Chas S. Clifton
@chasclifton.bsky.social
Editor of𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙣 𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙨 & co-editor, book series Contemporary and Historical Paganism, Equinox Publishing. Southern Colorado. allmylinks.com/chasclifton
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New research argues that modern humans are biologically mismatched with industrial life. Scientists suggest our bodies evolved for forests and open skies, not cities and screens. Chronic stress, weakened immunity, and falling fertility may reflect this deep separation…
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Witchcraft & Pagan News - New research argues that modern humans are biologically mismatched with industrial life. Scientists suggest our bodies evolved for forests and open skies, not cities and scre...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
New research argues that modern humans are biologically mismatched with industrial life. Scientists suggest our bodies evolved for forests and open skies, not cities and screens. Chronic stress, weakened immunity, and falling fertility may reflect this deep separation…
wildhunt.org/2025/11/you-...
wildhunt.org/2025/11/you-...
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Caffeinating while looking out at gray Boston streets, getting ready for the first Contemporary Pagan Studies section at #AARSBL2005. Fortunately it's next door to my hotel! Giovanna Parmigiani will preside--check out her new book! amzn.to/3MiyGxF
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Caffeinating while looking out at gray Boston streets, getting ready for the first Contemporary Pagan Studies section at #AARSBL2005. Fortunately it's next door to my hotel! Giovanna Parmigiani will preside--check out her new book! amzn.to/3MiyGxF
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Caffeinating while looking out at gray Boston streets, getting ready for the first Contemporary Pagan Studies section at #AARSBL2005. Fortunately it's next door to my hotel! Giovanna Parmigiani will preside--check out her new book! amzn.to/3MiyGxF
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Caffeinating while looking out at gray Boston streets, getting ready for the first Contemporary Pagan Studies section at #AARSBL2005. Fortunately it's next door to my hotel! Giovanna Parmigiani will preside--check out her new book! amzn.to/3MiyGxF
Great podcast series on Tarot, by the way.
Perplexed by reversed cards? Don’t be! In this week’s episode, we bravely venture into the upside-down to find some answers. How will *you* handle reversals in your tarot readings?
You can listen to the Tarot Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Or watch on YouTube! youtu.be/1TwmsHvnuyE
You can listen to the Tarot Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Or watch on YouTube! youtu.be/1TwmsHvnuyE
Reversed Cards - The Tarot Podcast - Ep 25
YouTube video by The Tarot Podcast with T. Susan Chang
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November 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Great podcast series on Tarot, by the way.
One of my volunteer gigs is hauling (sometimes capturing) injured raptors for the Raptor Center, collecting orphan fawns & other critters for rehabbers, and sometimes releasing them in the wild. Yesterday's run was especially bittersweet: www.southernrockiesnatureblog.com/2025/11/the-...
The Last Bobcat
Where Nature Meets Culture—Plus Wildfire, Dogs, Environmental News, and Writing with a Southern Rockies Perspective.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
One of my volunteer gigs is hauling (sometimes capturing) injured raptors for the Raptor Center, collecting orphan fawns & other critters for rehabbers, and sometimes releasing them in the wild. Yesterday's run was especially bittersweet: www.southernrockiesnatureblog.com/2025/11/the-...
I pledged to this one: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thu...
Thunder Perfect Mind
A magazine for the Great Mother
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November 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I pledged to this one: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thu...
"Ritual, Personhood and the New Animism: Essays in Honour of Graham Harvey" is a new collection honoring a major scholar of animism. A must-buy. equinoxpub.com/projects/rit...
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Ritual, Personhood and the New Animism: Essays in Honour of Graham Harvey" is a new collection honoring a major scholar of animism. A must-buy. equinoxpub.com/projects/rit...
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I wrote about the rise of paganism in Latvia: thecritic.co.uk/the-return-o...
The return of the strong gods? | Francis Young | The Critic Magazine
In the fifth century AD, as the last of Rome’s old patrician families fought a losing battle for the continuance of pagan rites in the face of the rise of Christianity, they claimed that abandoning…
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October 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I wrote about the rise of paganism in Latvia: thecritic.co.uk/the-return-o...
