Get full access to Nuclear Barbarians at nuclearbarbarians.substack.com/subscribe

The "Light System", a 1,000 year old covert network of do-gooders (not all of them human) — or so the story goes. A closer look at the "miraculous healing device" sold by the cult leader behind the Oct 4 "Zombie Apocalypse" narrative Psychiatric abuse of children in Austrian government institute has many similarities to our educational institutions although the stated purpose is completely different Neo-Pagan Sorcery First Joe Rogan, then Rick Perry, now chaplains, join the push for psychedelics, i.e. "pharmakeia" or sorceryTennessee gets its first elected transgender — but the state government tells Biden to stuff his $2 BILLION bribe for transgender push McDonalds sells their burger with family & fun in Japan, but in the USA, they're selling race war and transgenderism in the ads, NOT hamburgers Antarctic Climate LiesWhat media is telling you about warming in Antarctica is POLAR OPPOSITE of the truth What's up with Bill Gates telling politicians they need to back off from "brute force" climate push? EV updates: Rolls Royce, California mandates dragging even Republican states to car bans, and more firesPolitico freaks out that the TrumpShots have awakened a sleeping giant Anti-Vax movementImmigration: Swamped at the border as migrant mob plants huge Venezuelan flag to claim territory INTERVIEW Unprecedented Trial for Covid Medical Murder Medical murder, not malpractice, ramped up during the "pandemic" and is now entrenched in hospital protocols. Scott Schara, a father whose daughter was tagged "Do Not Resuscitate" against the parents' wishes and then murdered while the family watched on Zoom, joins. The murder of Grace is the first case of its kind to be given a jury trial date. Scott has started a podcast the issue and the case. www.graceschara and Scott's Rumble channel "Deprogramming with Grace's Dad".Ukraine: from Nazis to "Spirit Cooking" mentors for children. When will the US Government ever stop?Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

The "Light System", a 1,000 year old covert network of do-gooders (not all of them human) — or so the story goes. A closer look at the "miraculous healing device" sold by the cult leader behind the Oct 4 "Zombie Apocalypse" narrative Psychiatric abuse of children in Austrian government institute has many similarities to our educational institutions although the stated purpose is completely different Neo-Pagan Sorcery First Joe Rogan, then Rick Perry, now chaplains, join the push for psychedelics, i.e. "pharmakeia" or sorceryTennessee gets its first elected transgender — but the state government tells Biden to stuff his $2 BILLION bribe for transgender push McDonalds sells their burger with family & fun in Japan, but in the USA, they're selling race war and transgenderism in the ads, NOT hamburgers Antarctic Climate LiesWhat media is telling you about warming in Antarctica is POLAR OPPOSITE of the truth What's up with Bill Gates telling politicians they need to back off from "brute force" climate push? EV updates: Rolls Royce, California mandates dragging even Republican states to car bans, and more firesPolitico freaks out that the TrumpShots have awakened a sleeping giant Anti-Vax movementImmigration: Swamped at the border as migrant mob plants huge Venezuelan flag to claim territory INTERVIEW Unprecedented Trial for Covid Medical Murder Medical murder, not malpractice, ramped up during the "pandemic" and is now entrenched in hospital protocols. Scott Schara, a father whose daughter was tagged "Do Not Resuscitate" against the parents' wishes and then murdered while the family watched on Zoom, joins. The murder of Grace is the first case of its kind to be given a jury trial date. Scott has started a podcast the issue and the case. www.graceschara and Scott's Rumble channel "Deprogramming with Grace's Dad".Ukraine: from Nazis to "Spirit Cooking" mentors for children. When will the US Government ever stop?Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHT

This month's audio newsletter looks at the teachings of two online men's influencers whose work reflects something of a neo-pagan sensibility, Jack Donovan and his book The Way of Men, and Ryan Landry and his book Masculinity Amidst Madness.The Way of Men: https://www.amazon.com/Way-Men-Jack-Donovan-ebook/dp/B007O0Y1ZE/?&tag=theurban-20Masculinity Against Madness: https://www.amazon.com/Masculinity-Amidst-Madness-Ryan-Landry/dp/1951897145/?&tag=theurban-20Text version of this newsletter: https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/neopagan-masculinityLink to Newsletter #58 on loyalty: https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/newsletter-58-loyalty-is-the-coin

#culturalappropriation #indigenousculture #religiousstudies Academic definition of cultural appropriation, what is culture and what heritage, the main elements that determine if that's appropriation. Colonialism, Power inequality, Consumer Capitalism, and damaging or harming the cultural group are essential elements underpinning this concept. CONNECT & SUPPORT

#lgbtq #queer #disabled Paganism, Wicca, Shamanism, Magic and Esotericism in relation to the Queer community and the differently-abled people. Are these minorities more advantaged as witches in magick and occult esoteric workings? DISCLAIMER: I do not mean to say that in all magic-practising traditions there is a prevalence of marginalised individuals but just that this appears to be the case in Pagan, Neopagan and eclectic Wiccan communities in Italy. 'Magic' is here used to refer to the one practised by the aforementioned groups. CONNECT & SUPPORT

Could you use a little bit of closure about something or someone in your life? In today's episode we talk about how to create healthy closure for ourselves -- because we deserve better than waiting around hoping we get it. episode is a magical and mundane toolbox of different ways to give yourself closure and begin to move forward in your power.   This episode was recorded live with a (virtual) studio audience - thanks for tuning in, Sassafras Patrons! Sign up and claim this and other perks at patreon.com/sassafrastarot.   Links to stuff mentioned in this show: (Be aware some of these are affiliate links!) The Healing Feeling Shitshow: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/healingfeelingshtshow Jason Miller's Financial Sorcery: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781601632180?aff=roriekelly The Body Keeps the Score: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143127741?aff=roriekelly     --- Find Sassafras Tarot online: http://www.patreon.com/sassafrastarot http://www.facebook.com/sassafrastarot http://www.Twitter.com/sassafrastarot http://www.Instagram.com/sassafrastarot http://www.twitch.tv/sassafrastarot https://www.tiktok.com/@sassafrastarot https://www.youtube.com/@SassafrasTarot   Order a reading from the Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Sassafrastarot   Find Rorie Kelly music online: http://www.roriekelly.com http://www.twitch.tv/roriekelly http://www.youtube.com/roriekelly https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ZebTvtqcaR8g1QEJzvzgd   Official Video for the theme song, Magick Comin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIluF4mjQS0 Link to the track for download or purchase: https://roriekelly.bandcamp.com/track/magick-comin (You can also find it on your favorite streaming site by searching "Rorie Kelly Magick Comin")

The term Paganism is used today (for the most part) to refer to contemporary religious and spiritual traditions which take their influences from historically pre-Christian beliefs. While many of these are fairly different from each other, there are some distinctions which these sorts of Paganism all seem to share for the most part. Many are Polytheist, see spirit and the sacred as being imminent, and hold the natural world in high regard. Taking us through some of the broader strokes of contemporary Paganism is the scholar of Magic, Witchcraft, and Paganism- Dr. Angela Puca!

