“Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.”

— Liz Williams

Tags: lexicon & timetable & albums

“Biochar: A better start to rain forest restoration”

Tags: lexicon & carnal & bookplate & liberty question & biochar & Church of All Worlds & othering & ZFG & CAPTCHA & f…ed up & year and a day & month lunar & month sidereal & month synodic & month tropical & lunation & syzygy & Law of triviality & fascism & competition

I can't tell if this young lady is wistful or bored.

Tags: lexicon & erotic & bawdy & risque & Ten Commandments & polymath & patriotic correctness & Wizzard & edge of utility & mundane & freaking the mundanes & tools & bibliotheca & J.O.B. & Homo astra & technowhiz & mortar & pestle & auto-da-fé

This is Romsdal, Norway.

Tags: lexicon & public forum vs. publisher & raduttore tradittore & eleven missing days & leap year & Elder Relatives

❝There's an old saying that pagans are failed librarians.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: lexicon & thirteen virtues & exotic matter & rule set & user experience & user interface & two spirit & creative destruction

“In an era where women undress their outfits & give their bodies so carelessly, become the rare wild woman that undresses her mind and soul & knows the worth of what she has to offer.”

— Nikki Rowe

Tags: lexicon & intelligence & multiple intelligences & Flynn effect & Green Man & thought modes & intuition & behavior maps & analysis-synthesis & caching & bespoke & transgression & shadow banning & bathetic

“Consider the holiness of your hands. They are how you do your work on this earth; they are a microcosm of the hands of the Goddess, and can change the world as easily as hers can.”

— Dianne Sylvan

Tags: intelligence & lexicon & behavioral maps & inspire & intuition & Flynn effect

Tags: lexicon & situational vortex & Patrick F. McManus & black moon & February

Tags: lexicon & calendars & Parkinson's law & black moon & December & January & February & March & April & May & June & July & August & September & October & November & corniche & pumpkinize & carceral & situational vortex & homogeneity & neuroatypical & neurotypical & FOMO & forex & tipping point

I wrote about my thinking behind the link behavior here at Technopagan Yearnings and how I made it work.

Tags: lexicon

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”

— Golda Meir

Tags: lexicon & rules & lists

“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”

— Alan Kay

Tags: lexicon & TCOL & ad hominem & straw man fallacy & hasty generalization & begging the question & false cause & false dichotomy & ad ignorantiam & burden of proof reversal & non sequitur & bandwagon fallacy & economics & roux & oligarchy & slacktivism

Tags: lexicon & GFY & cassava & yucca & asperitas

“If anything can go wrong, it will — and in the most annoying manner possible.”

— Isaac Bonewits, The Laws of Magic, The Law of Perversity

Tags: lexicon & Billy Graham rule & Christians & Christian & Christianity & morality & harassment & rape & women

Tags: lexicon & Say's law & Billy Graham rule & Christians & Shockley-Queisser Limit & slut & nonconsensual technology

Tags: lexicon & Survival Rule of Threes & proof & social contract

“Every sentient being lives in and quite possibly creates a unique universe which can never be 100% identical to that lived in by another.”

— Isaac Bonewits, The Laws of Magic, The Law of Personal Universes

Tags: leave no trace & lexicon & news

“There’s something therapeutic about nudity… Take away the Gucci or Levi’s and we’re all the same.”

— Kevin Bacon

Tags: lexicon & voxel & people of color & leave no trace

Tags: clootie & identity politics & gatekeeping & lexicon

Tags: lexicon & Dunbar's number & oxytocin & ethanol & thermal depolymerization & thorium reactor & anthropogenic climate change & climate change & climate change panic & climate change alarmists & Gnosticism & libertarian & classic liberal

Their compromise gave other faiths a wedge into the American religious landscape.

Tags: lexicon & mostly & is or is not & Brosatru & Ásatrú & petrichor & aluminum oxynitride & pedestal problem & transparent aluminum

❝Knowledge isn't mastery. Eclecticism depends on discipline.❞

— NeoWayland, Eclecticism, Discipline, & Mastery

Tags: lexicon & Être fort pour être utile & be strong to be useful & charrette & subjective reality/truth & objective reality/truth & objective reality vs. subjective reality & somebody else's problem & bystander effect & fake news & free speech & fractional reserve banking

Pagans can be some of the most computer literate people I know. But every once in a while, I run into a blind spot.

Tags: lexicon & hate speach & hate fuck & omphaloskepsis & GPS & principal agent problem & agency cost & compulsory approval & Neo-Wicca & behavioral interviewing & reinforcement learning & kintsukuroi & kintsugi

Tags: lexicon & daemon & Red Queen hypothesis & dhimmī & Dhimmitude & clear water & dark water & greywater & blackwater & aquaponics & microclimate & DARVO & gaslighting & graft & sybaritic

“Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.”

