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are to facebook share to pinterest labels belief o matic wednesday march 26 2014 a pagan perspective on easter my own view is that the easter story is one of many stories of dying and resurrecting deities in these stories the hero dies descends to the underworld and returns to the mortal world bringing some blessing or new knowledge persephone is taken to the underworld by force but returns every six months gilgamesh goes to rescue his friend enkidu from death orpheus goes to rescue eurydice jesus goes there to rescue the souls of those trapped in gehenna this is referenced in the only letter of the apostle peter in christus victor theology which is prevalent among the eastern orthodox churches jesus tramples down death by death and because he is god cannot be contained by death and so transcends it he then returns transformed into a being who can manifest as he chooses by the sea of galilee or on the road to emmaus the mythical journey undergone by all these heroes and heroines is a descent into death and the underworld returning transformed into something greater and bringing back a gift for humanity the hymn now the green blade rises references this mythological and transformational aspect of the easter story the spiritual journey involves the same transformation the death of the ego the descent into the dark night of the soul and the resurrection as the true self in orthodox christian theology this transformation is called theosis literally deification making us divine it s not too hard to see an analogy with the buddhist concept of enlightenment as james martineau the 19th century unitarian theologian said the incarnation is true not of christ exclusively but of man universally and god everlastingly humanity is the susceptible organ of the divine and he bends into it to dwell there in orthodox churches easter is celebrated as a unified event and is regarded as being in the present the eternal now so on easter sunday people greet each other with christos anesti christ is risen because he is risen in their hearts and in the church which is his mystical body and they presumably believe it literally as well in the eleusinian mysteries people witnessed the unfolding drama of the story of persephone s descent into the underworld and underwent a profound transformation or initiation as a result you can enjoy easter on a mythical and mystical level there s no need to take it literally to enjoy the unfolding drama of the mystery we can witness the many stories of death and resurrection and experience transformation ourselves like participants in a mystery tradition posted by yewtree at 2 28 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christianity interfaith meanings metaphor mythology pagan perspectives tuesday march 18 2014 what happens when the oil runs out i am currently reading the emberverse series by s m stirling in which electronics guns the internal combustion engine and gunpowder all stop working overnight the laws of physics have been tampered with by some unknown power the books explore the consequences of this strange event known as the change part of the story follows a small group of georgian wiccans who take to the hills another part deals with a man who decides to set up a feudal norman style state the people who do best are those with some skills in farming making things but also the ones who are rich in stories that help make sense of the world which help them to build just and cohesive societies i think that the change is shorthand or a metaphor for what happens when the oil runs out it won t happen overnight and if we are lucky it will be managed sensibly but all the current indications are that it will not be managed sensibly instead of reducing our dependency on fossil fuels companies are inventing ever more destructive ways of wresting them from the ground the worst of these being fracking we are also not investing in sustainable power sources or taxing carbon consumption or anywhere near enough of the things we should be doing the warning signs of climate change are being ignored rhyd wildermuth s story what we built from ruins part 1 and part 2 in response to the question what will paganism look like in fifty years time got me thinking as well i realised that my response completely ignored the question of what will happen when the oil runs out i also recently attended a ritual in my local area that was part of a global magical working to protect the waters of the world from fracking which is about the most irresponsible and damaging thing anyone could possibly do to the environment it was a very moving and beautiful ritual and it brought together eco activists pagans shamans and others so what can pagans and other ecologically minded people be doing to prepare for the eventual crash or shift we can reduce our own dependence on fossil fuels campaign for investment in sustainable energy sources campaign for environmental and social justice but in addition to these we can do magic the art of changing consciousness in accordance with will to heal and protect the earth and other living beings and we can learn skills such as building roundhouses and coracles and boats raising livestock weaving growing our own food and so on we can get involved with the transition towns movement and other sustainability initiatives support organic farming and check our own ecological footprint we can build strong communities not only of pagans but including others of good will and we can engage with stories that show how to build just cohesive and inclusive societies we are already doing all this to a certain extent we just need to do it more posted by yewtree at 8 53 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels community ecology life skills organic farming pagan perspectives pagan values peak oil stories sustainability transition friday january 03 2014 the old lie dulce et decorum est i have no words apart from a la lanterne for this apparently michael gove has had a go at historians and tv for the blackadder myths about the first world war saying it was not really that bad i won t share the link because it is from the daily mail no gove the first world war really was that bad the mud that sucked men down to their deaths the trench foot the lice that made men s clothes move on their own the endless pounding of the shells the gas if in dreams you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in and watch him guttering choking drowning the death and maiming of comrades the utter waste of life the incomprehensible slaughter of thousands in a single day for a tiny piece of land the horrific carnage of gallipoli so do not repeat to us the old lie dulce et decorum est pro patria mori it is neither sweet nor meet it is death too early and in horrific ways that an idiot like gove probably can t even imagine posted by yewtree at 6 10 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels first world war history revisionism monday december 02 2013 camp you keep using that word i do not think it means what you think it means inigo montoya it has come to my attention that straight people frequently misuse the word camp to mean excessively effeminate more or less now in case you don t know this heterosexuals that word does not mean what you think it means the word camp comes from polari the argot used by gay people from the late 19th to the mid 