quotes & thinkums
Better than this
Sunday, 15Sep2019
I'm rather fond of bears.
Can't you just see this one watching?
Can't you just see this one watching?
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Two and only two
Saturday, 14Sep2019
❝When someone starts offering two and only two alternatives, that's the cue to look for the fourth, fifth, and sixth choices.❞— NeoWayland, NeoNote — Abortion is not about women's rights
Ro3 № 34
Thursday, 05Sep2019
“Fall down twice, get up three times.”Probably related/derived from the old Japanese proverb Nana korobi, ya oki which translates as “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
Gibbs Rule #16
Thursday, 05Sep2019
“If someone thinks they have the upper hand, break it.”
“If it works, it’s true.”
Thursday, 05Sep2019
“If a pattern of belief or behavior enables a being to survive and to accomplish chosen goals, than that belief or behavior is “true” or “real” or “sensible” on whatever levels of reality are involved.”
How we treat the Other
Wednesday, 04Sep2019
❝The trust we share among ourselves and how we use that trust is really what defines our community. I've said that how we treat the Other may be the defining characteristic of a great human civilization. I stand by that.❞— NeoWayland, Characters
Organized Religion and Organized Crime
Sunday, 01Sep2019
Swimming and the sauna are two of the few non-sexual activities where nudity is openly accepted.
Read More...Contemporary paganism
Sunday, 01Sep2019
I use pictures available on the web. I don't mess with consent forms. I don't show photos of sex. I don't show photos of naked kids.
Read More...Look for the helpers
Monday, 26Aug2019
“Emotionally Extreme Experiences, Not Just “Positive” or “Negative” Experiences, Are More Meaningful in Life”
Read More...How to see
Monday, 26Aug2019
“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”Read More...
Casually
Monday, 12Aug2019
Yes, I know this one is staged. But it is the casual acceptance of nudity that I'd like to see more often. We're born in our skin, we shouldn't be ashamed in it.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
Old saying
Friday, 09Aug2019
❝This is the first truth.
We share life and through life we are all connected. We are measured in the lives we touch. We live to manifest and we manifest by living.❞
First truth
Thursday, 08Aug2019
❝This is the first truth.
We share life and through life we are all connected. We are measured in the lives we touch. We live to manifest and we manifest by living.❞
Undresses her mind and soul
Thursday, 08Aug2019
Consider the holiness of your hands.
Thursday, 08Aug2019
See, people today like to forget, but pagans invented civilization. And trade. And philosophy.
Read More...My eighth sex rule
Thursday, 08Aug2019
Gibbs Rule #15
Thursday, 01Aug2019
“Always work as a team.”
“That which is sent, returns.”
Thursday, 01Aug2019
Erase the past
Saturday, 20Jul2019
“Any pattern of data can be split into (at least) two patterns with “opposing” characteristics, and each will contain the essence of the other within itself.”
“Everything contains its opposite.”
Thursday, 18Jul2019
I used to think that this was a silly thing Christians used to hide their own insecurity. And if I had my druthers, I'd put this is a caution box with the red banner and be done with it.
Read More...My comments on the “Billy Graham rule”
Saturday, 13Jul2019
“If anything can go wrong, it will — and in the most annoying manner possible.”
Gibbs Rule #11
Thursday, 11Jul2019
“When the job is done, walk away.”
“Change your perspective.”
Thursday, 11Jul2019
“If anything can go wrong, it will.”
Thursday, 11Jul2019
Keep a notebook
Wednesday, 10Jul2019
“Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.”
“Anything can be a person.”
Saturday, 06Jul2019
“You live in your cosmos and I’ll live in mine.”
Saturday, 29Jun2019
Not the thing
Thursday, 13Jun2019
“Like attracts unlike; energy and actions often attract their “opposites.””
Dancing naked
Thursday, 30May2019
But there's a part of me that's sad that those ideas won't be part of the conversation going forward.
Read More...Very little honor
Thursday, 30May2019
“You don't waste good.”
❝What’s in a name? — Everything!❞
Thursday, 30May2019
“The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does.”Read More...
❝Nudity is a problem for Americans.❞
Thursday, 30May2019
Nudity, sex, love
Thursday, 23May2019
“Human beings are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.”Read More...
❝The Road goes ever on and on…❞
Thursday, 23May2019
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Desert
Thursday, 23May2019
“Understanding brings control; the more that is known about a subject, the easier it is to exercise control over it.”
Reinventing the wheel
Thursday, 23May2019
Habitual nakedness
Thursday, 23May2019
“Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane.”
Three Laws of Thermosecurity
Thursday, 23May2019
“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”
Ro3 № 32
Thursday, 23May2019
“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Human experience
Thursday, 23May2019
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ”
My seventh sex rule
Thursday, 23May2019
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ”
Part of nature
Thursday, 23May2019
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
Gibbs Rule #4
Thursday, 23May2019
“Mirrored Ceilings and Criss-Crossed Stairwells Give a Chinese Bookstore the Feeling of an M.C. Escher Woodcut”
Read More...The future
Thursday, 16May2019
“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.”
Listen objectively
Thursday, 16May2019
“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”
Gibbs Rule #3?
Thursday, 16May2019
McGee Rule #70
Thursday, 16May2019
❝Humans do change the planet. But humans don't change the climate.❞— NeoWayland, anthropogenic climate change
Humans do change the planet
Saturday, 11May2019
❝Humans do change the planet. But humans don't change the climate.❞— NeoWayland, anthropogenic climate change
American obsession
Saturday, 04May2019
“In which John Green teaches you the history of Christianity, from the beginnings of Judaism and the development of monotheism, right up to Paul and how Christianity stormed the Roman Empire in just a few hundred years. Along the way, John will cover Abram/Abraham, the Covenant, the Roman Occupation of Judea, and the birth, life, death and legacy of Jesus of Nazareth. No flame wars! Let's keep the commentary civil.”
Read More...NeoNote — For your own good
Wednesday, 24Apr2019
It means I watch for the exceptions where neither IS nor IS NOT applies. It means our understanding is limited by our perception and assumptions at the moment.
Read More...❝Knowledge isn't mastery. Eclecticism depends on discipline.❞
Thursday, 04Apr2019
“We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”
Apologize
Thursday, 04Apr2019
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
New citizenry
Thursday, 04Apr2019
❝I got better at dealing when I stopped arguing and just did my thing.❞
❝The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.❞
Thursday, 04Apr2019
“The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.”
❝Beings within…❞
Thursday, 04Apr2019
“It is possible to establish internal communication with entities from either inside or outside of oneself, said entities seeming to be inside of oneself during the communication process.”— Isaac Bonewits, The Laws of Magic, The Law of Invocation
Better at dealing
Thursday, 04Apr2019
The myth can be more comfortable than the truth, but the myth can keep us from growing
Read More...❝Don't start nothing, won't BE nothing!❞
Thursday, 04Apr2019
Distasteful
Saturday, 30Mar2019
❝If we wrap ourselves in sorrow and pain and misery and self-loathing, then that is exactly what we attract.❞— NeoWayland, Invoking passion for failure or success?
Part of my offering
Saturday, 30Mar2019
❝Honor and the other classic virtues are part of what we choose for ourselves as Pagans.❞— NeoWayland, The Old Breed
Like calls to like
Friday, 29Mar2019
❝If we wrap ourselves in sorrow and pain and misery and self-loathing, then that is exactly what we attract.❞— NeoWayland, Invoking passion for failure or success?
Classic virtues
Friday, 29Mar2019
❝Honor and the other classic virtues are part of what we choose for ourselves as Pagans.❞— NeoWayland, The Old Breed
That's my joke you see.
Friday, 29Mar2019
I've been doing some research and the possibilities look pretty good. Read More...
The universe has a sense of humor
Friday, 29Mar2019
“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
Monday, 25Mar2019
“In which John relates a condensed history of India, post-Indus Valley Civilization. John explores Hinduism and the origins of Buddhism. He also gets into the reign of Ashoka, the Buddhist emperor who, in spite of Buddhism's structural disapproval of violence, managed to win a bunch of battles.”
Read More...Personally I'd be willing to live and let live with Christians.
Sunday, 24Mar2019
❝I don't understand why any group should change their language, practices, customs or actions when the shooter was not part of the group or the community.❞Read More...
I wouldn't call Christian Day an idiot.
Sunday, 24Mar2019
NeoNote — This tragedy does not reflect on Heathens.
Sunday, 24Mar2019
“In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.”
Read More...❝Life isn't about finding yourself.❞
Thursday, 07Mar2019
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
Trouble
Thursday, 07Mar2019
“In which John covers the long, long history of ancient Egypt, including the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, and even a couple of intermediate periods. Learn about mummies, pharaohs, pyramids and the Nile with John Green.”
Read More...❝Do not let your fire go out…❞
Thursday, 07Mar2019
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
Change
Thursday, 07Mar2019
“I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.”
Seek wisdom
Thursday, 07Mar2019
“Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.”
DiNozzo Rule #3
Thursday, 07Mar2019
“Never underestimate your opponent.”
❝All things are possible, though some are more probable than others.❞
Thursday, 07Mar2019
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
❝I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.❞
Thursday, 07Mar2019
“Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.”
❝A thing is right…❞
Thursday, 07Mar2019
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
“There’s always something new”
Thursday, 28Feb2019
“The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.”
DiNozzo Rule #1
Thursday, 28Feb2019
“Don't sit on the sidelines while your people are in trouble.”
Innocent faith
Thursday, 28Feb2019
“The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.”
❝Conservation is getting nowhere…❞
Thursday, 28Feb2019
“In which John presents Mesopotamia, and the early civilizations that arose around the Fertile Crescent. Topics covered include the birth of territorial kingdoms, empires, Neo-Assyrian torture tactics, sacred marriages, ancient labor practices, the world's first law code, and the great failed romance of John's undergrad years.”
Read More...
❝Bad money drives out good.❞
Thursday, 28Feb2019
“ When two coins are equal in debt-paying value but unequal in intrinsic value, the one having the lesser intrinsic value tends to remain in circulation and the other to be hoarded or exported.”— Gresham's law, (original version)
❝Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.❞
Thursday, 28Feb2019
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
Nature favors
Thursday, 28Feb2019
“The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.”
Easier
Thursday, 28Feb2019
“The number of phenomena to be known is infinite; one will never run out of things to learn.”
❝Gods and Goddesses of myth…❞
Thursday, 28Feb2019
“The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.”
