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I met a guy last night who had grown up here in Sonoma County but had been enticed to move to Amarillo, Texas by economic incentives for his business (by the government).  Very smart guy, not a religious bigot at all, and good company.  Late in our conversation, however, he worried abut the fact that…

Last night I drive to Sonoma to hear John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and of a number of other books, give a talk sponsored by the Praxis Peace Institute.  The audience was filled with people more or less like myself: progressives who are feeling amore than a little whip lashed between…

Books can be great in several ways.  Some encapsulate the spirit of their time.  Some grow in profundity, as the reader returns to them again and again, marveling at how much the author is saying that had been missed in earlier encounters.  Some make break-throughs in established fields of knowledge.  And some, a very few,…

We recently had a discussion of Gerald Gardner’s involvement with Spiritualism, and it’s possible influence on the Craft.  Robert Mathiesen made some very interesting observations about this issue, and not being an expert on Gardner, I contacted some who were.  They in turn contacted Philip Heselton, author of Wiccan Roots and  Gerald Gardner and the…
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