I received some very negative reactions to my criticisms of the article, How to Herd Cats: Essays on Pagan Leadership, Becoming a Leader, both in public communities and private journals. My stance was simply this: you can’t declare yourself a leader. Leadership requires earned respect -- something that, to me, seems rather blatantly left out of ( Read more... )

A British family seeks to clear the name of a relative who was the last person convicted of witchcraft. I found this story interesting.

This is a video from aol.

http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?pmmsid=1851824#

Here you go; the answer to all your magickal (or maybe majickal) needs, Spellkaster software! Using "radionic energy" that's all around us, this little gem will bring you love, health, wealth, and vengence upon thine enemies, just by entering their names into your PC and letting your computer auto-kast. It also promises instant patience (though ( Read more... )

I was midnlessly spamming my new site at fluffy pagan groups but read the intro to this one and laughed so hard I figgure I may actualy stay ;)

It sounds great.

Hell, I'll spam anyway, no-one I know is giving me any new content and I'm as creative as a modern art critic.

TCP.

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If you follow a Reconstructionist religion, please join us at Recons for some good discussions. Reconstructionists from all cultures welcome and invited.

My apologies to those of you who have seen this before in a variety of forums.

My thanks to simianlovedoc for permission to advertise. :-)

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My favorite fluffyness to bash on. Alternative or magickal medicine at the exclusion of modern medicine.

from "Oh My Gods!"

When the US (conservatives and liberals) were crazy about China and how horrible they were for repressing the Falun Gong people I did some research.

They're your normal middle-control charasmatic progressive eastern-thought ( Read more... )

Cross posted to kestrel127 by accident

As I was going through my daily stack of newspapers today(it's part of my job, I swear!), I found a Washington Times review of Ronald Hutton's Witches, Druids and King ArthurBeing that this is the Washington Times, which is exceedingly ( Read more... )

Your community seems to foster a healthy level of debate and discussion, so I hope this won't be unwelcome.
If anyone is interested, I started a thread in the skepticaldebate community about magick. I invite anyone who would like to discuss whether magick has real effects on the natural world to join and participate.

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01052004.shtml

It's the second one down.

=) =) =)

Edit: Yes, I knew about the CelticWiccan odd email thing. I just thought the response was perfect.