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❝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

Tags: maxims & morality & two and only two & choice

❝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

Tags: morality & maxims & the Other & community & civilization

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.

Tags: nudes & picture & swimming & pool & maxims

❝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.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & Pagans & librarians

❝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.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & life & share & connections & measured

Fairly good biography and overview of Carl Jung.

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Between one and the next.

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The price we paid for a secular life

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Mythology in the movie theater

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“Human beings are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.”

— Wynn Bullock

Tags: maxims & nudity & love & desire & choice

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Tags: maxims & honest & partner & infections & somatic sexuality & orientation & gender role & kinks & quirks & sex rules

“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”

— Stephen King, The Gunslinger

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“In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.' ”

— Alan Kay

Tags: maxims & adult & responsibility & choice & trust & Ro3 & rule of three

❝Humans do change the planet. But humans don't change the climate.❞

— NeoWayland, anthropogenic climate change

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They didn't dare face the crowd.

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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.

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Running late again

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“We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”

— Rod Serling

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The myth can be more comfortable than the truth, but the myth can keep us from growing

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❝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?

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❝Honor and the other classic virtues are part of what we choose for ourselves as Pagans.❞

— NeoWayland, The Old Breed

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❝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?

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❝Honor and the other classic virtues are part of what we choose for ourselves as Pagans.❞

— NeoWayland, The Old Breed

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I've been doing some research and the possibilities look pretty good. Read More...

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“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”

— Thomas Huxley

Tags: maxims & universe & humor & honor & ethics & blessings & rules

❝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.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: morality & maxims & Christians & monotheism & uniform rule of law & neither help nor hinder & freedom of religion & live & let live & cross posted

“Which one wins, Grandfather?”

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“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.”

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❝Incest is not a good idea.❞

— NeoWayland, sex rules

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“I don’t explain — I explore.”

— Marshall McLuhan

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❝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

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❝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

Tags: maxims & Ro3 & rule of three & living faith & faith & are & done & before you & link & Divine

“Study: People Who ‘Microdose’ LSD and Magic Mushrooms Are Wiser and More Creative”

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“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”

— Thales of Miletus

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❝I don't tell you who to fuck, and I expect that you won't tell others who they can't fuck as long as it's unpledged consenting adults.❞

— NeoWayland, sex rules

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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

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❝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

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❝Regret does not equal rape.❞

— NeoWayland, sex rules

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❝The honor is in giving truth when needed, helping when you can, and leaving the World a little better than how you found it.❞

— NeoWayland, It's only shame if I accept the premise,
see also Rules of Three

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❝Regret does not equal rape.❞

— NeoWayland, sex rules

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“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.”

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You may have noticed that my quote section is building to a truly awesome size.

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In passing, I mentioned some of the differences between a Story and a Journey.

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It's a fascinating piece

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“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.”

— Mos Def

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Here's part of a conversation I had with Shawn Herles

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Dealing with Katrina and New Orleans

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❝It’s not a real party unless it lasts three days.❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three

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❝Initiate — Celebrate — Operate❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three

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These blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories. Redirect pages have been placed in the old locations.

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❝It’s not a real party unless it lasts three days.❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three

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“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!”

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So I am going to talk about the retreat I'd like to build if money were not an object.

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Difference between the point in time and the celebration

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❝Don’t hold someone responsible unless they were present, of age, and participating. Remember the Practical Grudge Limit.❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three,
see also On Christians and Pagan tolerance

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❝Know what you can do. Know what you're willing to do. Know the price you're willing to pay.❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three

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“We Are as Gods and Might as Well Get Good at It”

— Whole Earth Catalog statement of purpose, 1968

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❝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

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“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.”

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❝Some monotheists think that their religion belongs on top and take offense when you disagree.❞

— NeoWayland

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This 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.❞

— NeoWayland, So what's a Technopagan anyway? And what do they yearn for?

Posted: Wed - September 22, 2010 at 01:35 PM

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I'm pretty sure this is an actual ritual.

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❝To ease your pain and shame, share it separately with three people you trust.❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three

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❝Honor expects three warnings before you act.❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three

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“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. ”

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These blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories.

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iTunes and it's "random" selections

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❝Duality is singularity reflected.❞

— NeoWayland, weird

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❝Duality is singularity reflected.❞

— NeoWayland, weird

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❝Say only one thing for every three things they say.❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three,
see also Wisdom and the Three Percent

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❝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.❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three, see also Collecting pelts, sex rules

Tags: maxims & Ro3 & care & respect & share & better & rule of three & sex rules

❝Start by listening. Before you say anything, listen again. Just to make sure you understand, listen some more.❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three,
see also Quick notes to a new seeker

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I keep collecting them and they keep proving useful.

