“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.”

— Denis Diderot

Tags: mythology & folklore & werewolf & Red Riding Hood & Beauty and the Beast & blood & gore & violence & aroused & indulges & unwilling & people & character & shapeshifting & non-human & three bears & shapeshifter & without consequences & without cost & Mysterious & Unknown & memory & teenagers & beyond control & Stephen King & vampires & oral sex & power & uncontrollable & animal instinct & passion & arousing & fiction & question & astral sex & what form a dream may take & spirit shapes & picture

“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

Tags: Isabella LeCour & Isaac Bonewits & character & usefulness & the cult of personality

The decline of the written language

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & classic & community & Pagan & Old Breed & character & honor & trust & pagan community & the Other

Would you know a pagan if he stood next to you?

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & watch list & character & Wicca & consent & Jason Pitzl-Waters & polyamory & orgasm

A little updating

Tags: leadership & character & Chas S. Clifton & crusader & classic & Christian & Christianity

Juliaki wrote an pretty good piece on teachers and students in the Craft

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & respect & leadership & Jason Pitzl-Waters & ugh-politics & PC & Brenden Meyers & solitary & character & pagan community & mutual respect & classic & community & community theory

A rare political rant on my Pagan blog

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & Juliaki & leadership & classic & pagan groups & project & long term development & faith & pursuade & honor & blood sweat & tears & effective & flexible & inspirational & amazing & like calls to like & character & allies not servants

More than you really wanted to know

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & HPS & HP & coven & Juliaki & e•friend & teacher & student & classic & teenage & year & a day & craftsman & degree & history & lineage & Isaac Bonewits & ABCDEF & solitary & self-initation & self-dedication & character & paranoid

Fog

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & poseur & Authority Figure™ & methodology & character & mixing & matching & Ancestral Mystical Authority & Gerald Gardner & Wicca & Raymond Buckland

Look around and see the wonders

Tags: used and abused & aunts&grandmothers & character & mutual respect & us vs. them & humantic principles & responsible & individual & silver rule & leadership

I don't bow unless I respect

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & gods & the magick & pagan groups & pagan community & equal rights & human right & victimhood & character & leadership & chants & community & community theory

The roles of faith and rationality

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & Somebody Else's Problem & Veronica Mars & character & leadership & responsible & PC & special people & enbabling

Welcome to Winter

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & family & Great Unspoken Southern Rules & Eldest Son & stepsib & stepdad & classic & character & expectation & evangelism & Christianity & pullback & Christian & monotheism 2nd sin

Sabbat thoughts

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Patterns and flow

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & character & family & fundy & proselytize & Christian & Christians & stepdad & social behavior & culture war & classic & evangelism

Adding practicality to my Beltaine

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & character & harassment & classic & bless list & job & curse & PagaNet News & the Craft & Christianity & Christian bash & coworkers & management & unofficially & live & let live & aunts&grandmothers & thank you cards & connections & broom closet & mostly normal & quiet power & freak the mundanes & answer honestly & sloppy history & be proud & Christian & Wicca & Wiccan & ugh-politics & community & community theory

Beware the Egos

Tags: character & leadership & Joseph Campbell & Spiderman & Fantastic Four & Doctor Strange & Big Name Pagan & Divine & effective & dishonor