From: Samuel Wagar Area: MagickNet To: All Canadians 30 Aug 92 22:56:00 Subject: resource directory UpdReq ANNOUNCING THE FIFTH ANNUAL DIRECTORY TO CANADIAN PAGAN RESOURCES Obscure Pagan Press, the publishing arm of Pagans for Peace, is now compiling the Fifth Annual Directory to Canadian Pagan Resources. It is intended to be, as the last four were, the best directory of its type in Canada. It will list every bookstore, newsletter, gathering, coven (with written permission), artisan, legal church or society (there are more all of the time), or other resource to Canadian Pagans that we can locate. It will have resources to Witches, Druids, Dianics, Faeries, Asatru, neo-Pagans, Thelemites and other Ceremonial Magicians, Womanspirit, and generic Goddess-and-Earth Spiritual people. New Agew bookstores will be included in areas where there aren't lots of Pagan resources, but we don't see ourselves as New Agers. We also include some resources not directly Pagan - lesbian, gay, and Native resources. a listing is FREE and the Directory costs $4 per copy, which covers our costs, including postage. If you know of a resource tell us about it - even if you are SURE we already know about it. One fact of life in Canada is that thew regions of the Pagan community do not all talk with one another and big frogs in Ontario are barely known of in BC, and vice versa. Write P.O.B. 2205, Clearbrook, BC V2T 3X8. Make cheques out to "Pagans for Peace". We'll publish in early December (just in time for Yule!) and previous editions are also available (a few #3 and #4) Blessed be from the West. Samuel Wagar 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: JENNIE Area: MagickNet To: FARRELL MCGOVERN 5 Aug 92 16:35:00 Subject: Ho Chi Zen UpdReq FM> You should pick up the most recent issue of Scientific American...it ha FM>an article on Quantum Philosophy...very...Discordian... Most recent = August? September? Jennie --- SLMR 2.1a Life would be easier if I had the source code... 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Farrell McGovern Area: MagickNet To: Ellen Reed 30 Aug 92 14:01:08 Subject: Fundies, Fools??!!?? UpdReq In a Lo-rez Cyberspace object, Ellen Reed @1:102/943 texturalized this into my current Cyberspace co-ordinates FM>> When even one person is wronged because of FM>> their religious preference, that is a crime. ER> ER> The sad thing is, they weren't killed because of their religious ER> preference! They were killed because of what somebody else ER> thought their preferences were! In a way, they were killed for our ER> religious preferences. A very good point. We don't exactly carry around union cards or anything... They have become martyrs to a cause they were not even associated with, other than [possibly] knowing someone who called themselves a witch. When paranoia (based on real causes, or imagined) rises, truth becomes a blind-spot. ttyl Farrell 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Erin Area: MagickNet To: Chris Feldman 2 Sep 92 22:20:20 Subject: Re: Fundies, Fools??!!?? Rec'd UpdReq Quoth Ellen Reed: > ER> their preferences were! In a way, they were killed > for our religious > ER> preferences. > Quoth back Chris Feldman: > > My question is: is there any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, > that > any of these people were what you and I would call witches > or wicce? > > -Vitriol > ------------------------------------------------------------------ When I was at Dragonfest, the people that were doing main ritual did a homage to those witches killed in the Burning Times, and Salem. They said Ann Foster was supposed to have been "one of ours." How they knew I don't know. I'm not even sure which group ran the ritual, but Rowan Moonstone might, and I believe she's on this echo. Oh, Rowan??? Erin 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Erin Area: MagickNet To: Airmid 2 Sep 92 22:23:58 Subject: Re: Sun And Moon Feminine UpdReq Quoth Airmid to Erin: > (or long extinct) that it would be difficult to say who > was what. The > other problem is the long scholarly tendancy to label =everything= > a > "sun God" from about 1820 on to 1960 or so. Over a century > of > deliberate stretching of interpretations would certainly > put most folks Yup, kinda figured that. But am working out theory of androgyny in my own pointed little head. And am looking for evidence to support or refute it. You know, damn it, we *ought* to know more about what the ancient Celts believed. I mean the Japanese didn't have a writing system till 550 or so, but the Celts did--or the educated ones did at least with the coming of Rome. Is that not correct? So why don't we know more? Well, that's like lamenting the fact that I'm no longer 20. Useless. > Now, in the Carmina Gadelica, the both Moon and Sun are > referred to as > feminine. > Will check it out. Along with 100 other things. I *hate* the beginning of the school year. Erin 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718 From: Erin Area: MagickNet To: Airmid 2 Sep 92 22:31:14 Subject: Re: Sun? Female? UpdReq Quoth Airmid to Erin: ER> Hope you get this. Mechanical thangs are acting up today. Sounds like mercury retrograde?? --------------------------------------------------------------- Nope. Went direct on 12 August, the day we left for Dragonfest. But have had *more happenings* that remind me of Mercury reprobate than when it actually was--including an auto accident on the way back. Wonder if this is one of those periods when it zips in and out of reprobate? I *hate* those periods. Erin 718499927771849992777184999277718499927771849992777184999277718