“The reliance on science for method is tragic; instead of religion try aiming for magick.”

“Sending positive vibes…”

“Truth" is the secular reinvention of God, owned by those closer to the Christian idea of Man.

Wherever we find ourselves in the world, we can build a relationship to the land, to nature, right there. We can meld the knowledge of our ancestors to the land and in doing so, we make ourselves stronger.

Unlike Thor, Captain America, and Iron Man, we are not gods or supermen or cyborgs. We are human beings. And to be human to be limited. Ironically, it is in our capacity to embrace our finitude, to love it even, that our salvation lies.

Favelado/Favelada: A male/female resident of a Favela. Politically, the term is used to reappropriate a marginalized identity.

Gods&Radicals Press turned four this month!

You don't have to believe them when they tell you that your uniqueness is a sickness, that to defy them will mean your undoing, that it makes you the enemy.

Finding ourselves and rediscovering our closeness to nature is just the beginning of resistance. Gardening teaches us self reliance, it teaches us to work for ourselves and the joy that comes with eating produce grown with love and care. It highlights the symbiotic relationship we have with the land.

A poem about Gwydion, the Welsh magician god, and the shift from the woodland knowledge of gwydd to gwyddoniaeth ‘science’ which has played a role in our current ecological crisis (with accompanying notes on the mythic background).

Read an excerpt of Rhyd Wildermuth’s new book here

I will shake my hips and the ground will quake. I will open my wings and the wind will come.

“we can keep on using electricity and the internet for as long as it lasts but at the same time untying our satisfaction from transactions and possessions and our religion from teachers and prophets from far away and our ethics from facebook memes.”

We’re done with ruling and with those who rule, with what they built and all their useless tools.

“Spring is an Insurrection”

I am an animist, and trees most definitely have spirits. If you spend time outside, you’d do well to spend at least some of it beneath a tree.

A new book release from Gods&Radicals Press

We swallow antibiotics as indiscriminate as our pesticides

And vote which color to paint our bombs.

We went through this phase where we thought social media could be the cradle of a revolution, but now that this idea had time to mature we can see it for the passing phase it is, can’t we?

Norman Borlaug and William Vogt are, respectively, the Wizard and the Prophet in the title of Charles Mann’s 2018 book, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World. Mann presents Borlaug and Vogt as archetypes, representatives of two different visions of humankind’s relationship with the natural world: the one viewing nature as a something to be bent to the will of humankind, the other viewing nature as something to which humankind must bend.