20th century when i first encountered the word some time in the early 1980s it meant something like arch wry cheeky or slightly over decorated hence the expression as camp as christmas it is possibly derived from italian campare to exaggerate make stand out it did not mean excessively effeminate that was covered by the expression screaming queen but please do not attempt to use that phrase either straight people kenneth williams was camp because of the style of humour that he used not because of any other factor about him posted by yewtree at 3 17 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels culture lgbt meanings polari words tuesday october 08 2013 women s history 101 people often ask why are there so few famous women writers artists scientists and intellectuals they seem to be forgetting that in previous centuries it was rare for women to be educated women also often died younger due to infections contracted in childbirth women were not allowed to attend university until the 1870s and even then they were not allowed to graduate at the beginning of the 20th century it was very difficult for women to obtain a university education in 1870 emily davies and barbara bodichon helped to set up girton college the first university college for women but it was not recognised by the university authorities in 1880 newnham college was established at cambridge university by 1910 there were just over a thousand women students at oxford and cambridge however they had to obtain permission to attend lectures and were not allowed to take degrees without a university degree it was very difficult for women to enter the professions after a long struggle the medical profession had allowed women to become doctors even so by 1900 there were only 200 women doctors it was not until 1910 that women were allowed to become accountants and bankers however there were still no women diplomats barristers or judges john simkin the first social groups to routinely educate their daughters were the unitarians and the religious society of friends quakers starting in the 1840s when women did succeed in producing literature or scientific research quite often someone else got the credit for it or their contribution or achievement was minimised even now there are people who dispute that ada lovelace wrote programs for babbage s calculating engine and want to impute authorship of the brontë sisters novels to their brother branwell the scientific achievements of lise meitner cecilia payne gaposchkin hedy lamarr dorothy hodgkin rosalind franklin katherine jones jocelyn bell burnell caroline herschel and many others are forgotten or sidelined i did not learn about any of these women at school i found out about them by researching on the internet and reading blogposts from the finding ada project many nineteenth century female scientists and mathematicians were told that their scientific and mathematical activities were bad for their womb many were prevented from attending university or not allowed to graduate or made to work in a separate laboratory from the men the work of female writers poets artists composers and playwrights suffered a similar fate artemisia gentileschi s paintings were attributed to her father the nobel prize for jocelyn bell burnell s discovery of pulsars went to her male phd supervisor the work of the women pre raphaelite and impressionist artists is largely forgotten a similar fate happens to black minority ethnic bme and lgbt scientists authors and heroes and if you are a woman and bme and lgbt then you are doubly or triply doomed to be sidelined just look at the marginalisation of mary seacole edward carpenter goldsworthy lowes dickinson and many another bme and or lgbt person even today women s novels are marketed as less serious than novels by men they also receive less reviews in serious journals the novels of white male authors are taught on english literature courses the novels of female authors are taught on courses of women s studies or women s literature maureen johnson writes for much of history women read the works of men every once in a while we see a woman cracking through maybe changing her name maybe hiding her work or maybe breaking through the strength of her genius or good luck or both then we see a huge break in the early 20th century a flux of brilliant women women start to climb into the bestseller charts but not so much into the reading lists there is no doubt that women despite massive disadvantages have achieved great things in every field of artistic literary and scientific endeavour but all too often they are forgotten sidelined their achievements dismissed or diminished their work not taught in schools or universities the corpus of literature that is considered the canon is overwhelmingly by white men usually dead white men usually heterosexual no one is saying that these authors should no longer be taught just that the canon should include women bme people and lgbt people posted by yewtree at 9 20 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art feminism literature science women s history monday september 23 2013 william adam and rammohun roy william adam was born in 1796 in dunfermline fife scotland and began his ministry as a baptist missionary in india whilst in india he met rammohun roy who converted him to unitarianism the story of william adam represents in microcosm the conflict between the universalising view of religion and the particular and cultural view of religion the view that there are universal and perennial themes in religion is usually viewed as a good and liberal view it can allow for interfaith dialogue and promote tolerance however there is a darker side to this universalising tendency the idea that one faith is universally the right faith for everyone christianity islam and buddhism have all claimed that they are religions for the whole of humanity particularism is often derided as a narrow and sectarian view that one s own tradition is the one true way but in fact particularism at its best can involve engaging deeply and faithfully with one s own tradition whilst recognizing that others particular traditions are right for them judaism hinduism taoism and paganism as well as many liberal christians all recognize that they are embedded in a particular culture and mythology and derive meaning and depth from their particularity william adam sincerely believed that christianity was the one true faith and that the lives of the people of india would be improved if they adopted it rammohun roy succeeded in converting him to the doctrine of the unity of god rather than the trinity and thereafter adam was an enthusiastic advocate of the unitarian christianity of his day rammohun roy on the other hand never relinquished his hindu faith despite being a hindu unitarian when he came to england he brought his brahmin cook and continued to wear the red cord of his brahmin status and was eventually buried in a vedic tomb constructed by hindu stonemasons roy wished to reform hinduism by purging it of superstitious practices especially widow burning both adam and roy wrote to american unitarians to enlist support for missionary efforts in bengal however roy never expressed support for conversion of the people to christianity he emphasized the importance of education adam on the other hand wanted to convert hindus and muslims to 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