On Tuesday night, I finished out the last journal I had been working in, which dated back to 2007. These journals are simple blue lab notebooks I pick up at the university bookstore here: they're durable, light, page-numbered, and the perfect size to fit in a MK VII gas mask bagThe journals aren't really "journals" in the usual sense of the word, ( Read more... )

Last weekend, the Clergy of ADF had a very fruitful retreat. Much of what we did was very internally focused: we reviewed the CTP recommendations, brought forth the concerns we'd heard from the Org, and determined what other work we would need to do ( Read more... )

For those working on the GSP/CTP/IP, here's a rundown of sources in a couple of courses, and what I thought of them:

First, key texts you must own that apply to several courses, or are so indespensible that you should really have them:

• A Book of Pagan Prayer by Ceisiwr Serith.
• Magic in the Ancient World by Fritz Graf.
• In Search of the Indo-Europeans ( Read more... )

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I've finally gotten the gumption together to re-start some of the work I've been doing, and the past few weeks have been focused on doing work around the Initiate's Path program I've been planning out, as some may have noticed from my previous entry. Right now, I'm in the process of building the schedule, which means buying a calendar and trying to ( Read more... )

The past few weeks have been full of computer issues. Just last night, I reformatted again, for the second time this week. If I've got a project I'm supposed to finish for you, this is, unfortunately, why it isn't done.As I work on this Initiate Path project I've been builing for the past six months or so, I keep running into certain roadblocks ( Read more... )

I arrived home, safe and sound from Trillium last night, unpacked, and eventually went to bed early. It was a pleasure to arrive both at the festival and then at home before nightfall this year.

seamus_mcnasty is rapidly becoming my favourite traveling companion: we come up with so many good ideas in the car or on airplanes . . . Most of which are still ( Read more... )

I've mentioned before, I have been thinking about how to work out a plan of study for candidates for Initiation within ADF. I have the most basic framework down. . . next is to decide on the two schedules that will need to run concurrently (one for journaling requirements, at least 10 months worth) and one for the "academic" requirements (which are ( Read more... )

For those who didn't see, I've got a new plan for completion of CTP 3. I wanted to give a bit of an update on that plan.

At the moment, I'm done with Leadership Development 2, and I've got Ethics 2 in for review. I'm one question away from completing Crisis Response (I'm just missing my First Link directory, which must be around here somewhere!), ( Read more... )

You know, in many ways, the initiation I went through changed the game I was playing, deepening it and setting new rules. I like to talk about Huizinga's notion of Homo Ludens as vastly superior to Eliade's Homo Religiosis, but I find myself encountering Huizinga's theories on a very real and intimate level in my life ( Read more... )