Mark Green's Atheopaganism Blog: Personal Reflection

Paganism, Gothic Aesthetic, and the Sensibility of Darkness: An Observation

Thu, Oct 11, 2018

Mark Green

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Opinion, Pagan, Personal Reflection

‘Tis the season, so let’s talk about it: it’s a thing, among us Pagans. Cemeteries, bones, skulls, ravens. Vampires and absinthe and Ye Olde Occulte Symboles. Dark. Spooky. Sexy. It scares some people. Particularly non-Pagan, white-light-obsessed Christians and New Age folks. At this time of year, the Pagan community leaps…

And So We Fight On

Sat, Oct 06, 2018

Mark Green

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Politics, Personal Reflection

We believe in a better world We believe in justice We believe in a better world We believe in peace We believe in a better world We can heal our planet We won’t bow down. We won’t bow down. …

Starting Fresh: Imagining a New Paganism

Tue, Oct 02, 2018

Mark Green

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Atheology, Personal Reflection

What if we were starting today? If, here, 18 years into the 21st century CE, we were to invent a new, Earth-loving, progressive, reality-based religion? Imagine a practice, a cosmology, a set of values rooted in what we now know about the Cosmos, about Nature, about ourselves. If we were…

A Reflection at Dusk

Fri, Aug 31, 2018

Mark Green

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Personal Reflection

Days are noticeably shorter now. The coastal fog cycle native to my region is sputtering with the weakened power of the Sun, so we have days of heat followed by days half of which are soft and gray, burning off only in the afternoons to sun. Autumn is here. Usually,…

Reemergence

Sat, Aug 18, 2018

Mark Green

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Personal Reflection

As regular readers know, I broke my arm at a Pagan event three weeks ago. Since, I have been contending with lining up a specialist to do surgery to reset it, having the surgery, and recovery. I am in the boring phase of this process. I can’t do…

My Pagan Purple Heart

Tue, Jul 31, 2018

Mark Green

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Personal Reflection

I’m afraid that unless I find a voice-dictation solution soon, posts to this site are going to slow for awhile. I was helping to set up the ritual fire circle at Ignite last Thursday, and I fell from the back of a large pickup truck, belly-flopping onto the road with…