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❝The Wheel turns, bringing Bright and Dark Blessings to us all.❞

— NeoWayland, Good Journey Isaac

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❝Start by listening. Before you say anything, listen again. Just to make sure you understand, listen some more.❞

— NeoWayland, Rules of Three,
see also Quick notes to a new seeker

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❝The Wheel turns, bringing Bright and Dark Blessings to us all.❞

— NeoWayland, Good Journey Isaac

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“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.”

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❝We can't afford blind faith.❞

— NeoWayland, Eyes open and watching carefully

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Truth is winning in a small way. I've been finding people that I agree with online.

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❝Still, he deserves credit for that and at least mention somewhere. Consider him mentioned. But nameless.❞

— NeoWayland, Before a Winter's Eve

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❝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

Tags: maxims & Gnostic & beliefs & creator god & Sophia & Yeshua ben Yosef & Jesus Christ & Christian & Old Testament

"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

Tags: maxims & monotheistic world & polytheism & good & Christian & voice of the Divine & ministry

The lady is alluring.

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❝Stories are important, but they are signposts.❞

— NeoWayland, the Story

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❝Your desire does not control another's choice.❞

— NeoWayland, sexual beings

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I love this planet!

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“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.”

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“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.”

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That's a practical use of her shirt.

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“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.”

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It's not the easiest to search, particularly the comments.

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❝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.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & working & pagan & pagan groups & emotional vs. rational & passion drives us & passion

Yes, this pose is a little submissive.

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“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”

— anonymous, misattributed to Albert Einstein, Rita Mae Brown, Max Nordau, George Bernard Shaw, George A. Kelly, Werner Erhard, Jessie Potter, and others

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Fake clergy can screw people up big time.

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“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

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“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.”

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❝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

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❝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

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❝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®

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❝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

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❝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®

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

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❝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

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“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...

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Just a touch.

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Diversity of opinion is strongly discouraged.

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“Power has to be shared. It is the key to survival.”

— Andromeda TV series

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“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”

— Mark Twain

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❝If you give your passion to them, then they win. You'll always be reacting and you'll always be unhappy.❞

— NeoWayland

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“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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❝Sometimes, the heirs of dreams do better than the heirs of blood and bone.❞

— NeoWayland

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“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.”

— C.S. Lewis

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As a rough definition, measurable intelligence is the practical knowledge and skills necessary for a given set of problem solving.

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The best version of this uses freshly squeezed juice.

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Politics has tainted paganism in my mind and I am working to re-establish the separation.

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❝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

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❝As a pagan, I've long since learned that the World isn't mine to control.❞

— NeoWayland

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I'd stop blogging for a while, but I think that's one thing keeping me going.

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Paganism is about the relationship between you, the World, and the Divine.

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❝As a pagan, I've long since learned that the World isn't mine to control.❞

— NeoWayland

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“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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❝If you had faith, you wouldn't need threats.❞

— NeoWayland

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❝If you had faith, you wouldn't need threats.❞

— NeoWayland

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If his work can't stand on it's own, people will find something else.

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“You can't childproof the world. You can only worldproof your children.”

— probably L. Neil Smith, The American Zone

Tags: maxims & responsible & consequences & consenting adults & chopping off body parts

“Accusations of abuse surface against ADF founder Isaac Bonewits”

Tags: maxims & pain & secret shame & joy & beyond your reach & passion

"Supernatural" depends on the definition of "natural."

Tags: maxims & October & morality & werewolf & Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde & shame

“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.”

— John Lennon

Tags: maxims & bright moon & passions & ethics & morality & conscience & insatiable drive & corrupt the innocent & choice & consequences & Corporate Clone & suicide & horror movie & demon spirit

❝I believe that Paganism offers an immediacy that I couldn't find in Christianity.❞

— NeoWayland, Why a Technopagan?

Tags: maxims & invite & pain & endure & rewarded & Other & remember & gift

❝When we are hurting, we pull back. We shut things out. We shut our loved ones out. We wrap ourselves deep in our strongest passions. We keep the world at bay.❞

— NeoWayland, Feeling

Tags: maxims & hurting & shut & passions

These older blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories

Tags: maxims & failure & cherish your passion & embrace the magick

❝The next step depends on the focus of your faith and your choices. It's not enough to be just pagan.❞

— NeoWayland, Blessed Journeys

Tags: maxims & paganism & immediacy & Christianity

“Whenever I see these ads for shamanic weekends, I'm suspicious. Because shamanic ecstasy is terrifying.”

