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		<title>Druid Thoughts: What Really Happens When We Die?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/druid-thoughts-what-really-happens-when-we-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nimue Brown</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/?p=3171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Druid, I feel it is much better to try and understand the mysteries of life on its own terms, not with reference to a speculative hereafter. To be a Druid is to live this life well, honourably, deeply. Not by the rules of an ancient book, but by pragmatic standards, humanistic standards, reasoned out as best I am able.]]></description>
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		<title>Hills of the Horizon: An Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kiya Nicoll</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/?p=3193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of the horizon is one that is threaded through huge amounts of Egyptian liturgical poetry.  It appears in the oldest known texts, often in a context that seems to equate it with the spirit world.  The gods are seen going to, dwelling within, and rising from the horizon; the king, likewise; those who enter the spirit world are “pure and living in the horizon.”]]></description>
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		<title>Making Light: All Religions are UPG</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/making-light-all-religions-are-upg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sunweaver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/?p=3162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm a religious person who believes in the reality of the divine, but I'm also a scientist. Much of what I write about here stems from my own doubts and a struggle to reconcile these two aspects of my life. This is, in its essence, a story about how I worked through doubt for myself.]]></description>
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		<title>Druid Thoughts: Is There Really a Devil?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/druid-thoughts-is-there-really-a-devil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nimue Brown</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/?p=3111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the Devil is a way of putting outside of us all the things we don’t want to admit are part of being human. We kill and torture, rape and abuse. Once we admit that evil wears human faces, then we stand a better chance of dealing with it and not becoming a manifestation of it ourselves.]]></description>
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		<title>The Busy Witch: Hereditary Magic</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/the-busy-witch-hereditary-magic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen McConnel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/?p=3101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was only after more than a decade as a witch that I realized I have inherited magic from my matrilineal line. I just couldn’t see it before because I expected hereditary magic to be flashy and imbued with a sense of secrecy, and so I ignored something that had been out in the open all my life.]]></description>
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		<title>Pagan Defining Moments</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/pagan-defining-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Kraemer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/?p=3138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we look back on our lives, there have been specific moments in time that deeply impacted our future.  In a sitewide series, Patheos asked its writers to describe their defining moments, and Pagan contributors responded.]]></description>
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		<title>A Professional Priesthood?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/a-professional-priesthood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/?p=3124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To me, whether or not to have professional ministry is the wrong question. We have one even if we don’t call it that. The real question is, do we want an educated ministry?]]></description>
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		<title>Loop of Brighid: Private Practices 6 – The Seven Elements</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/loop-of-brighid-private-practices-6-the-seven-elements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/loop-of-brighid-private-practices-6-the-seven-elements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Scott Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/?p=2686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting gloss on the story of Conlai in the Senchus Mor, to the effect that the druids claimed to have created the earth, sea, sun and moon. If druidic practice contained rituals dramatizing the creation of the world and the elements, this could be seen as a similar concept to theurgy, henosis or deity yoga.]]></description>
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		<title>New Anthology – Rooted in the Body, Seeking the Soul: Magic Practitioners Living with Disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/new-anthology-rooted-in-the-body-seeking-the-soul-magic-practitioners-living-with-disabilities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/new-anthology-rooted-in-the-body-seeking-the-soul-magic-practitioners-living-with-disabilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/?p=2679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One purpose of this anthology is to help those struggling with a disability, injury, illness, or addiction find comfort in the fact that they are not alone. Some of the authors, like myself, turned to a magical practice as a way to find healing and the anthology included rituals and stories about healing. Covens, circles, temples or any other type of magical group can use it as a resource toward understanding members or potential members with disabilities.]]></description>
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		<title>Seekers and Guides: A Balm for a Pagan Plague – High Priestess’ Disease (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2013/06/seekers-and-guides-a-balm-for-a-pagan-plague-high-priestess-disease-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sable Aradia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When leaders in Pagan groups go badly wrong, how do they get back on the right path?]]></description>
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