Cooking, Magic and Resistance
Learning to cook from scratch and even trying to grow your own food is an act of rebellion and resistance. These skills and knowledge are quickly being displaced by convenience foods that are not good for us and so in this way then, magic in the kitchen becomes another tool in our arsenal we can use to reclaim ourselves from the clutches of Capitalism. And it’s easier than you might think as well, the trick is to start small. There is no other way, all rebellions and resistance start as a trickle. Resist beautifully folks!
The Well of Wisdom
“The five streams that come from the Well are the five senses. The nuts from the hazels of wisdom drop down into the Well, to be eaten by the Salmon of Wisdom. The Salmon of Wisdom contains the Imbas, the mystical power of poetic inspiration and prophesy.”
We Did Start the Fire: Climate Change & the Curse of Hope
Human civilization is a fire. It’s been burning since we’ve been human. And the human story is not a straight line, but a circle, a great ring of fire.
Musings on a Problematic Holiday
Thanksgiving is an ancient rite, far older than the United States or any empire.
Who's Afraid of "Cultural Marxism"?
“Cultural Marxism,” that neat conspiracy theory that aims to ridicule anyone who isn’t convinced today’s “World Economy” is an organic and beautiful expression of human nature.
EMPIRES CRUMBLE 17: Electoral Delusions
Is it really possible to change things “from within?”
On Rewilding Ourselves
The night before last, winter’s breath had kissed the land, glazing everything with a layer of frost that caught the silver glow of the waning moon that still hung in the early morning sky, making everything shimmer and glisten like stars fallen from the heavens.
Carbon Ball
Being in the presence of daldinia concentrica can put us back in touch with the mysteries at the heart of the carbon cycle.
Noam Chomsky Interview: The Greatest Challenge To State Power
Noam Chomsky: International law is for the weak.
Walking the Circle
In Radical Druidry, the sunwise walk can be used to “sain” or bless and purify a place to be defended, or to bless and purify those who are carrying out a direct action. The counter-sunwise walk can be used to banish negative forces or to call down spiritual wrath upon oppressors and their agents.
Lessons From Dogs
And so I take my memories of her and the lessons learned from her into the future, for isn’t that one way our beloved dead live on? And what would those lessons be? To live in the moment and fully, to experience it all with truth and with feeling. To honour family and friends. To guard and protect those who cannot do so for themselves. To love with my whole being and to sink my teeth and claws into my enemies, those that would harm me and keep me caged.
ANNOUNCING: THE DEAD HERMES EPISTOLARY, by SLIPPERY ELM
The latest release from Gods&Radicals Press
A History of Displacement of Non-white Women In Vila Mimosa
Mapping the roots of Brazil’s most notorious red light district from the Byzantine Empire and WW1.
Samhain Musings - A Time to Act
The mundane and the spiritual are entwined, twisted together like the ivy that wraps around the fence posts in my garden, not a burden, but each supporting the other, for the fence is rotted and it is only the ivy keeping it standing, but alas I digress.
ANGIE SPEAKS 18: Loneliness & Capitalism
Loneliness & Capitalism is a journey into Angie Speaks' head as her emotions attempt to grapple with the reality of Isolation and Capitalism.
Don’t Shoot the Messenger! Invasive species and halting biodiversity loss
“the war on invasive species is a distraction from genuine ecological change, through spending our time and money on ‘carrying on like before’ whilst shooting the messengers of change; invasive species.”
A Time of Hunger
You will not see me slipping through the door
on the day the freezers break but you might see my face
on the otherside looking at you from another place