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I have not been able to see this exhibition, perhaps those that have could comment on it. I think that intellectually it is interesting… But I feel in my gut that the intellectualization of animism is a bit of a ill-gotten persuite.

22 January – 2 May 2010

Opening Thursday 21 January at 19:00
Animism is a long-term exhibition and publication project first presented between 22 January and 2 May 2010 in Antwerp in a collaboration of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA). A second version of the exhibition will be shown at Kunsthalle Bern…

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I’ve spent some time recently musing on what the nature of religion might be. There is a reactionary movement within paganism that challenges what is perceived to be the “cherry picking” “my truth” route that many pagan paths appear to have taken… a sort of post modern transcultural unorthodoxy… and this reactionary movement frequently raises the challenge that current pagan paths do not qualify as religion because of a lack of orthodoxy and orthopraxy.

While there is a validity to these challenges, there is also something profoundly unsatisfying in defining a religion in terms of a combination of orthodoxy and orthopraxy.…

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I wrote this speech for The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Paluse, in Moscow Idaho, and gave it on Sunday the 3rd of August 2008- Glen Fishbowl

When I was younger I had a deep interest in the traditions and narratives of the People of Great Britain,‭ ‬where the majority of my bloodline originated from.‭ ‬With help of a friend well versed in Celtic studies,‭ ‬I examined the remaining narratives of the Celtic-Britons preserved in the Mabinigion and the poems of Taliesin the bard.‭ ‬With a basic understanding of the older Welsh dialect which these narratives…

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I lived my life from about 1984 to 1990 (whenever a job was to be had, which was often spotty) as an archaeo-vagrant, aka a Shovel Bum. Such folks as us worked the circuit of CRM archaeological projects. That is, we were the shovel-monkeys that did the back-breaking labor for the archaeology compliance portion of environmental laws that are part of large construction and development projects. There is not much work you can get with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology, at least very little related to one’s degree.

We were a cross between hippies and scholars, roving from job to…

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As many of us know the term or label Shaman has become a loaded subject, a humpty dumpty word, and a term clouded with so many personal definitions and political associations that to utilize the word is an invitation to an extremely difficult discourse. I have mentioned before the need to revisit the original etymology of the word shaman and work from there. If we closely examine the word we see that it means “ one who knows” and as I pointed out previously here and the back yard shamanry page, it would seem that the distinction is that a…

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I’ve signed up for the Master Gardener program starting here in town in a couple of weeks. This is the Level 1 (of 3) and will run 8 weeks. Afterwards, you have to serve as a volunteer resource for the community. I hope to get better at growing things.

Ben Franklin:

There seems to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery.

The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real…

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“Demise of the Druids,” By BRETT FRENCH, Billings Gazette | Posted: Monday, March 8, 2010 12:00 am

After a dominating 14-year reign in the northwestern corner of Yellowstone National Park, one of the park’s most prolific and most viewed gray wolf packs in the world may have perished.

“The Druid pack is kaput,” said Doug Smith, Yellowstone’s wolf biologist.

It happened quickly.

Only two months ago, there were 11 wolves in the pack. But after the alpha female was killed by another pack, the old alpha male wandered off rather than breed with one of the other female wolves that were his offspring. He…

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There is a god of love I worship and follow. Without this god our minds would not be as attuned to beauty, nor our hearts to the gods of love. This god is a generous gift from the Creator, filling the meadows and roadsides with spiritual power, opening the doors between the worlds, that the King of Glory may come in. Who is this King of Glory? Love Almighty, strong to unite, mighty in peace and pleasure.

Cannabis is this gift from the Creator. Its purpose is to draw people together in kindness and love. Its power is in opening the…

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