HPPD, Toronto Pagans, moral insanity and lucid dreaming

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Today was Pagan Pride Day at the Pagan Harvest Festival in Hamilton, Ontario.  I was set to leave Toronto at 7 am, but I had a heck of a time getting there due to a “trespasser” on the train tracks which turned into a “fatality” according to intermittent updates from conflicting sources.  Instead of arriving before the festival began, I got there five minutes before my workshop was set to start at 11. ¹

It turned out five minutes is just enough time to find out where I’m supposed to be, set up, and get to work.

My topic was Magickal Philosophy 101, which generally proves an interesting discussion topic among Pagans.  There are so many angles that can be taken, and presenting it as a general introduction to the subject followed with concrete real-world examples is always a lot of fun.  A number of great questions as well, which I really enjoy.

HPPD is a great event and I could go on and on, but it’s Saturday, and you’re waiting for Signal…

• Jason Pitzl-Waters comments on Canada’s growing awareness of Paganism in public institutions.  Toronto Celtic Reconstructionalist and all around great guy, Brian Walsh is noted  as a University of Toronto chaplain along with Catherine Starr in a recent edition of The Wild Hunt‘s  regular round up, “(Pagan) News of Note“.  It’s also worth noting that both of these lovely and delightful people were at HPPD manning information booths on Celtic Reconstructionalism and Gardenarianism respectively.

• In Practically Spiritual Anna Murphy writes about Dion Fortune’s psychotherapy, changelings,  “moral insanity”, and the serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III in “The Devil Came Himself“.

• Paul Levy writes in a piece titled “Lucid Dreaming” published on Reality Sandwich: “When we become lucid in a dream, we realize that who we’ve imagined we are, what is called the “dream ego,” is not who we actually are, but is merely a model of who we are.”  Levy explores what it means to lucid dream, and how it can be done.

Optical delusions still themselves when you pass by in convexing pomp and sacral trance.

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Footnotes:

1. A few heads nodded sagely, rather amused, muttering something about “the chaote”, and what can be said of that, really? [back]

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