Chas S. Clifton
It's funny how Amanita muscaria has gone from scary to therapeutic. I saw the needle start to swing in the late 1990s, and now if you're not using it, are you really fungi-maxing? Links to upcoming online conference below & in comment.https://www.facebook.com/amanitaonlinecongress
It's funny how Amanita muscaria has gone from scary to therapeutic. I saw the needle start to swing in the late 1990s, and now if you're not using it, are you really fungi-maxing? Links to upcoming online conference below & in comment.https://www.facebook.com/amanitaonlinecongress
October 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Chas S. Clifton
It's funny how Amanita muscaria has gone from scary to therapeutic. I saw the needle start to swing in the late 1990s, and now if you're not using it, are you really fungi-maxing? Links to upcoming online conference below & in comment.https://www.facebook.com/amanitaonlinecongress
It's funny how Amanita muscaria has gone from scary to therapeutic. I saw the needle start to swing in the late 1990s, and now if you're not using it, are you really fungi-maxing? Links to upcoming online conference below & in comment.https://www.facebook.com/amanitaonlinecongress
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A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful step toward restoring ancestral faith and identity across the Mediterranean.
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#hellenism #pagan
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#hellenism #pagan
Historic First: Legal Hellenic Polytheist Marriage Ceremony Held in Cyprus — A Milestone for Mediterranean Paganism - Europe, Paganism, Religion, The Wild Hunt, World
Witchcraft & Pagan News - A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful ste...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful step toward restoring ancestral faith and identity across the Mediterranean.
wildhunt.org/2025/10/hist...
#hellenism #pagan
wildhunt.org/2025/10/hist...
#hellenism #pagan
Might be worth grabbing. I need to read it and find out.
The newest volume in the Cambridge Elements in Magic is John Callow’s ‘Gerald Gardner and the Creation of Wicca’.
The PDF is free to download and read for 2 weeks!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
🗃️ #HexTag #Wicca #Witches #Gardner
The PDF is free to download and read for 2 weeks!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
🗃️ #HexTag #Wicca #Witches #Gardner
October 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Might be worth grabbing. I need to read it and find out.
A former Marine scout-sniper and now Heathen priest discusses his "ministry" of using psilocybin to treat vets with PTSD w/ insights on how US Religious freedom has evolved. There's a lot of getting-to-know-you chat up front; the second half is more interesting.
blog.chasclifton.com?p=14111
blog.chasclifton.com?p=14111
A Heathen Marine Vet Overcomes PTSD with Psilocybin
A recent episode of the Dale Stark Show, hosted by a former A-10 “Warthog” pilot turned regenerative cattle rancher and podcaster, focuses on the work of Clay Martin in using psilocybin…
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September 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A former Marine scout-sniper and now Heathen priest discusses his "ministry" of using psilocybin to treat vets with PTSD w/ insights on how US Religious freedom has evolved. There's a lot of getting-to-know-you chat up front; the second half is more interesting.
blog.chasclifton.com?p=14111
blog.chasclifton.com?p=14111
"What happens when a folklorist and anthropologist turns her academic skills on the Pagan community of San Francisco in the 90's and early 2000's? An epic book called Witching Culture gets written!" youtu.be/MrcLcnLdkU0?...
Sabina Magliocco on That 90's Witch
YouTube video by That 90's Witch
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September 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"What happens when a folklorist and anthropologist turns her academic skills on the Pagan community of San Francisco in the 90's and early 2000's? An epic book called Witching Culture gets written!" youtu.be/MrcLcnLdkU0?...
Only a return to the Archaic can save higher ed.
this term in university teaching ive experimented with a return to engaging with groups only through figurative painting on the walls of underground caverns,
the results have been ASTOUNDING. never going back to writing systems again
the results have been ASTOUNDING. never going back to writing systems again
September 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Only a return to the Archaic can save higher ed.
Cool and misty today, and I'm back from morning dog walk with Shaggy Parasol #mushrooms and some little puffballs.
