Categorie archieven: English articles

Activism, interfaith and tradition – a pagan perspective; an interview with Morgana

Morgana is a Pagan activist, a PFI international coordinator and a Gardnerian Priestess. Less is known about her interfaith initiatives and her role in academic study of Paganism. Lees verder

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Review: Celebrating Planet Earth

In this book some of the ‘urban myths’ are dispelled between (neo) pagans and Christians. Discussed are major attributes of both paths and how we perceive each other. Can Christians and Pagans engage in shared ritual? An ‘interfaith experiment’ suggests they can. Lees verder

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The Dames from Thorn … and Amsterdam

The ‘Beguines’ were the ‘free women’ of Northern Europe. They lived, among other places, in Amsterdam and in the city of Thorn in the province of Limburg. Lees verder

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Review: Spirits of the Sacred Grove

Following the Wheel of the Year, she starts with ‘Samhain: the year begins in the dark north-west’. Telling the story, her story, the year unfolds. Interspersed with her own thoughts Emma philosophises over Druid cosmology, spirituality… and much more. Lees verder

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Stones: a guide to gems & metals

Semi-precious stones can be used in magic, and they are nice to look at. This article describes a handful of Alix’s personal favorites; the mineral uses of various metals, and lists stones and minerals to use as reference material. Lees verder

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Review: All Acts of Love and Pleasure

This book wants “to act as a guide to existing initiatory covens who want to make their practice more inclusive… Inclusive Wicca is about including all participants regardless of sexual orientation, disability, or other differences, not by erasing or ignoring the distinctions but working with them.” Lees verder

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The Collective Individual

Two major paradoxes in Wicca are that it strives towards a ‘group’ feeling when it is basically a path of individual development, and that it is supposedly concerned with a mystical (read esoteric) path when many aspects seem to be becoming exoteric and public. Lees verder

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Microaggressions and the Youth in the Craft

Every time we treat a younger person in a less-than-human way or less capable, without considering his individual skills, we are discriminating against youth – and perpetuating a type of discrimination that has been perpetuated for centuries. Lees verder

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Chakras: the energy centers of the human body

Since early in the 20th century, many Pagan and Wiccan traditions have used the Asian concept of chakras, or energy centers in the body, to expand their European traditional methods of working with healing, cleansing, protection, and empowerment. Lees verder

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Review: Walking the Old Ways

This book presents various ways of conceptualizing Paganism in contemporary (Middle) Europe and offers some possible answers to the question: where will the Old Ways lead us in the future? Lees verder

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