The newly-formed Coalition of Satanic Congregations: (…) was created to increase the effectiveness and community of independent, non-theistic Satanic congregations. By sharing resources and continually engaging with each other, we strengthen non-theistic Satanism on the global stage. We focus exclusively on the needs of our Member Congregations and the religious needs of their congregants instead … Read moreThe Coalition of Satanic Congregations
In the aftermath of the 2024 American elections, Lucien Greaves writes: It is often mystifying to me that people come to us and say, if only it were not Satan. But it is Satan, because we are Satanists. Do not ask us to discard Satanism, just accept that Satanism is not for you. You can support … Read more“Looking Ahead”: a new essay by Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves
As niche and subversive a notion as CultPunk may be, it has some fairly recent cultural progenitors, if you look hard enough. One was the “Church Punk” aesthetic of the Canadian visionary artist and poet ManWoman, who sought to reclaim the ancient emblem of the sun wheel/swastika from association with Nazi atrocity and who wrote, … Read moreManWoman and Church Punk
Host Aviv Shahar of the Portals podcast interviews Layman Pascal and Brendan Graham Dempsey, organizers of the Metamodern Spirituality Labs at Brendan’s Sky Meadow Retreat in Vermont. My own memoir of attending the Spring 2024 Lab is available here.
Taking place during late August of 2024, the inaugural Sky Meadow Mystery School was a free, week-long, residential immersion into wholesome permaculture practice and the mythopoetic mysteries of Life and Death. As an experiment in countercultural community-building, the Mystery School was also a time and place to learn new skills and perspectives. One of our … Read moreThe Sky Meadow Mystery School, Harvest 2024 in a few words and many images
In this episode of Brian James’ Howl in the Wilderness podcast, Brian and myself discuss the potentials of CultPunk and Poetic Faith as new arts of meaning-making, as well as the philosophy of memento mori ergo carpe diem – “remember death and therefore seize the day”.
An interview with Dr. Erik Steinhart on his development of a philosophically rigorous and deeply scientific view of religious practice reconceived outside of mainstream western Christianity.
“VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours … Read more“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
Death explains the human necessity of belief in fantasies in this scene from the television adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s novel The Hogfather.
Selected passages from Edgar Morin’s Homeland Earth : A Manifesto for the New Millennium (1999): I would expand the line from Hölderlin by saying: We dwell on Earth both prosaically and poetically. Prosaically (when we work, aim at practical targets, try to survive), and poetically (when we sing, dream, enjoy and love, admire). Human life … Read more“Life for life’s sake” (from “Homeland Earth: A Manifesto for a New Millennium”)