Said the old beast to the young: Unless you make a hollow of yourself. There will be no room for the gods to dwell inside of you.
Read MoreTo join our essence and consciousness with the world was once the common inheritance of humanity. Now, it can only be found in the hinterland, the lands beyond. Beyond techno-industrial society. For what is there to join with in concrete and steel?
Read MoreDeath is not the enemy of life, but godlessness. The despair of humanity today is the product of centuries worth of both the denial of the spiritual life of the world and the suppression of the natural urge to reintegrate with that world.
Read More“As we ever expand, as civilisation grows and spreads, the demand for space, for homes and resources increases.”
Read MoreThe sword is the land. The sword is love and love for the wild. It is the love of waves that crash down upon the shore with an unquenchable fury, until it has ground cliffs into dust. It is the love of the mountain, whose heart is iron.
Read MoreIf there was ever a thing of beauty among our race, it was the part that held the light of the star and the crash of the waves upon a rocky, inhospitable shore.
Read MoreJohn Halstead proposes an alternative holistic theory of rights, one in which we can ground the rights of nature.
Read MoreWhat has been won by our liberation from these outdated delusions? What has been gained? Are we free? Are we at peace? Even by the standards of modernity, twisted and obscene, we are undoubtably the poorer. Without the gods, now there is only ourselves to fear.
Read MoreThere is a feeling of strangeness that has come over the world. We have a sense, scarcely articulated, that something is coming. And that the world we have become familiar over hundreds of years of capitalism and industrialism, has suddenly become surreal and bizarre. We suddenly become aware of the shadow that walks alongside us.
Read MoreFrom Julian Langer
Read MoreThe machine-world, offering nothing but ash and bitter hate, will in time make a sacrifice of us all.
Read MoreA review of Laurie Anderson's Heart of A Dog, and the questions it poses: the hierarchy of relationships - and the role pets play in our lives.
Read More'The Cutting Edge' from Accipiter Nisus: "reclaiming our bodies and minds must start with intimately knowing the tools which we use and engage with in our daily lives."
Read MoreFrom Rhyd Wildermuth, the second piece in his series on revolutionary ancestors.
Read MoreThe phrase ‘Gods & Radicals’, was something of a koan to me when I first considered submitting material to this journal. I’m wary of the term ‘radical’ which so often slips from its original meaning of ‘seeking change from the root up’ into the values-empty ‘change by whatever means necessary’. On a recent walk, however, I found the two words ‘Gods’ and ‘Radicals’ suddenly coming together very naturally…
Read MoreA small contribution toward an animist ethics.
Read MoreFrom Rhyd Wildermuth: " Rootless people are easily controlled and coerced, people without the stories, myths, and spirits of a place have nowhere to turn beside the market for the creation of their meaning."
Read MoreFrom James Lindenschmidt: "It doesn't matter what kind of Pagan you are, which specific tradition, subculture, or set of Pagan values you embrace, we Pagans are a conquered people."
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