Critiquing Historical Witchcraft Scholarship: The story so far ..... 6 Aug 2013 | 04:57 pm

A little while back I did a whole slew of blog posts concerning modern scholars who focus on historical Witchcraft. The running theme throughout these posts was how these scholars systematically disto...

Catastrophe Theory in a nutshell: We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way. 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm

Who really wrote "We hold these truths to be self-evident"? 5 Jul 2013 | 01:46 am

[This is a slightly edited version of a previous post.] Every American schoolchild learns that it was Thomas Jefferson who penned the mighty words "We hold these truths to be self-evident ...." But r...

Andrew Barker on Ptolemy and experimental science 3 Jul 2013 | 08:12 pm

Here is an excerpt from the Introduction to Andrew Barker's book Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics: ----------------------------------- "The task I have set myself in this book is to explore ...

Announcing the formation of the Hypatia Academy of Ancient Science 2 Jul 2013 | 08:23 pm

Please answer the following questions to be considered for admission to the Hypatia Academy: 1. Briefly (or, if you prefer, not so briefly) explain why only a moron would suppose that ancient Pagans ...

The more things change ..... 12 Jun 2013 | 10:55 pm

"Any attempt to show witchcraft in anything even remotely resembling a favourable light, or to challenge the old representation of it as something uniformly evil and devilish, or even to present it as...

What evidence do the Gods have that you exist? 10 Jun 2013 | 09:19 pm

Goddess Kali, You are the Divine Magician, and I am your sleight of hand. Ramprasad Sen Image found here: http://www.bodetam.org/ThuVien/HinhAnh/MatTong/Phan%20No%20Ton%20%28Dakini%29/ 

Pagans Don't Need No Stinking Anti-Intellectualism 6 Jun 2013 | 10:59 pm

"My theological approach is not based on theory .... I am going to begin with the accepted understanding that this is how things work .... a polytheist in active engagement with his or her Gods doesn'...

Remembering Widukind on Memorial Day 26 May 2013 | 07:13 pm

In honor of Memorial Day I present this old post previously (12/19/10) published on this blog as Widukind & the Saxon Resistance to Christianity (and if I do say so myself, this is the single most imp...

What Is Paganism? 24 May 2013 | 11:44 pm

Below are collected together some of my better past attempts to address the question: "What is Paganism?" "Those that are most stubborn and unbending She assails...." "It is only evil fortune that d...