Author Tom Norris talks about his new book “A Fresh Cup of Tolerance” building on strong spiritual foundations from Native American, Asian, Neopagan, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic traditions. Pragmatic and straightforward, it addresses the most pressing global dilemmas of our time: environment, globalization, feminism and gender issues, religious strife, oppression, poverty, war, and prejudice. His book teaches us how universalism can offer a pathway to hope and also his previous book “A Fresh Cup of Counseling” as a breakthrough guide to spiritual counseling with ideas, training, and real-life stories and more! Tom has taught in the Religious Studies Department at Florida International University since 2005 but has also taught psychology at the university level since 1980. Currently, he teaches World Religions, Introduction to Religion, and Liberation Theology. With 51 years of counseling experience, he is the head of the spiritual and pastoral counseling agency, Inner Life Transformations, which provides online counseling for people worldwide.  Check out his amazing releases on all major platforms and www.afreshcupseries.com today! #tomnorris #author #counselor #afreshcupoftolerance #innerlifetransformations #afreshcupofcounseling #afreshcupseries #universalism #universalistchurch #floridainternationaluniversity #liberationtheology #iheartradio #spreaker #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnertomnorris #themikewagnershowtomnorris --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/support

Author Tom Norris talks about his new book “A Fresh Cup of Tolerance” building on strong spiritual foundations from Native American, Asian, Neopagan, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic traditions. Pragmatic and straightforward, it addresses the most pressing global dilemmas of our time: environment, globalization, feminism and gender issues, religious strife, oppression, poverty, war, and prejudice. His book teaches us how universalism can offer a pathway to hope and also his previous book “A Fresh Cup of Counseling” as a breakthrough guide to spiritual counseling with ideas, training, and real-life stories and more! Tom has taught in the Religious Studies Department at Florida International University since 2005 but has also taught psychology at the university level since 1980. Currently, he teaches World Religions, Introduction to Religion, and Liberation Theology. With 51 years of counseling experience, he is the head of the spiritual and pastoral counseling agency, Inner Life Transformations, which provides online counseling for people worldwide.  Check out his amazing releases on all major platforms and www.afreshcupseries.com today! #tomnorris #author #counselor #afreshcupoftolerance #innerlifetransformations #afreshcupofcounseling #afreshcupseries #universalism #universalistchurch #floridainternationaluniversity #liberationtheology #iheartradio #spreaker #spotify #applemusic #youtube #anchorfm #bitchute #rumble #mikewagner #themikewagnershow #mikewagnertomnorris #themikewagnershowtomnorris --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themikewagnershow/support

Jesse Bryant is doing his PhD on the politics of nature, and has come across some amazing examples of both far left and far right groups wrapping themselves in the mantle of nature and what is deemed 'natural'.  From the Artaman League to the Wolves of Vinland and Alex Jone's fantasies about moving back to the country sometimes what he's found is hilarious, and sometimes it's terrifying.  I really enjoyed today's homage to the Naturalistic Fallacy and I hope you do too... Check out Jesse's great Tiktok channel where  he goes by @jessecallahanbryant. And check out the latest Grapplearts instructional, Cutting Edge Leglocks, at https://www.grapplearts.com/cutting-edge-leglocks.  It's an amazing deal and will definitely help you tap out a LOT more people!

This week, we're discussing Animal Totems. In the general neoPagan community people - not everyone - who work with animal spirit guides talk about Animal Totems. Purists will tell you that that's kind of a misnomer. Totems are not really spirit guides and spirit guides are not really totems. Where do YOU stand on this immense question?? Well, I'm here to untangle the whole mess and by the time we're finished we'll all know what really is what. So we start of with a pretty clear definition of what a Totem is - where the word came from and how it was used. And we'll look at WHERE the word was used as well. Plus, we'll find out what Carl Gustave Jung had to say about Totems. Then we'll get into Power Animals, and animal guides, with some - interesting - contemporary theories on the subject. Be well. Do good. Enjoy the show!

A diverse set of ideas for helping with overwhelm and stress - both psychological and witchy/spiritual.   In today's episode I offer you a toolbox with a bunch of different ideas for dealing with overwhelm and stress. I divide the ideas into four main categories: Embodiment, Beauty and Sacred Spaces, Words, and Creativity, and give you multiple ideas in each category, both witchy and mundane. Then I share with you instructions for a favorite practice of mine - a listening walk (including non-movement or low movement options for those who may not be able to physically take a walk).   This episode was recorded live with a (virtual) studio audience - thanks for tuning in, Sassafras Patrons! Sign up and claim this and other perks at patreon.com/sassafrastarot.   Links to stuff mentioned in this show (may contain affiliate links): Mabis Steam Inhaler: https://amzn.to/3khNM93 Crystal Visions Tarot: https://amzn.to/3k8KbtY Nico Padden Music: https://www.nicopadden.com Randonautica App: https://www.randonautica.com Brooklyn Botanic Garden Waterways Virtual Tour: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=300074538410887 Song of the Day: Shining Tonight by Rorie Kelly https://roriekelly.bandcamp.com/track/shining-tonight (Or search "Rorie Kelly Shining Tonight" on your favorite streaming app!) --- Find Sassafras Tarot online: http://www.patreon.com/sassafrastarot http://www.facebook.com/sassafrastarot http://www.Twitter.com/sassafrastarot http://www.Instagram.com/sassafrastarot http://www.twitch.tv/sassafrastarot https://www.tiktok.com/@sassafrastarot https://www.youtube.com/@SassafrasTarot   Order a reading from the Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Sassafrastarot   Find Rorie Kelly music online: http://www.roriekelly.com http://www.twitch.tv/roriekelly http://www.youtube.com/roriekelly https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ZebTvtqcaR8g1QEJzvzgd   Official Video for the theme song, Magick Comin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIluF4mjQS0 Link to the track for download or purchase: https://roriekelly.bandcamp.com/track/magick-comin (You can also find it on your favorite streaming site by searching "Rorie Kelly Magick Comin")

This week, let's take a look at Pagan Ethics. I promise, we'll HARM NONE!. A good place to start is to examine just what do we mean by Ethics in the first place. When did we start thinking about Ethics? What does it mean for us personally, or as a society, or, really, what does it mean for us a satient beings? Is the consideration Ethics soley a condition of being human? The acedemic study of Ethics and its connected philosophies, has divided Ethics up into dozens of different Types, and we'll spend a good deal of time talking about many of the most well-known Ethical Types. Then we'll connect all that to our current understanding of what modern Neo Pagan is,and what might or might not be expected of those of us who call ourselves Pagan. Be well. Do good. Enjoy the show!

Steven Snyder aka Recluse joins us to share his research into the quaint and unassuming Spring Green, Wisconsin. Wisconsin has recently drawn attention due to the Netflix series depicting the heinous acts of Jeffery Dahmer, it may surprise you to find out that Dahmer is not alone in Wisconsin's strange and bloody history. Frank Lloyd Wright, and Alex Jordan Jr. may have been the architects of more than mere buildings, Recluse draws connections between the Taliesin Murders and Celtic Rituals, yes we're talking about possible sacrifices to ancient gods, but don't forget the Gardens of Sprites. In this head-spinning episode we discover that Wisconsin may be a hotbed for esoteric ritual groups, practicing arcane rituals and reviving a dark form of Celtic paganism that may have influenced the Neopagan scene all atop the ancient ruins of the mound builders, this is synchro-mysticism applied, Recluse does not disappoint drawing in the Rosicrucians, Seyler Family, Berenburg Bank, Order of St. Norbert, The Franciscan Monks, The White Chapel Club, The Liars Club, The largest UFO hotpot in the world? and Neopagan Starwood Discordian groups all long the 42nd parallel 'The Psychic Highway' in Wisconsin. Find more from Steven Snider here: https://www.patreon.com/thefarmpodcastII Join us on the show! email us at esotericamericapodcast@gmail.com if you'd like to research your local area and share it with us, or if you know someone who can send us an email and let us know.Instagram: @esotericamericaWatch on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO0A8caVlYmn-n3QgLosqXQChad's Website/Book: https://chadstuemke.com/store/Roman's Podcast: https://altmediaunited.com/rising-ft-ashes/ RSS/XML Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/risingfromtheashes/feed.xmlMark and Tara's Podcast: https://myfamilythinksimcrazy.com/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/my-family-thinks-im-crazyGet the SEEEN Travel Guide!https://ko-fi.com/s/6f1e1173a0Music CreditsIntroSong: Deceptive CadenceBy J CarOutroSong: New LifeBy Maarten Schellek

This episode Lars goes over some  history and correspondences of Mabon, as well as a few ways to celebrate-Music by Timmoor from PixabayMusic by Enrique from Pixabay-Larissa can be reached at thatwitchfromthesouth@gmail.com or Twitter @WitchyBigSister-Sources:https://www.learnreligions.com/all-about-mabon-the-autumn-equinox-2562286Support the show

