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“Who Invented Parkour?”
Saturday, 06Apr2019
“While David Belle is unquestionably known as the original innovator and spiritual figurehead of parkour, the discipline’s origins can be traced directly back to his father, Raymond, and his time as a child in Vietnam. Though details surrounding Raymond’s early life are rather hazy, it’s generally accepted that he was separated from his parents during the First Indochina War and taken in by the French military in the city of Da Lat as an orphan at just age 7 in 1946. According to later interviews with his son, Raymond was routinely abused as a child, which motivated him to become as physically fit and strong as possible so that he could protect himself and escape danger if it ever presented itself.” Read More...
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Microdose
Wednesday, 26Dec2018
“Study: People Who ‘Microdose’ LSD and Magic Mushrooms Are Wiser and More Creative”
Read More...Cloned giants
Wednesday, 19Dec2018
“Conservationists plant a 'super grove' of redwood trees cloned from ancient stumps”
Read More...Coincidence
Wednesday, 19Dec2018
“The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1”
Saturday, 15Dec2018
“In which John Green investigates the dawn of human civilization. John looks into how people gave up hunting and gathering to become agriculturalists, and how that change has influenced the world we live in today. Also, there are some jokes about cheeseburgers.”
Read More...❝Difference Between Grizzly, Brown, and Kodiak Bears❞
Thursday, 13Dec2018
“A video describing the differences between the subspecies of Alaskan brown bears. To see and learn more…”
Read More...Good vibrations
Sunday, 09Dec2018
❝I'm pretty sure that the World can take care of Herself❞
Friday, 23Nov2018
❝I'm pretty sure that the World can take care of Herself, maybe with a little help from her Consort.
It's the rest of us I am not so sure about.❞— NeoWayland, “Here I come to save the Day”
Discussion on morality, sex, nudity, and pagan festivals
Monday, 19Nov2018
The flip side of placebo
Wednesday, 14Nov2018
Unoriginal
Tuesday, 30Oct2018
❝Everything must go somewhere.❞
Thursday, 25Oct2018
“Everything must go somewhere.”— Barry Commoner, second law of ecology
❝Nothing comes from nothing.❞
Thursday, 25Oct2018
“Nothing comes from nothing.”— Barry Commoner, fourth law of ecology
Rain, rain, stay a while
Tuesday, 21Aug2018
An Arizona monsoon storm.
I'm going to go watch it on the patio for a while.
I'm going to go watch it on the patio for a while.
“How These Metal Sculptures Move With The Wind”
Friday, 20Jul2018
“Anthony Howe has been sculpting kinetic structures for nearly 30 years. In 1996, he filled his own sculpture park with metallic pieces that dance in the wind. His work has even appeared at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the holiday display for Barneys in NYC! Howe hopes his artwork gives viewers a moment of semi-meditative peace.”
Read More...Most mornings
Saturday, 02Jun2018
❝Most mornings I share breakfast berries with a raven. I talk to him, but he doesn't think much about human stuff. Now sunrises, he and I agree on. Not so much on sunsets, that's when he is off doing his own thing.❞
Excellent schoolmasters
Thursday, 24May2018
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
Lights are stronger
Thursday, 24May2018
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
Staircase to Heaven
Thursday, 24May2018
“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.”
Encyclopædia Brittanica gets it wrong
Sunday, 20May2018
The magic circle
Thursday, 17May2018
“The magic circle usually has a candle or lamp at each of the four quarters. The powers of the Four Elements are naturally connected with the Four Airts. Different exponents of magic have differing attributions of these; but the most usual one in the Western magical tradition is air at the east, fire at the south, water at the west, and earth at the north.This attribution is based on the quality of the prevailing winds. In Britain the south wind brings heat and dryness, while the west wind usually brings warm rainy conditions. So these quarters are regarded as the places of fire and water respectively. The wind from the east is cold, dry and bracing, so this is the place of the powers of air. The north wind is cold and freezing, coming from the place of eternal snow. It represents the darkness of earth.”
“Rotating Moon from LRO”
Friday, 23Mar2018
“No one, presently, sees the Moon rotate like this. That's because the Earth's moon is tidally locked to the Earth, showing us only one side. Given modern digital technology, however, combined with many detailed images returned by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a high resolution virtual Moon rotation movie has now been composed.”
Read More...Disconnect
Tuesday, 20Mar2018
I don't suppose it's really important in the overall scheme of things, but I find it unnerving.
Read More...NeoNotes — the middle
Saturday, 17Mar2018
If the winter solstice is the middle of winter and the summer solstice is the middle of summer, the vernal equinox is the middle of spring and the autumnal equinox is the middle of fall.
Read More...Giving away your power
Tuesday, 13Mar2018
❝If you give your passion to them, then they win. You'll always be reacting and you'll always be unhappy.❞Read More...
30 minutes
Sunday, 18Feb2018
I saw a horse "broke" once. It was time consuming. It was brutal. That was enough to convince me it was wrong.
Read More...Blue Moon Eclipse
Tuesday, 23Jan2018
Slice it
Tuesday, 16Jan2018
When pagans jump up to recite approved scripts to this week's Officially Designated Outrage, they make paganism look silly.