Third best, second best, best
Friday, 22Feb2019
“Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”
Curveball
Thursday, 21Feb2019
“If you’re not ready to find exceptional things, you won’t discover them.”
Exceptional things
Thursday, 21Feb2019
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
Genius
Thursday, 21Feb2019
Pardon, but I think there is a difference between rapes occurring and rape culture.
Read More...Everywhere I go
Thursday, 21Feb2019
“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
Only one difference
Thursday, 21Feb2019
“Never screw over your partner.”
Gibbs Rule 1?
Thursday, 21Feb2019
“I don't care who gets the laughs on my show, as long as the show is funny.”
❝You can become another.❞
Thursday, 21Feb2019
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
My fifth sex rule
Thursday, 21Feb2019
Abby Rule #9
Thursday, 07Feb2019
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
‘I told you so'
Thursday, 07Feb2019
“Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.”
Pursuit of truth and beauty
Thursday, 07Feb2019
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”
Full of magic things
Thursday, 07Feb2019
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
Virtue
Thursday, 07Feb2019
“Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.”
Strength and growth
Thursday, 07Feb2019
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”
Who gets credit
Thursday, 07Feb2019
“Always keep a spare.”
Ro3 № 28
Thursday, 07Feb2019
❝There are three types of history. There's the Official History™, there's the stories that people tell, and there's what really happened.❞— NeoWayland, Synchronicity, coincidence, perception, and perspective, see also Rules of Three
❝Just cause it’s invisible don’t mean it ain’t there.❞
Thursday, 07Feb2019
❝Beings without❞
Thursday, 31Jan2019
“It is possible to establish external communication with entities from either inside or outside of oneself, said entities seeming to be outside of oneself during the communication process.”
Ro3 № 27
Thursday, 31Jan2019
❝A living faith draws from three sources. There's what others have done before you. There's who you are and what you've done. And finally there's the link you make to the Divine. The dynamic tension shapes your faith.❞— NeoWayland, Faith Triad, see also Rules of Three
Polarities
Sunday, 27Jan2019
“Never apologize for grief. For honoring the memory of people you’ve lost by admitting how much they meant to you when you had them.”— David Weber, Uncompromising Honor
Ro3 № 24
Sunday, 20Jan2019
“Study: People Who ‘Microdose’ LSD and Magic Mushrooms Are Wiser and More Creative”
Read More...Not even the same subject
Friday, 11Jan2019
Left alone with our faith and our Journey
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”
❝Dance to the music.❞
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.”
Listening and lecturing
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die to die decently, but to live manfully.”
Cursed
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“They not only refused to stop listening to God, they started lecturing Him on the way things were supposed to be.”— David Weber, Uncompromising Honor
❝Never apologize for grief.❞
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
❝Nothing is more active than thought…❞
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”
Heroes know
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion.”
In search of honey
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.”
❝The courage we desire and prize…❞
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“In which John Green investigates the dawn of human civilization. John looks into how people gave up hunting and gathering to become agriculturalists, and how that change has influenced the world we live in today. Also, there are some jokes about cheeseburgers.”
Read More...❝Nothing exists except atoms and empty space…❞
Thursday, 20Dec2018
❝If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel…❞
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come. I'm waiting on the good times now.”
❝Gotta have opposites…❞
Thursday, 20Dec2018
“A video describing the differences between the subspecies of Alaskan brown bears. To see and learn more…”
Read More...My fourth sex rule
Thursday, 13Dec2018
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Earth delights
Thursday, 13Dec2018
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
❝Shall I not have intelligence with the earth?❞
Thursday, 13Dec2018
“Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?”
❝I reject your reality and substitute my own.❞
Thursday, 13Dec2018
“I reject your reality and substitute my own.”
Boys must win against powerful odds
Thursday, 13Dec2018
Of course, you could stop trying to preach and actually pay attention to what people are willing to share. You might even learn something.
Read More...Psychedelics as a catalyst
Thursday, 13Dec2018
One tripod leg
Thursday, 13Dec2018
❝The lore behind magick is only one tripod leg. Even there it's about real mastery, not rote recitation. I call it moving beyond the recipe. When you can adapt your technique to what is there and what is needed with a minimum of effort, that's mastery. The lore is about core ideas, not specific practices. That's one of the hardest lessons I've had to learn and I am not good enough with it yet.❞— NeoWayland, A Rule of Three
Short version, yes, magick works.
Wednesday, 12Dec2018
“In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the word for no-thing (nothing) is AIN.”
❝Control every variable and you control every change — lotsa luck!❞
Monday, 03Dec2018
“If exactly the same actions are done under exactly the same conditions, they will usually be associated with exactly the same “results;” similar strings of events produce similar outcomes.”— Isaac Bonewits, The Laws of Magic, The Law of Cause & Effect
❝Commonality controls.❞
Friday, 30Nov2018
“Keep what works. Fix what’s broke. Ditch the rest.”— Sunfell, The Eclectic Redes, Rules of Three
❝No more sacred civilizations…❞
Thursday, 29Nov2018
“No more sacred civilizations, Monsieur. They are too delicate and too costly. Besides priests are no more trustworthy than anyone else.”
“We don't think we come into this World corrupt.”
Thursday, 29Nov2018
“It's the end of the world, everybody. Well, it's the end of our mythology series, anyway. This week, we're talking about how mythological themes have made their way into the English language. We're taking on the Herculean task of tracking down phrases that have made their way into language from mythical stories.”
Read More...We don't see ourselves as separate
Thursday, 29Nov2018
You may have noticed that my quote section is building to a truly awesome size.
Read More...Animism means
Thursday, 29Nov2018
Ro3 № 22
Tuesday, 27Nov2018
❝The honor is in giving truth when needed, helping when you can, and leaving the World a little better than how you found it.❞
Ro3 № 21
Monday, 26Nov2018
“Keep what works. Fix what’s broke. Ditch the rest.”— Sunfell, The Eclectic Redes, Rules of Three
Who is quoted
Friday, 23Nov2018
If you ask the question of thirteen pagans, you'd probably get forty-seven answers.
Read More...Ro3 № 20
Friday, 23Nov2018
❝It’s not a real party unless it lasts three days.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
❝I'm pretty sure that the World can take care of Herself❞
Friday, 23Nov2018
❝Individuals have rights. Groups have power plays.❞
Thursday, 22Nov2018
❝A garden requires patient labor and attention.❞
Thursday, 22Nov2018
“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. ”
Mission in life
Thursday, 22Nov2018
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”
Heated debate
Thursday, 22Nov2018
“False words are not only evil themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
Good ideas and true innovation
Thursday, 22Nov2018
“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. ”
Education
Thursday, 22Nov2018
“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.”
False words
Thursday, 22Nov2018
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
❝Even when we are nude, we hide our bodies in shame.❞
Thursday, 22Nov2018
❝Clothes make the man.❞
Thursday, 22Nov2018
My second unbreakable sex rule
Thursday, 22Nov2018
Ro3 № 18
Wednesday, 21Nov2018
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Read More...Ro3 № 17
Tuesday, 20Nov2018
❝It’s not a real party unless it lasts three days.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
NeoNote — Nature and the World are not cruel.
Monday, 19Nov2018
“I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.”
Ro3 № 16
Monday, 19Nov2018
“In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and how a lot of their work was influenced by myth and mythology. While Freud and Jung aren't quite as revered as they once were, they were undoubtedly a huge influence on the practice of psychology and psychiatry, and these two fellas were undoubtedly influenced by foundational stories. Today, we'll learn about Oedipus, the collective unconscious, archetypes, Star Wars, and more!”
Read More...One of my two unbreakable sex rules
Saturday, 17Nov2018
That's what I do.
Friday, 16Nov2018
Ro3 № 15
Friday, 16Nov2018
❝Don’t hold someone responsible unless they were present, of age, and participating. Remember the Practical Grudge Limit.❞
❝We Are as Gods and Might as Well Get Good at It❞
Thursday, 15Nov2018
We've gotten so used to hiding ourselves that the default assumption is that the only reason you see someone nude is because you are about to get it on. It's not true.
Read More...❝Paganism is optimistic…❞
Thursday, 15Nov2018
“Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.”
Core of human dignity
Thursday, 15Nov2018
❝Adopt the pace of nature…❞
Thursday, 15Nov2018
❝I only went out for a walk…❞
Thursday, 15Nov2018
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
Paths to the Innermost
Thursday, 15Nov2018
“There are two Paths to the Innermost: the Way of the Mystic, which is the way of devotion and meditation, a solitary and subjective path; and the way of the occultist, which is the way of the intellect, of concentration, and of trained will; upon this path the co-operation of fellow workers is required, firstly for the exchange of knowledge, and secondly because ritual magic plays an important part in this work, and for this the assistance of several is needed in most of the greater operations. The mystic derives his knowledge through the direct communion of his higher self with the Higher Powers; to him the wisdom of the occultist is foolishness, for his mind does not work in that way; but, on the other hand, to a more intellectual and extrovert type, the method of the mystic is impossible until long training has enabled him to transcend the planes of form. We must therefore recognize these two distinct types among those who seek the Way of Initiation, and remember that there is a path for each.”
Discovering odd scraps
Thursday, 15Nov2018
“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”— Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Genitals
Thursday, 15Nov2018
“The simple fact is that genitals are no more sexual than any other part of the body--until we use them for sex.”— Is Nudity Inherently Immoral? from Family Skinnydippers
Obsessive modesty
Thursday, 15Nov2018
It's a false choice to be either technological or natural. Our technology is our nature.
Read More...Ro3 № 14
Thursday, 15Nov2018
❝Know what you can do. Know what you're willing to do. Know the price you're willing to pay.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
❝When animus and anima meet…❞
Wednesday, 14Nov2018
Duality and non-duality
Wednesday, 14Nov2018
Ro3 № 12
Tuesday, 13Nov2018
❝What you think you know is not what you need to know. Where you are is not where you need to be. Who you believe you are is not who you were meant to be.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three, see also Systematically
Ro3 № 11
Monday, 12Nov2018
“In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the stories we tell about witches and hags. It's definitely unfortunate that a lot of social orders have generated stories about evil women with magical powers. Today we're going to look at a few of those stories, and talk a little about why these stories appear, and what they mean.”
Read More...Ro3 № 10
Friday, 09Nov2018
❝To ease your pain and shame, share it separately with three people you trust.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
Some monotheists
Thursday, 08Nov2018
❝Some monotheists think that their religion belongs on top and take offense when you disagree.❞
Alienates us
Thursday, 08Nov2018
“The demand that we always wear clothing while in society causes at least four kinds of alienation: it alienates us from ourselves, from others, from nature, and from the Divine.”