Spiritualism, Episode #3 of 4. In the late 20th century, white Americans flocked to New Age spirituality, collecting crystals, hugging trees, and finding their places in the great Medicine Wheel. Many didn't realize - or didn't care - that much of this spirituality was based on the spiritual faiths and practices of Native American tribes. Frustrated with what they called “spiritual hucksterism,” members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) began protesting - and have never stopped. Who were these ‘plastic shamans,' and how did the spiritual services they sold become so popular? Listen to find out! Get the transcript and other resources at digpodcast.org Bibliography Irwin, Lee. “Freedom Law, and Prophecy: A Brief History of Native American Religious Resistance,” American Indian Quarterly 21 (Winter 1997): 35-55. McNally, Michael D. Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Owen, Suzanne. The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality. New York: Bloomsbury, 2011. Urban, Hugh. New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America. Berkley: University of California Press, 2015. Bowman, Marion. “Ancient Avalon, New Jerusalem, Heart Chakra of Planet Earth: The Local and the Global in Glastonbury,” Numen 52 (2005): 157-190. Amy Wallace, Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda. Berkley: North Atlantic Books, 2013.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom Rowsell delivered this keynote speech at the PAGAN FUTURES conference in London on 25th June 2022. The talk addresses the conflict between an emerging religion of materialistic scientism seeking salvation through transhumanism (and other technophilic ideologies) and the practitioners of Traditional public forms of Indo-European paganism.This channel depends on your support:SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/survive-the-jiveTelegram: https://t.me/survivethejiveCrypto: https://bit.ly/3ysmtvk

Joining me is Lady Ann, author of Aperture in the Veil: Born into a Preternatural World; and Cheryl Costa, author of Magickal Musings of a Rogue Witch. We'll immerse ourselves in the mystery tonight by exploring the reality of magic, cryptid encounters, the supernatural, and how we can make sense of their intersection with years of practice, practical wisdom, meditation, a loving heart and facing our fears. Can the paranormal can be terrifying, yet also healing?LADY ANN was born with the paranormal in her blood, she has had experiences beginning with her earliest memories. From ghosts, shadow entities, Sasquatch encounters and more. Lady Ann is a Reiki Master, Intuitive Tarot reader who loves to dive into the Spiritual realm and adds an otherworldly flavor to the show. https://www.caravanoflore.com/Ann is also the owner of KPNL Radio a digital broadcasting station that airs music 7 days a week and paranormal podcasts after 5pm. Lady Ann's book is now available! Aperture in the Veil: Born in a Preternatural World explores what it is like to grow up with psychic abilities and seeing things you thought only existed in your nightmares. She has also been a guest on many other podcasts including; Into The Fray Radio, Spaced Out Radio, The Quest, Dark Windows, Mojo Encounters, Lighting The Void, Beyond The Strange, Mysterious circumstances, ​Missing Persons & Mysteries, Chasing The Truth Paranormal and many more! CHERYL COSTA has been practicing magick for decades. As she retires from teaching individuals, she decided to share her unconventional magickal style in her entertaining, readable book: Magickal Musings of a Rogue Witch. She also hosts the radio show: Cheryl Costa's Mystical Mentors. Cheryl is a native and resident of upstate New York who saw her first UFO at age 12. A military veteran, she's a retired information security professional from the aerospace Industry. She's been a speaker at the International UFO Congress and at the MUFON Symposium. Cheryl wrote the UFO column “New York Skies” for SyracuseNewTimes.com. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from the State University of New York at Empire State College in entertainment writing. Cheryl is the co-author of of UFO Sighting Desk Reference; as well as The UFO Beat: The New York Skies Column July 2013 to June 2019. https://www.spreaker.com/show/cheryl-costas-mystical-mentorsPlease like, SUBSCRIBE and comment! You support means so much, and will help toward evolving this show and adding new Paranormal Pop channel content.Alien Coffee Bean 20% discount code: MYSTERY20https://aliencoffeebean.comLINK TREE: https://linktr.ee/CoffeeandUFOsPlease consider supporting the channel by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/paranormalpopThank you!#witchcraft

Hello, lovely listeners! Maria flying solo here since Laura has lost her voice, and we know we have been on a long break so we thought we would release something for y'all! I'm super excited to read these stories and hope you enjoy them too! This episode's stories include poltergeists, haunted tequila, UFOs, weird dreams, visits from passed loved ones, and some great witchy journey stories. We should be back next week with Laura for a new episode and get back into the swing of things! Stay witchy and keep it creepy!Support the show

Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com   S3E16 TRANSCRIPT:----more----   Mark: Welcome back to the Wonder: Science-based Paganism. I'm your host Mark. And today we're going to talk about ways that nature-based or science-based paganism differs from a lot of the mainstream paganism practices that are happening out there in the community. are ways that what we do are fundamentally different there are reasons for that. And so we're going to address what those are and talk about the differences.  Yucca: Right. And this isn't an episode about bashing anyone for being different or saying that they're bad or anything like that. It's just talking about how we have a different approach, right. And there's paganism is a really, really big umbrella. And so you might find a lot of these things when you look up paganism or neopagan, but it is. Necessary that not everybody is going to follow or share these ideas. So we found a few really good kind of classic ones to talk about. Mark: Right. Yeah, because there are, and, and we should be clear. There are lots of pagans out there that are. Practicing using these ideas. And they, they may be practicing using other ideas that are different than what we do. Heathens, for example, folks that are following north Germanic of traditions, they may not, be using the more Wickens style formatting of rituals or principles. But This is very, these are the things that we're going to talk about are very widespread. And so we're going to talk about the ways that what we do is different. And I think it will be illustrative for folks that have been in the pagan community  Yucca: Oh,  Mark: or have heard about the nature of the pagan community about why a science-based paganism approach is substantively different than some of the other pagan approaches that are out there.  Yucca: Right. So, which of these do you want to start with? Mark: Why don't we dive into the three-fold law.  Yucca: Right. So the idea of this is that whatever you put out there is going to the universe is going to send back to you three times. This. Right. And some people think this is only when you're doing ritual or spell work and some people take this as just in life in general.  Mark: Right.  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: Right. we don't believe that. And the reason that we don't believe that is multiple one of the main reasons is that I'll, I'll speak for myself and you can chime in, if you have a different take I do not believe that the universe has a moral order.  Yucca: Right. Mark: The university isn't conscious it, isn't trying to make us a particular way, follow a particular set of rules act in a way that is honorable or that meets some sort of ethical or moral frame. And you have to have that in order to have the three-fold law because the. There, there has to be some sort of judgment. It's like, whatever is coming back to you, threefold. Well, is it good or is it bad or is it know, what, what would be an appropriate reflection back to you? If that were really going to happen. And I, I just don't believe if that's the way the universe works. I know that many pagans and following other religions, such as some flavors of Buddhism really and even Christianity want to believe that we are here on earth in order to establish some sort of morality. And in my opinion, working to establish morality is fantastic, but it's for this life and this world, it's not for an afterlife. It's not in some great cosmic scheme. It's just that I want to act as a good and moral person so that my impact in the world is a positive one. As much as I can.  Yucca: Right. Yeah. That's also really well said. I agree with you on. And I think also the math doesn't really work out on it. That just doesn't really make sense for that. I do think that there is, there definitely is something where the way that we behave does influence our experience in the world, but. In this law of this one to three kind of thing. Definitely where if I am in a better mood and I smile to the cashier or, you know, I'm in a better place when I'm driving, like all of these things are going to influence how I experience the world and how people are going to respond to me. But. But I don't think that it's, as you were saying that, the universe or this or anything like that, doing it right. That this is just the natural response. Right. I do something there's a response to it and it's not there's nothing, mystical or accounting. That's, there's no accounting happening. Mark: Right, right. That's the simple cause and effect of social relationships, right? When. we relate to people in an affirming way, in a way that says, I like you, then they tend to  Yucca: Yeah.  Mark: back with, I like you too. If we treat people in a manner that says, I don't like you, then likewise, they tend to respond with. I don't like you.  Yucca: Hey.  Mark: It's a very, you know, simple, fundamental, but also very human thing. It's not, it's not sewn into the laws of physics. It's sewn into the nature of the social dynamics that we have as people.  Yucca: Yeah. That's social primates, right?  Yeah. That's, that's just, millions of, years of evolution there. Mark: Right. And I mean, I always use This example when we talk about the three-fold law Yosef Stalin, who arguably the most murderous human ever to walk, the planet died peacefully in his sleep. He probably killed 25 million people possibly more through starvation and extermination programs and just a whole lot of really horrible, horrible  Yucca: Okay. Right. This is not this knowing perfectly well what he was doing. Yeah.  Mark: He, he killed millions of people in Ukraine, through starvation by exporting all of their food Russia and leaving them with nothing. Which is a huge piece of the subtext between and Ukraine. That's going on now.  Yucca: Right. Mark: That's, that's a history that is not forgotten. It's very recent. So anyway, stolen. Died peacefully in his bed. Didn't get any kind of, you know, negative feedback from this terrible stuff that he did. And when you think about it, even if he had, what could that have been? he have been killed 25 million times?  Yucca: 75.  Mark: Oh, 75. million times. You're right. Cause it's threefold. So it's just, it's very hard to fathom how that rule would really work in any sort of a literal sense. It all or, or like many sort of truisms or aphorisms about human experience. There's a kernel of truth there about, you know, the way you behave. Often gets reflected back to you by other people  Yucca: yeah. Mark: as we were talking about. And that is a kernel of truth,  Yucca: Right.  Mark: that it's this mathematical thing and that it always happens is really not not the case as far as we can tell.  Yucca: Right.  Mark: The other piece about about the, the three-fold law is that what's often used as kind of an excuse for why the three-fold law doesn't seem to work out. In some cases like Stalin is that, oh, it'll happen in a future life, Right. That there's reincarnation. And as science based pagans, we do not believe in reincarnation  Yucca: Yeah, I don't see any evidence for it personally.  Right.  Mark: I don't believe in it. And the, the primary reason that I don't believe in reincarnation is because of dualism, which we talked about before, on a previous episode, the idea of the self, the personality being different sort of an energetic thing, being different than the body, whereas. My perspective is that it's all integrated.  Yucca: Yeah.  Mark: comes from the body. The mind can't exist without the body. And when the body dies, the mind is gone.  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And that means that there is no reincarnation. Yucca: And then it's changed throughout its life. That it is not the same. Mind or body that it was when you were born to when you die,  but they're different. Just very, very different. Yeah. Mark: There are even sort of logical challenges with aspects of the three-fold law. Like if I did something really shitty when I was 25, does it make sense for me to, you know, reap the damages of that when I'm 60. Because I've changed. One of the things that I've  Yucca: Um,  Mark: about is learning what a crappy thing it was that I did. And not doing that again. And so, mean, I have things that I've done in my life that I'm ashamed of and that I would never do again. And I, I did them for reasons that I understand now most of The most of them involving cowardice  Yucca: The trauma.  Mark: just, fear, you know, rooted in trauma. but There, there are things that I would never do again. And I do not feel that at this juncture, I deserve some sort of punishment for having done those things way back then.  Yucca: Right? Well, and then if that did happen, And then wouldn't you be more likely to do more shitty things and then just, it becomes this, really strong, positive feedback loop of more bad things happen, you do something bad and then that bad things happen to you. So you respond in kind and do more bad things and then more like it just spirals completely out of control there. Mark: Right there. Are there a lot of different ways that you can look at this and just say, you know, when you really unpack it from a logic standpoint, it doesn't make, just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. And once again, that is not to say that, you know, people that are practicing with that belief are not doing so with a motivation and, you know, the desire that, be a guideline. For being a positive force in the world, because it's clear that that's what people mean by it. It's just. I, I find that it's a lot more useful for me  Yucca: Oh,  Mark: the atheopagan principles to have things really spelled out for me in, in a, in a very specific sort of way. So, you know, we're going to review the earth, we're going to practice rituals to embody our religion. We're going to have integrity. We're going to be inclusive. We're going to, you know, seek justice, all of those kinds of things. Because it's, it's very, very clear exactly what those things mean.  Yucca: Right. So you had touched a little bit on afterlife. So I think that's another good. Just to come back to, we sort of spoke to it a little bit, but, but that's something that neither of us believe in and it's because right that it, it needs there to be a soul. It needs there to be something separate from the body and there's no, real evidence to support that it would be there. So, so.  Mark: Yeah.  Yucca: This kind of cosmic karma. It wouldn't make sense for that to be carried through either  that okay. We're.  Mark: no. And, and honestly, there is a moral reason why I think. Ideas are not only incorrect from a scientific standpoint, because what they do is they turn the earth into a proving ground for moral just in the same way that Christianity and Islam and Judaism do. And the idea is that there's some kind of reward some kind of a reckoning. That happens after death.  Yucca: Great.  Mark: what that does is it relegates the earth to a disposable status.  