Read More...“Eclipse Phases over Brasstown Bald, Georgia”
Wednesday, 23Aug2017
Rainy and windy
Tuesday, 25Jul2017
❝Flow into you…❞
Thursday, 13Jul2017
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.”— John Muir, Our National Parks
❝Think of nature…❞
Thursday, 13Jul2017
“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”— George Washington Carver
Marvel at the real Milky Way
Wednesday, 28Jun2017
❝Get someone out of the light pollution of major cities and let them marvel at the real Milky Way and the Moon. Let them lie out under the stars and feel the Earth move under them.
But then I am just a tiny bit biased.❞— NeoWayland
Bilagáana
Monday, 24Apr2017
❝I’m one of the few bilagáana born on the Res, it’s shaped my outlook. I’m what happens when Louisiana farming stock takes root in the Four Corners region. The desert and the the sky here call to me. I’m a child of sand and wind.❞— NeoWayland, Dusting of Snow
Pagan anti-environmentalist
Monday, 24Apr2017
❝Environmentalism is a political movement. It’s about controlling other people to achieve utopia. It’s about closing yourself off from the possibilities.
I don’t want to be limited by the word “environmentalism” anymore. I don’t think ecology is about saving the Earth. I think it’s about understanding how things fit and the tradeoffs we make. It’s about looking at where we were, where we are, and where we could go.❞
— NeoWayland
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❝Economy above ecology❞
Sunday, 23Apr2017
“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.”— David Suzuki
Everything
Sunday, 23Apr2017
“The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.”— Barry Commoner, first law of ecology
❝Plant-birthday❞
Sunday, 23Apr2017
“Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.”— Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
NeoNotes — Ecology vs environmentalism
Sunday, 23Apr2017
Nothing supernatural exists
Tuesday, 04Apr2017
❝If something changes the universe, it can be measured. If it can be measured, it can be analyzed. If it can be analyzed, experiments can be performed.❞Read More...
Solstice snow
Thursday, 22Dec2016
I'm winter-born, so a good snow always touches my soul in a quiet joyful way. I could watch it for hours. I did watch it for hours.
Read More...Just plain fun
Friday, 18Nov2016
Hidden but still grand
Thursday, 17Nov2016
Neighborhood pagan
Wednesday, 19Oct2016
Naturally yours
Tuesday, 28Jun2016
Interconnections
Tuesday, 14Jun2016
Just because we humans don’t like a species doesn’t mean it’s not absolutely essential.
Read More...Act of Change
Thursday, 24Mar2016
According to popular culture, magick is about breaking the rules and molding reality.
Nope.
Read More...Taproot: Through the Woods
Thursday, 10Mar2016
❝The Woods. Summer weekends meant the family would escape the Phoenix heat. In the fall Dad insisted we come to watch the aspen turn. In the winter we would come to play in the snow. After the stepsibs moved away and it was just teenage me with the folks, we'd still come to enjoy the woods. I will always be the desert guy who Visits The Woods.❞Read More...
Earth centered
Tuesday, 01Dec2015
More and more I think I was wise to separate my pagan blogging from my political blogging.
Read More...Dusting of Snow
Sunday, 29Nov2015
This is the world
Tuesday, 17Nov2015
I am a sensualist. I’m telling you this because all too often pagans forget we’re supposed to bridge worlds.
Read More...Unusual Unkindness
Monday, 16Nov2015
Usually when ravens group together, it’s up on fences or power lines or rooftops
Read More...Gaia
Tuesday, 28Apr2015
“But you’re so rational!”
Tuesday, 20Jan2015
In which body modification technology catches me by surprise
Sunday, 27Jun2010
Future
Tuesday, 01Jun2010
In Which NeoWayland combines Geekary and Technopaganism to Peer Dimly at Humanity's Potiential
Read More...In Defense of Technology and Nature
Tuesday, 25May2010
It's a false choice to be either technological or natural. Our technology is our nature.
Read More...The Authority Problem
Wednesday, 21Apr2010
I'm willing to start at mutual respect. Not everyone is. That creates a problem.
Read More...Perverted
Tuesday, 20Apr2010
Last night…
I dreamt I walked as a bear
I dreamt I walked as a bear
Thursday, 28Jan2010
Something I did not know
Thursday, 01Oct2009
Just like clockwork
Tuesday, 22Sep2009
It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.
A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.
People needing people
Wednesday, 03Dec2008
What makes you think you really know?
Wednesday, 19Nov2008
What is the difference between a crow and a raven?
Tuesday, 18Nov2008
“In the absence of understanding, triviality dominates.” - UPDATED
Thursday, 06Nov2008
Dark Side Instinct
Monday, 03Nov2008
Warm Autumn in Arizona
Tuesday, 28Oct2008
“Thunder in the vicinity”
Monday, 07Jul2008
Greenwood Beltaine - updated
Wednesday, 02May2007
I took a couple of days off and went to the Kaibab for some retreat and renewal
Read More...Spring meditations and ramble
Thursday, 26Apr2007
Correllian ripples
Saturday, 28Oct2006
Polyester, Protestant Pagans?
Saturday, 14Oct2006
The most Pagan thing that happened to me this week was two and a half days of thunderstorms
Saturday, 07Oct2006
Witchschool.com no longer affiliated with Correllian Nativist Church International
Wednesday, 04Oct2006
There has to be a better way
Friday, 25Aug2006
“Here I come to save the Day”
Tuesday, 01Aug2006
In the still of the night
Thursday, 25May2006