— Rachel Pollack, from "The Gods of the Funny Books: An Interview with Rachel Pollack and Neil Gaiman," Gnosis № 32, Summer 1994

Tags: maxims & focus & faith & choice & Pagan

Why do some Pagans believe they are destined to save the world?

Tags: maxims & ugh-politics & faith

❝Faith is a personal choice. So are politics. One does not define the other.❞

— NeoWayland, Paganism is not political

Tags: maxims & flake & dogma & responsible & consequences & Freedom

❝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

Tags: maxims & community & flakiest

❝Faith is a personal choice. So are politics. One does not define the other.❞

— NeoWayland, Paganism is not political

Tags: maxims & faith & ugh-politics & choice

The first Otherkin essay popped up at Witchvox. How is this going to change the Neopagan movement?

Tags: maxims & stars & city lights & Milky Way & silver starlight

I am what I am - updated

Tags: maxims & worries & capitals

Putting up one of my old chants

Tags: maxims & Mystery Gateway & Forbidden & Prize & Price & Ones Who Don't Play By The Rules & outsider

❝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.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & polyamory

Just out of sight.

Tags: moral absolute & maxims & lexicon & absolutes

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Tags: maxims & sandwiches & peanut butter & journal

Where to find out what's happening.

Tags: mom & hidden thirteen & dealing with loss & journal & companion & passing & esoterica & Pagan Vigil & solstice & Dad & songs & maxims & sabbats & winter solstice

A pagan take on a holiday classic.

Tags: maxims & known & told

Yes, it really does look like that sometimes.

Tags: maxims & faith & religion & syncretism

I'd be remiss if I didn't put up a link.

Tags: maxims & religion & mainstream & authentic & legitimate & faith & concede

What makes the so many modern pagans fluffy? And why don't they seem to want more?

Tags: discipline & victimhood & master & maxims

Dealing with life - updated

Tags: maxims & victimhood & human & trusted

It isn't as far as you think

Tags: maxims & difficult & truth & must be told

“Freedom from the Known is death, and then you are living.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tags: maxims & truth & relative & approximation & useful fiction & artificial construct & untruth

“Back to the basics' works if you chose the right basics. (We could debate that.)”

— Chas Clifton, Rhetoric: It’s “Classical” Because It Works

Tags: maxims & debate & secret guilty pleasures

Enjoy!

Tags: maxims & truth & thought & idea

❝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

Tags: maxims & human & Divine & pass it on

❝We create our own mythology. We draw our history through that myth. We anchor our dreams in that history.

But so do all the people around us…❞

— NeoWayland, Skeins

Tags: maxims & friends & worst impluses

❝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!

Tags: maxims & will & heart & power & miracles

❝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

Tags: maxims & The Lady Always Chooses & monogamous & marriage & honor

“The day has eyes; the night has ears.”

— Scottish proverb

Tags: maxims & mythology & history & dreams

❝The Wheel turns and the World touches me.❞

— NeoWayland, Migration noise

Tags: maxims & victimhood & help

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

— Mark Twain

Tags: maxims & beliefs & faith & live & let live & freedom to choose & Christian

These older blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories

Tags: maxims & Wheel & world

“Life is just a chain of moments strung together by spirit and will.”

— Juliaki, In the moment

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & maxims & Cleveland & roads & airline schedule

Another conversation with Juliaki

Tags: legend & maxims

Douglas Adams Passing Day

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & philosopher & pagan community & social aspect & True Faith™ & maxims & community & community theory

Sometimes when you're feeling down, one of the best things you can do is do for others.

Tags: know & need & where & who & maxims

A song that helped me recently

Tags: maxims & believe & validate & Those Who Want To Be Noticed

I'm the only one who has a key anymore.

Tags: maxims & common sense & paganism

Okay, that was embarrassing.

Tags: maxims & plan & absolute certainty & higher selves & gods & allies & 3%

That library shelf says a reader lives there.

Tags: maxims & granite & dawn

❝Ah, Lady Moon, the kiss of your light works wonders.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: The Illuminatus! Trilogy & Law of Fives & structure of the universe & perception & maxims

❝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

Tags: maxims & Moon & kiss & wonders

“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.”

— Alice Walker

Tags: maxims & chants & ancient well & dark and secret places

❝What I carry is what I use.❞

— NeoWayland's Pennyworth iPod Touch engraving, 19Nov2012

Tags: maxims & faiths & creeds & touch & Divine

So I've learned to do small pleasures.

