This is an exciting time to be a Pagan. We watch as borders are erased by electronic structures, replacing out-dated social conventions and giving rise to a Gaian entity, and at the same time we teeter on the edge of chaos, looking into the Abyss yet never, quite, falling into it. We move between synthetic and organic life, local communities and the endless, exciting, flow of global goods with information the ultimate marker of value. Over the last decade I've seen this time as evidence of a blurring of the line between normal and irrational, a reflection of the fact that humans live within all frequencies of the socioeconomic spectrum.

Humans have been encoding thought and experience since we first began carving bones to mark the lunar cycles. As we discover new methods of communication – drums, papyrus, books, radios, computers – we reevaluate and redefine the world in terms of the new technologies’ properties, creating new modes of opportunity, thought and social experience. By appropriating new communication technologies, the spirit creates symbols and rituals – hieroglyphs, printing presses, online databases.

This site is the virtual home for many of my various projects. As different as they are, they all have one thing in common: they were created from a desire to fill a vacuum, a hole in the community. My projects have included documenting our ventures into cyberspace -- opening new territory while maintaining the strength of our traditional knowledge; manifesting a tradition-based coven (now in it's eighth year); creating an ever-growing database of reviews of items of interest to our community (at FacingNorth.net); participating in cutting edge magickal theory; and outlining a magickal and spiritual perspective of group dynamics.

Short Update: I am planning two new books, one on Priest/essing and another on weekend-long celebrations. The way I write, it'll be 2010 before you see them, but I'm excited that new ideas are still occuring to me. As well, I've been asked to create an intensive for Ecumenicon in March 2009 and am hoping to present at Convocation (February 2009).The next issue of PanGaia will feature my article "The Alchemy of Abundance" and I've become a contributor to Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac and Witches' Companion annuals.

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