{"id":1289,"date":"2012-02-16T21:46:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2012-02-16T21:46:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:46:01","slug":"pantheacon-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2012\/02\/pantheacon-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Pantheacon 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I seem to have recovered at the last minute from a cold that kept me home this past week.\u00a0 Strong ginger tea, gargling hot salt water, and other stuff did the trick. Now I’m washing clothes and packing my duffel to leave tomorrow for Pantheacon<\/a> in San Jose. Once there I will give a talk on my new book manuscript on the Faultlines:<\/em> The 60s, the Culture War, and the\u00a0Divine Feminine,<\/em><\/em> and do a workshop on energy healing.\u00a0 Hopefully next year I’ll be selling the book.<\/p>\n

This year’s Pantheacon theme is “Unity on Diversity” and I think this is one feature of our path that gets too little attention. Thousands of Pagans of every sort arrive for several days of work shops, rituals, and just plain shmoozing and for years I have never noticed anyone making a point that their path is better than someone elses.\u00a0 More “orthodox”?\u00a0 yes.\u00a0 But “better?” No.<\/p>\n

We do not have to think about “toleration,” how to get along with those we regard as fundamentally wrong.\u00a0 We celebrate the sacred as it manifests in as well as transcendentally to our world, and that means we celebrate diversity and not just tolerate it.\u00a0 Every path is still one more way human beings can honor that which none of us, nor likely even all of humanity, can fully appreciate and encompass. It’s wonderful, and for a few days this President’s Day weekend we demonstrate that we do indeed walk our talk.\u00a0 I hope to see some of you there.\u00a0 If you see me, say “Hi.”<\/p>\n

(By the way, since returning from the Yukon I’ve had a beard.\u00a0 Every woman I know said “keep it.”\u00a0 On those matters for me, women have 20 votes each and men have none. So far the vote has been unanimous.\u00a0 (I know it’s sort of sexist, but deal with it, guys. )<\/p>\n

So if we haven’t met my name tag is the give away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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