❝We're Cuban, and it's a hot island.❞
Thursday, 08Nov2018
“I think onstage nudity is disgusting, shameful, and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.”
Hypocrisy and insecurity
Thursday, 08Nov2018
“The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practised being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.”
❝But if I were 22 with a great body…❞
Thursday, 08Nov2018
“I think onstage nudity is disgusting, shameful, and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.”
❝Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity…❞
Thursday, 08Nov2018
Ro3 № 9
Thursday, 08Nov2018
❝Honor expects three warnings before you act.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three
Ro3 № 8
Wednesday, 07Nov2018
“This week, Mike is teaching you about the most mythic of mythological creatures: Dragons. Cultures across the world (and across Westeros) tell stories of dragons, and their power to destroy, their power to prop up kings, and their power to cause a nice, refreshing rain shower. ”
Read More...Ro3 № 7
Tuesday, 06Nov2018
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Read More...Not exclusively the label
Monday, 05Nov2018
Ro3 № 5
Friday, 02Nov2018
❝If you care for the other person, if you respect them, if you share deep passions with them, then the sex makes all that better.❞
Somebody please explain to me…
Thursday, 01Nov2018
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Read More...Doing something positive in the world
Thursday, 01Nov2018
❝Every person has the right to control their own sexuality…❞
Thursday, 01Nov2018
Ro3 № 4
Thursday, 01Nov2018
❝Start by listening. Before you say anything, listen again. Just to make sure you understand, listen some more.❞
Ro3 № 3
Wednesday, 31Oct2018
Ro3 № 2
Tuesday, 30Oct2018
❝The Wheel turns, bringing Bright and Dark Blessings to us all.❞— NeoWayland, Good Journey Isaac
Ro3 № 1
Monday, 29Oct2018
❝Start by listening. Before you say anything, listen again. Just to make sure you understand, listen some more.❞
❝The Wheel turns…❞
Saturday, 27Oct2018
❝The Wheel turns, bringing Bright and Dark Blessings to us all.❞— NeoWayland, Good Journey Isaac
The future we make
Saturday, 27Oct2018
“Horses have been human companions for thousands of years, and have been essential companions and tools for the development of human culture. So, it makes sense that horses would make their way into our most important stories. Today, we're looking at horses in myth, and we'll talk about noble steeds from all over the world, including Svadlfari, Sleipneir, Pegasus, Qilin, Bucephalus, Al Baraq, and Unicorns! Let's get to the horsing around.”
Read More...❝We can't afford blind faith.❞
Saturday, 27Oct2018
❝We can't afford blind faith.❞— NeoWayland, Eyes open and watching carefully
❝That's beyond our comprehension❞
Friday, 26Oct2018
Mentioned but nameless
Friday, 26Oct2018
❝Still, he deserves credit for that and at least mention somewhere. Consider him mentioned. But nameless.❞— NeoWayland, Before a Winter's Eve
❝Sexuality is a thing of the mind…❞
Friday, 26Oct2018
“Sexuality is a thing of the mind, not of the genitalia.”— Maggie McNeill, Rope of Sand
Gnostic beliefs
Friday, 26Oct2018
❝One of the precepts in Gnostic beliefs is that the commonly accepted "creator god" isn't the actual creator at all. He's actually a son who turned against his Parents to seize control of creation for his own selfish needs and had to lie to humans to do it. His mother, Sophia, decided to do something to turn things back the way they should be, and that is where Yeshua ben Yosef (among others) came from. It makes sense when you think of the G*D from the Old Testament as a spoiled teenager who steals from his parents and parties too hard.❞— NeoWayland, comments from Wayist Druid public Samhain ritual draws threats
NeoNote — Change the groups
Thursday, 25Oct2018
“Everything must go somewhere.”— Barry Commoner, second law of ecology
❝Never doubt that a small group…❞
Thursday, 25Oct2018
“Nothing comes from nothing.”— Barry Commoner, fourth law of ecology
❝Everything must go somewhere.❞
Thursday, 25Oct2018
“Everything must go somewhere.”— Barry Commoner, second law of ecology
❝Nothing comes from nothing.❞
Thursday, 25Oct2018
“If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”
❝Cult of fairy❞
Thursday, 25Oct2018
“But yes, this is between you and him.”Read More...— Shawn Herles, comments from Pagan Community Notes: exorcism and hexing, Canada Pagan community, Michigan Scholarship Fund, and more.
❝Drawn to the left hand path…❞
Thursday, 25Oct2018
❝ trying to make my way in a monotheistic world…❞
Thursday, 25Oct2018
Read More..."The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."— Lewis Carrol,
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
NeoNote — I don't think politics should be a part of paganism
Wednesday, 24Oct2018
“But yes, this is between you and him.”— Shawn Herles, comments from Pagan Community Notes: exorcism and hexing, Canada Pagan community, Michigan Scholarship Fund, and more.
❝I'd rather not deal with him at all.
I don't think politics should be a part of paganism.
I know that puts me in direct opposition to the "the personal is political" crowd. I know this isn't a political site. I'd rather not see politics here at all.
There are reasons I separated my political blogging from my pagan blogging. There are reasons why there is no "politics" category at my pagan/life blog and there is only a tag for "ugh-politics" there.
Politics corrupt, especially religion. We know that from the People of the Book. Why on Earth are we so damned determined to prove it again?❞❝When you let your politics define your personhood, there's not much room left for your personhood outside of your politics. Without your personhood, you can lose empathy and humanity.❞— label
NeoNotes are the selected comments that I made on other boards, in email, or in response to articles where I could not respond directly.
The pedestal problem
Tuesday, 23Oct2018
❝I am Pagan because I was born that way, and because I made that choice long before I was born.❞— NeoWayland, Why are you Pagan?
Authentic symbols
Monday, 22Oct2018
“Ritual, provided it uses authentic symbols, is no more or less than what H.P. Blavatsky called 'concretized truth'.”
Sex is nice
Saturday, 20Oct2018
❝The Story is told while the Journey is lived.❞— NeoWayland, the Journey
“What is remembered, lives.”
Saturday, 20Oct2018
“This week, we're starting our discussion of Mythical Creatures with the WORST creatures. Monsters. What makes a monster monstrous though? Mike Rugnetta will guide you through the fine line between a magical creature and a monster. Spoiler alert: like 60% of the time, the difference is that monsters eat people. We'll talk about sea monsters, Sphinxes, and take an elongated look directly into the Canadian face of horror, the Wendigo.”
Read More...Story is told
Saturday, 20Oct2018
Stories are signposts
Friday, 19Oct2018
Journal - Friday, October 12, 2018
Friday, 12Oct2018
It's been a while since I've done a journal entry,
This week I'm really proud of two things. I came up with a definition of "wise" that is practical and better than anything I found in online dictionaries.
And I managed to separate sexuality from politics. I've been trying to do that for years, decades. Our culture took something that is about sharing and coming together and shoved it into tribalism. The labels aren't important unless you're trying to make fun political.
So I had to come up with something that described sexuality without tribalism.
I don't know how we made sex about politics. But from now on I'm going to do my damnedest to make it responsibly fun and only fun.
Paraphrasing from The Ethical Slut and my lexicon definition, “Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.”
I think it's a mistake to suppress our biology in the name of politics.
I'm going to look at pretty girls and women. I'll flirt unless it makes them uncomfortable. If the lady is unpledged and willing, I may fuck her if I can.
And yes, some clothing sexualizes and objectifies women. It's also something that they choose to wear. Which means they are flirting too. They want to be looked at.
I'm going to enjoy sex. I'm going to talk about sex ethically. Sex is a gift from the Divine and I am going to treat it that way.
Politics doesn't belong in sex.
This week I'm really proud of two things. I came up with a definition of "wise" that is practical and better than anything I found in online dictionaries.
And I managed to separate sexuality from politics. I've been trying to do that for years, decades. Our culture took something that is about sharing and coming together and shoved it into tribalism. The labels aren't important unless you're trying to make fun political.
So I had to come up with something that described sexuality without tribalism.
❝Unless it's with me, who you have sex with, how you have sex, and how many times you have sex is frankly none of my business. Likewise, unless it is sex with me, I'm not responsible for the consequences.❞That was the beginning, and now I've got a definition I can point at. If you haven't already, take a look at my lexicon sex index.
I don't know how we made sex about politics. But from now on I'm going to do my damnedest to make it responsibly fun and only fun.
Paraphrasing from The Ethical Slut and my lexicon definition, “Sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.”
I think it's a mistake to suppress our biology in the name of politics.
I'm going to look at pretty girls and women. I'll flirt unless it makes them uncomfortable. If the lady is unpledged and willing, I may fuck her if I can.
And yes, some clothing sexualizes and objectifies women. It's also something that they choose to wear. Which means they are flirting too. They want to be looked at.
I'm going to enjoy sex. I'm going to talk about sex ethically. Sex is a gift from the Divine and I am going to treat it that way.
Politics doesn't belong in sex.
No such thing as bad weather
Thursday, 11Oct2018
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather just different kinds of good weather.”
Let the rain kiss you
Thursday, 11Oct2018
With a Moon, trees and a reflection, this plays with some of my favorite themes.
Read More...Feel the rain
Thursday, 11Oct2018
I don't think people should be objectified, that almost always means no face associated with the body.
Read More...Not enough
Thursday, 04Oct2018
“I could care less what a religion calls their God, so long as they adhere to constructive and ethical beliefs and practices.”
NeoNote — Religion & responsiblity
Monday, 01Oct2018
“Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.”
Saturday, 29Sep2018
NeoNote — #MeToo has hit modern neopaganism hard
Sunday, 23Sep2018
Paganism isn't a movement
Monday, 17Sep2018
Those who walk between the worlds
Wednesday, 12Sep2018
“This week, Mike Rugnetta re-introduces Herakles, the strong man of Greek and Roman myth. Strongman with a darkside, that is. You'll learn about Herakles' 10 actually 12 labors, the story of his birth, his death, some of his marriages, none of which turned out that great, and some of his character flaws that definitely wouldn't fly in the modern world.”
Read More...So the paganism bothers you too.
Tuesday, 04Sep2018
“In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the hero of The Congo, Mwindo! Mike will tell you the stories of Mwindo's birth, his many deaths, and his evolution from a braggy superhuman baby to a wise, superhuman leader of his people. Along the way, we'll learn about the Wiki game, and when you should and shouldn't drink banana beer.”
