Anyway, I wanted to let you know I have a new home on the net:

http://www.blissful.co.nz/

Oh, and here’s my Vivation website:

http://www.vivation.us/

Cheers,

Paul

Luckily I have other ways to pull myself together:

Yoga
Boxing
Wandering aimlessly in the woods
Playing with my son for more than 15 minutes
Listening/dancing to to music
Having long, long talks to friends I rarely meet these days

Gyrus and Gypsy Lantern: I´ve heard some rumours that you´re planning to start a magical community - any news on that?

Right now Traditional Witchcraft seems to be the way I´m heading. Only the future will show if that path leads out of the minefield or - the horror, the horror! - deeper into it…

A good start would be to make yourself aware that there is no such thing as “Traditional Witchcraft”… I’d seriously recommend reading Prof Ronald Hutton’s book “Triumph of the Moon”, a history of modern pagan witchcraft, which unpacks many of the myths of modern paganism and contemporary magic - with specific focus on the social construction of “witchcraft”, which is really no more “traditional” than the scouting movement. Hutton is a practising pagan himself, and his perspective is sympathetic towards the cultural role of magic and towards modern witchcraft as a positive magico-religious movement in its own right. If you feel any sort of call towards something that might be defined as “witchcraft”, then you owe it to yourself to get up to speed on the history and social context surrounding it.

And then, there’s that amazing real-time response of the phone. All that firework display ooh-aahing over the invention of email, but imagine it had been the other way around; that we’d had phone lines for a century of email and only recently had someone invented voice calls. That would be waaaaay more exciting.

I may have to add ‘breaking rules / being naughty (appropriately, of course)’ to my list now as well. :)