Next course offering starts 24 March, 2024.
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A nine week course on re-enchanting your life, developed and instructed by Rhyd Wildermuth
In a world of uncertainty, political upheaval, climate change, and endless consumerism, and in alienated societies bereft of meaning and connection to nature or community, what does it mean to be Pagan?
This course, developed and instructed by Druid, writer, and Gods&Radicals Press co-founder Rhyd Wildermuth, explores the core beliefs and practices of Pagan and animist belief to guide the participant into re-enchanting their worlds and reconnecting to ancient currents that have never truly gone away.
Through readings, videos, and group discussions, we’ll look at the 9 threads of connection essential to not just calling oneself Pagan but actually being Pagan.
Connection to Pagan Time (the rhythms of the moon, of seasons, and of non-linear time)
Connection to Body (what it means to be a body, not just have a body)
Connection to Land (direct experience with nature and place)
Connection to Plants & Animals (deepening our relationship to those who share the earth with us)
Connection to the Other (integrating the unconscious, dreams, and the imaginal into the waking world)
Connection to Ancestors (becoming grounded in and understanding the people and stories that create us)
Connection to Gods and Spirits (understanding, honoring, and being in relationship with those unseen)
Connection to Will (reclaiming your agency and enchanting a dis-enchanted world)
This course is ideal both for those new to Paganism as well as those seeking to re-center their beliefs and practices away from capitalist and mass-marketed ideas and towards something deeper. No prior knowledge or academic experience is required.
About the Instructor
Rhyd Wildermuth is a writer, a theorist, a publisher, and a druid. Originally from Appalachia, and now living in the Ardennes, he’s the author of seven books, including Being Pagan and Here Be Monsters (from Repeater Books UK).
He writes From The Forests of Arduinna.
Course Information
Course Length and Schedule: The course lasts for nine weeks, from 24 March, 2024 to 1 June, 2024
Time Commitment: Participants will be expected to devote a minimum of four hours each week (36 hours total over 9 weeks) to the course. This expectation includes time devoted to reading recommended texts, viewing video lectures, engaging in assigned personal work, and engaging in conversation with other participants.
Cost: Sliding Scale $100-$150. Pay what you are capable of.
Maximum participants: 30
Course Requirements: Participants need have no prior knowledge of the course subject nor experience in academic settings. Physical requirements include internet access, a computer or smartphone capable of accessing recommended readings and live video chat discussions, and each participant will need to create a login (free of cost) for Discord.
Course Materials: Each participant will be given a digital copy of Being Pagan, as well as access to weekly video lectures. In addition, a guide to using the private Discord server for participant discussions will also be provided. Print copies are included in enrollment rates of enrollment rates of 130, 140, and 150.
Venue: Weekly course conversations will occur over a dedicated Discord server. In addition, two optional live group video discussions will occur via Zoom.
International Scheduling: Instruction occurs through text discussion and recorded videos. Live zoom discussions will be planned in-course to accommodate as many participants across the world as possible.
Course structure: Each week, the instructor will post a short video lecture regarding the week’s topic, and participants will read assigned course texts and engage in recommended personal work. Discord chat discussion will follow in the second half of each week in which participants will reflect with each other and the instructor about the course material and their experiences with the suggested personal work. Two optional live group video discussions will also occur, scheduled during the course to allow as many people to participate as possible.
Cancellation/Refund policy: Full refunds of payment are possible up until the end of the first day of the course.
Other policies: In the very unlikely event that a participant creates a hostile environment for other participants or the instructor, and if attempts to address the behavior do not correct the problem, the instructor reserves the right to end a participant’s participation.
Enrollment process: To enroll, remit payment by purchasing the course access below.
Upcoming course: 15 November, 2023 to 9 January 2024
A six-week course developed and instructed
by Alley Valkyrie
“The Witch has been created by the land to act for it.”
--Peter Grey, Rewilding Witchcraft
Land is how we live. We live on the land, we live because of land, and when we die we go back into the land.
Yet land, in our modern capitalist dystopia, is often the farthest thing from our mind. Few of us even have access to land—everywhere it is fenced off, paved over, gated, polluted, and destroyed.
How did it come to this? How did the notion of private property come about? Why were so many people displaced from the land through enclosures, the transatlantic slave trade, and brutal colonization?
And what has this done to us?
In this six week online course, writer, artist, and Gods&Radicals co-founder Alley Valkyrie will lead you through the history and meaning of land, illuminate the processes and politics that caused our separation from land, and guide you to spiritual reconnection and political reclamation of the land beneath our feet.