Read More...“We are our bodies”
Monday, 20Aug2018
“The next entry in our parade of heroes is Rama, the protagonist of the Ramayana, one of India’s oldest stories. We’re going to be talking about Rama’s importance to Hindu culture, and how Rama fits into Campbell’s idea of the Hero’s Journey. Although, Rama may not even be the hero.”
Read More...Those who hunt for treasure…
Sunday, 19Aug2018
Love & sex
Thursday, 09Aug2018
“How do you remove the memory of a particularly bad emperor from the history books? Or what if your brother is just so annoying that you can't stand the sight of him anymore, and don't want to share power? You perform a damnatio memoriae, erase all inscriptions, destroy all public images, and pretend as if he never existed.”
Read More...Anti-Christian
Friday, 03Aug2018
“Ragnarok! It's the end of the world, Norse style. It's got everything you want in an apocalypse. Earthquakes, destruction, armies of the dead, a giant evil wolf, giants with flaming swords, and a kind of happy ending. It's got it all. But is it really Norse? It wasn't written down until after Christianity had arrived in Europe. So how much influence is there?”
Read More...Empty places
Thursday, 26Jul2018
“May the Gods always stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk.”
Hospitals for the sinners
Wednesday, 25Jul2018
Make amends
Wednesday, 25Jul2018
Lady & Lord
Wednesday, 25Jul2018
In the name of inclusion
Sunday, 22Jul2018
“Anthony Howe has been sculpting kinetic structures for nearly 30 years. In 1996, he filled his own sculpture park with metallic pieces that dance in the wind. His work has even appeared at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the holiday display for Barneys in NYC! Howe hopes his artwork gives viewers a moment of semi-meditative peace.”
Read More...Nothing supernatural exists.
Saturday, 21Jul2018
I rub people the wrong way
Friday, 13Jul2018
❝When feelings are high, I rub people the wrong way. I focus on getting things working and leaving the emotional stuff for later. It's practical in a business setting but doesn't work with most long term pagan groups. I recognize that passion drives us, but it's not a good tool for effective decisions.❞
It's only shame if I accept the premise.
Sunday, 08Jul2018
Like calls to like
Thursday, 05Jul2018
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
Definition of insanity
Saturday, 30Jun2018
❝Experience requires taking that first and seventh step into the unknown.❞— NeoWayland, the Journey vs. the Story
Fantasy setting
Saturday, 30Jun2018
I was working on the lexicon and realized I had totally forgotten Isaac Bonewits' The Laws of Magic.
Read More...A pretty good “thou shalt”
Friday, 08Jun2018
❝Most mornings I share breakfast berries with a raven. I talk to him, but he doesn't think much about human stuff. Now sunrises, he and I agree on. Not so much on sunsets, that's when he is off doing his own thing.❞
Here to help
Thursday, 24May2018
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
Mother of all people
Thursday, 24May2018
“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.”
Lights are stronger
Thursday, 24May2018
Part of the metaphor for this site is a loose-leaf binder jammed with all sorts of stuff.
Read More...Staircase to Heaven
Thursday, 24May2018
Growing season
Friday, 18May2018
“A piece of advice if I may be allowed to give it, is that no philosophy, no creed, no God is worth more than the love that one human being may give and receive in their lifetime – this is what is meant by being ‘involved’.”
The magic circle
Thursday, 17May2018
I've had three deaths in the past month. One a friend, one an uncle, and one person who I did not get along with.
Read More...Purpose of ritual
Thursday, 17May2018
Between that and the floating, it's a pretty good bet that this depicts a psychedelic trip.
Read More...Practical philosophy
Sunday, 13May2018
“This week, we continue our look at various Pantheons, and Mike digs deep into the gods of the ancient Greeks. We're talking Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Artemis, Hephaestos, Ares, and Apollo. We're also talking Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, Diana, Vulcan, Mars, and...Apollo. Similar gods, different names. We'll start with the origin stories of the gods, talk about their family relationships, and what exactly their specialties are.”
Read More...Attention
Friday, 11May2018
Coming home
Tuesday, 01May2018
I do not believe that a government agency should be trusted with caring for the environment.
Read More...Cauldron
Monday, 30Apr2018
“The cauldron in fact represented a great step forward in civilization. Before men were able to make metal cooking pots, which would withstand fire, they had to be content with thick earthenware pots, which were heated by the laborious process of dropping very hot stones into them. The metal cauldron, over which the woman as head of the household presided, gave men better cooked food, more plentiful hot water to cleanse themselves, and herbal medicines which could be decocted by boiling or infused in boiling water. Hence the cauldron became an instrument of magic, and especially of women’s magic.”— Doreen Valiente, “Cauldron”, An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present
Ecology vs. environmentalism
Sunday, 29Apr2018
❝Ecology studies how living systems interact and interconnect with each other. Environmentalism is about teaching and compelling behavior. These words are not synonyms. As both a pagan and a libertarian, I can not support environmentalism.❞— NeoWayland, ecology vs. environmentalism
Forest nymphs
Saturday, 28Apr2018
“Be not afraid. The forest nymphs have taught me how to please a woman.”
Building
Saturday, 28Apr2018
“In which Mike Rugnetta continues our unit on pantheons with the complex Indian pantheon, focusing on stories that were written in Sanskrit. We start with a violent creation story. We talk about the concept of Brahman, and the personification as three deities: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Then, the goddess Durga teaches us how to behead a buffalo demon while riding a lion.”
Read More...John McConnell & Earth Day
Saturday, 28Apr2018
❝Much of the justification for "establishing" a Greater Pagan Community® is so that certain individuals can get the adoration and deference they believe they deserve.❞— NeoWayland, Greater Pagan Community®
Peak
Saturday, 28Apr2018
❝We're not wired emotionally to differentiate between 'good' and 'bad.' We just recognize peak passion, the strongest emotions. If your peak passion is with your family and loved ones, those are the experiences you seek out. If your peak passion is because you built an amazing motorcycle, that is what you remember and seek out. And unfortunately, if your peak passion is abuse at work or abusing someone, that is what you seek out.❞— NeoWayland, peak experience
Greater Pagan Community
Friday, 27Apr2018
❝Much of the justification for "establishing" a Greater Pagan Community® is so that certain individuals can get the adoration and deference they believe they deserve.❞— NeoWayland, Greater Pagan Community®
Diversity of channels
Tuesday, 24Apr2018
❝I don't believe in enabling power through victimhood. I know that can seem cruel, but it's not. After a time, the training wheels get in the way.❞
Kirlian photography
Monday, 23Apr2018
“In which Mike Rugnetta begins our unit on pantheons, which are families of gods. We further define pantheons and talk about why they're important. Then, we discuss pantheons from the myths of the ancient Mediterranean, starting with ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia. The Egyptian pantheon brings us the story of Osiris and his envious brother Seth. We learn what these two pantheons suggest about the cultures where they originated.” Read More...
“In the Footsteps of Brasidas”
Saturday, 14Apr2018
❝Faith is a personal choice. It has to be, or it has no meaning.❞
Vital & fresh
Friday, 23Mar2018
Folly
Thursday, 22Mar2018
I don't suppose it's really important in the overall scheme of things, but I find it unnerving.
Read More...I believe in God
Thursday, 22Mar2018
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
Without
Thursday, 22Mar2018
It's not that they don't have the raw ability, most just don't have the skills.
Read More...Fundamentalism denies others choice
Thursday, 22Mar2018
“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
Character
Thursday, 15Mar2018
My paganism isn't separate
Thursday, 15Mar2018
❝If you give your passion to them, then they win. You'll always be reacting and you'll always be unhappy.❞Read More...
Heirs of dreams
Sunday, 11Mar2018
❝Sometimes, the heirs of dreams do better than the heirs of blood and bone.❞
Truest life
Sunday, 11Mar2018
You don't know
Saturday, 10Mar2018
“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”Read More...
Take care of each other
Friday, 09Mar2018
As a rough definition, measurable intelligence is the practical knowledge and skills necessary for a given set of problem solving.
Read More...Heard of brave knights
Thursday, 08Mar2018
Tuesday and Wednesday entries combined. A bit of art, a bit of dream, a bit of speculation.
Read More...Difference between the Story and the Journey
Thursday, 08Mar2018
Fairy tales
Thursday, 08Mar2018
“Does the Church in our time foster the inner life? Rarely. Does the Church hold the keys to a new consciousness? Yes.”
Acquiring knowledge
Thursday, 08Mar2018
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
One tree falls
Thursday, 08Mar2018
Foster inner life
Thursday, 08Mar2018
About all we know for sure is that Bosch was mixing the profound with the profane of his day and age.
Read More...Woods
Sunday, 04Mar2018
It's the mix, it's the argument, it's the conflict that will give us some of our best new ideas.
Read More...Enough to destroy
Thursday, 01Mar2018
Courage
Thursday, 01Mar2018
“The accusation is enough to destroy. That's why I compared it to Witch Trials. There is no defense against the accusation. You're assumed guilty by the mob, tried, and executed. There's no recourse, no chance to challenge the accusers.”
Born dreamers
Thursday, 01Mar2018
Politics has tainted paganism in my mind and I am working to re-establish the separation.
Read More...Everything has a price
Thursday, 01Mar2018
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
“The Birth of Venus” by Botticelli
Monday, 26Feb2018
Uh oh, I just revealed Secrets That Must Not Be Revealed. The Powers-That-Wanna-Be may insist I turn in my lucky charm.
Read More...Healthier state of being
Monday, 26Feb2018
“Why are we facing a conundrum?”
Thursday, 22Feb2018
“Why are we facing a conundrum? The works from Bonewits have proven themselves as functional and relevant to their fields. Just because there is a glaring flaw in the man means we have to toss away his legacy? The idea is nonsense.”— Isabella LeCour, comment on Accusations of abuse surface against ADF founder Isaac Bonewits
Limiter
Thursday, 22Feb2018
We walk between the worlds
Wednesday, 21Feb2018
❝As a pagan, I've long since learned that the World isn't mine to control.❞
Loves the earth
Sunday, 18Feb2018
❝Ever notice that when someone starts talking about the common good, they try to take something away from you?❞
Bound
Saturday, 17Feb2018
❝“This is the world, there is no other.” That’s the limiter. Everything moves because of dynamic balances, magick is the essence of change and evolution. Life changes. Magick moves. We connect.❞— NeoWayland, Dirty hands
Common good
Saturday, 17Feb2018
❝Those parts of the Divine that you touch, you can’t keep the magick to yourself and still be pagan. You have to send it out. We take the Divine Gift and share it.❞— NeoWayland, Dirty hands
Can't keep the magick
Friday, 16Feb2018
I've learned
Friday, 16Feb2018
❝As a pagan, I've long since learned that the World isn't mine to control.❞
Usefulness
Thursday, 15Feb2018
“Bonewits' works form the backbone of my own work and beliefs. However, those works have that place in no way do to the character of the man who created them but instead on the usefulness of those works instead. I am a strong proponent against 'the cult of personality' so to idealize a man and accept his works solely do to that idealization is repugnant. I think Bonewits would understand and agree. At least that is the sense I get from the works I have from him.”— Isabella LeCour, comment on Accusations of abuse surface against ADF founder Isaac Bonewits
Not evil
Thursday, 15Feb2018
“The so-called Dark Side is not wholly an evil or negative place or force; after all, some things remain in the shadows because we've placed them there out of fear and squeamishness.”
