Influential Weird British Dudes: The Neo-Pagans and The Golden Dawn
Or: A little adventure into popular western practices whose histories are much shorter than you’d think, and why being honest when you’ve made things up yourself matters I’m hoping to…
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The Story Animal
Erik Vance’s Suggestible You, published in 2016, is about the placebo effect and its relatives; the nocebo, the conditioning response, the elaborate and underappreciated machinery by which human beings are…
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This is What I Do Now
After a decade of what I can only describe as an extremely productive dissolution and reconfiguration, this spring I am opening True Names Workshop. I will offer tarot readings, astrological…
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Methodology and Meaning
I am, somehow, matter experiencing itself. In a singular pocket of the universe where that occurs in this particular manner; conscious, meaning-hungry, and a blip in the vastness of time.…
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Practicing Meaning Without Belief
In February, our house sometimes swells with extra children during school break. Parents need to work; the snow is deep; the days are short. When I have the chance, I…
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