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Pangaia #48 1 BBIMEDIA.COM CRONEMAGAZINE.COM SAGEWOMAN.COM WITCHESANDPAGANS.COM Winter ’08 PanGaia #48 1 BBIMEDIA.COM CRONEMAGAZINE.COM SAGEWOMAN.COM WITCHESANDPAGANS.COM Magazines that feed your soul and liven your spirits. Navigation Controls Availability depends on reader. Previous Page Toggle Next Page Bookmarks First Page Last Page ©2010 BBI MEDIA INC . P O BOX 678 . FOREST GROVE . OR 97116 . USA . 503-430-8817 PanGaia: A Pagan Journal for Thinking People SPECIAL SECTION: SCIENCE, MAGIC, AND PLANETARY CHANGE Peak Oil, Industrial Collapse, and What Pagans Can Do About It As members of the Pagan community in the first decade of the 21st century, we need to face up to the hard realities of a world in crisis. By John Michael Greer … 23 After the House of Straw: Pagan Perspectives on Peak Oil As a Neo-Pagan I’m accustomed to see in de- struction the potential for renewal. That could be the case for Peak Oil as well, but we must begin a transition to a saner, more sustainable way of life soon. In some respects, we Neo-Pagans — who keep close ties to the earth and will endure hard- ships to practice our faith — may thrive in this new time. By Burdock … 27 When the Wheel Wobbles: a Witch’s View of Climate Change After years of celebrating them, I’ve learned to appreciate the unique energy of the eight Sabbats. I’ve also learned to recognize the often subtle but always powerful shift in energy that occurs as one Sabbat passes into the next. But what would it be like if Beltaine no longer felt ON THE COVER: like Beltaine? By Treesong … 31 John Michael Greer — Path of the Green Druid Best known for his work in ceremonial magic and Why We Love the Apocalypse: Druidry, John Michael Greer also maintains a passion- Religious Roots of Peak Oil Doomerism ate interest in the environment. His first book, Paths of After I wrote an article suggesting that Wisdom, was published in 1996, and has been followed by Peak Oil may lead “merely” to widespread eight more, with three books forthcoming. unemployment and hardship rather than John is the seventh Grand Archdruid of the Ancient collapse, hundreds wrote to tell me I was a naïve Order of Druids in America, as well as being an active optimist and a cornucopian. While the end of the member of the Druid fellowship ArnDraiocht Fein, and oil era possesses a “death and taxes” certitude, the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. Knowing of John’s plausible post-peak scenarios span a wide scope. deep interest in the topic of this issue — science and spir- So why is the most extreme hypothesis the most it in a time of global transformation — we managed to widely known? I began to wonder why we seem get John to stop writing long enough to sit down and talk to be so drawn to the idea of our own extinction. with us. Interview by Elizabeth Barrette… 20 By Rob Hemenway … 34 Winter ’08 PanGaia #48 1 PanGaia: A Pagan Journal for Thinking People POETRY Son of Cronos by Anthony Bernstein . 33 The God at Winter by Katherine Clark . 37 Bringing Woden to the Little Green Men with an introduction by C. S. MacCath . 40 FICTION Exoshaman 17 The people on this planet were Gnostic Christian vegetarians or such. On doc they seemed harmless enough. But sometimes well-meaning Gnostic Christian vegetarians tried to burn you at the stake as a witch for your trouble. By Peter Charron . 42 COLUMNS Impressions Paganism and the Planet By Elizabeth Barrette . 3 Underworld Science and Magic By R. J. Stewart . 53 Tarot Journey The Chariot By Joanna Powell Colbert . 57 Mind and Magic Healing Soul Wounds of PTSD By Judy Harrow . 59 Rite Behavior Candle Magic By Kenaz Filan . 61 Family Magic Merry Meet! By Ashleen O’Gaea . 66 Connections The Mystery of Horns By Archer . 80 DEPARTMENTS Feedback Loop Letters from Our Readers 38 Continued discussion of “The Notorious N-Word,” Pagan Evangelization, Building Churches, Teaching Teens, “Founding Fathers” article and more . 5 Toe-to-Toe Debate and Controversy: Does Pagan- ism Discriminate Against Men? . 13 Point of View The Magician . 17 Inner Circle PanGaia recommends . 69 Marketplace Goods, Services, and Ideas . 77 Except as otherwise noted, all photography of people included herein are of professional models, for illustrative purposes 69 only and do not represent any person(s) affiliation with Paganism, Wicca, or other magical practices. 