— James Lovelock

Tags: lexicon & woke & deep ecology & microaggression & trigger warning & safe space & carpenter pants & watch pocket & cargo pants & grey market & black market & Maillard reaction

“Give them the third best to go on with; the second best comes too late, the best never comes.”

— Robert Watson-Watt. See also Rules of Three

Tags: lexicon & hate hoax & hate crime & thokcha & parvenu & league & regulatory capture & Gresham's law & outlier effect & Overton window & blood knife & Kirlian photography & honor culture & dignity culture & victimhood culture

Still one of my favorite things.

Tags: lexicon & kitbash & mala fides & toxic masculinity & awen & Wizard's Rules & Gibbs' rules & Rules for Radicals

Tags: lexicon & low holiday & cui bono & thermosecurity & correlation isn't causality & milieu & ex nihilo nihil fit & thymos & megalothymia & isothymia & financial blacklisting & encomium & ecology

Tags: lexicon & chamois leather & Judeo-Christian & unverified personal gnosis & zeitgeist & nullius in verba & he Memory & lore & E pluribus unum & witch(crap) & Eppur si muove

If you ask the question of thirteen pagans, you'd probably get forty-seven answers.

Tags: Thursday & lexicon

Tags: lexicon & journal & Story & Journey & pagan community

Some of my thoughts concerning the military and honor

Tags: fakelore & lexicon & morality & moral guardians & Wild Hunt Blog & Shawn Herles & neopaganism & nudity & abuse & pagan community & Sarah Lawless & Amy Hale & Richard M. Dorson & urban legend & conclusion & solution & sex abuser & polyamorous & Lutheran pastor & swimming & YMCA & 1950s & 1960s & pornography & sexual repression & Forbidden & Oberon Zell & family friendly & abuse survivors & Wicca & choose for themselves & neo-Puritanism & condemnation & punish & Divine Feminine & might harm & climate change

There are just all sorts of thirteens in my blogs. And there are about to be more.

Tags: lexicon & thirteen & triskaidekaphobia & deus ex machina & Fuckin' Finger of Fate & fakelore & autodidact & philosopher & moonbathing & Celtic Reconstructionism & syncretism

In Which NeoWayland combines Geekary and Technopaganism to Peer Dimly at Humanity's Potiential

Tags: lexicon & Bear & technician vs. performer & vapor wear & berm & placebo & animus & anima & persona & No True Scotsman & Ár nDraíocht Féin & ADF & blessed salt & sun-blessed salt & moon-blessed salt & dark-blessed salt & ur-faith & cordon sanitaire

“Sexuality is a thing of the mind, not of the genitalia.”

— Maggie McNeill, Rope of Sand

Tags: lexicon & Raven & Commandments of Coyote & cunnilingus & fellatio & Three Sisters & franchise community & prime community & tolerance & pass-alongs

Gotta love that sky!

Tags: lexicon & saint & first law of ecology & second law of ecology & third law of ecology & fourth law of ecology & environmentalism

Working my way through my "to read" shelf

Tags: lexicon & label & technocrat & ketogenic & ketosis

There's something luscious about a woman rinsing her hair.

Tags: lexicon & ugh-politics & sexuality & somatic sexuality & gender dysphoria & child abuse & sexual orientation & label & choice & consent & gender role & religious & magickal thinking

Me, I compare an on-the-fly online ritual to building one custom motorcycle in twenty different places with 459 mechanics and parts from thirteen manufacturers.

Tags: lexicon & wonderers & sexuality & wise & narrative medicine & ethical slut & days of the week

My lexicon covers multiple topics, from politics to philosophy to economics to magick to religion to civics to electronics to law. Basically everything that I find interesting.

Tags: lexicon & falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus & veritas & poser & poseur & gnosis & humantic principles & otherkin & tit for tat & Moon & veteran & thunderbolt iron & schemata

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

— Napoleon Hill

Tags: lexicon

I got this from a tumblr blog.

Tags: lexicon & Westermarck effect & weird & waning Moon & waxing Moon & incest & parkour & traceur & four temperaments & sanguine & choleric & melancholic & phlegmatic & supine & solstice & sub rosa

Tags: lexicon & inter arma silent leges & tarot & Lenormand deck & oracle deck

I do like her expression though.

Tags: lexicon & two phrases & Gaia hypothesis & Native American Church & peyote & golden rule (inferior) & white sage & virtue signaling & political correctness & cultural appropriation & intersectionality & politics of victimhood

It's sometimes called the "Eye of God."