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: You know, this is, this is just this temporary situation where we have to perform, but it's not, it's not worthy of our primary focus And reverence and service. And that is the opposite of how I view my relationship with the earth. The earth is it life is it. And if I am going to have positive impacts in the world, if I am going to enjoy this, this one-way journey that I get through the miracle of having been born against. Astronomical odds with my particular genetics in my particular upbringing to become this particular person. Then I'm really missing the point  Yucca: Yeah.  Mark: I'm, I'm kind of spinning my wheels in my view. Yucca: And also it, it can justify letting really terrible things happen to people, right. Because, oh, it's there. The a kid being in the neighborhood that gets bombed and it works zone, right.  It could be, oh, well, that's, you know, it's karma. Yeah. But that's, you know, oh, they were stolen last life. Okay. It's fine. Right. Like,  no, they're just a kid. They're just a kid in the neighborhood that it's not okay to be, bombing them or whatever the particular thing is. Oh, it's okay.  Mark: Yeah. the approach that, that I have and that I believe you have as well, Yucca is. Because it's all about this life and this world, the burden of responsibility on us is much higher. You know, you would, you would think that, you know, if trying, if you're gunning for a particular kind of afterlife, you know, that would put more pressure on you to behave well and so forth. And maybe That's true from a fear-based standpoint, but I don't want to live my life. From fear.  Yucca: That's right.  Mark: to live my life from joy and from generosity. And from from a real sense of reverence for the surrounding that that I am interpenetrated with. right. We've talked about this before, you know, in.  Yucca: We're an open system. Mark: That's right. We've got air going in. We've got water going in. We've got waste going out. We've got sweat. We've got all of that, all that stuff. We are blurred into the fabric of life, all around us. And so in our. Our inability to see water vapor or oxygen or any of those things kind of gives us this illusion that we're these discrete little billiard balls bouncing around in the world, we're not, we're, we're deeply interpenetrated with the rest of the world. And. So my sense of responsibility to this life, to myself, for my experience and to my society advocating for values that that serve people and serve my sense of what is just an equitable It is much higher, I think, than it would be if I believed in an afterlife, especially in afterlife where I get to try again because reincarnation or karma, as opposed to like the sort of heaven or hell differentiation, where it's just sort of a one-shot  Yucca: before you die, you're cool. Right? That's fine. It doesn't matter. Mark: Right. Which I mean, that's a formula for sociopathy, right? Because you can do all these terrible things, then all you have to do is repent and accept Jesus on your deathbed. And you're cool. I think that's a disaster myself and I certainly see in very conservative Christians, kind of idea that they can be awful people, but Jesus loves them. So it's okay. That is not a framework that I am the least bit living interested in living within. And I don't believe it jibes with what we know about the universe at all.  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: So what else were we going to talk about in terms of these  Yucca: Oh,  Mark: pagan ideas  Yucca: well, here's, here's the big one. Now this is specifically a Wiccan, but, and if he harm none, do, is he well,  Mark: Oh yeah. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which I believe originates with Alistair Croley who was  Yucca: Yeah.  Mark: deeply problematic person. I think it's fair to say. I think where he was going with that was, was a, a radical. Differentiation from the, the mentality of Christianity, which is here, are these commandments here, these rules in a sacred book, have to  Yucca: conform. Conform. Conform. Yeah. Mark: And he was saying, no, don't conform. If you're not, if you're not causing any harm, then do what. And my problem with that is not that idea in and of itself. It's that first of all harm, none is impossible.  Yucca: Yeah. It's as simply not possible. I mean, what's happening in your body right now? Who do you consider? None,  you know? Yeah.  Mark: are the bacteria and the cells that are dying and being killed as you digest and as, as you, as your body metabolizes, that harming somebody?  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: I mean, it's certainly harming those cells. They're being torn apart into component materials And being used to feed your body. Yucca: And we're heterotrophs no matter what particular diet you got, somebody dying for you to be alive, is that, is that harm, right?  What about the house that you're living in, you know, on and on? Mark: right. Yes. And so, The question is what kind of harm and how much. And we have to make choices, understanding that there is no such thing as a fully pure angelic kind of existence  Yucca: We're not,  Mark: cause any harm to anything.  Yucca: yeah, we're not Sims we're, we're real things. Right. So, and I think that that going back in. If you haven't listened to our episodes that we do about Beth and decomposition, when we get around to hollows time, that could speak to a lot of this. But that, yeah, the world is we look around at this beautiful, incredible world that we're part of and soil it's soil. Death right. It's life, but it's just, all soil is made from the bodies of trillions upon trillions of others who died. And I would argue the bed dying is harming that wasn't great for them, right. For them as the individual. Yeah.  Mark: Right. But there is a, there is a greater good or a, a larger systemic good that comes out of the process of death, which is the, the, the sustaining of future life. Future  Yucca: Okay.  Mark: of life. mean, I'd be good for us  Yucca: No.  Mark: die of. But it's, but our decomposition feeds more life and continues for, for the thriving of life here on earth. Yucca: Great.  Mark: So it isn't so much that, that if it harms none, do what you will is wrong so much as that it's vague.  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: It doesn't really acknowledge. The nuance of how we, we exist here and what kinds of organisms we really are. And it doesn't acknowledge all of the situations where either you have to harm  Yucca: Okay.  Mark: And then you have to decide what it is you're going to harm. Which is the decision that we make in the course of food choices all the time. Right. Am I going to eat this vegetable was grown in crop agriculture that kills tons of wildlife? Or am I going to eat this cow with. Was a living animal big brown eyes and,  Yucca: Family and.  Mark: and. In a, in a personality because cattle do have individual personalities, they're not super bright, but like all mammals, they do, you know, they there's, there are characteristics that are notable. You know, that one cow will differ from another.  Yucca: Yep. I've had some that have purposely, knocked me over that's they liked and others that don't right. They're like, yeah, I'm going to step right up next to you and bump you.  Yeah, that was on purpose.  Mark: cows that like human tipping. I like it.  Yucca: Yeah. That's it's you got to watch out. But yeah, so that, that's a really wonderful example of it's, it's something that we're going to do. I think that being conscious of it is, is an important. Right. And on sort of a, on a surface level, like yeah, I'm into that idea. Don't, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. Yeah. Go ahead and do whatever you want. Right. And I think on a sort of a social level. Yes. But as we're talking about the closer you look to it, I don't think that it's like this hard rule that you can follow. I don't think it is. You can't, I don't think it's possible to follow the rule because that's not the way. Organic life works. Mark: Yeah. think that what this can do though, is it can urge us to think about the impacts of our behavior.  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And that's an important consideration. You know, because as we act in the world, especially as humans with all the tools that we have and the infrastructure that we've created, that can cause us to have a tremendous amount of impact. If we If we so choose being aware of what those impacts are and choosing to have impacts that are positive and as lit as harmful as possible is, is something that I think is of value. And that goes back to the thing that we just harp on in this podcast, which is attention. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: Paying attention to you are in the world. What's going on with the biosphere in the world, what your places in the world, what your impact is in the world. of those things are just so very important to really be living a nature-based paganism your feet on the ground, and really aware and integrated and celebrating and respecting the natural processes going on in and around.  Yucca: Right. And that's actually a really good lead into another of these topics that we wanted to talk about, which was the elements and directions. And so both of us have this take that our specific location. Is really important, right. That we try to match our practices with where we are. What is it like here? Cause I can tell you where I live is very different than where you live or very different from Britain, bam, same hemisphere, but, but similarities, stop there.  Mark: Right,  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: Yeah. And know, when, Gerald Gardner first published his books on witchcraft, you know, what became WCA and then. Kind of propagated into other forms of paganism, modern Neo paganism as well. Obviously he described the seasonal holidays as reflecting the weather cycle that he was familiar with. That makes total sense. it seems to have gotten lost in the translation that we should be celebrating the nature where we are rather than the nature in England. So for many practitioners, there's this sort of idea of, you know, the, the snowbound in bulk holiday, for example, Or the or the, the bright cheery. Belton when it could be, you know, pelting sheets of rain, or even continuing to snow, depending on where you are in the world.  Yucca: Or in areas that, if you're, if you're in Miami, the difference between your belting and the February, not going to be a huge difference there, you're not. Going to have that same kind of the subtropics is not the temperate zones,  right? Mark: Yeah. The difference there is mostly measured in humidity rather than in degrees.  Yucca: Yeah.  Mark: So same is true with the directions and the elements. Steven poach, who is a wonderful pig and writer out Of the Midwest. And I highly recommend his writing. He, he writes short, pithy, wonderful little blog posts@witchesinpagans.com, which is also a place where I publish stuff. Once in a while. Stephen post P O S C H M. He tells this wonderful story about how he once a ritual by the banks of the Mississippi river. They were to the west of the Mississippi river and when they invoked the directions, they drove invoked water the west across more than 2000 miles of mostly extremely dry land. Yucca: Of complete brittle ecosystems.  Yeah.  