When approached with someone wanting to spread gossip in one of Plato’s dialogs, Socrates is supposed to have asked the following 3 questions: “Is it true; is it kind, is it necessary?” This has taken a much sharper focus for me in the current United States than perhaps it had before. This is much to my…
On June 25, 2017, John Beckett wrote a blog post entitled A Speculative Look at the Cycles of Magic and the Otherworld and it got me to thinking about some of my own experiences in the past year or so. I’m not going to go into detail about his post, because people SHOULD read it for…
From the classical period to the modern era, the Hellenic culture has preserved the importance of the evening, and especially, the evening light in cultural and religious thought. Before I go into the pre-Christian aspect of this cultural continuation, I would like to share a hymn from my childhood as an Orthodox Christian. It is…
We have often thought that we have progressed in our society beyond what society was in the Classical Period and even the Pre-Christian Roman Empire. (This is, of course, based on the assumption that non-European societies were somehow more primitive than European — an assumption that I as the writer do not share). However, it…
Before I begin with my thoughts on the Goddess Eris, I would ask that you read the following from Hesiod: Hesiod, Works and Days 11 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : “It was never true that there was only one Eris (Strife). There have always been two on earth. There is…
In the United States, we are currently experiencing a chaotic situation in our national government, and it is easy for people on both sides of the political aisle to lay blame and point fingers, while not taking legally allowed action to change the problems they see. As a personal matter, I tend to be on…
Yesterday, I went to donate platelets and plasma at my local blood bank. I used this as a devotion to Asclepius and Apollo because of their roles as Healer Gods in the Hellenic pantheon. These are the basic criteria that my blood bank uses — Blood Donation Eligibility . It is especially important since less that…
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