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House of Danu Lughnasadh Festival weekend (July 30 to August 2), Santa Cruz mountains north of Watsonville. 2nd Annual Gorsedd. All Bards, Ovates, Druids and Neopagans welcome!
In October 2009, Isaac Bonewits was diagnosed with cancer—he has a good prognosis but feels crappy due to treatments. Send Isaac and Fay prayers, healing vibes and cash.
from Storycatcher (click)
pages 18-19
written by Christina Baldwin
of Peerspirit, Washington,
reprinted here with author's permission
I have read a story of a tribe in southern Africa called the Babemba in which a person doing something wrong, something that destroys the delicate social net, brings all work in the village to a halt. The people gather around the "offender," and one by one they begin to recite every thing he has done right in his life: every good deed, thoughtful behavior, act of social responsibility. These things have to be true about the person, and spoken honestly, but the time-honored consequence of misbehavior is to appreciate that person back into their better part of himself. The person is given the chance to remember who he is and why his important to the life of the village.
I want to live under such a practice of compassion. When I forget my place, when I lash out with some private wounding in a public way, I want to be remembered back into alignment with my self and purpose. I want to live with the opportunity for reconciliation. When someone around me thoughtless or cruel, I want to be given the chance to respond with a ritual that created the possibility of reconnection. I want to live in a neighborhood where people don't shoot first, don't sue first, where people are Storycatchers willing to discover in strangers the mirror of themselves. I want to be surrounded by a story-based culture that itself remembers story is essential to human survival.
Screenreader Articles List
Articles
on various forms of Neopaganism
written by Larzean
12 December 2009
| Date | Author | Article Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Nov 2009 | D.G. Cleveland | Why Many of Us Will Never Be Christian (No Matter How Hard We Try) |
| 20 June 2004 | Lesley Bannatyne | Boston Globe: For Solstice, a Druid Who's Down to Earth |
| 28 May 2005 | Eric Goldscheider | New York Times: Witches, Druids and Other Pagans Make Merry Again in the Magical Month of May |
| 3 May 2006 | John Michael Greer | Real Druids |
| 18 July 2007 | John Michael Greer | Culture Death |
| undated | Peter Freeman (iantoPF) | The Christian Religion |
| 25 December 2009 | Selena Fox | Celebrating Winter Solstice |
| June 1996 | Emma Restall Orr | Issues Facing Contemporary Druidry |