Mark: to get to the Pacific ocean to call their west right when they were standing right next to the Mississippi river, which of course this, this gigantic watershed and, you know, very powerful river system. So if it had been me and I was going to invoke water into that ritual, I would have pointed at the Mississippi and. You know, invoked it the east, from the east, right. Because I want to be reflective of the place where I am. And so these kinds of arbitrary assignments of earth to the north air, to the east. Fire to the south and water to the west, don't really work for me because what, if you're in the Southern hemisphere and the, the really cold part is to the south,  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: you, that should be flexible.  Yucca: Or if you live right next to some mountains, what is that going to be for you or? Yeah. Mark: Exactly or you live in a place where the predominant winds always come from one direction. You probably want to point that direction in order to invoke air, but I go a little bit further with that. I don't use the classical Greek elements at all.  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: And the reason that I don't use them is that even though they are useful in some metaphorical kinds of ways, I see them as a discredited pseudoscience. now know that there are more than a hundred elements that compose all of the things of the universe and. The idea that everything contains with it, air earth, water and fire is outdated. It's old, it's like astrology and alchemy and, you know, palmistry and all those kinds of things, which can be fun to engage in. But don't actually tell you anything about the nature of the world.  Yucca: Right with those ones in particular, I'll talk to my students about them as they were stepping stones. Right. They helped us to get to that, the idea of an element. Okay. Yeah. We still have that idea, but now. We understand it on a very different level. Yeah. We don't think of it as being four elements. We think of our hundred and 18. Right. And then, we figured out that, oh, actually, there are things smaller than elements. Let's talk about what that was. And same thing with astrology, which the name always bugs me because it's not a science, but the ologies makes it sound like it should be a science, but astronomy came very much out of astrology. Mark: Right.  Yucca: Right. They've they used to be together and merged and they've gone in different directions. And so it was, it was useful at some point, but it's not. But now we have a much better and deeper understanding of our world and how it works. And probably at some point we'll look at things, humans we'll look at the stuff we're doing now and go, that's not how it works. Right. We're wrong about that. But that's something that. That in science-based paganism do is that we look at our beliefs and are willing to challenge them. And when we get new data, we're the ideas that we should be willing to let those ones go and, and have new beliefs based on the new available evidence and understanding. Mark: Right right I know that some people use these elements to sort of stand in for the different phases of matter. So, you know, gaseous, liquid, solid and plasma, although a fire isn't really plasma.  Yucca: It is. Yeah, they can't, some fires can have plasma, but not very rarely the temperatures that we're going to be experiencing fires that that will actually get to a  plasma. And then there are way more phases than just the four observable phases. Those are just the ones that we're going to interact with on our scale and be able to see. Mark: yes. Yeah. So, I mean, I can understand using that as a metaphorical stand in. If that had pertinent to the point of the ritual I mean the invocation of the different phases of matter. I'm not sure how useful that is in, you know, thematically because I suppose you could do those four and then you could call the center as energy, But  Yucca: But all of them, that is, the phase basically is how much energy, how much kinetic energy the particles have, which changes some of their properties. Right. So what are the proper then you could keep going with, okay. So what are the properties right? That are embodied in each of these. I think that, there's definitely some really interesting intellectual stuff that you can do with it. I don't particularly mind to people do, I've kind of gotten away from using those elements,  right. It just doesn't really, you know? Mark: I'm I'm with you. I don't mind it.  Yucca: Yeah.  Mark: It doesn't, bother me. I just see it as another of these kinds of ye olden days, artifacts that got sewn into modern paganism because somehow the idea that older cult systems were valuable or Colt systems or valuable ritual systems. Yucca: Yeah. Mark: Got the, you know? from the beginning Gardner was claiming that he was learning a tradition that had been handed down from the middle ages.  Yucca: Yeah. The old  ways.  Mark: Right. So the idea of the antiquity of these ideas was provided as an argument for their validity. And we don't subscribe to that. You know, sometimes a new idea is the best one. And certainly in the scientific community, very often a new idea turns out to be the one that fits the data the best.  Yucca: Right. And often we have to throw out some of those old ones, right.  Mark: right.  Yucca: Yeah. How long did we take Aristotle's? Some of Aristotle's like stuff as the absolute truth. Don't you dare question that or you'll be under house arrest  Mark: Right.  Yucca: or worse.  Yeah.  Mark: worse. Yeah. Exactly. And that was because the Roman Catholic church subscribed to Aristotle as an absolute authority for some unknowable reason.  Yucca: Even though he's a, Peggy was a pagan Mark: Well, yeah, he was not only, not only that, but  Yucca: and their broad sense of pagan. Mark: Yes. I think that what it probably boils down to is that he was the only real authority they had to point to for a cosmology. And he had believed in systematizing stuff. You know, when he, when he wrote about rhetoric, for example, and the art of persuasion and all that, he defined each of the human emotions that he was aware of. And he. You know, talked about the, the logic of of ethos logos and pathos, for example. But I that's a,  Yucca: Yeah, that's another, that's a whole nother podcast. Mark: is. Yeah. And that, that actually gets into what I did my undergraduate degree in. So it's a rabbit hole I could happily jumped down. So from our standpoint that the use of those elements isn't really necessary. But it's not necessarily objectionable either. just, I prefer at that phase of a ritual simply to invoke the qualities and characteristics that I want to be with me, as I invoke as. Evoke ritual as I enact ritual. And that will sort of be a takeaway for me after having done the ritual.  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: so where, where are we now? What else?  Yucca: I think that this brings us to our last one. There's so many more that we could do, but looking at the theory versus the reality as really is in our, in our places, in our world. Right.  Mark: right.  Yucca: Cause there's definitely. And I think this goes back to, to some of the stuff we were talking about with Gardner and this romanticization of the English countryside and this idea of nature. And this is very, kind of over fantasized romantic way. The moon is always full and shining through the leaves and the wind is just a soft thing. And you know, all the animals are little foxes that are running around and where, that's, that's great. I think the mode is not always full, but the rest of that. Okay. Maybe like, yeah, that's, that might be the life that you've got there, but that's not most of the world and that's not where most of them. Awesome. Great for you. If you do right there, we know that some of you are listening to this podcast from there, but, but for me, I've got coyotes outside my window and, black bears, very different worlds and cactuses,  Mark: And as, as we have always said from the beginning of this podcast and, and I have to say as sort of a little bit of a tangent, one of the things that's been great about this podcast for me and our conversations Yucca, is that having an opportunity to really kick around these ideas evolved my. About some of them where I had kind of a half formed idea before. And I feel like I have a much clearer, more easy to articulate, understanding about some of these ideas now. So I really appreciate that.  Yucca: Thank you. Likewise.  Mark: What we go back to over and over again is the idea of immersion into place of being. Living animals conscious self-aware animals, you know, with that special gift, having evolved that, special capacity that humans have and other animals seem to have much less of you know, in a place, in an environment and understanding what that environment is doing and celebrating that. Even if it's. You know, what the, what the place is doing right now is being 115 degrees Fahrenheit. And what it's trying to do is kill me. You know,  Yucca: Or on fire like mine. Mark: Yes. I'm, which I'm really sorry to hear about. the fire season start already is  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: So really encourage you in your science-based pagan practice to. You know, study the natural flora and fauna where you are, what are the, what are the cool, special things that happen in nature, where you are. And, and I promise you, there are cool, special things happening in nature, wherever you are, you know, whether it's Caterpillar's dissolving into goo in a Chrysalis and reforming themselves into a moth or  Yucca: Lichen on your. Um, wall, just look into what lichen is. That's a rabbit hole to go down. Mark: it is or bats coming out at Twilight to eat to eat insects or fruit. There are just so many things that are happening around us all the time that are just delightful. If you're aware of them and becoming more aware of the mix, it all the easier to sell. This earth and this life that we're granted and what we hope for you is a celebratory life, a life where you enjoy the pleasures of this world, and really feel a deep gratitude for your existence and pass that on to others. You know, communicate to others that, that sense of gratitude and a sense of and inclusion and appreciation for for the ways that they're similar than you and the ways that they're different from you. Right.  Yucca: Yeah. Mark: So, this has been a great conversation and I imagine we'll probably get some comments or responses on this, which is great. Our email address is the wonder podcast Q S at gmail.com. That's for the wonder podcast questions. So the wonder podcasts, Q S all one word@gmail.com. And you know, we're happy to kick these ideas around. We understand that what we're doing is a very modern form of pagan practice. You know, we're, we're, we're deliberately dispelling or, not to spit to spelling where we're. We're leaving behind lot of the old occult or old witchcraft kind of, traditions and preserving ones that hold up in the light of modern science, like the idea of a wheel of the year, for example, solstices and equinoxes, which are very real astronomical events the mid points between them that mark important seasonal transitions in, in many places. So, thank you for listening as always. We love our listeners and you have a wonderful week and we'll see you again on the wonder next Monday.  Yucca: Thanks everyone.  