Tags: maxims & gifts from the gods & can't hoard & pass it on

❝The virtue is in the manifestation, not the doctrine.❞

— from the private journal of NeoWayland, 16Oct2012

Tags: maxims & iPod Touch

❝We define the labels, the labels should not define us.❞
     — from the private journal of NeoWayland, 07Nov2012

Tags: maxims & labels & journal

“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

Tags: maxims & virtue & manifest & journal

I'd say she's a child of the sun.

Tags: maxims & voice of the Divine

It's inspired.

Tags: maxims & dreams & Journey & Story & faith & trust

❝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

Tags: maxims & politician & minister & flag & journal

“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

Tags: maxims & Christian & Christianity & culture & good & righteous & faiths & Senate & ceremonial & fasces & The Magnificent Seven & remake

Now, should I reject Bonewits and all he stood for because he and I didn't agree?

Tags: maxims & change

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Tags: maxims & promise

“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.”

Tags: maxims & exits & walk away

Not strictly casual, but it is striking

Tags: maxims & ecology & environmentalism & science & connections & interrelationships & trade-offs & survive & thrive

The union of elements

Tags: maxims & pagan & polytheistic & pantheistic & animism & label

❝I know that when you borrow from another culture you should honor those elements.❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & borrow & culture & honor & elements

“Things are always more complicated than you think.”

— Peter Adamson

Tags: maxims & can do & willing to do & price

“Beware of jargon.”

— Peter Adamson

From the hairstyle of the brunette lady on the right, I'm guessing that it happened in the late 1960s.

Tags: Thursday & dawn & Wednesday & rain showers & Moon & malachite bear pendant & fun & Sage of Greater Pagan Wisdom & slice of life & Pagan & quotes & picture & maxims & false modesty & service of truth & creative & tweaking & passions & positive & Wildman & journal

“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

Tags: maxims & connections

❝You don't build communities by excluding people you don't like.❞
     — NeoWayland, Solitary

Tags: ugh-politics & community & excluding & maxims

My high desert has been absolutely gorgeous.

Tags: maxims & worthy & choice & easy

Exactly who does this threaten?

Tags: maxims & religion & ugh-politics

This one is unusual because of the setting.

Tags: maxims & heavy elements & stars & lighter elements & nuclear reactions & ancient & sunlight & starlight & Elder Relatives

❝Gods make you stretch.❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & Divine & woman & people & honorable & passionate & reasoning

❝The only faiths worthy of freedom are those freely chosen.❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & wonders & history & marvels & miracles

❝The Story is not the Journey.❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & Story is Not the Journey

“We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.”

— Scott Cunningham

Tags: maxims & gods & stretch

❝How do you explain a Journey without moving into a Story? I am not sure you can.❞
     — NeoWayland, Blessed Journeys

Tags: maxims & faiths & worthy & freedom & choice

“The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”

— Augustus Hare

Tags: maxims & Story is Not the Journey & Story & Journey

“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.”

— Starhawk

Tags: maxims & Pagan & choice & born

“I don’t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness.”

— Margot Adler

Tags: maxims & men & women & cherished & adored & prove otherwise & Juliaki

Stewart Farrar * deceased birthday

Lived 28Jun1916 to 07Feb2000 (83)
Witch, author, novelist. May have encouraged the sexual initiation of minor girls.

Tags: maxims & light pollution & cities & Milky Way & Moon & Earth & stars

We should enjoy our skins.

Tags: maxims & spectacle & Proper Causes & Monday morning & neighbors & good human & decent neighbor & Pagan & Proper Cause

❝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 Pagan

Tags: maxims & book & authority figure & question

❝Weirdness for the sake of wyrdness is not enough.❞

— NeoWayland, Depression and the Modern Pagan

Tags: maxims & absolutes & morality

❝Why does your enlightenment demand that I sacrifice?❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & American & Pagan & nutcases & gifts from the gods

❝Gods and magick have always lived in technology.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & weird & wyrd

❝Our Dieties aren't suspended in “once upon a time,” they transcend us. They inspire us. They tantalize us.❞
     — NeoWayland, Anachronism

Tags: maxims & acknowledge & celebrate & morality

❝Magick is the essence of change and evolution. But you choose the direction.❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims & enlightenment & sacrifice

❝Gods and magick have always lived in technology.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: gods & the magick & technology & maxims

❝Our Dieties aren't suspended in “once upon a time,” they transcend us. They inspire us. They tantalize us.❞
     — NeoWayland, Anachronism

Tags: Diety & once upon a time & transcend & inspire & tantalize & maxims

A lesser known Greek myth set on the isle of Lesbos

Tags: magick & essence & change & evolution & maxims

“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 Five

Tags: Divine & technology & technopagan & magick & maxims

And that raises the first philosophical question. What exactly is that something beyond?

