Spiritual

Tales From the Pre-COVID Subway Days — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 28, 2021 “You can’t get romantic on a subway line…” (“Everybody Wants Some,” Van Halen) Thanks to COVID-19 and its patchwork quilt of (over)responses, so many of us have seen our lives change dramatically. As a lifetime New Yorker, for example, I’ve spent incalculable hours riding the subterranean tunnels of transportations we call “the subway.” Since ...

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The Legacy of Luxor | John Michael Greer

May 19, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late last year, before veering off on several necessary tangents, we brought the story of American occultism up to the point when the Theosophical Society was hitting ...

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BOOKS: The Doctrine Of High Magic: Introduction | John Michael Greer

May 12, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we begin a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical rev ...

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“I got action!” (a few things I learned on the streets about manhood and women) — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 6, 2021 Since it’s become both hip and profitable, the umbrella name of “Astoria” is now used to cover a lot of real estate. When I was younger, the speci ...

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Birds vs. Tweets: Which Sounds Are You Tuned Into? — Mickey Z.

European Starlings (Photo: Rachel Wood/Great Backyard Bird Count) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 3, 2021 While walking in my neighborhood the other day, I heard a beautiful and astonishingly comple ...

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The Flight From Thinking | John Michael Greer

Silvanasono, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsApril 21, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- For more than a year now I’ve been devoting a post or two each month to the magical history of the United States, an ...

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A Palestinian Prayer for Ramadan | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudMay the Voices of the Oppressed Be Heard Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aptil 18, 2021 COVID-19 cases in Palestine, especially in Gaza, have reached record highs, largely due to the ...

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BOOKS: The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: Preliminaries | John Michael Greer

April 14, 2021 (EciSophia.net) -- Last month we wrapped up three years of monthly discussions of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, arguably the 20th century’s most important work of occult philoso ...

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Rice and Beans in the Outer Darkness | John Michael Greer

Red Beans and Rice at Angeline's Louisiana Kitchen - Berkeley, Calif.. Photo Credit: Arnold Gatilao from Fremont, Calif., USA, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons March 31, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Psyc ...

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Which “Self” Are You? — Mickey Z.

(Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust March 20, 2021 “You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.” (Jaron Lanier) If you only know me from reading my articles and/or Facebook posts, you ...

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A Useful Kind of Madness | John Michael Greer

March 17, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- Like the last two installments in this blog’s discussion of the magical history of America -- which you can read here and here -- this post will discuss one of the facto ...

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