“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred.”
Tom Robbins (July 22, 1932 – February 9, 2025)
Tom Robbins (July 22, 1932 – February 9, 2025)
An overview of contemporary Pagan movements by Wayne Martin Mellinger, PhD: This collection of essays explores the diversity and vitality of Nature Religions in North America, tracing their historical roots, cultural contexts, and contemporary expressions. By engaging with these traditions, we gain insight into the enduring appeal of nature as a sacred source of meaning … Read more“The New American Religions of Nature –a Compilation of 15 Essays”
According to The Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth: If compassionate and wise beings don’t create the religion of this age, others will. In recent years, religion has evolved more quickly than any other force on Earth. Powerful leaders are now publicly claiming things that would have seemed absurd ten years ago, … Read more“Cyborgs Need a Trustworthy Religion”
The New York Times offers some insight into the Aetherius Society, one of the OG UFO religions of the 20th century.
A short but fairly insightful BBC presentation on Iceland’s curious national attitudes towards its legendary huldufólk (“hidden people”), which seem to combine tourist attraction/the impulse to mess with tourists, sentimental respect for cultural tradition, a sense of national pride and symbolic respect for/fear of natural forces in a genuinely unpredictable landscape.
Rüdiger Weida, a.k.a. Bruder Spaghettus explains his practice of Pastafarianism in this short, entertaining documentary by filmmaker Alex Alford: … when I actually met Rüdiger I discovered there was much more to his story than initially met the eye. As a student growing up in oppressive East Germany post-WWII, he fell in love with satire … Read more“The Man and the Monster”
Matt Arnold speaks at the September 2024 Fluidity Forum in Detroit, Michigan: It all started with good intentions. A group had heightened emotional and psychological experiences, and years later, some of the participants wrote regretful blog posts saying they gained a sense of purpose but lost their sense of self; their sense of proportion; and … Read more“How to Not Start a Cult”
Emergent Ritualist Scout Rainer Wiley offers advice and insight in this new interview with The Container YouTube channel.
Recently returned from a trip to New Zealand, where I was heartened and intrigued to note that traditional Māori cultural/spiritual symbolism is increasingly being incorporated into public space design. The photo above is of Te Ātea (“the Space”) on the Lake Taupo foreshore: There are a number of different elements that come together to form … Read moreTe Ātea and the Potentials of Civic Mythopoetics in New Zealand