Isaac Bonewits one of Paganism’s most important thinkers and writers is now fighting with cancer. A fundraising event to help defray his medical costs will be held December 20 in Somerset, NJ.
When: Dec. 20th. 2009
Where: Somerset, New Jersey
Halloween in December: A benefit for Isaac Bonewits
Event Details: What is mid-December best for? All Hallow’s Eve, of course! Join us at our splendid invasion-of-winter by the forces of Halloween!
We’re looking to bring a bit of Halloween into your December, and not only do we have costumes, candy, trick-or-treating, and games–we also have some professional Halloween entertainers donating their time to help make sure you have as satisfying an October 31st as you possibly can on December 20th.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Your $5 admission goes _entirely_ to help Isaac Bonewits (www.neopagan.net) with his cancer recovery. The list of lovely Octoberish delights awaiting you is growing as we get closer, but please hurry – the matter is urgent, so the event is less than two weeks away! Please help us spread the word – help us do something good, by having the best time you can possibly have this time of year!
Event Location: 900 Easton Ave in Somerset
Event TIME Details: 7pm until whenever we get tired
Directions: Google/Mapquest/etc
Website: http://www.wickedfaire.com/2010/halloween-in-december/
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‘Ali Hussain Sibat could be executed at any time
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10 December 2009
Amnesty International has urged the King of Saudi Arabia to halt the executions of two men, sentenced to death on charges relating to “sorcery”.
Lebanese national ‘Ali Hussain Sibat and another unidentified man, could be executed at any time if their sentences are upheld by the appeal and Supreme Courts.
This is the Lance and Graal promo. Be a Mensch and please repost this whereever you can. You guys rock!
For the first episode, I’ll talk about what Margaret Murray actually wrote in The Witch Cult in Western Europe. That’s a discussion that will actually take several episodes. The idea is to get a productive discussion going, since I’m getting the feeling that the discussion is actually far from over. I think that will be an exciting journey of discovery for all of us.
I’ll also have Pagan Headlines, and I’ll feature and interview with Howard Gerber of Greenman Ministries, a Texas based Wiccan nonprofit corporation which performs pagan religious services for people incarcerated in the Texas prison system.
Since this the season for all sorts of respiratory ickies, I’ll share my a recipe for my dad’s cold remedy.
In the past, I’ve had requests for some intro to Wicca information, and I’ve decided to add a “Wicca Basics” segment to the show.
Our featured artists for the show are Ego and the Ids and Celtic Fusion.
The phone check was a major success. Sorry, Keyboard Kitty, the phone did not died.
You gotta love Radio Shack equipment: cheap and indestructible — just like a 1960s muscle car!
My trusty sound mixer was on moth balls for about two years, and it works just like when I picked it off the shelf. I plugged my Blackberry Pearl into one of the channels. The sound records wonderfully.
Next on the list: recording a phone call. In theory, it should work just fine. I will know more by the end of the day.
In this episode of the Simpsons, Rednecks and Broomsticks, Lisa Simpson joins a Wiccan coven. The episode is very respectful of the Wiccan faith. It is very cute, full of endearing little details that should ring familiar to every Wiccan. Hey, let me know when the DVD is available.
Margaret Murray
I am going over Murray’s Witchcraft an Western Europe with a fine toothed comb.
I find her methodology troublesome.
1. She wrote, “The evidence which I now bring forward is taken entirely from
contemporary sources, i.e. the legal records of the trials, pamphlets giving
accounts of witches, and the works of Inquisitors and other writers.”
In other words, Murray used secondary sources and sources whose objectivity was
called into question by legal experts such as Reginald Scot who lived in the
historical period she references.
2. She further seeks to establish that the Western European witch-cult is the
continuation of a faith dating to pre-Christianity. However, her focus is on a
fairly narrow time period, ca. 1575 to 1699, and she omits to make significant
references to any sort of pre-Christian religion.
As far as Wicca being a continuation of Murray’s proposed witch-cult is
concerned, we are talking about distinctly separate belief systems and religious
practices. Murray, for example, mentioned pacts and contracts, which bound a
follower to the faith for a period of years, ranging from seven to fifty years.
Furthermore, she claims that converts received the witch’s mark by bite or awl
or sharpened bone during initiation, and that they were required to renounce
their Christian baptism and “despise” the seven sacraments. None of these
practices are found in mainstream Wiccan traditions.
Meanwhile, please enjoy this classic Lance and Graal episode.
