Academically, I am a Political Scientist and a Gardnerian Witch, in both cases for about 40 years. I encountered the Craft soon after gaining my Ph.D. at Berkeley. I cut my ideological teeth as a young conservative in high school … Read more
Category: Pagan Spirituality
Women and Men: Unique Disadvantages
People of the Earth
NeoPaganism, Divine Immanence, and the Sacred Feminine
Introduction
This essay analyzes hotly contested issues within the contemporary American Pagan community. The arguments creating such discord rely on holding two contradictory positions at the same time. First, gender is socially, not biologically, defined. The second is there are … Read more
Seeing and Feeling Energy Fields
Samhain and Day of the Dead, 2019
Two Sexes, Many Genders and the Perils of Thinking in Dichotomies
Looking Deeper: Kavanaugh, Women, the Culture War, and Us.
Transforming the Cultural Appropriation Debate: Pagan and magickal insights.
Circles and Lines in “The Wolf at Twilight”
I was started along this line of thought while reading Kent Nerburn’s powerful, moving, painful and hauntingly beautiful The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder’s Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows. There are many levels to this … Read more