Tags: lexicon & clade & cladistics & hero & Amerindian & miscegenation & personal is political & orrery & augmented reality & virtual reality

Kennebunk Police Department, Animal Control Division

Tags: lexicon & De mortuis nil nisi bonum & the Mighty Dead & the Beloved Dead & egregore & Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram & beartail & amateur radio

For something with no moral relativism, there's an awful lot or relative morality going on.

Tags: lexicon & transhumanism & blood magick & no platform

❝I learned a long time ago that it's worth the trouble to make sure she's got at least two climaxes for every one of mine.

Keeps her smiling too.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: Doreen Valiente & lexicon & directory

Tags: lexicon & peak experience & didactic & surveillance capitalism & warrant canary & syllogism & voting - plurality

Should we be ashamed?

Tags: lexicon & feminism (libertarian) & Great Rite & exhibitionism & sex - ritual & sexual beings & sexual initiation (pagan) & pagan attitudes on nudity & sex

Tags: lexicon & sex rules

Sharing a shower is always fun.

Tags: lexicon & three marks of an adult human & Latinx & damnatio memoriae & kayfabe & keyfabe & skyclad

Added to lexicon.

Tags: Isaac Bonewits & lexicon & study guide & magick & practical & Laws of Magick & Law of Knowledge & Law of Self-Knowledge & Law of Cause & Effect & Law of Synchronicity & Law of Association & Law of Similarity & Law of Contagion & Law of Positive Attraction & Law of Negative Attraction & Law of Names & Law of Words of Power & Law of Personification & Law of Invocation & Law of Evocation & Law of Identification & Law of Infinite Data & Law of Finite Senses & Law of Personal Universes & Law of Infinite Universes & Law of Pragmatism & Law of True Falsehoods & Law of Synthesis & Law of Polarity & Law of Dynamic Balance & Law of Perversity & Law of Unity

I don't turn on the bathroom lights.

Tags: lexicon & calendars & sabbats & monsoon & Arizona & Yule & Imbolc & Ostara & Beltaine & Litha & Lammas & Mabon & Samhain & Sparkpoint & Greenmark & Summergate & Suncrest & Harvestpoint & Redmark & Wintergate & Starwell

“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’.”

— Robert Cochrane

Tags: lexicon & maxims & May Day & growing season & summer & solstice

❝If you are Pagan because you need attention, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. You can't be Pagan just to be weird or to make people nervous. Faith isn't a costume, it lives and flows inside of you.❞

— NeoWayland, faith

Tags: maxims & lexicon & faith & pagan & costume & weird

“Be not afraid. The forest nymphs have taught me how to please a woman.”

— anonymous

Tags: maxims & Journey & lexicon & comfort zone & expectation & understanding & walk between the worlds & fingers & feet

❝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

Tags: maxims & ecology & environmentalism & lexicon & pagan & libertarian

❝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®

Tags: maxims & John McConnell & Earth Day & ecology & environmentalism & peace & ugh-politics & lexicon

❝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®

Tags: maxims & Greater Pagan Community & justify & adored & deference & deserve & Big Name Pagan & lexicon

I do not believe that a government agency should be trusted with caring for the environment.

Tags: maxims & coming home & clean sheets & hot running water & outdoors & modern conveniences & lexicon

❝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.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & information & cascade effect & diversity & number & channels & lexicon

Fixing the behavior, that was challenging.

Tags: lexicon & coding & modal windows & Pat McManus & situational vortex

Tags: coding & lexicon

Good morning on this the shortest day.

Tags: perception & resonance & imperfect & imprecise & subjective & aura & lexicon

Just out of sight.

Tags: moral absolute & maxims & lexicon & absolutes

The calendar and some site information.

Tags: today & Advent & family & typewritten & Special Elite & Starwell & Courier & lexicon & sticky note & American Typewriter & grandfather & Mercury retrograde & Saturnalia & waxing moon

❝I have no higher authority. I have to persuade.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: Harvestpoint & semi-hermit & body language & small groups & large groups & Summergate & Wintergate & hair of the bear & recipies & calendars & lexicon & Raven & blueberries & journal & wheel of the year & solar year & cornbread

Home should be more than a place to hang our hat.

Tags: athamé & lexicon & high ceremonial magick & pre-Gardnerian witchcraft tradition & ritual sword & Roman gladius & custom blade & Arkansas toothpick & black handle & reversed crescent

For the very first time, humans stood somewhere else and looked at the World that birthed and cradled humanity.

Tags: Pagan & world & webmaster & lexicon & life

You don’t have to use the Bestest as long as you can just do

Tags: Ro3 & lexicon & short