Tags: science & invoke & unquestionable authority & truth & behind the curtain & maxims

But there is no one place where everything thrives.

Tags: the Blessed & God-touched & walk between the worlds & Elder Relatives & saviors & rulers & fear vs. love & maxims

“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?

Tags: dreams & stars & horizon & maxims

❝Do I think I can change the universe? I already have. Can I make it better? Maybe.❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: change the universe & make it better & maxims

❝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 day

Tags: dirty jokes & share fruit & cuddling & greet the sun & better human & Pagan & maxims

“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

Tags: bilagáana & Lousianna & Four Corners & desert & sky & sand & wind & Navajo reservation & maxims

❝Environmentalism is a political movement. It’s about controlling other people to achieve utopia. It’s about closing yourself off from the possibilities.

I don’t want to be limited by the word “environmentalism” anymore. I don’t think ecology is about saving the Earth. I think it’s about understanding how things fit and the tradeoffs we make. It’s about looking at where we were, where we are, and where we could go.❞

Tags: environmentalism & ecology & saving the Earth & understanding & maxims

First liquid-fueled rocket

Robert H. Goddard launched on 16Mar1926

Tags: responsible & consequences & maxims

I don't know who the young lady is but she is certainly enjoying herself.

Tags: laugh & life & seriously enough & possible epitaph & maxims

❝Leave the World a little better than how you found it.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: possible epitaph & secret of life & world & maxims

❝I make it a practice to never call it history until a year and a day after the event.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: history & year & a day & maxims

I half expect a fairy knight to emerge from all that fog.

Tags: freedom of religion & Christianity & maxims

“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 № 50

Tags: mythical construct & bonfire & touchstone & discuss & maxims

If you don't like gambling or shows, there's not much that sets Las Vegas apart.

Tags: Department of Veterans Affairs & pentacle & headstone & memorial markers & honor & Mickey Mouse & Department of Defense & heathen & Asatru & druid & reddit & maxims & calendars

“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

Tags: Emily Dickinson & natural & magick & universe & measured & analyzed & experiments & Aleister Crowley & companion planting & Three Sisters & connections & radio waves & ampitude modulation & frequency modulation & television & smartphone & digital & USB microscope & supernatural & maxims

October 24, 1946

Tags: faith & choice & maxims

The best thing I can do is find a way to channel the passion.

Tags: wisdom & 3% & sympathy & fellow-feeling & restitution & maxims

Her expression is what sells it.

Tags: victimhood & power & human right & maxims

So it's with shorter hair and hot chocolate that I anticipate this High Holiday.

Tags: stepdad & trains & Spark of Inspiration & balance & photo & dynamic tension & secret of life & technopagan & maxims

Raven is about bridging the worlds.

Tags: patterns & universe & longing & human conceit & effective & believe & useful fiction & goal & maxims

❝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?

Tags: maxims & word & small kid & God the Father & God the Mother & Mother Nature

Bone, Heart, Thought, Deed, and Spirit, I honor those who helped shape my life

Tags: ego & snacks & universe & naked & maxims

She is a parasite who is capitalizing on tragedy

Tags: virtue & morality & maxims

No, 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.

Tags: ugh-politics & individual & Greater Pagan Community & Journey & coercive power & moral justification & faith & religion & state & Story is Not the Journey & allies not servants & maxims

Construction starts next week

Tags: trust & truthful & disruption & disaster & maxims

Musing on assumptions

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & humantic principles & maxims

Sun tea

Tags: wisdom & be careful what you wish for & Bible & love & cross posted & maxims & journal

Bright and Dark Blessings to you all

Tags: universe & mathematics & Mystery & poetry & crossroads & possible epitaph & maxims

❝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.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: Dweller issues & dark forces & casting shadows & maxims

There is an advantage to insomnia.

Tags: white knight & friend & savior & cold darkness & body heat & blanket & joy & smile & maxims

Check out the new pages at the top.

Tags: rant & Divine & discipline & Christians & Christian & maxims

Rocket in my garden

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Tags: 3rd Yearnings & Lupa & MyPick & e•friend & Christianity & Christian & Wildman & people cherish their passions & Divine & technopagan & internet & Moon & Wild Man & Wild People & Yin-Yang & humantic principles & clean sheets & hot running water & Modern Man/Modern People & phallus & maxims

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