I came across a pretty cool essay on Jim Morrison and Dionysus, and the pagan spiritual implications of Morrison’s life, music, philosophy, and his unique and fascinating madness. It gets a little closer to what I was trying to write a few days ago about the Lizard King. With all due respect and [...]
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The Lizard King Can Do Anything
Posted in Music, Spirituality, tagged Alcohol, Aldous Huxley, Bacchae, Bacchus, Catharsis, Chaos, Church, Classic Rock, Cult, Danny Sugerman, Delia Morgan, Dionysian, Dionysos, Dionysus, Drama, Ecstasy, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Entheogen, Euripides, God, Gods, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hero, James George Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Jim Morrison, Magic, Music, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Neopaganism, Nietzche, Olympus, Paganism, Pan, Paris, Patricia Kennealy, Persephone, Philosophy, Polytheism, Proserpine, Ray Manzarek, Religion, Ritual, Rock, Rock and Roll, Sacrifice, Shaman, Shamanism, Shrine, Snakes, Spirituality, Symbolism, The Bacchae, The Doors, The Golden Bough, Theater, Theatre, TV, Violence, Vision, Wicca, Wine, Worship on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Christianity Just Doesn’t Work For Me
Posted in Religion, tagged Asatru, Bible, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Civilization, Culture, Doctrine, Druidry, Ecclesiology, Hinduism, Liturgy, Logos, Mormonism, Mysticism, New Age, Philosophy, Religion, Salvation, Satanism, Soteriology, Spirituality, Universe, Zen on March 30, 2009 | 10 Comments »
My initial reason for leaving Mormonism was because it conflicted with Christianity (at least the way I understood Christianity). So somewhat naturally, my assumption on the way out of Mormonism was that really finding God was just a matter of figuring out which Christian denomination I belonged in. The questions I was asking and trying [...]
Lefkowitz On The Greek Gods
Posted in Religion, tagged Family, Religion, Christianity, God, Theology, Heroism, Old Testament, Morality, Philosophy, Gods, Paradox, Hinduism, India, Democracy, Death, Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hellenic Polytheism, Hindu Nationalism, Violence, Monotheism, Judaism, Islam, Newspaper, Editorial, Secular, Humility, Divinity, Dionysus, Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Intelligence, Autocracy, Multiculturalism, Greece, Rome, Thales, Isis, Demeter, Horus, Pantheon, Athens, Socrates, Atheism, Hera, Heracles, Hercules, Job, Guilt, Fear, Science, Mortality, Humanity, Humanism, Divination, Omen, Skepticism, Vishnu on March 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mary Lefkowitz wrote an excellent article for the LA Times a little more than a year ago about the Greek gods that’s well worth reading.
Bring back the Greek gods
Mere mortals had a better life when more than one ruler presided from on high.
By Mary Lefkowitz
October 23, 2007 in print edition A-27
Prominent secular and atheist [...]
Searching For A Source, Part II: The Problem With Pluralism
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Archbishop of Canterbury, Christianity, Conservativism, Culture, Economics, Fundamentalism, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Pluralism, Policy, Politics, Pragmatism, Religion, Rhetoric, Values, Worldview on December 1, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Pluralism in a normative sense (as opposed to pluralism as a matter of description which is irrelevant for the purposes of this discussion) means valuing subjectivity over objectivity by declaring all cultural viewpoints (including religious viewpoints as a facet of culture) equally and fundamentally valid. The problems with this popular viewpoint-framework include first, that [...]
Searching For A Source, Part I: C. S. Lewis’s Model Of Moral Reasoning
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Absolute Truth, C. S. Lewis, Categorical Imperative, Christianity, Ethics, Heresy, Immanence, Immanuel Kant, Morality, Mormonism, Objectivity, Philosophy, Pragmatism, Principles, Reading, Self-interest, Subjectivity, Thinking, Transcendence, Truth, Unorthodoxy, Utilitarianism on November 3, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Reading most everything readily available by C. S. Lewis has made drastic changes to my outlook and thinking. While I find Lewis challenging, I also find his ideas compelling and persuasive. As an aside, I think it is worth mentioning that while Lewis was certainly a Christian, the Christianity that he articulated and [...]
Absolute Morality Versus The Gaping Abyss
Posted in Religion, tagged Absolute Truth, Abyss, Belief, C. S. Lewis, Categorical Imperative, Consensus, Ethics, Existentialism, God, Immanuel Kant, Inference, Jurisprudence, Law, Law School, Meaning, Morality, Nihilism, Philosophy, Relativism, Relativity, Religion, Right, Theology, Torture, Utilitarianism, Values, Wrong on October 28, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I’m taking a class on Jurisprudence this semester in law school, and it is unquestionably the most interesting class I have. Jurisprudence is the philosophy of law, and the class is taught by a professor from the philosophy department at the main campus, as opposed to a law professor. All things considered, this is a [...]
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