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		<title>The Other Side of the Hedge: Animal Wisdom</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2018/03/the-other-side-of-the-hedge-animal-wisdom/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Drysdale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animal Instinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animal Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Needs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pagan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Animals have not forgotten the geography of the real. They know things that we either can’t remember or force ourselves to forget. Eat when you’re hungry. Sleep when you’re tired. Have sex when you can. Fight when you must.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Other Side of the Hedge: The Formula of Mastery</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2018/03/formula-of-mastery/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Drysdale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 05:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[daily practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disciple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martial arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mastery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meditation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[persistence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[practitioner]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What we need most is often the exact same thing that is hardest for us to learn. It’s easy to spend our lives seeing the world in simple terms. Yet there is always some deeper, half-forgotten part of ourselves that calls us to be more.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Other Side of the Hedge: Dignity for Dunces</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2018/02/side-hedge-dignity-dunces/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Drysdale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 01:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[dignity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-cultivation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If we want to have more than naked power, and earn the respect of others, we must also cultivate dignity. This is as true for magicians and pagans as it is for politicians and corporations.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Other Side of the Hedge: The Future of Paganism</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2018/02/the-other-side-of-the-hedge-the-future-of-paganism/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Drysdale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Other Side of the Hedge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end of the world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equanimity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-cultivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taking the long view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtue]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paganism is a social revitalization movement. It is a return to some semblance of older values, but updated for modern times. The movement is democratic both in its good and bad aspects.


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		<title>The Other Side of the Hedge: Groundhog Day Revelations</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2018/01/groundhog-day-revelations/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Drysdale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Groundhog Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imbolc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Savior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wishful Thinking]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/agora/?p=16555</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[The lesson is simple. If you’re waiting for a leader, it’s you.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Other Side of the Hedge: Lie like a Magician</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2018/01/16538/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Drysdale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Other Side of the Hedge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street magic]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is not an admonition against lying. The world of magic is a place for adults, and it’s not so much a question of whether we lie, so much as why, when, and how well.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Other Side of the Hedge: The First Disciplined Step</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2018/01/the-other-side-of-the-hedge-the-first-disciplined-step/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Drysdale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[daily practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discipline]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Self-discipline is not a skill that can simply be learned. It must be grown.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Other Side of the Hedge: Street Magic and Magic Theory</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2018/01/the-other-side-of-the-hedge-street-magic-and-magic-theory/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Drysdale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[armchair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magical theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street magic]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Street magic is necessary for theory. The practical is the field of training. We must do magic, see the results, and adjust what we’re doing --again and again. Neither believe nor disbelieve, but instead check the data. It’s not enough to feel it. To train ourselves, we must “trust, but verify.”]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Other Side of the Hedge: What Harry Potter Got Right (and X-Men: Apocalypse Got Wrong)</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2017/11/side-hedge-harry-potter-got-right-x-men-apocalypse-got-wrong/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Drysdale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 03:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[witchcraft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wizards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[X-Men]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Magic was an admission that people who don’t do magic don’t trust people who do. The everyday people of the Marvel Universe hate those born with superpowers. And for those of us who study magic, there are deep lessons to be taken to heart.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Other Side of the Hedge: Defining Paganism</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2017/10/the-other-side-of-the-hedge-defining-paganism/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Drysdale]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Other Side of the Hedge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. B. Tylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary Model of Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hierology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[numinous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revitalization Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolph Otto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By defining “Pagan” we’re learning who we are – and who we’re not. Defining Paganism is a challenge, but that doesn't mean we should shy from the task.]]></description>
		
		
		
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