I will conduct a workshop on “Energy Healing: Beginning to Intermediate” at Pantheacon 2008, in the Doubltree Hotel, San Jose, on Monday, February 18, at 9 a.m. I will combine explanation with opportunities for participants to have personal experiences they can then apply outside the context of this workshop. To some degree its content will…

This post fulfills a promise I made in the Solstice post below. The extraordinary and disturbing entry of religion into American politics over the past few decades raises an important question for all people with a spiritual commitment: how should their spiritual practice most effectively and appropriately influence their lives as citizens. As citizens we…

I recently attended a Winter Solstice celebration here in Northern California. Held at a local community center, it was well attended by an enthusiastic crowd. A first glance indicated a growing and healthy NeoPagan community. A second glance was not as reassuring. Every new spiritual movement faces the challenge of enabling people unfamiliar with it…

The photograph on the right is of a Moslem suicide bomber, holding a Koran. But the photograph on the left is of US soldiers holding a Bible. The similarity is not accidental. All see themselves as warriors for God. Jason Leopold of the Baltimore Chronicle has written a chilling story, chilling at least for anyone…

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