While summertime is the busy season for outdoor Pagan festivals and gatherings, it’s indoor Pagan conventions that dominate the calendar in February and March. Here is a quick run-down on upcoming events PantheaCon, Convocation, and Paganicon, and which Llewellyn authors you’ll be able to see there. PANTHEACON: February 15-18, 2013 The grande dame of indoor [...]
Spiritual traditions tend to follow a specific path: growth, stagnation, death. During the stagnation period, spiritual traditions lock down their beliefs, put them in stone, refuse to change (or are exceedingly slow to change), and attack anyone who dares to challenge the leaders’ orthodoxy. We see this now in many spiritual traditions. Some major traditions [...]
Jesus is always pissing someone off! Back in his day he was a controversial, anti-establishment Jewish teacher, and today he’s getting Pagans all riled up about a little book called Jesus Through Pagan Eyes. I worked with the Reverend Mark Townsend on this book from its inception in 2009, and it’s really an exciting premise: [...]
John Michael Greer, author of Atlantis, Secrets of the Lost Symbol, Monsters, and several other books, will be a featured guest on Coast to Coast AM tonight. He will be discussing his new work demonstrating how history has proven that apocalyptic and revolutionary notions such as the Rapture and Singularity will never happen, but are [...]
A few mornings ago I received a phone call from a friend on the opposite side of the country. Alay’nya started out as a hard-driving scientific researcher. We met at a psychic fair in San Diego where she came and received a Tarot reading from me. Although we’ve rarely seen each other in person, we [...]
John Michael Greer, who is headlining the first-ever Paganicon conference (beginning tonight), has been interviewed by the MN Bureau of the Pagan Newswire Collective. Paganicon is a brand new spring weekend event just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. Based on the weekend conference model used by other Pagan events around the country, it will be a weekend [...]
Once again Llewellyn will be representin’ at one of the most popular Pagan gatherings in North America! Whether you are flying out to San Jose to join us for the West Coast Pagan love fest or aren’t able to attend in person, we have some groovy ways for everyone to participate in all the action [...]
As I reported in a previous post, author and occultist Kenneth Grant left his current incarnation last month. I never met him. I wish I had. My copies of his first trilogy of books are well worn from study. There was a time when he only had a few books published and nothing new had [...]
If you’re anything like me, sometimes it can be… well, inconvenient to go camping. You need tents, coolers, sleeping bags, camping stoves…and you might even get dirty! Well, for those of us who love nature but also appreciate soft sheets and comfortable beds, there are hotel conventions. I’ve been to many hotel conventions, all of [...]