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Welcome back Witches!  This week we will be taking a deep dive into Cultural Appropriation in Witchcraft. Throughout this episode, we'll discuss what is cultural appropriation vs. what is cultural appreciation, and how we in the witchy community can respect various cultures without disrespecting them and causing them harm. So get in losers, and lets discuss Cultural Appropriation in Witchcraft. We would be forever thankful if you leave our podcast a 5-Star review. If you really loved the show and want more Get in Loser content, check out our Supercast link below, or search the Supercast website for Get in Loser, We're Doing Witchcraft. You can also find us at our Buy Me a Coffee link below. You can purchase a membership to our podcast through either of the links below and obtain exclusives like, getting episodes early, shoutouts on the show, access to our “Ask me anything” forum, our monthly newsletter, a promo code for merchandise, and more. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @GetinWitches, on TikTok @weredoingwitchcraft or email us at weredoingwitchcraft@gmail.com. You  can support our show through our Supercast: https://getinloserweredoingwitchcraft.supercast.com Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/getinwitches   Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio- The Witch ----more---- Resources Gottlieb, Kathryn, "Cultural Appropriation in Contemporary Neopaganism and Witchcraft" (2017). Honors College. 304. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/304 Parmigiani (HDS), Giovanna, Cultural Appropriation in Neopagan and New Age Religion: A Conversation with Sabina Magliocco. (2021). Harvard Divinity School. https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/cultural-appropriation/2021/12/1 Joho, Jess & Morgan Sung, How to be a Witch Without Stealing Other People's Cultures. (2020). Mashable. https://mashable.com/article/witchtok-problematic-witch-cultural-appropriation Joho, Jess & Sung, Morgan (31 October 2020). How to be a witch without stealing other people's cultures. Mashable. https://mashable.com/article/witchtok-problematic-witch-cultural-appropriation