Alley Valkyrie’s course will cover the following topics:
Week One: The Importance of Land
Week Two: Lost Land—Enclosures & Property
Week Three: Lost Land—Displacement and Colonialism
Week Four: Land—Its spirits and Peoples
Week Five: Spiritual Reconnection to Land
Week Six: Political Reclamation of Land
General Information
Course Length and Schedule: The course lasts for seven weeks, from15 November, 2023 to 9 January 2024. A catch-up week is built into the schedule to help participants who may need more time and to accommodate holidays.
Time Commitment: Participants will be expected to devote a minimum of two hours each week (12 hours total over 6 weeks) to the course. This expectation includes time devoted to reading recommended texts, viewing video lectures, and engaging in conversation with other participants.
Cost: Sliding Scale $80-$120. Pay what you are capable of.
Supporters can take this course for free.
Maximum participants: 30
Course Requirements: Participants need have no prior knowledge of the course subject nor experience in academic settings. Physical requirements include internet access, a computer or smartphone capable of accessing recommended readings and live video chat discussions, and each participant will need to create a login (free of cost) for Discord.
Venue: Weekly course conversations will occur on a dedicated Discord server.
Course structure: Each week, the instructor will post a video lecture for participants and assign optional readings. Participants will then discuss with each other and the instructor throughout the week by chat server (Discord).
One live video chat discussion (date and time to be announced) will occur at a time optimized for as many participants to join as possible.
Cancellation/Refund policy: Full refunds of payment are possible up until the end of the first day of the course.
Other policies: In the very unlikely event that a participant creates a hostile environment for other participants or the instructor, and if attempts to address the behavior do not correct the problem, the instructor reserves the right to end a participant’s participation.
Enrollment process: To enroll, select your option below and then add it to your cart. You can then continue to browse or check out by clicking the cart icon (top left in desktop versions, bottom of the pull-down menu in mobile versions).
New start date: 5 March, 2023
A course developed and instructed by Asa West.
In an era of climate change and late capitalism, when everything sacred is paved over or commodified, how do you attune yourself to the rhythms of nature? How do you listen for--and hear--the language of the land on which you live? How do you push your magical practice beyond rote rituals into true communion with the spirits around you?
Using ritual, trance, spellwork, and lots of time in nature, this 5-week course will explore what it means to practice authentic green witchcraft. We'll use the lenses of unity, liminality, embodiment, reciprocity, and silence to explore animism, folk deities, wortcunning, and other aspects of this deep and joyful path.
The course is divided into five parts, each focusing on one of the core principles of Green Witchcraft.
The forest speaks with one voice (Animism, the egregore, spirits of place, and attention as magical practice)
Twilight precedes starlight (Liminality, starlight vision, hedgeriding, altered states, and magic as harnessing infinite possibility)
Witchcraft lives in the body (The 3 selves, virtue, working with deity, moving and manipulating energy)
The witch always pays their coin (Reciprocity and balance, devotion versus exploitation, spellwork theory
The Goddess reveals herself in silence (Living a witch’s life, the witches’ pyramid, the egregore revisited)
All participants will receive a digital copy of the primary text, Five Principles of Green Witchcraft by Asa West. In addition to class chat discussions and videos, participants will receive weekly homework assignments.
General Information
Course Length and Schedule: The course lasts for five weeks, from 5 March, 2023 to 31 March 2023
Time Commitment: Participants will be expected to devote a minimum of two hours each week (10 hours total) to the course. This expectation includes time devoted to reading recommended texts, viewing video lectures, and engaging in conversation with other participants.
Cost: Sliding Scale $50-$80. Pay what you are capable of. Monthly and Permanent Supporters may opt to take this course for free.
Maximum participants: 25
Course Requirements: Participants need have no prior knowledge of the course subject nor experience in academic settings. Physical requirements include internet access, a computer or smartphone capable of accessing recommended readings and video lectures, and each participant will need to create a login (free of cost) for Discord.
Course Materials: Each participant will be given a digital copy of the course text. Print editions are also included at higher enrollment levels. In addition, a guide to using the private Discord server for participant discussions will also be provided.
Venue: Weekly course conversations will occur on a dedicated Discord server.
Course structure: Each week, the instructor will present a video lecture and assign a “homework” task which participants will then discuss with each other and the instructor throughout the week by chat server (Discord) .
Cancellation/Refund policy: Full refunds of payment are possible up until the end of the first day of the course.
