SPRING and SUMMER COURSE OFFERINGS
In addition to being an online journal and a publisher of Pagan anti-capitalist books, Gods&Radicals Press // RITONA also hosts Académie Hérèretique, our online course program.
Courses offered through Académie Hérèretique are created and instructed by our writers and cover practical topics related to Paganism, animism, anti-capitalism, and spiritual well-being.
All our courses are offered at sliding-scale rates to ensure that cost is as little a barrier for participants as possible. In addition, monthly and permanent supporters of Gods&Radicals Press through Another World can opt to take courses free of charge (once yearly for monthly supporters, and all courses for permanent supporters).
The following courses have been announced for Spring and Summer 2022. More courses will be announced for the second half of the year in May.
Being Pagan, with Rhyd Wildermuth (begins 3 April)
Five Principles of Green Witchcraft, with Asa West (begins 29 May)
Land: Loss & Reconnection, with Alley Valkyrie (begins 5 June)
Being Pagan
With Rhyd Wildermuth. (enroll soon: begins 3 April)
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.
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Five Principles of Green Witchcraft
With Asa West. Begins 29 May.
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 (print editions available at certain enrollment rates). In addition to class chat discussions and videos, participants will receive weekly homework assignments.
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Land: Loss & Reconnection
With Alley Valkyrie. Begins 5 June.
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
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If you’ve selected to enroll in one or more of the courses, you can find the checkout by looking for the cart icon (top left in desktop versions, bottom of the pulldown menu in mobile versions).