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Comics for Monks

I’ve lately been wondering where and how to continue sharing pieces from a very lived-in devotional polytheistic life, because more…

animism, art, comics, devotional polytheism, meditation, my art, mysticism, spirit work, webcomics

My Body, My Nawal

The more I’m coming to love and find joy in my transforming body, the less and less I want to…

fylgia, nagual, nawal, spirit work, transgender, transition

Birthday Present

Scalpel like a plow From West to East turning soil Blood, and then freedom I get top surgery for my…

devotional polytheism, gods, polytheism, spirit work, transgender

Aztec Exceptionalism?

12/23/22 edit: Added a Related Reading section.1/03/23 edit: Added commentary from Molly Basset’s The Fate of Earthly Things in section…

antitheism, atheism, aztec, colonialism, exceptionalism, gods, huehuemexicayotl, indigenous, mexica, mexicayotl, paganism, pantheism, polycentricity, polytheism

Amilicatecuhtli

(My Nahuatl sucks, please correct me!) So pretty much all of us in the In Yollotl server has experience with…

art, Ehecatl, far north mexicayotl, gods, heathenry, Mixcoatl, my art, paganism, polytheism, spirit work, syncretism, tezcatlipoca, wild hunt

Writing for Polytheists

(This is a blog post I originally wrote for Numen Arts back in July. Earlier today, I also posted an…

art, gods, mimesis, my art, narrative, paganism, polytheism, spirit work

The Day Retreat

I completed my first full-day zazen retreat on Sunday. My zendo times it to begin the yearly “practice period”, which…

devotional polytheism, meditation, monastic, Monasticism, paganism, polytheism, Zen, zen buddhism

You Can’t Always Learn What You Want

But if you try sometimes, you just might find you learn what you need. My mom used to sing that…

entheogens, initiation, initiator spirit, NDE, near-death experience, psylocybin, serotonin syndrome, spirit work, spirits, spiritwork

Introducing The Cloister

After talking with Danica and a few of the other students of John Beckett’s recently released Pagan Monasticism course, it…

animism, building community, community, contemplation, contemplative practice, devotional polytheism, monastic, Monasticism, polytheism, spirit work

Braided Oracle is Go!

I suck at marketing, and have been enjoying my non-social-media time a little too much, so haven’t been talking about…

art, braided oracle, divination, divination system, magic, my art, spirit work

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  • Ancestors and Existence
  • Gods, Volcanoes, and AI
  • On Pagan Clergy, Layfolk, and the Struggle for Selfhood
  • Polytheism and the Secular Salvation doctrine
  • The Uncomfortable Animism of Car Ownership
  • Toward a Vernacular Polytheism
  • What the Gods Owe Us

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