Other policies: In the very unlikely event that a participant creates a hostile environment for other participants or the instructor, and if attempts to address the behavior do not correct the problem, the instructor reserves the right to end a participant’s participation.
Enrollment process: To enroll, remit payment by purchasing the course access below.
Becoming Wild: The Tools of ResistancE
NEXT COURSE STARTS 28 AUGUST 2021. ENROLL BY 25 AUGUST 2021
Monthly and Permanent Supporters may enroll in this course for free. See this link for details.
We cannot trust those in power to have our best interests at heart, and the last few months have shown us that authorities are downright deadly when the going gets tough and people rise up. As such, we must rely on ourselves for our own protection and to forge the kind of society and world we want to live in.
This three week course, taught by Emma Kathryn, is designed to give participants the basic tools of rebellion and resistance by focusing upon our own resilience outside of the capitalist system. Through video lectures and discussion, we’ll discuss the three cores of resilience:
Self-Reliance: through personal and communal work, as well as food security
Self-Care: through connection to land, magic, and the body,
Defense: through healing and baneful plants, magic, and fighting
General Information
Course Length and Schedule: The course lasts for four weeks, from 28 August 2021 to 24 September, 2021
Time Commitment: Participants will be expected to devote a minimum of two hours each week (8 hours total) to the course. This expectation includes time devoted to reading recommended texts, viewing video lectures, and engaging in conversation with other participants.
Cost: Sliding Scale $40-$70. Pay what you are capable of.
Maximum participants: 25
Course Requirements: Participants need have no prior knowledge of the course subject nor experience in academic settings. Physical requirements include internet access, a computer or smartphone capable of accessing recommended readings and viewing videos, and each participant will need to create a login (free of cost) for Discord.
Course Materials: Each participant will be given access to three video lectures and a digital copy of Reclaiming Ourselves, by the author (enrollment of $50 or above also includes a print edition of the course text). In addition, a guide to using the private Discord server for participant discussions will also be provided.
Venue: Weekly course conversations will occur on a dedicated Discord server, where participants will engage in discussion with each other and the instructor, as well as be able to communicate directly with the instructor. Video links will be posted in the server as well.
Course structure: For the first three weeks a video lecture and optional readings will be posted. Participants will view this lecture and then discuss what was presented. The final week will be a continuation of the discussion as well as an optional live workshop discussion (recorded for participants unable to make the to-be-determined scheduled time).
Cancellation/Refund policy: Full refunds of payment are possible up until the end of the first day of the course.
Other policies: In the very unlikely event that a participant creates a hostile environment for other participants or the instructor, and if attempts to address the behavior do not correct the problem, the instructor reserves the right to end a participant’s participation. The above cancellation/refund policy will apply in such cases.
Enrollment process: To enroll, remit payment by purchasing the course access below.
About Académie Hérétique
Académie Hérétique (Heretic Academy) is a series of online course offerings from Gods&Radicals Press. Académie Hérétique’s focus is on political theory, philosophy, esoteric and occult studies, history, and tactical skills for people with little to no academic background or previous knowledge of the subjects taught. Instructors are committed to accommodating varied learning backgrounds, styles, and abilities as much as possible.
Académie Hérétique courses are priced at the lowest rate possible that still enables us to fairly compensate our instructors for their labor, and subsidies are available for those who cannot afford them.
DEADLINE AND START DATE EXTENDED
Next offering begins 13 March, 2021. Enroll by 12 March, 2021
What is the relationship between cosmology and psychology? What is a Pagan approach to the tensions and conflicts of the Self? What arises when we embrace our “base” instincts and make them the material of our “divine” work?
Designed and instructed by Anthony Rella, participants of Circling the Star will learn through videos, texts, and online conversations:
How braiding Sex, Spirit, and Love brings dignity and depth to our relationships.
The relationship between stories about ourselves and the creative Self that is beyond language.
Practical methods for bringing more joy, depth, and passion into your life and work.
How our experiences of conflict, longing, desire, and disappointment may become keys to our divine work.
This course is designed to be accessible to those with minimal exposure to the Iron and Pearl Pentacles or any tradition that comes out of the work of Victor and Cora Anderson. Nevertheless, those with deep experience in these subjects are welcome to participate.
General Information
Instructor: Anthony Rella
Course Length and Schedule: The course will last for seven weeks, including a dedicated reading week to accommodate participants who may need more time with the material.
Time Commitment: Participants will be expected to devote a minimum of four hours each week (24 hours total) to the course. This expectation includes time devoted to reading course texts, viewing video lectures, and engaging in conversation with other participants.
