Books exploring the philosophical implications of science by contemporary scientists tend to fall into two categories: those that assert and explore the implications of scientific reductionism and those that explore the implications of quantum physics.  Neither is directly relevant o a Pagan world view, and both can be used to attack it.  Now Stuart Kauffman’s…

From someone whose only wisdom in this case was to listen to a friend. About a year ago my friend Michael convinced me to get an external hard drive for back up.  Without that back up, when my hard drive crashed last week a major pain in the neck would have been a catastrophe, with…

Last night Joan Marler of the Institute of Archaeomythology — gave a fascinating talk about the likelihood Europe’s first agricultural peoples had developed writing 8,000 years ago, long before Sumer.  It is called the “Danube Script.”   The evidence she offered was persuasive to me.  But fascinating as this was, the point Marler made about their…

A great piece on why it is so difficult to convince people by using reason and evidence has just appeared in Atlantic Magazine ‘s online site.  Lane Wallace’s The Uncommon Navigator  is well worth reading by all Pagans – and by everybody else.  

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