September 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Cool and misty today, and I'm back from morning dog walk with Shaggy Parasol #mushrooms and some little puffballs.
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The proofs are here! Not not long to go now... 📚
September 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The proofs are here! Not not long to go now... 📚
Even at 75°F (24°C), big furry dogs get hot while trotting down the trail. Time for a tummy soak.
August 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Even at 75°F (24°C), big furry dogs get hot while trotting down the trail. Time for a tummy soak.
Prance while you can
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Prance while you can
I was out yesterday when thunder rumbled, and my friend muttered, "Božji kladivo."
"That's Bojon," he said to me -- Pueblo (CO) Slovenian.
He learned the expression from his wife's Slovenian grandmother.
It means "God's hammer." Comes in handy this time of year when storm gods walk.
"That's Bojon," he said to me -- Pueblo (CO) Slovenian.
He learned the expression from his wife's Slovenian grandmother.
It means "God's hammer." Comes in handy this time of year when storm gods walk.
August 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I was out yesterday when thunder rumbled, and my friend muttered, "Božji kladivo."
"That's Bojon," he said to me -- Pueblo (CO) Slovenian.
He learned the expression from his wife's Slovenian grandmother.
It means "God's hammer." Comes in handy this time of year when storm gods walk.
"That's Bojon," he said to me -- Pueblo (CO) Slovenian.
He learned the expression from his wife's Slovenian grandmother.
It means "God's hammer." Comes in handy this time of year when storm gods walk.
I wonder how many people claim credit for inventing Astro Dice.
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Do You Remember Astro Dice?
Because I am now taking a formal Tarot course, I decided to gather up the various decks scattered around the house. In a bookcase cubby hole with two different decks I found a lidded plastic box co…
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August 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I wonder how many people claim credit for inventing Astro Dice.
blog.chasclifton.com?p=14102
blog.chasclifton.com?p=14102
What's going on here?
August 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What's going on here?
This is not exactly "cozy horror." Just everyday weirdness. blog.chasclifton.com?p=14085
The Case of the Paranormal Pincushion
In my last post, I mentioned the English writer Mary Ann Norton’s “Borrowers” books, which my sisters and I treated as enjoyable kids’ books. It was a long time before it oc…
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August 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is not exactly "cozy horror." Just everyday weirdness. blog.chasclifton.com?p=14085
Me, I welcome Mercury Retrograde; it's my catch-up time.
Needed to buy a thing, write, build, sign, or fix a thing, but were worried about Mercury being Retrograde?
Now is your chance because Mercury will be cazimi between 31 July at 19:42 UT and 1 August at 3:42 UT.
When cazimi (conjunct 🌞), Mercury gets the upgrade it needs to go into overdrive.
Now is your chance because Mercury will be cazimi between 31 July at 19:42 UT and 1 August at 3:42 UT.
When cazimi (conjunct 🌞), Mercury gets the upgrade it needs to go into overdrive.
July 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Me, I welcome Mercury Retrograde; it's my catch-up time.
Wow, can't even get a like on a cute dog pic. Is it true what I saw on Ecks, that engagement here is dropping? (Source: Megan McArdle, Washington Post columnist)
July 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Wow, can't even get a like on a cute dog pic. Is it true what I saw on Ecks, that engagement here is dropping? (Source: Megan McArdle, Washington Post columnist)
Marco: I am at an outdoor restaurant. People walk by with food, but they ignore me. I am so hungry. But I will face starvation with dignity. Perhaps, before I am gone, someone will yet feed me.
July 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Marco: I am at an outdoor restaurant. People walk by with food, but they ignore me. I am so hungry. But I will face starvation with dignity. Perhaps, before I am gone, someone will yet feed me.
Four inches+ of rain in the past week. Seasonal showers for a Louisianan, I know, but A LOT for us. Mushrooms popping. Going to have to take a pulaski and build water bars on some of the paths in the woods up in back.
July 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Four inches+ of rain in the past week. Seasonal showers for a Louisianan, I know, but A LOT for us. Mushrooms popping. Going to have to take a pulaski and build water bars on some of the paths in the woods up in back.