To join our essence and consciousness with the world was once the common inheritance of humanity. Now, it can only be found in the hinterland, the lands beyond. Beyond techno-industrial society. For what is there to join with in concrete and steel?

“We dream of space travel to distant planets, of the stars, all the while forgetting that the stuff that makes the stars, that makes the universe, makes us too.”

Those of us who know that this world is a mysterious place, who have not forgotten our place and inter-connectedness within it, who remember and hold dear the knowledge that the stuff of stars is also inside of us too, it will be us who must be ready to fight, when the time comes.

From Tahni J. Nikitins

If there was ever a thing of beauty among our race, it was the part that held the light of the star and the crash of the waves upon a rocky, inhospitable shore.

What secrets do [plants] share with us in that forgotten language of sighs and whispers?

We’re all in a building that’s on fire, and most of us are wearing blindfolds. Spiritual practice helps us take the blindfold off. We’re still in the building, but if we can see, there’s more we can do.

We are never alone.And the darkness is not outside of us. Solitude is a gift only found in the endless soul of the ocean.

We are all connected to the land. It is, at the very least, the one commonality we all share, whether we realise it or not. We are all of this land, of this earth. We all have nature in common. We all have that animating spark, the fire of the gods, within us.

From Christopher Scott Thompson

“There's a real dark side of the kind of paganism — the secular elites' religion now — being evidently global warming.” K. H. White, Trump's nominee for White House Council on Environmental Policy

The real danger to Paganism is not so much that our religion will be outlawed, but that there will be no reason to outlaw it.

Magic and connection are not things you can buy.

What Capitalism tries to hide from the seeker is that Paganism is free.

From John Halstead: Extortionist behavior is not aberrant — it's a feature of a capitalist system.

"The only appropriate answer to a test of faith is to fail."

It’s a problem when we think we have no power in dealing with corporations. That’s what the words “standard in the industry” and “boilerplate” are meant to do. They’re meant to make us feel powerless. But we do have power. We have power when we are informed. We have power when we use our voices, and when we use our feet. We have power when we act together.

Shane Burley and Alexander Reid Ross discuss the New/Alt/Fascist Right

The Dakota Access Pipeline is both a physical manifestation of colonization, as well as a spiritual symbol of the colonization of our minds and hearts by capitalism and white supremacy.