Pagan virtue signaling
Tuesday, 13Feb2018
❝A choice that is imposed is no choice. A religion that is imposed in the name of 'freedom and decency' will be neither free nor decent.❞
Music as a place
Tuesday, 13Feb2018
“Because enchantment is not a belief; it’s an experience.”
Imposed
Tuesday, 13Feb2018
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
Great work
Tuesday, 13Feb2018
“It's long been a point of mine that the freedom of religion, which this country alleges to support, works two ways. We're not only free to practice the religion of our choice, we should be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.”
Not a belief
Tuesday, 13Feb2018
I wonder. If a symbol can be "tainted" no matter what it was used for previously, what does it take to "purify" the symbol?
Read More...Honour our Pagan Elders
Thursday, 08Feb2018
“Why can we not choose to honour our Pagan Elders and past with humility and honesty? What prevents us from including a shameful past while holding on to what good treasures they contributed?”— Isabella LeCour, comment on Accusations of abuse surface against ADF founder Isaac Bonewits
True compassion
Wednesday, 07Feb2018
Freedom of religion
Wednesday, 07Feb2018
Those who did no wrong
Monday, 29Jan2018
“If we were to look back and see all our Elders as those who did no wrong, do we not fail ourselves first by setting our own selves up to fail? We learn so much from example. Even from the bad examples, we learn what not to do.”— Isabella LeCour, comment on Accusations of abuse surface against ADF founder Isaac Bonewits
Not enough evidence
Friday, 26Jan2018
Here's the quick take for those of you who don't want to dig through the whole internet.
Read More...Every brilliant man or woman
Monday, 22Jan2018
“I have found it seems to be a universal rule, every brilliant man or woman have inside an equally breathtaking flaw. We humans are simply not all good or all bad but a mix of differentiating proportions of both.”— Isabella LeCour, comment on Accusations of abuse surface against ADF founder Isaac Bonewits
Awake
Tuesday, 16Jan2018
When pagans jump up to recite approved scripts to this week's Officially Designated Outrage, they make paganism look silly.
Read More...Get religion
Tuesday, 16Jan2018
Three sentences
Tuesday, 16Jan2018
“You can't childproof the world. You can only worldproof your children.”— probably L. Neil Smith, The American Zone
Unrealistic standard
Monday, 15Jan2018
“If anything is clearer to me now with this information coming out about Bonewits, there is far more work to be done with dealing with our shadow sides. Our Elders are not saints. I never expected them to be and I refuse to hold them to that unrealistic standard.”— Isabella LeCour, comment on Accusations of abuse surface against ADF founder Isaac Bonewits
Worldproof
Saturday, 13Jan2018
“You can't childproof the world. You can only worldproof your children.”— probably L. Neil Smith, The American Zone
Journal 12Jan2018
Friday, 12Jan2018
I don't approve of older men having sex with young teens, but it has been happening from the beginning.
Read More...Secret shame
Friday, 12Jan2018
“As if withholding belief was a moral crime…”
Friday, 12Jan2018
❝But every October, I remember. It's my own werewolf story, with me cast as Henry Jekyll. Dr. Jekyll chose to be Mr. Hyde you see. That's my shame.❞
My own werewolf story
Wednesday, 10Jan2018
If this were a horror movie
Wednesday, 10Jan2018
“We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
More popular than Jesus
Tuesday, 09Jan2018
❝You can't keep wrapping yourself in the passion for failure and then wonder why you fail.
Cherish your passion and embrace the magick.❞— NeoWayland, Invoking passion for failure or success?
Pain
Tuesday, 09Jan2018
❝I believe that Paganism offers an immediacy that I couldn't find in Christianity.❞— NeoWayland, Why a Technopagan?
Hurting
Tuesday, 09Jan2018
Failure
Tuesday, 09Jan2018
These older blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories
Read More...Immediacy
Tuesday, 09Jan2018
❝The next step depends on the focus of your faith and your choices. It's not enough to be just pagan.❞— NeoWayland, Blessed Journeys
Next step
Saturday, 06Jan2018
“Whenever I see these ads for shamanic weekends, I'm suspicious. Because shamanic ecstasy is terrifying.”
Inestimable value
Saturday, 06Jan2018
“The second coming of the Goddess has proved of inestimable value to people everywhere, for it has provided them with a new mythic pattern, a saving story to live by.”
Defined
Wednesday, 03Jan2018
Organize
Wednesday, 03Jan2018
❝Faith is a personal choice. So are politics. One does not define the other.❞— NeoWayland, Paganism is not political
How easy it is to join
Wednesday, 03Jan2018
❝See, the internet is an equalizer of sorts. If I am in a "community," my statements have the same weight as the flakiest member who joined just last week. The chances of anyone sticking around and making that community actually worth something is inversely proportional to how easy it is to join.❞— NeoWayland, Flake off
Choice
Tuesday, 02Jan2018
❝Faith is a personal choice. So are politics. One does not define the other.❞— NeoWayland, Paganism is not political
The stars
Tuesday, 02Jan2018
The first Otherkin essay popped up at Witchvox. How is this going to change the Neopagan movement?
Read More...I am (the long version)
Tuesday, 02Jan2018
Moonlight and sunlight
Thursday, 28Dec2017
Questionable behavior
Monday, 25Dec2017
❝Unfortunately sometimes polyamory is a convenient label for questionable behavior. A healthy poly relationship is long term based on mutual respect. It's not an excuse to sleep with as many people as possible.❞
“Joy to the World”
Thursday, 21Dec2017
“Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful!”
Wednesday, 20Dec2017
Magic exists
Tuesday, 19Dec2017
“Away from the Harvest”
Tuesday, 19Dec2017
Desert beautiful
Monday, 18Dec2017
In art…
Thursday, 14Dec2017
❝Faith and religion don't stay in the nice neat boxes and cabinets we make for them. Syncretism happens, even if it offends the True Believer™.❞
Syncretism happens even if it offends
Wednesday, 13Dec2017
Seek
Wednesday, 13Dec2017
❝The question is not which religion or belief set is mainstream, authentic, or even legitimate. Define your faith in those terms and you concede the war.❞— NeoWayland, Faith worthy of freedom
“The Holly and the Ivy” (pagan version)
Wednesday, 13Dec2017
“The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.”
Master the discipline
Wednesday, 06Dec2017
What makes the so many modern pagans fluffy? And why don't they seem to want more?
Read More...Internet debates
Wednesday, 06Dec2017
“Back to the basics' works if you chose the right basics. (We could debate that.)”— Chas Clifton, Rhetoric: It’s “Classical” Because It Works
Your own worst impulses
Tuesday, 05Dec2017
The moon does not fight
Tuesday, 05Dec2017
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”— Ming-Dao Deng, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony
Where the miracles are
Tuesday, 05Dec2017
❝Your will may be an 880 pound gorilla, but it doesn't matter if you don't have your own heart behind it. That is where the power is.
The heart is where the miracles are.❞— NeoWayland, Snap out of it!
❝Freedom from the Known…❞
Tuesday, 05Dec2017
“Freedom from the Known is death, and then you are living.”
Back to basics
Tuesday, 05Dec2017
❝We humans were born with a spark of the Divine. We spend our lives trying to pass that on.
Sometimes we succeed.❞— NeoWayland, Magick in the modern world
Said no polytheist ever
Monday, 04Dec2017
❝Never piss off your friends, sometimes they save you from your own worst impulses.❞— NeoWayland, Snap out of it!
The Lady Always Chooses
Monday, 04Dec2017
❝My feelings were irrelevant, I told him. My personal beliefs mean that The Lady Always Chooses. She was in a monogamous marriage to his dad. And that is where it stood. What he suggested wasn't even a possibility because her honor was more important to me than my own.❞— NeoWayland, Bittersweet honor
You can't be worthy
Monday, 04Dec2017
❝The Wheel turns and the World touches me.❞— NeoWayland, Migration noise
Born with a spark of the Divine
Sunday, 03Dec2017
❝We humans were born with a spark of the Divine. We spend our lives trying to pass that on.
Sometimes we succeed.❞— NeoWayland, Magick in the modern world
Celebrate
Sunday, 03Dec2017
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Day & Night
Sunday, 03Dec2017
Turns
Sunday, 03Dec2017
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Read More...Revived 02Dec2017
Saturday, 02Dec2017
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Look out for the stale jokes
Moody
Briefly, another thinkum
Thinkum-a-giggle
The need for mystery
Coyote
Discussion on initiation
In the moment
Strange Thinkum
Good reasoning
One of my better short efforts I think
Remember this
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Dark side
Saturday, 02Dec2017
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Spirit and will
Saturday, 02Dec2017
A great discussion on what initiation is and what it is for, touching on whether self-initiation is valid
Read More...Think you know
Saturday, 25Nov2017
Virtue
Thursday, 23Nov2017
“I am the roar of the ocean. I am a powerful ox. I am a hawk on a cliff. I am a salmon in pools. I am a lake in a plain.”— from the Song of Amergin
Unity Liberty Charity
Thursday, 23Nov2017
❝I draw my strength from the ancient well and the dark and secret places.❞
— Affirmation of NeoWayland
❝What I carry is what I use.❞
Wednesday, 22Nov2017
❝The virtue is in the manifestation, not the doctrine.❞— from the private journal of NeoWayland, 16Oct2012
Law of fives
Wednesday, 22Nov2017
❝Ah, Lady Moon, the kiss of your light works wonders.❞Labels
Wednesday, 22Nov2017❝We define the labels, the labels should not define us.❞
— from the private journal of NeoWayland, 07Nov2012Lady Moon
Wednesday, 15Nov2017❝We can't let our faiths and our creeds control how we touch other people. Faith is between you and the Divine. But we're measured by how we touch the lives of other humans.❞
— NeoWayland, Journal 07Jul2017❝Personal’s not the same as important.❞
Wednesday, 01Nov2017Dirt paths
Saturday, 26Aug2017“Though often considered 'supernatural,' magic actually operates within a traditional view of the universe, complete with a recognizable set of natural laws.”— Jay Kinney from “Magic: What is It?”, Gnosis № 2, Spring-Summer 1986Real magic
Thursday, 24Aug2017❝On some issues I run deeper than granite and more certain than dawn.❞
— NeoWaylandDraw my strength
Thursday, 24Aug2017“How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they's rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.”Read More...Called for veritas
Tuesday, 22Aug2017“We’re not naked, we’re skyclad!”— Kelley Armstrong, Dime Store MagicControl how we touch other people
Tuesday, 22Aug2017❝What I carry is what I use.❞— NeoWayland's Pennyworth iPod Touch engraving, 19Nov2012Ways
Sunday, 20Aug2017“Mike Rugnetta continues to teach you about Tricksters in myth, and this time we're headed to the Americas. Coyote and Raven appear in stories from many Native American groups, and more often than not, they're tricky. They're also often kind of, well, nasty. Not to get too judgy. But we do a lot of talking about poop in this episode. I'm just saying. We also talk about Tricksters as creators, as Coyote creates constellations, and Raven creates some rivers.”