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Today we dive into the sacred blood rites of menarche and menopause in a conversation with Magician and Menstrual Educator Erica Sodos.    Links: Crimson Wisdom (Colleen's book on the power of the blood!)   Erica Sodos   Erica's Show 3/5/22 Show in Castle Rock, CO   Susun Weed's Book: New Menopausal Years: Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90   Music by Terry Hughes   Rate This Podcast   On an Android Device?   Also Check Out: Welcome to Womanhood   Finding Your Own Magic (also w/Erica Sodos) Before we start today's episode, I'd like to place us in time for a moment. Today is March 3, 2022. It's been seven days since Russia launched a full-scale assault on Ukraine. I just want to acknowledge that this is a lot. It's a lot of heartbreak. It's a lot of feeling helpless. And it's a lot of fear. What you are feeling matters. So I invite you to pause for a second and notice what you are feeling. Notice your body, your breath, your heart. And I invite you to join me as I ring a bell for everything that is happening [RINGS BELL]. Thanks and now here's today's show.    The culture we are born into hands us a template for what it means to be human, what it means to progress through the various stages of life. This template may tell us that some transitions are good and some are bad, but what if everything is mutable? What happens when we feel empowered to name our own reality?   This is Shame Piñata. I'm Colleen Thomas. Welcome to Shame Piñata, where we talk about creating rites of passage for real-life transitions.    When you hear the phrase “rites of passage” what do you picture? A bunch of people gathered together, maybe outdoors? Is there a fire? Is there a ceremonial feel? Is the concept of anthropology lurking around somewhere perhaps? This might be what you see and it also might totally NOT be what you see, but it's interesting, isn't it, that phrase rites of passage evokes a certain something.   Today we're going talk about one of the things it most commonly evokes, the idea of coming of age. We're also going to talk about another rite of passage that doesn't always get spoken about about in a positive way, the time of menopause.    The coming-of-age time when we're anywhere from 9-13 brings physical changes and hormonal changes and brings on the start of menstruation for some of us. And some number of years later that menstruation will stop. It might stop naturally or through surgery or illness. These are two points in life that we're going to talk about today: the beginning of bleeding which is sometimes called menarche and the end of bleeding which is usually called menopause. These are potent times in our lives and they are worthy points to stop and reflect on the full-body changes they bring - and perhaps even identity changes they bring.   These are life changes that are often associated with women's bodies and women's experience. However, many people with menstrual cycles do not identify as women. They might identify as trans men, transgender masculine, gender fluid, or not identify with any gender at all. This arena of talking about the blood is one I have worked in for many years and I am constantly striving to open the circle and welcome more people into the rites of passage we can build around the blood. I think it's really important as well to broaden the education of the non-bleeding people around us to what happens during the moontime, what happens during the bleeding part of the cycle both physiologically and energetically and all the ways we can celebrate and honor that.     The format of today's episode is a conversation I had with Erica Sodos. Erica was on the show last season speaking about the magic of everyday life, which makes sense because Erica is a magician. Erica is also a menstrual educator. She published a zine for many years called Moonflow, which included thoughtful articles, tips, and even a comic strip about the power of the blood. I call Erica my blood sister because she's been right there along my own journey to learn to love my menstrual cycle and to deepen into the power and mystery it afforded me.    These days we're both nearing or in menopause, so our conversation about the blood was held within that context. It was also held within the framework of the NeoPagan tradition of honoring the Triple Goddess, commonly known as Maiden, Mother, Crone - each of which symbolizes a phase in the life cycle. If you've never understood what could be useful, important, or even good about the menstrual cycle, I invite you to give today's episode a listen.   Thomas: I wanted to ask you what's a rite of passage you wish you'd had.   Sodos: So I wish I had a ton of rite of passages and I wish I learned that concept when I was younger. But as you could probably guess, the rite of passage I really wish I had was my first moontime! Definitely. I think it would have shaped me as a… almost like a different person. I mean, it would have taught me to love my body and my blood and I wouldn't have had to figure that out decades later. You know? So, I'd say it's my moontime. That's such a… that could be such a beautiful ritual.   Thomas: Have you gone back to do any kind of retroactive anything about that?   Sodos: I have done it on my own but not to the extent that I know you have because I love how you'll actually like, recreate it with your friends and community. You're amazing with your right of passages. But I think a number of years ago I did something. But now I'm in perimenopause and so at this point, I'm entering a whole new phase and my age. It's scary. It's different.   Thomas: I think it's never too late to go back and do the the first ones, the older ones.   Sodos: Say a woman is seventy so she hasn't bled for a while. She could still celebrate her first moon time?    Thomas: Yeah, sure…   Sodos: Really? Even though she's already been through all these different cycles in her life. And I guess, I guess you're saying you can do it, you feel that you can do a rite of passage whenever, like even if it was a while ago?   Thomas: Yeah. I mean, it has a different effect, I think, than doing it at the moment. But I believe that ritual transcends space and time and I've been in a post… a retroactive menarche ceremony with one of my blood mothers who got a big room of 30 women together who were all, you know, in their 30s 40s 50s… I don't know how old everybody was… But we went and we did a meditation… we went back… we met somebody… I don't know, it was a long time ago, we just… it was like shamanic meditation when we went back and we got the teaching and we experienced sort of a, generic version of like, “This is how it could have been when you got your blood”. And we had this incredible teaching and learning and then we had… the woman who led it, her mother was… They did like a… what I've heard called an angel tunnel, where everybody one at a time walked down, a passageway made by the women. The women were standing in two lines and you walked through the two lines and it was kind of like being birthed and once you came out, you were… that was your transformation you came out in you were a woman and you were welcomed to womanhood by the Grandmother, who is the facilitator's mother who was just amazing and she gave us like a red necklace and she gave us this incredible hug. And she was like, “Welcome to womanhood!” It was so… it was so amazing, because the way… It was Georgette Star who who did it, and the way that she held it all together, and it was… she made it such a sacred experience. And it was all for women who, you know, were not 12 or 13, it was all for grown women to go back and connect to the moment of the, you know, the Maiden. And it was, it was just transformational and so I know that it can transcend space and time. It helps if you have a really good ritual practitioner can who can run it for you.   Sodos: That sounds like magic, like talk about magic. Like I'm feeling that… that you… Well, that's the same idea like when I was in therapy and the therapist would have me go back to an experience from when I was little and say, you know, I was attacked, or my parents were out of control or whatever and then she would be like, “Who would protect you?” And then I did all these meditations where there was this bear… this mama bear would come and like took me away until all the fighting was still going on, but the mother was… And I think that that's that same idea. It's like almost like neural… changing the neuroplasticity in the brain, right?    Thomas: Right.   Sodos: I mean, you're going back. And you're reclaiming this experience, whether it's trauma, or a rite of passage, which couldn't be trauma if it's meant a certain way. [LAUGHS] And like getting your moontime and then you kind of recreated it and then in a way the timeline changes. Right? Did you feel for you and other women like the timeline changes?   Thomas: Yep. Exactly. Exactly. Like the historical events that happened in my life when I did really get my blood when I was 12 didn't change but yet the part of me… the 12 year-old who's always living in me now has had a very different experience… had like the original experience and then had this other amazing experience which kind of weaves together.   Sodos: So you became more whole, in a way.    Thomas: Exactly.   Sodos: Because that 12 year-old who grew up who was fractured or whatever you want to say never truly connected to her power or whatever it was. But now she's had a different timeline within you, so it makes you different now, is that kind of…   Thomas: Exactly. Yeah, that's a good way to put it.    Sodos: And that was the idea of what the therapist was doing with me.    Thomas: Right.   Sodos: Right? Taking me back to the wounding and then… God,  it'd be kind of amazing, wouldn't it, to just do that…I mean, it takes a long time to just go through your life and try to reclaim all those bad experiences?   Thomas: Heal each thing…   Sodos: Be like, “Okay, this one was last week…” No, just kidding.   [MUSIC]    Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us! If you'd like to learn more about this whole blood as sacred thing, check out my book “Crimson Wisdom”. It's available now on Kindle and tells the story of what a modern day Red Tent can look like.  Check the show notes for a link.    Thomas: I'm in menopause… I'm postmenopausal now so it's like I'm in that phase and that's a whole other rite of passage that I'm… I don't know that I'm ready to honor that yet. [LAUGHS]   Sodos: How long has it been since you've bled?    Thomas: Almost two years.   Sodos: You haven't bled at all, not even spotting? And you're younger than me. How old are you?   Thomas: Yeah, I know I stopped when I was 48. And I'm almost 50.   Sodos: Wow. I was getting mine like every… constantly… like bleeding all the time like, like just tons of… like a lot of blood. But I think that's… they say you could either get non or get a lot and wow, two years… you, have you done a Crone ceremony yet?   Thomas: No, I just haven't felt ready. I haven't felt like I'm still grieving - and I'm not actively grieving, that's why it's taking so long - grieving that not having the blood time and not having the, you know, that deep pull, that richness. Even though a lot of times when it came when I had it, I was like, “Yeah, okay, I don't really want to go there.” And I was like, “It's gonna go away, you're gonna really miss it, you're gonna be really sad, you better do it!” And so I would fight it, you know, a lot, then. And then it was like, okay, now it's gone and I'm in that bitter place where I don't want to hear people talking about how great it is, because I'm angry I don't have it.    Sodos: …how great menstruating is?    Thomas: Yeah, which a lot of people don't say that, but sometimes people do say that.    Sodos: Most people hate it. Yeah. As you know, hence the magazine.   Thomas: Or I'll say, “I'm postmenopausal”, or, you know, and they'll be like, “Oh, thank God”. And I'm like, “No, actually, my story is really different and…” But so I'm still processing, I'm still processing it. But I'm going to have a Croning ceremony or something of that nature at some point.   Sodos: I think, like… I hear what you're saying, because for people like us who worked, would it be inaccurate… I mean I don't want to like speak for you, but like, I'll just say we and tell me if I'm projecting. We worked to honor our blood. Like it was something that we wanted to be sacred. So when I say I'm scared, I'm scared to lose my blood. I think that's what you're saying. Like… Now did you have side effects and stuff? Did you have…   Thomas: Yeah, I've had a lot. I've had a really hard time with hot flashes. They're… I think they're getting better. They're getting better or I'm getting more used to them.   Sodos: Still?   Thomas: Yeah, I'm still getting them. And the worst part, gosh.. I would get these really bad ones for I'd be on transit because I used to commute an hour and a half to work and I would have, you know, my clothes, and then a sweater and then a jacket and then like a hat and whatever and then my bag and my you know, and I'm on BART or crammed in a bus or whatever, crammed on BART, whatever. Then I'd have a hot flash in the middle of all that and it was like…and  sometimes I thought I was going to pass out or throw up or something.    Sodos: Have you read books about menopause like to help you?   Thomas: Yes, I… I… yes. Before I was postmenopausal, I read a lot of books and then when I was actually on my honeymoon, I was reading a book about menopause.    Sodos: So you were still bleeding.    Thomas: I was still bleeding then, yeah.   Sodos: It's funny that you read them so early and now you're in it and you're going, “No” The only one I have is about a year ago, I bought the Susun Weed book. Yeah, she's so cool, Susun Weed, and I like that book. She talks about the Croning. I wonder too… even for someone like you who works on this stuff, the word Crone is very loaded. Do you think… do you not …do you like the word Crone? Like, do you feel like a Crone? Because you don't look like a Crone… stereotypically.   Thomas: It's interesting because… So when I was first into the blood mysteries, I started… I got really fascinated with the idea of the Crone and I started offering classes for women who were much older than me to tell them how much to love the Crone time.    Sodos: [LAUGHS]    Thomas: And I knew that I was like, really in a weird place teaching that, right? Because I was just like, “I can't tell you anything about it obviously, but I'm going to get you together, I'm going to tell you what I've read about how great it is and then you're going to, you know, tell me, you know, insane or whatever… And the women would get really inspired by what I would say. But what I realized was that, because I was in like my 30s, I thought that postmenopausal was like, “a group of women”. And so and as I worked with them, I had women of all ages coming to these workshops, and I realized I had women who are 50 or 40. Well, maybe 50, late 40s, early 50s… and I had women who were 80, and they were in a completely different phase of life and they were all in one bucket in my head because I was naive enough to not understand any nuance about this yet. So when I hear the word Crone I always think of it of course, as an old woman, and I don't feel like I'm there yet. But then it's like, there's lots of stages in life. Right? And there's the menopause and post menopause. But I don't know that it has to be the Crone right, then. I mean, it could be. I don't know that I'm ready. I think I will probably call it a Croning ceremony when I do it, but I don't feel like I'm worthy of being a Crone yet. I haven't earned that yet.   Sodos: I think yeah, I'm also afraid for my blood to stop. And it kind of reminds me of a relationship. Like, I used to do this thing where when I was in a relationship I would only focus on what was wrong… when I was younger… what was wrong with the person and then when I was out of it, I would focus on what was good. So it was like a way to be miserable as much as I could. You know what I'm saying? I don't know if you ever did that, but… So, but like it's like with our menstruation… it's like… because we've worked hard to focus on what we love. Yeah, it's like, but now it might be a good time to focus on what you didn't like about it because then you can…you know what I mean? It's like a relationship like, “You're gone. I'm not getting you back in this life. So you were kind of annoying. Remember those cramps I used to have… and all the time?” and I don't know…   Thomas: Well, I am really grateful that I've had, I call them my blood sisters and my blood mothers and my blood grandmothers. You've been an incredible blood sister for me all this time and then I've had women who've been older than me who've been, you know, in more of the teacher role than like the companion role and, and their teachers have been my blood grandmothers . I've just been so blessed to have had this amazing group of women around me. So… and those are the women I will turn to as I go to celebrate my Croning whenever I do that.    Sodos: Yay!   Thomas: Oh, my goodness. It's been so amazing to talk to you. I'm so glad we got to do this. Thank you so much.    Whether the concept of the blood as sacred and important is part of your everyday life or something you hold a little ways away from yourself and look at with suspicion, I am so glad you joined us today.    What's a rite of passage you wish you'd had? What's a hard experience you'd like to reclaim? As the author of your own story, you have the power to name, rename, and even reimagine the events of your past. Ritual, ceremony, and community are tools that can help you with this important work.    Erica Sodos is a magician, speaker, emcee, psychic entertainer, one of only a handful of female mentalists in the world. She is an avid lover of nature, a dedicated vegan, an environmentalist, and an activist and tour guide at an animal sanctuary. You can find out more about Erica and see examples of her magic at ericasodos.com.    Our music is by Terry Hughes. You can follow us on IG and Twitter at shamepinata. You can reach us through the contact page at our website, shamepinata.com. And you can subscribe to the podcast on Radio Public, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite player. I'm Colleen Thomas. Thanks for listening.

In the general neoPagan community people - not everyone - who work with animal spirit guides talk about Animal Totems. Purists will tell you that that's kind of a misnomer. Totems are not really spirit guides and spirit guides are not really totems. Where do YOU stand on this immense question?? Well, I'm here to untangle the whole mess and by the time we're finished we'll all know what really is what. So we start of with a pretty clear definition of what a Totem is - where the word came from and how it was used. And we'll look at WHERE the word was used as well. Plus, we'll find out what Carl Gustave Jung had to say about Totems. Then we'll get into Power Animals, and animal guides, with some - interesting - contemporary theories on the subject. Be well. Do good. Enjoy the show!