2 PanGaia #48 Winter ’08 and keep updating our observa- tions as time passes. How accurate are the predic- IMPRESSIONS tions? Well … remember that “global warming isn’t real” and Elizeth Barrette Paganism and the Planet “Peak Oil is a leftist exaggeration” are brought to you by some of the same people who think that stock am myself and what is around and threatening to fall clean off market prices or housing prices me, and if I do not save it, it the clock … where many of the can keep going up forever, and will not save me. Earth’s vital organs are showing I always seem to be caught pain- stress and signs of imminent col- fully off-guard when the inevi- — Jose Ortegay Gasset lapse. The waterways, the Earth’s table crash comes. So consider the blood, are polluted; they carry source. We are a part of the Earth, and more poisons and fewer nutri- Paganism tells us a lot about the Earth is part of us. We are not ents all the time. The forests, the how the Earth works and how life cogs in some cosmic clock; we are Earth’s lungs, are so reduced in cells in a body, our lives bound mass that the wheezing climate works, because it’s not a revela- up inextricably with that of the can hardly blow the rains where tory religion but an experiential whole biosphere. We can survive they belong or turn carbon diox- one. Its rules are mapped out in outside it to about the extent that ide into oxygen we ourselves can the world around us. It tells us our blood cells can survive out- breathe. And deep down in the that everything is connected, and side our bodies: briefly. Earth, like a layer of rich fat, lie so we realize that when carbon Right now the chief differ- the fossil fuels that hold ancient fuels burn, they don’t “go away” ence between Paganism and energy locked in storage. Just as a but rather go into the air which most other religions is that we re- body can’t sustain indefinitely a then goes into us. It tells us that member this, while a majority of lifestyle that burns more calories everything is cyclical, and so en- other religions have forgotten it. than it takes in, the Earth can’t ergy must be renewed as well as Some people really like that cog- sustain indefinitely our lifestyle used — the way the Earth grows in-clock metaphor. They like the when it uses up more energy in the summer and rests in the idea that the world is mechanical: than is currently being renewed. winter, burning summer’s fuel to regular, reliable, meticulous. They This is all fairly obvious, or at survive while preparing for the like the idea that no individual least it should be. But humans are next green season. It tells us that person, animal, plant, or species masters of denying the obvious, or what goes up must come down, is unique and irreplaceable. If it reframing it in less obvious ways, and so we know to prepare for wears out or dies out, no prob- or otherwise convincing them- that. It tells us that “as above, so lem; you can just throw it out selves that the clock is not about below,” the large is reflected and and get a new one. Except the to stop and the horse they’re manifested in the small; so if the world doesn’t actually work that beating is not about to drop dead Earth is poisoned and ravaged of way. Evolution is a deucedly lazy underneath them. Global warm- energy, it should be no surprise mechanic. When a piece of the ing, peak oil, and a host of related that more and more humans are biosphere goes missing, it takes issues are all unpalatable and finding their bodies damaged by a very long time for something unpopular because — if true, if environmental toxins and chroni- else to evolve to replace it — and even partly true — they will force cally exhausted. in the meantime, everything else changes that most people simply But even as the Earth warns us that relied on that piece either don’t want to live with. So they what is not possible, it shows us dies for lack of it or limps along at choose a different metaphor, or what is possible. Renewable fuel reduced efficiency. It makes more a different myth, and they tell sources exist: wood and water, sense to keep the system running themselves that things really wind and sun, probably some oth- smoothly in the first place, and aren’t that bad. er things we haven’t figured out that’s where it helps to remem- They might not be. Then how to use yet. The hydrosphere ber how bad things will get if it again, they might. We won’t know flows over the whole Earth, end- doesn’t. until it happens, and then it will lessly moving, eternally renewed, So here we are looking at a be much too late. Certainly, we and full of tremendous energy. A bunch of situations where big won’t know unless we take a good forest is a fantastically intricate important parts are wobbling hard look at the incoming data, combination of plants, animals, Winter ’08 PanGaia #48 3 soil and water and air.
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