The Alchemy of Waste
Lorna Smithers follows her garbage from her bins to its destinations and uncovers how polluting chemical industries are profiting from the alchemy of waste.
A Standing Rock Story Part 2
"We [White people] have no sense of shared identity with our neighbors, and no sense of shared purpose. We have no notion that our wellbeing is tied up with that of the people we live next to or share a building with. It is the ultimate in alienation. So much else flows from that." (From Eli Sterling)
Opening the Seals
Death 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.
Do Trees Have Rights? Toward an Ecological Politics
John Halstead proposes an alternative holistic theory of rights, one in which we can ground the rights of nature.
The Anima of Disintegration
Titanic forces war within us. A war waged by the blood against the intellect, between the influences of the industrial fallen world in which we live, and the primeval, fecund, blood drenched swamps that we remember in our dreams and in the shadows of the woods at night.
Mourning a Tree and Denouncing a System
From the microcosm of personal grief, to Western civilization's atrocities throughout the ages.
The Democratic Party Is Not What You Think
Sophia Burns argues that activist nonprofits are front groups controlled by the Democratic Party
The Beginning - The Land
We are all connected to the land. It is, at the very least, the one commonality we all share, whether we realise it or not. We are all of this land, of this earth. We all have nature in common. We all have that animating spark, the fire of the gods, within us.
The Red Champion
What has been won by our liberation from these outdated delusions?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.
The Wyrd of the Weorld is to be Mere-Deap: The Return to Mythic Time
There 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.
We Are the Dreamers of the Day: Capitalism and the Failure of Imagination
We need the courage and creative resources to imagine things can be different, and Paganism can help us imagine new possibilities … and then create them.
The Cutting Edge
'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."
On the Wings of Birds
The 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…
Being good storytellers isn’t enough
From Accipiter Nisus: Why matching your frame to your values matters ...
Death and Taxes: Real and Artificial Scarcities from an Eco-Psychological Perspective
From the time I woke up until I went to bed, there was the fear. It was the fear that there is not enough.