Tag: animism
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Superfunding the Sacred
This paper attempts to synthesize my personal understanding of ecological devastation enacted upon a particular site – Onondaga Lake – and to correlate my reflections on this case to further develop my thinking on concurrent issues of restoration, empathy, and the personhood of non-human beings and landscape features.
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Coupled Systems
As some of you may know, there is an Ecstatic Agendas channel over on Youtube. My attention to that medium has been sporadic at best, but I hope to pick up my pace and regularity on the platform. In fact, I have posted two videos this week. The first is a short account of a…
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JT and the Chthonic Daimonic
This is an account of spirit contact during a weekend trip to the woods that my darling life-partner treated me to recently! The following takes place at night, in Western Oregon, in a popular state park. The park is situated so as to protect the remains of an ancient forest now surrounded by farmland and…
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Jumping In Place
August 2023 “I am a rock… I am an island… – Simon and Garfunkle (1) Protective talisman from from Papyri Greco Magicae VII The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation, Ed. Hans Dieter Betz (2) … In a society… All of us ride in- and sometimes even pilot– our own personal spheres of influence. We use…
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Herbarium Tremens
_ Fullness and Satiety to you my lovely friends. Tonight we have our front door open, and the sound of crickets is echoing in from the dark. This above is a cupful of Borage petals and seeds – I have been drying them through the Summer as my plants drop them. This is a generational…
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Be Not Afraid
Order, Chaos and Calendrical Observances “Baby I was afraid before But I’m not afraid Anymore!” -Belinda Carlisle (1) We are haunted by the Past; by nexus points of the choices we have made; by their crucial, far-reaching, often unforeseen consequences upon our lives. Until we absolve ourselves of our histories, the outcomes we perceive as…
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