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Individuality and Coercion
By
Gus diZerega
I had planned to post a series of essays on how we as Pagans can look at the horrors around us and see that they do not reflect badly on the sacred. However, several of my readers expressed concerns over my approval of compulsory national service as providing a kind of necessary initiation in American…
The importance and need for initiation in America
By
Gus diZerega
The issue of initiation in modern America was a major theme yesterday in a book group to which I belong. We had been discussing Barry Spector’s Madness at the Gates of the City. Spector uses a Jungian polytheistic approach to understanding people and society that he explicitly describes as Pagan and polytheistic. For me his…
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