Read More...This last week in free speech
Saturday, 19Aug2017“Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.”— Richard BaxterIn their own minds
Saturday, 19Aug2017❝We define the labels, the labels should not define us.❞
— from the private journal of NeoWayland, 07Nov2012I can’t hoard the magick
Monday, 14Aug2017☥ ✰ ❝Sincerity does not equal competence.❞
Saturday, 12Aug2017“If you're sure I love you, you can raise your hand to me & I'll roll over for petting. But if not, expect that hand to be bitten off.”❝Things are always more complicated than you think.❞
Friday, 11Aug2017❝Beware of jargon.❞
Thursday, 10Aug2017Song of Amergin
Thursday, 10Aug2017“Power is scary. And scared people are very very dangerous.”— Cholla, Who Cannot Hex Cannot Heal, Witch EyeSkyclad
Thursday, 10Aug2017❝When I finally did hear the voice of the Divine, it was female. And She was more than a bit put out that it had taken so long to get my attention. I did hear a male Divine voice too, but that was later.❞
— NeoWayland, Why are you Pagan?She was more than a bit put out
Thursday, 10Aug2017❝Don't essentialize.❞
Wednesday, 09Aug2017❝Focus on the primary text…❞
Tuesday, 08Aug2017❝Respect texts about texts.❞
Monday, 07Aug2017❝Be broadminded about what counts as “philosophy.”❞
Friday, 04Aug2017Beware
Friday, 04Aug2017❝You should beware the politician who wraps himself in faith and the minister who wraps himself with the flag.❞
— from the private journal of NeoWayland, 01Mar2002❝Take religion seriously.❞
Thursday, 03Aug2017Not sure
Thursday, 03Aug2017“The Law of Attraction is the Law of Creation. Everything that’s coming into your life ... you are attracting into your life, as above, so below, As within, so without. Create your life through your thoughts.”— anonymousOne thing I wish I could literally pound into Christian heads
Thursday, 03Aug2017“For most of us, our bodies have become storage vaults for undigested impressions, for impressions too charged or painful to confront.”— Dennis Lewis from “The Further Reaches of Self-Observation”, Gnosis № 29, Fall 1993❝Attraction & Creation❞
Thursday, 03Aug2017❝Take metaphors seriously.❞
Wednesday, 02Aug2017Changing
Wednesday, 02Aug2017Now, should I reject Bonewits and all he stood for because he and I didn't agree?
Read More...❝Think about the audience.❞
Tuesday, 01Aug2017“As a pagan…”
Saturday, 29Jul2017❝You know the problem with these massive conspiracy theories are that there are never enough conspirators and never enough victims.❞Read More...Environmentalism crusade
Friday, 28Jul2017❝Silence is not louder than words.❞
Friday, 28Jul2017Fairness
Friday, 28Jul2017“I don’t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness.”— Margot AdlerFare poorly
Friday, 28Jul2017❝Get someone out of the light pollution of major cities and let them marvel at the real Milky Way and the Moon. Let them lie out under the stars and feel the Earth move under them.
But then I am just a tiny bit biased.❞— NeoWayland☥ ✰ ❝The spiritual world is not unlike the natural world …❞
Friday, 28Jul2017Margot Adler • Before passing day
Lived 16Apr1946 to 28July2014 (68)
American author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess and radio journalist“The spiritual world is not unlike the natural world: only diversity will save it.”❝Read the whole text.❞
Wednesday, 26Jul2017NeoNotes — Satanic sacrifice
Tuesday, 25Jul2017“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”— Dale CarnegieNeoNotes — Judaism
Monday, 24Jul2017“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”— Roald DahlPromise
Monday, 24Jul2017“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”Read More...Exits
Monday, 24Jul2017“This week, Mike introduces you to Tricksters, starting with Anansi, the West African trickster god who is also sometimes a spider. Tricksters are, well, tricky. They're wise and foolish, they're promiscuous and amoral, but in a lot of ways, they're good guys. We'll also talk about the occasionally tricky Hercules and Atlas, and touch on more recent tricksters like B'rer Rabbit.”
Read More...Spirituality
Saturday, 22Jul2017❝Pardon, but Judaism wasn't the original monotheism. Akhenaton introduced Atenism in Egypt, which may have influenced the development of Semitic polytheism into monotheistic Judaism.❞Read More...❝Take "minor" figures seriously.❞
Friday, 21Jul2017❝Respect the context.❞
Thursday, 20Jul2017“It's possible for the same idea to appear independently more than once.”Read More...— Peter AdamsonPut off living
Thursday, 20Jul2017❝I don't call myself an environmentalist any more. Environmentalism is a political movement masking itself as a moral and possibly religious crusade. Ecology is an actual science that studies the connections, interrelationships, and trade-offs that different organisms make to survive and thrive.❞
— NeoWaylandWill never find it
Thursday, 20Jul2017“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”— Roald Dahl☥ ▽ ❝…without being bound by them.❞
Thursday, 20Jul2017Alex Sanders • deceased birthday
Lived 06Jun1926 to 30Apr1988 (58)
Self-proclaimed "King of Witches," founder of the Alexanderian tradition of witchcraft. Plagiarist and publicity addict.❝ Suspect the text .❞
Wednesday, 19Jul2017Yes, sometimes you can taste the Moonlight in the predawn. It's full of promise and hope and wonder, with the ever so slight tartness of regret.
Read More...Connected
Wednesday, 19Jul2017“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”— George Washington Carver❝Respect the text.❞
Tuesday, 18Jul2017Know
Tuesday, 18Jul2017Borrowed
Monday, 17Jul2017❝I know that when you borrow from another culture you should honor those elements.❞
— NeoWayland❝Wolves are silent ❞
Thursday, 13Jul2017❝Think of nature…❞
Thursday, 13Jul2017❝I think too many people are in religion for the politics.❞
— NeoWaylandCommunities
Thursday, 13Jul2017Political assumption
Tuesday, 11Jul2017“Over the years however I have noticed a disheartening trend in the community. And that trend is what I refer to as political assumption. What I mean is that what seems like a large degree of practitioners of the Wicca faith and other similar earth based religious belief systems automatically pigeon hole everyone else in the faith as being politically a democrat or of some other left leaning ideology. Many attacks have been directed at me over the years for my right leaning political beliefs by many people who know me very little or not at all. Well, I actually do lean politically right; however, I consider myself a right leaning Independent.>snip<
I have been personally attacked en mass on a number of occasions to the point of people screen copying my personal opinions, taking them from other conversations and importing them to their social justice warrior sites, and then trying to get people to gang up on me for my deeply held (conservative) pagan viewpoints. Some going so far as to sending my viewpoints directly to well known individuals in the magickal community to show them how much of an "evil" person I am. I do equally find it a cowardly thing to do when I have the strongest feeling that these social justice warrior types could not muster the courage to say this stuff to my face under the fear that they would receive a serious beat down.”— Douglas Helvie, On Preconceived Pagan/Wiccan Political Affiliations❝Do not believe…❞
Thursday, 06Jul2017“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of Teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it.”— from the Kalama SuttaForgiveness
Thursday, 06Jul2017I am pagan
Thursday, 06Jul2017“A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.”— StarhawkStretch
Tuesday, 04Jul2017“We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.”— Scott CunninghamStudy, love, stay close
Monday, 03Jul2017❝Today is the Age of Wonders, the most amazing time in human history, with marvels and miracles far beyond any other time.❞
— NeoWaylandWorthy of freedom
Monday, 03Jul2017❝How do you explain a Journey without moving into a Story? I am not sure you can.❞
— NeoWayland, Blessed JourneysExplain a Story
Monday, 03Jul2017“The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”— Augustus HareStrength
Thursday, 29Jun2017“If Christ himself were alive, one thing he would not be would be is a Christian.”— Mark TwainHierarchical
Thursday, 29Jun2017One thing he would not be
Thursday, 29Jun2017Marvel at the real Milky Way
Wednesday, 28Jun2017Stewart Farrar * deceased birthday
Lived 28Jun1916 to 07Feb2000 (83)
Witch, author, novelist. May have encouraged the sexual initiation of minor girls.Men & Women
Wednesday, 28Jun2017“I don’t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness.”— Margot AdlerAllowing harm
Wednesday, 28Jun2017“They might add that monotheism is a political and psychological ideology as well as a religious one, and that the old economic lesson that one-crop economies generally fare poorly also applies to the spiritual realm.”— Margot AdlerWonder Woman Easter egg
Monday, 26Jun2017Film Review: Eugene Brave Rock Speaks Blackfoot to Wonder Woman in DC’s Best Film Ever
<❝I woke up this Saturday morning to see a 9:15 a.m. showing of the DC Comics and Warner Brothers feature Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot as the fearless Amazonian heroine. I was thrilled that Native American actor Eugene Brave Rock, an actor and stuntman that ran a stunt ‘boot camp’ on The Revenant with numerous other Hollywood credits under his belt, would be appearing in the film.
