Rituals of Resistance: Keeping our Hearts Whole & Strong

Autumn, 2019. Volume 7 Number 2

ISSN 2333-0627

Cover art: By Gus DiZerega “Solstice Moon”

Somehow we know that only living beings can be responsible and experience freedom. What is it about living beings, and about human beings in particular, such that this is the case? And what does that imply to the way we organize our human enterprises? – Reflection, Responsibility and Freedom: we are not robots. Humberto Maturana Romesin and Pille Bunnell, 2001

Publication Date: September 20, 2019

When All Seems Bleak and Dark...

Keeping our Hearts Whole & Strong

Peace Ritual in Israel: December 2014

One of the Israeli Neopagans decided to implement a peace ritual in a woodland area near Tel-Aviv during December 2014, and invite the rest of the community.

What Happens in Alison's Room: Depictions of Art and Craft in Orphan Black

Representations of art and craft are essential to several major character arcs and subplots of the series. These representations … underline the show’s concern with the competing effects of nature and nurture on the skills and life-paths the clones pursue.

Earth-speak: Envisioning a Conversant World

When I saw Silbury through the mist, what opened before me was a vision of a time when the entire landscape was the sacred body of the deity.

Cripples, Bastards, Broken Things... and Villainesses: Game of Thrones' Final Season

Literature’s assessment of characters as good or evil, successful or destroyed hinges on its endings. Epic television like Game of Thrones is no exception.

Is Trump a Modern-Day Minotaur?

The response was instantaneous and passionate. His base saw it as a prophetic miracle and his critics as their worst apocalyptic nightmare. Very few voters were in the middle and those who were, sat out the election. While the new administration, which did not expect to win the election, attempted to get organized, the Resistance began forming literally overnight.

A Chat with Gus diZerega

Virtually every drawing of a natural scene is of a place where I have been and loved, or in some cases, is based on capturing the feel of such a place.

Gallery: Gus diZerega

Pen-and-ink drawings by Gus diZerega

Hasse Fröberg of The Flower Kings: More Delicate and More Heavy

Sometimes you just need that little thing to ignite the spark, to get inspired. That wrong note in the chord led me to write what’s probably the most beautiful theme I’ve written so far.

Hasse Fröberg’s Musical Companion

Video from Hasse Fröberg’s Musical Companion
Parallel Life – Sleeping with the Ghost

New Book Releases

Review: The Witches’ Runes: A Traditional Divination System

When your intuition meets the right tool, baroque or minimalist, the same key turns in the same door, and the wisdom that is available flows from the same source.

Review: Blind Walls

Blind Walls is a darkly gentle, languid ghost story that meanders like Weatherlee House itself.

Review: Integrated Care for the Traumatized: A Whole-Person Approach

The Whole-Person Approach is one that offers a treatment model incorporating “intention, awareness, and mindfulness as the mediating variables between cognition and behavior.

New Music Releases

New music releases for Autumn 2019.

Somewhere Between the...

It is important here to understand something about H. P. Lovecraft as inspiration. While Lovecraft was a master of linear plotting, his strongest power was the evocation of mood.