Tag: animism
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In Rapture’s Golden Field
“Nature’s first green is gold” – Robert Frost Is there a boundary between the biophysical and the spiritual? If so, where does this perimeter lie? Is it our skin, which separates the interior of our physical processes from the exterior world? Or is the division between that which is verified by the collection and analysis…
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Threshold Invocation
A short prayer for this, the Spring Equinox. Light a flame and demand your due! Pour libation, drink deep. Ascend and be recognized: “On this day of turning On this threshold between Winter and Spring Between Night and Day Between Death and Life I cast away procrastination, hesitation, indecision. I call upon the sun god,…
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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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