What I didn’t expect was to be overcome with emotion when Eugene Brave Rock’s character ‘Chief’ met Wonder Woman, who was spectacularly portrayed by Gal Gadot. Why? His first words to her were in Blackfoot. Even better, he introduced himself as Napi, the Blackfoot demi-god who is known as a trickster and a storyteller.
Congratulations, Indian country. We all get to share a secret moment in the Wonder Woman movie. If you speak Blackfoot, the magic will surely be tenfold.❞
— Vincent Schilling, Indian Country TodayHoly places
Thursday, 22Jun2017“If you don't question what a book or Authority Figure™ tells you, you aren't doing your part.“Penetration into the darkness
Thursday, 22Jun2017❝As a rule, absolutes don't.❞— NeoWayland, as a rule, absolutes don’tQuestion
Wednesday, 21Jun2017❝Modern American pagans are especially bad, we tend to celebrate some of our worse nutcases as gifts from the gods.❞— NeoWayland, Depression and the Modern PaganTired old battles
Wednesday, 21Jun2017❝Acknowledge but do not celebrate.❞— NeoWayland, acknowledge but not celebrateAcknowledge
Wednesday, 21Jun2017❝Our Dieties aren't suspended in “once upon a time,” they transcend us. They inspire us. They tantalize us.❞
— NeoWayland, AnachronismEnlightenment
Wednesday, 21Jun2017Absolutely
Wednesday, 21Jun2017❝Weirdness for the sake of wyrdness is not enough.❞— NeoWayland, Depression and the Modern PaganOnce upon a time
Tuesday, 20Jun2017❝Our Dieties aren't suspended in “once upon a time,” they transcend us. They inspire us. They tantalize us.❞
— NeoWayland, AnachronismMagick is the essence…
Tuesday, 20Jun2017Dreaming
Tuesday, 20Jun2017❝Invoke science as an unquestionable authority and someone will show the truth behind the curtain. That’s the nature of science.❞— NeoWaylandTechnopagan
Tuesday, 20Jun2017“We are starstuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.”— Delen in Babylon FiveTruth behind the curtain
Sunday, 18Jun2017And that raises the first philosophical question. What exactly is that something beyond?
Read More...❝No American judge should have the power to decide matters of faith…❞
Saturday, 27May2017I'm taking my dreams back
Friday, 12May2017“We can make things better tomorrow. But not if we limit ourselves today.
Raise your eyes above your feet.
Raise your eyes above the horizon.
Raise your eyes to the STARS.
That's where we need to be.
I'm taking my dreams back. You can share them if you want. But don't buy into this sacrifice "for the greater good."”— NeoWayland, Why does your enlightenment demand that I sacrifice?Heroic
Thursday, 11May2017“However heroic the virtues of the saint may be, the scoundrel has a bit of the hero in him too.”— Richard Smoley from “Choose Your Saints Wisely”, Gnosis № 24, Summer 1992I already have.
Thursday, 11May2017❝Do I think I can change the universe? I already have. Can I make it better? Maybe.❞
— NeoWayland☥ ❝You saw a hurting you could help…❞
Thursday, 11May2017Last night I wrapped myself in the blanket and spent a long time watching the flames in my small fire.
Read More...Institution vs. individual choice
Monday, 08May2017“There is an arc there: a vector. It tells a story of steadily increasing individual choice about religious belief and expression, and as a result, steadily decreasing subscription to old religious systems that clash with both modern values and humanity's growing body of accumulated knowledge.”— Mark Green, Is Paganism Dying?☥ ▽ ❝I never learned from a man who agreed with me.❞
Monday, 08May2017Pagan outlook
Thursday, 04May2017Now there are a thousand and thirteen pat answers to that question, but that day it got me thinking.
Read More...Pagan temples
Thursday, 04May2017What's wrong with nudity?
Saturday, 29Apr2017In a little while I am going to go plant my tree. I can't get away this weekend so I am starting Summergate a little early.
Read More...❝Polytheistic view of life❞
Saturday, 29Apr2017“That is the polytheistic view of life. The world is a mess. The world is beautiful. The gods are eternal (or as good as). The gods work at cross-purposes, and sometimes humans are caught between them.
"If you try to change the world in the name of some grand, sweeping, utopian vision, you will just make it worse. The most you can do is to give Achilles and Kevin Houston a good cause.”— Chas. S. Clifton, On the Necessity of the Iliad for Modern PolytheismBetter human
Friday, 28Apr2017❝Go tell three really dirty jokes. Share a piece of fruit with someone you can't stand. Cuddle with someone you care deeply about. Leave the place a little nicer than when you found it. And greet the sun when it wakes up.
No, that isn't all that there is to be a Pagan, it's just a taste of how to be a better human.❞— NeoWayland, How to be Pagan for a dayRevelation
Thursday, 27Apr2017Chas S. Clifton, one of my favorite pagan writers, has a piece called The Story of Three Athames.
So I'm pointing it out.
You should go read it now.❝A protest against Paganism❞
Thursday, 27Apr2017Bilagáana
Monday, 24Apr2017“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.”— David Suzuki❝Economy above ecology❞
Sunday, 23Apr2017Everything
Sunday, 23Apr2017❝Plant-birthday❞
Sunday, 23Apr2017“I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.”— Angelina JolieNeoNotes — Ecology vs environmentalism
Sunday, 23Apr2017“Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires.”— Bertrand RussellNeoNotes — 10th anniversary of “Pentacle Quest”
Sunday, 23Apr2017If you don't like gambling or shows, there's not much that sets Las Vegas apart.
Read More...❝ Freer about sexuality…❞
Thursday, 20Apr2017❝Unless it's with me, who you have sex with, how you have sex, and how many times you have sex is frankly none of my business. Likewise, unless it is sex with me, I'm not responsible for the consequences.❞— NeoWayland, Real & impossible rights❝Love begins at home❞
Thursday, 20Apr2017Sexual responsiblity
Tuesday, 18Apr2017Seriously
Sunday, 16Apr2017Honor & reputation
Thursday, 13Apr2017A secret of life
Thursday, 13Apr2017❝Leave the World a little better than how you found it.❞— NeoWaylandSterility cults
Thursday, 13Apr2017❝Leave the World a little better than how you found it.❞— NeoWaylandNeoNotes — Help
Monday, 10Apr2017It's the last bright moon before Summergate, the Lady Moon is entering the Court of Stars and I am ready.
Read More...
For what I am not sure.NeoNotes — “J'accuse ...!” - updated
Saturday, 08Apr2017❝I make it a practice to never call it history until a year and a day after the event.❞— NeoWaylandHistory
Thursday, 06Apr2017❝I make it a practice to never call it history until a year and a day after the event.❞— NeoWaylandFreedom of religion
Thursday, 06Apr2017Mythical bonfire
Thursday, 06Apr2017“Don't get too concerned about fighting evil. You lose your own center that way.”— Robert Anton Wilson, from “Doubt! The GNOSIS Interview with Robert Anton Wilson”, Gnosis № 50Nothing supernatural exists
Tuesday, 04Apr2017“The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting.”— Mark Twain❝Lose your own center…❞
Monday, 03Apr2017❝If something changes the universe, it can be measured. If it can be measured, it can be analyzed. If it can be analyzed, experiments can be performed.❞Read More...NeoNotes — A strong woman
Thursday, 30Mar2017Our nation in particular calls back to the classical Greeks and the Roman Republic.
Read More...❝Pagan for good fighting❞
Thursday, 30Mar2017❝I believe in God, only…❞
Thursday, 30Mar2017≠ ✰ ❝Any and all religions are real…❞
Tuesday, 28Mar2017I've been up all night with the sound of the night in my ears. Also aroused. And no companion around.
Read More...≠ ✰ ❝Magick is not something you do…❞
Tuesday, 07Mar2017Mosaics
Monday, 28Nov2016“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream.
Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.
World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams.
Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.”— Arthur William Edgar O'ShaughnessyFellow-feeling
Monday, 21Nov2016❝All acts of love and pleasure…❞
Thursday, 17Nov2016“Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold — all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.”— Doreen Valiente, Charge of the GoddessTalent
Tuesday, 15Nov2016“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”— Stephen King❝Keep close to Nature's heart…❞
Monday, 14Nov2016Depreciated polytheism
Friday, 11Nov2016“Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have all depreciated polytheism as intrinsically inferior - primitive, crude, lost. But much of the profundity of Paganism lies in its deep appreciation for the complexity and richness of life, its embrace of the world that surrounds us, that indeed is us.”— Frank Donnola from “Reconciling One and Many,” Gnosis № 28, Spring 1993Train
Friday, 11Nov2016So it's with shorter hair and hot chocolate that I anticipate this High Holiday.
Read More...❝Cloaks you wear❞
Friday, 04Nov2016“The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.”— Emily Dickinson❝Only the Natural❞
Thursday, 03Nov2016“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”— anonymous, often attributed to Roald DahlNonsense
Wednesday, 02Nov2016❝Mother Nature was the only one who fit❞
Wednesday, 02Nov2016❝I didn't have a word for what I was for years. I was the small kid who announced to his family that if there was a God the Father, it was only natural that there had to be a God the Mother too. And Mother Nature was the only one who fit the bill.❞— NeoWayland, Why are you Pagan?More important
Monday, 31Oct2016“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear. The timid presume it is lack of fear that allows the brave to act when the timid do not. But to take action when one is not afraid is easy. To refrain when afraid is also easy. To take action regardless of fear is brave.”— Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon from “No Peaceful Warriors!”, Gnosis № 21, Fall 1991Gets sent out for snacks
Thursday, 27Oct2016Personal Choice
Monday, 24Oct2016NeoNotes — Sex positive
Saturday, 17Sep2016That's when I squirm out of bed and go find a place to read or skim the internet. At least one of us should sleep.
Read More...Religion and politics
Tuesday, 03May2016Hold her hands, gently, almost like a caress. Tell her how you feel about her. Tell her how you feel when you are with her. Do it again in thirteen minutes, precisely.
Read More...Starlight
Monday, 21Mar2016No matter what the inspiration, you still have to come down off the mountain. Living in the Here & Now helps make you human.
Read More...A dangerous pagan
Tuesday, 01Dec2015No, I am not quite foolish enough to do it on my own. I don’t know enough about explosives and I don’t own an anvil.
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Sunday, 11Oct2015❝NO PROBLEMS!❞
Wednesday, 24Jun2015❝A new dogma❞
Tuesday, 23Jun2015Earth Day & politics
Tuesday, 21Apr2015Written at the crossroads
Wednesday, 25Mar2015❝Everything else in the universe❞
Tuesday, 17Mar2015Voices
Thursday, 12Mar2015I first started keeping notes in a three ring binder. It worked, sort of, as long as I kept the index up to date.