Cost: Sliding-scale, between $35-$75 US per person. The course text in digital form is provided to everyone, the text in print form is also provided for enrollment levels of $55, or can be purchased separately at this link.
Maximum participants: 25
Course Requirements: Physical requirements include internet access, a computer or smartphone capable of accessing course materials and viewing videos, and each participant will need to create a login (free of cost) for Discord.
Course Materials: Each participant will be provided a digital copy of Circling the Star, by Anthony Rella. Participants who prefer a print edition of Circling The Star in addition to the provided digital option should enroll at $55 or above. In addition, participants will be given access to six video lectures crafted by Anthony Rella specifically for this course.
Venue: Weekly course conversations will occur on a dedicated Discord server, where participants will engage in discussion with each other and the instructor, as well as be able to communicate directly with the instructor.
Cancellation/Refund policy: Full refunds of payment are possible up until the end of the first day of the course. No refunds can be given after this date.
Other policies: In the very unlikely event that a participant creates a hostile environment for other participants or the instructor, and if attempts to address the behavior do not correct the problem, the instructor reserves the right to end a participant’s participation. The above cancellation/refund policy will apply in such cases.
Enrollment process: To enroll, remit payment by purchasing the course access at this link.
Monthly and permanent supporters may opt to take this course for free. More information on becoming a supporter is here.
COURSE: ALL THAT IS SACRED IS PROFANED
(No scheduled Offerings for this course in 2021 announced yet. Please check back)
What exactly is capitalism? How did it arise from the severance of people and land? What was Marx on about, and is Marxism still relevant? In this five-week distance course, we’ll study the Marxist framework through a Pagan lens.
Designed and instructed by Rhyd Wildermuth, participants of All That Is Sacred Is Profaned will learn through videos, texts, and online conversations:
What Capitalism is, how it works, and how it came about through historical processes.
How Capitalism relates to slavery, colonization, and other forms of exploitation.
What is meant by class and class struggle, and why your boss needs you but you don’t need your boss.
How wages work, and why we are never paid what we’re “worth.”
Who Marx was, why his work still matters, and how Marxist materialism enhances Pagan thought.
How Race, Gender, Sexuality, and other oppression categories are understood through Marxism.
What the differences are between Autonomous Marxist thought and Totalitarian Communism.
This course is specifically designed for those with little background in Marxism or academic environments.
General Information
Course Length and Schedule: The course lasts for five weeks.
Time Commitment: Participants will be expected to devote a minimum of four hours each week (20 hours total) to the course. This expectation includes time devoted to reading course texts, viewing video lectures, and engaging in conversation with other participants.
Cost: Sliding Scale $20-$60. Pay what you feel capable of. Digital text provided to all participants. Print edition provided for enrollment levels of $40, $50, and $60
Maximum participants: 25
Course Requirements: Participants need have no prior knowledge of Marxist theory nor experience in academic settings. Physical requirements include internet access, a computer or smartphone capable of accessing course materials and viewing videos, and each participant will need to create a login (free of cost) for Discord.
Course Materials: Each participant will be given a digital edition of All That Is Sacred Is Profaned, that comprises the primary textbook for the course (written by Rhyd Wildermuth), as well as access to five video lectures. They will also be given a digital edition of Solidarity Networks & Emergency Survival as optional course reading. Print editions of both are available either as direct purchase or are included in enrollment levels of $40 or more. In addition, a guide to using the private Discord server for participant discussions will also be provided.
Venue: Weekly course conversations will occur on a dedicated Discord server, where participants will engage in discussion with each other and the instructor, as well as be able to communicate directly with the instructor.
Cancellation/Refund policy: Full refunds of payment are possible up until the end of the first day of the course.
Other policies: In the very unlikely event that a participant creates a hostile environment for other participants or the instructor, and if attempts to address the behavior do not correct the problem, the instructor reserves the right to end a participant’s participation. The above cancellation/refund policy will apply in such cases.
Enrollment process: To enroll, remit payment by purchasing the course access at this link..
About Académie Hérétique
Académie Hérétique (Heretic Academy) is a series of online course offerings from Gods&Radicals Press. Académie Hérétique’s focus is on political theory, philosophy, esoteric and occult studies, history, and tactical skills for people with little to no academic background or previous knowledge of the subjects taught. Instructors are committed to accommodating varied learning backgrounds, styles, and abilities as much as possible.
Académie Hérétique courses are priced at the lowest rate possible that still enables us to fairly compensate our instructors for their labor, and subsidies are available for those who cannot afford them.
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