Druids In Cars, Going To Festivals

Episode 54 - Synthesizing Experience and Lore

How do you navigate your personal experiences and the lore of ancient Pagans? We'll explore the interplay of ancient lore and unverified personal gnosis (also called "UPG").

We talk a bit about how we developed some of our Grove traditions, drawing items out of the lore and iconography of Gaul and into our modern practice.

We even get a bit into "Shared Personal Gnosis" and a new concept, "Singularly Attributed Gnosis," or "SAG." You can find a bit of an expansion on the concept of SAG on Rev. Dangler's YouTube page.

Rev. Avende's Anahita Summer Solstice Rite can be found on their YouTube page.

Also mentioned in this episode is the book, From Saga's Hall: Norse Myths From a Different Point of View by Susan C. Eaves. It's a nifty retelling of the myths.

Oh! If you missed last week's Animal Crossing: New Horizons livestreamed ritual, you can catch a replay on the 3CG YouTube page.

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Episode 53 - Prayer In Times Of Fear

Today, we're not in cars or headed to a festival, but we're walking together in the woods, socially distanced, and discussing how we pray in a time of fear. There's a lot going on in the world today, and sometimes it's hard to keep being there for others, to pray for them and with them. We talk about some of our strategies, projects, and pain in this walk in the woods.

Also, if you need a nice change of pace, on June 7, 2020, Rev. Avende will be hosting a ritual in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, that we will livestream via YouTube at 8 PM Eastern. You can find a Facebook event, or ask YouTube to notify you of the event.

You can find some of the projects mentioned in the episode below:

Tending the Flame of Hope

Daily livestream prayers on Rev. Michael J Dangler's FB page.

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S3 Bonus Meditations 03 - A Walk In The Woods

Today, we took a walk in the woods, and we wanted to invite you along. Join us for this entirely unscripted, shared meditation.

We needed our centers today, and we know you do too, so we recorded this just hours before this was released.

This is also our first bit of work with new equipment, so it might be a bit rough, but that's part of what makes it joyful. Find your center, and walk with us.

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Episode 52 - You Are Pagan Enough

This episode is all about finding the ways that your work is enough. We talk about the process of comparing your work to the work of others, what it's like to redefine "doing enough" in your own work, and the illusion of "I-have-it-together-ness" that social media can create. What everyone does in their personal practice has to be just that: personal.

We bring up a number of ideas about how we keep doing the work, and how we help ourselves feel like we're doing the work, which is almost as important as actually doing the work.

Find "All Things Are Sacred" on Rev. Avende's YouTube page.

Find information at on Tending the Flame of Hope on the Facebook page, including the post referenced from the day in the airport.

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S3 Bonus Meditation 02 - City Senses, Nature Awareness

City Senses, Nature Awareness Meditation – A meditation for becoming aware of nature, either indoors or outdoors, either in or out of the city. This is especially well-suited to times when it is difficult to get away from the feel of the city. Led by Rev. Michael J Dangler, written by Nicole Egelhoff

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Episode 51 - We Do ONE Stupid Dawn Rite, And...

It's true, we did just one stupid dawn rite at Harvest Nights, and here we are, waking up a dawn again, like ya do.

Occasionally, we're asked at festivals to run a dawn ritual, and we love to do it. But neither of us had been maintaining a personal practice recently for this work... but they quickly found out how quickly it can rekindle such a practice if you step back into it on accident.

We both work with Uṣás in our religious work, and it surprised us in that not-so-surprising way that the Spirits surprise folks who return to devotionals how much our experience matched between us.

This is a shorter-than-usual episode because we released a bonus meditation on Tuesday. As we move toward twice-weekly podcasting for a while, we thought now was a good time to put out a shorter piece. We'll be back with more full-length episodes next week.

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S3 Bonus Meditation 01 - A Hearth Keeper's Two Powers

One of the things that Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler have been talking about (not in cars, not going to festivals, but otuside of that) is the lack of connection that social distancing and stay-at-home experiences can have on folks. So, for a while, we're going to offer meditations on this podcast every Tuesday for a while, upping our content so that folks at home can seek better connections in this disconnected time.

Drawn from the ADF Hearth Keeper's Way, our first meditation is a simple Two Powers. You can find the script on the ADF webiste in the Hearth Keeper's book (p. 28). This particular meditation is designed to provide a connection to other hearths within ADF, around the same central fire. Even if you're not working that path, you can still enjoy the meditation.

We hope this new segment helps a little bit in the process of rebuilding connections as we move forward as humans.

New theme for these bonus episodes by Mike Bierschenk.

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Episode 50 - Marking the Seasons, Marking Time

We all experience the same seasons and the same cycles, but we perceive them in different ways: markers are personal, special, and different depending on how we interact with those cycles and seasons, and today we talk a bit about how we mark the passage of time as Pagans.

This is our 50th regular episode, and we have some new things on the horizon: look for a new segment next week, releasing on Tuesdays.

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Episode 49 - Seeking Truth in Vision, Dreams, and Divination

What happens when your vision or your divination doesn't come to pass?

There are a lot of things that happen in our Vision Eye, and oracles of cards and runes or of strange earthly perfumes give us many notions of what might come to pass. In today's episode, we have a wide-ranging conversation about the many ways that vision can be obtained, and talk about how to discern symbols and their meanings in the face of experience and our lives.

Special in this episode, we hit a New England toll both, and there is a "Moose Aside" from about minute 14:30 to minute 17. We get slap-happy on our roadtrips, too. If you want to hear Rev. Avende sing the Moose Song mentioned, you can find a version from Summerland 7 years ago on their YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/88Y0VXlPnlw (not for kids, friends, unless you want to explain why it's funny... and you probably don't).

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Watch out for the moose in the water.

Episode 48 - Piety and Magical Work - Theurgy

Theurgy! We discuss how our piety and our magical work intersect, and how the relationships we build deepen and build our work. We talk a bit about the differences between Theurgy and Thaumaturgy, some of the academic reactions to theurgic magic, and the place of hierophany (and epiphany of the sacred) in our work.

Also, here's a link to an article mentioned: "Why Chaos Magicians Are Such A**holes"

 

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