Read More...Struggle Nobly…
Sunday, 08Mar2015❝I can't be the white knight. I can only be a friend. I can't be a savior, but I can lend a shoulder and an ear. I can't shield anyone from the cold darkness, but I can share a little body heat under the blanket. I can't bring joy, but I can give a smile.❞— NeoWaylandI can't be the white knight
Sunday, 01Mar2015❝You have to believe in dreams…❞
Thursday, 26Feb2015❝As long as we lie to ourselves…❞
Saturday, 21Feb2015Unsent note to a Christian
Tuesday, 17Feb2015❝At the end of the day…❞
Thursday, 05Feb2015Experience & Art
Monday, 02Feb2015“Morality ought to be filed under Philosophy, not Religion.”Read More...— Chas S. Clifton, How to Ruin the Mysteries, or Religion is not Moral
Pardon me while I blink in the winter sunlight and get my bearingsWednesday, 17Nov2010It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear.
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The climate must be perfect all the year.
A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.
Meant to be usedWednesday, 22Sep2010This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C550866538/E20100922133520
Gifts from the gods
❝No matter how beautiful the form, god inspired crafting is meant to be used. It's dishonorable to receive a gift from the gods and put it on a shelf just to look at on special occasions.❞Okay, so yes, it's self-referential.
Doesn't mean it's not true though.
May you find your own god-gifts this equinox.
Remember thisFriday, 03Sep2010This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1982366546/E20100903124219
On a quote binge
“Power has to be shared. It is the key to survival.”— Andromeda TV seriesSometimes I shouldn't be allowed in my quote file.
In this context, I meant that the magick should be sent back into the world as soon as possible.
Notice I did not say a thing about the lore…
Beyond the detailsTuesday, 31Aug2010
A sun worshiper welcomes summerTuesday, 04May2010"all of that sunshine,
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all of that sweet golden sunshine,
that thrills me and fills me and…"
One of my better short efforts I thinkMonday, 03May2010“Life is just a chain of moments strung together by spirit and will.”— Juliaki, In the moment
Strange ThinkumTuesday, 26Jan2010❝Is he like, a good legend, a bad legend, or legendary in his own mind?❞— NeoWayland, The need for mystery
Thinkum-a-giggleTuesday, 20Oct2009
How to convince me you're a poseur before I've finished the first page of the preface of your book - UPDATEDWednesday, 14Oct2009
Briefly, another thinkumWednesday, 09Sep2009
“We are the Pagans who have moved on”Sunday, 02Aug2009These blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories. Redirect pages have been placed in the old locations.
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Look out for the stale jokesThursday, 19Mar2009
Wisdom and the Three PercentTuesday, 03Mar2009
Revisiting your truthsTuesday, 10Feb2009This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1982366546/E20090210152635
Accepting responsibility and doing the honorable thing
“I would more easily believe that two Yankee professors would lie than that stones would fall from heaven.”
— Thomas Jefferson in an 1808 letter to Daniel Salmon“We certainly are not to deny whatever we cannot account for. A thousand phenomena present themselves daily which we cannot explain, but where facts are suggested, bearing no analogy with the laws of nature as yet known to us, their verity needs proofs proportioned to their difficulty. A cautious mind will weigh well the opposition of the phenomenon to everything hitherto observed, the strength of the testimony by which it is supported, and the errors and misconceptions to which even our senses are liable. It may be very difficult to explain how the stone you possess came into the position in which it was found. But is it easier to explain how it got into the clouds from whence it is supposed to have fallen? The actual fact however is the thing to be established, and this I hope will be done by those whose situations and qualifications enable them to do it.”There are reasons that TJ is one of my personal heroes.
— Thomas Jefferson in a later letter to Daniel Salmon, admitting that he doesn't have all the answers
And yes, this is a very big hint to a certain reader.
In a holeTuesday, 16Dec2008This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1982366546/E20081216143256
Friends in dark places
“A man walks down the street and falls into a hole. The walls are so steep he can't get out. A doctor walks by. The man calls up "Hey doc, can you help me out?" The doctor writes out a prescription and throws it in the hole. Then the doctor leaves. A priest walks by. The man calls up "Father, can you help me out here?" The priest writes out a prayer and throws it in the hole. Then he walks away. The man's friend walks by. "Hey Joe, can you help me out?" The friend jumps into the hole. "Why did you do that? Now we've both trapped."Don't have much else to say today, just keeping the fire going and watching the snow.
"Yeah, but I've been here before. And I know the way out."”
— From the West Wing episode, "Noel" that first aired December 20, 2000
License to thrillWednesday, 03Dec2008This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1982366546/E20081203160533
Rattling the windows, singing in anticipation
Sometimes I shouldn't play the music too loud...
Jim Steinman is a songmaker, there's no other word for it. He's probably best known for collaborating with Meatloaf, and stars above that man could write.
He is a literate lyricist, and when his songs hit, they hit hard. I still remember my reaction to Making Love out of Nothing at All. Yes, I know I am dating myself, but just because I was one screwed up teen doesn't mean I was passionless.
He wrote a great number called Original Sin, which Taylor Dayne sang for the film The Shadow, a film that almost was. It had all the pieces, but didn't have them put together right. Anyway, this song was the sole reason I sprung for the six bucks when I saw the sound track album in the bargain bin at Wal Mart. When I am really down, it sometimes helps. When I drive at night and I play it, I have to use the cruise control or I go too fast.
Yes, I identify too closely with this song sometimes.All I wanted was a piece of the night
I never gotta equal share
When the stars are all outside
And the moon is down
The natives are so restless tonight
All I needed was a spot in the light
Never had to get so dark
The natives are so restless tonight
All I needed was a spot in the light…
I’ve been looking for an original sin
One with a twist and a bit of a spin
And since I’ve done all the old ones
Till they’ve all been done in
Now I’m just looking
And I’m gone with the wind
Endlessly searching for an original sin…
But today I cranked it just because I could. And because my voice was good enough today to sing along and rattle the windows.
I'll never be a first rank singer. But I can be enthusiastic.I’m applying for a license to thrill…
Going out on the edge…
Moving in for the kill
And there’ll be hell to pay someday…
Put it all on the bill…
Cause we’ll always be paying
And paying until…
We're beyond expiration…
With a license to thrill…
I'm meeting someone in a couple hours.
And why am I talking about this on a Pagan blog? Because sometimes raising energy works best the old way, one of the very original ways I'd say. The snake up through each of the chakras. Although those aren't the terms I used when I learned the techniques.
Truthfully I can't think of too much else Pagan related right now. I need an emotional kick in the pants and the lady always chooses.Original Sin by Jim Steinman
Posted: Wed - December 3, 2008 at 04:05 PM
Strings of universes that workThursday, 20Nov2008
“In the absence of understanding, triviality dominates.” - UPDATEDThursday, 06Nov2008Rocket in my garden
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Flipping through the quote fileWednesday, 01Oct2008This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1982366546/E20081001145525
My handy dandy Palm provides a couple of thinkums for the day
“I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand. In the doing is the learning.”
— ancient Chinese proverb“It is not necessary to know. It is only necessary to try.”That's it for now. After all, philosophy doesn't put OJ and tortillas in the fridge.
— Babylon 5
Been thinking some todayTuesday, 30Sep2008
Transcending the labelWednesday, 03Sep2008
Sometimes we forget the obviousMonday, 28Jul2008This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1982366546/E20080728070510
A thinkum from times past
“Wisdom is where you find it.”Thanks Angus, where ever you are now. It had slipped my mind.— Angus
I agree entirely with this oneThursday, 03May2007This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1982366546/E20070503172653
Wise words from a Pagan musician
“We've no problem with Christians, Muslims or any other religious people provided they don't try to force their views on everyone else in the world. We just think there are a lot more gods than just one...”
— Joe Hennon in an interview with Expatica BelgiumHat tip Wild Hunt Blog
Cross posted to both Technopagan Yearnings & Pagan•Vigil
Posted: Thu - May 3, 2007 at 05:26 PM
Observing what others think of “Pagan Community”Tuesday, 13Feb2007
Move through the angerSunday, 28Jan2007Some songs work amazingly well as meditation aids, IF it's the right music and the right lyrics.
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This week's thinkumThursday, 23Mar2006This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1982366546/E20060324050200
Do you live your faith or does your faith live you?
I've been thinking about that a lot this week.
“I'm being attacked!”Monday, 21Nov2005I'm going to watch this one a bit before adding it to the blogroll, but I do agree with the idea.
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Craft CheckFriday, 14Oct2005
❝Why Coyote doesn't give commandments❞Tuesday, 06Sep2005
Take it seriouslyThursday, 25Aug2005These older blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories
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Golden, Silver, and Iron RulesSunday, 07Aug2005
Faith worthy of freedomFriday, 27May2005“This week on CC Myth, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about mythical trees. There are lots of trees in myth, and we've touched on some of them before, but today we're going to focus on three trees from three different traditions. We'll talk about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil from the biblical tradition, Yggdrasil from the Norse Tradition, and Ashvattha, which is important in both Hindu and Buddhist tradition.”
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Happy Towel Day!Wednesday, 11May2005
“Follow” is not exactly an accurate termMonday, 09May2005
A narrow slice of life, but now and again pondering American neopaganism, modern adult pagans & the World.
A narrow slice of life, but now and again pondering American neopaganism, modern adult pagans & the World.
Pagan philosopher, libertarian, and part-time trouble maker, NeoWayland keeps truths alive despite a wash of nonsense. But don't be surprised when he's doing the “nekkid pagan guy” thing.
There are pagan news & opinion sites. Technopagan Yearnings is not one. It’s more like a digital binder with interesting pagan stuff. And nudity. Don’t forget the nudity.
Since Wren Walker retired the Wren’s Nest of The Witches’ Voice, there is not really a pagan news site anymore.
The Pagan Vigil Reader is a pagan news aggregator.
You won’t find porn or erotica here. I do discuss nudity & sex, but I do not describe sexual events. As a naturist I admire the human body so you will find nudes here. You will not find photos of sex. There is some art showing sex and orgasms in a ritual or mythical context.
Updated weekdays when possible, otherwise irregularly as circumstances permit and the mood strikes.
This is the fourth major version of Technopagan Yearnings. I still have № 3 on file with it’s comments. I’ll convert that bit by bit as I get the chance. This version uses
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