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Democratic Forest Trusts (PDF)in Watson, Alan; Dean, Liese; Sproull, Janet, comps. 2006. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress Symposium; 2005 September 30-October 6; Anchorage, AK.Democratic trusts with leadership elected by citizen-members promise to solve many of the problems afflicting both traditional government and corporate ownership of forestlands. This article explores these issues in some depth.Complexity and the Dream of Human Control of Eco-Systems (PDF)in Watson, Alan; Dean, Liese; Sproull, Janet, comps. 2006. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress Symposium; 2005 September 30-October 6; Anchorage, AK.The title captures it. I then explore the kinds of institutions compatible with both nature and the modern world that are implied from this analysis.Rethinking the Obvious: Modernity and Living Respectfully With Nature (PDF)The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, Winter, 1997.Modernity is usually considered a wrong turn in terms of respect for and sustaining the environment. I argue the reality is more complex, for modernity has freed us from personal dependence on agriculture, ended the economic value of children, radically reduced the likelihood of large scale wat, and shifted much production to intellectual rather than material capital. This partially decouples society from nature, which gives us important opportunities as well as problems.Towards an Ecocentric Political Economy (PDF)The Trumpeter, Fall, 1996.This paper begins my effort at showing how liberal modernity can be harmonized with an ecocentric perspective on our relationship with the natural world. It is a corrective to much “free market environmental” literature that sacrifices Nature to money as well as to anti-liberal attacks by well-meaning but economically naïve environmentalists.Unexpected Harmonies: Self-Organization in Liberal Modernity and Ecology (PDF)The Trumpeter, Journal of Ecosophy, 10:1, Winter 1993This is my initial paper exploring how what I term ‘evolutionary liberal’ thought can be an important means by which society and nature can be brought into greater harmony. The other Trumpeter papers build on it.Deep Ecology and Liberalism: The Greener Implications of Evolutionary Liberalism (PDF)Review of Politics, Fall, 1996.Liberal thought and deep ecology are usually regarded as mutually exclusive. But the “evolutionary” tradition offers a way to integrate the two through commonalties in the work of David Hume, Michael Polanyi, Arne Naess, and Aldo Leopold, providing a stronger foundation for liberalism while strengthening the case for an ecocentric ethic.(Related subjects: Ecology)Saving Western Towns: A Jeffersonian Green Proposal (PDF)in Writers on the Range, Karl Hess and John Baden, eds., University Press of Colorado, 1998.Developmental pressures in the rural and small town West involve three groups: long term residents, new arrivals, and environmentalists. Today their interests often conflict. This conflict is in part the outcome of institutions which prevent harmonizing competing interests. The concept of developmental trusts, both for rural regions and for small communities offers a means whereby these interests can be harmonized for the benefit of all concerned.(Related subjects: Politics)Social Ecology, Deep Ecology, and Liberalism (PDF)Critical Review, 6: 2-3, 1992.Murray Bookchin is considered a leading radical environmental theorist. However, his analysis is incapable of leading humankind towards a more respectful and sustainable relationship with the natural world. Criticisms of Bookchin from both the deep ecology and evolutionary liberal perspective complement one another, pointing the way towards a better understanding of how modernity relates to the environment.The paper as a whole offers an early discussion of issues that are more clearly addressed in later papers, particularly Deep Ecology and Liberalism (1996) and the three Trumpeter articles in 1997, 1996, and 1993. However, there are other ideas in the article which have not been developed more thoroughly elsewhere.
Beliefnet has just published their first ‘Pagan gallery’ – 12 Magic Spells
Some are more workings than spells in the narrower sense, and bring in several traditions of folk magick. I have not used any of these particular spells or workings myself, but some are similar to ones I do use, and several look worth looking into. Go take a look see. (The site still is a little buggy, I’ve noticed.)
Done right, spells shift the odds in our favor. No guarantees – but over time if you are good at it, the occurrence of magick in my definition of the term does become pretty clear: “The non-coincidental occurrence of meaningful coincidences.”
The spells I use most often are for finding parking places and another for opening stuck locks and the like. They work . . . like magick!
posted May 15, 2009 at 3:28 pm
“Go take a look see. (The site still is a little buggy, I’ve noticed.)”
Can’t get past the intro without a password… that’s beyond “buggy”
posted May 15, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Cully-
Did you get to the first page? If so, click the first blue heading below the black text to continue further. If that still doesn’t work, I’ll notify the guys in charge. It works for me mostly.
posted May 15, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Hi Gus,
The first “slide” won’t work, but the ones underneath for subsequent pages do.
I agree, these are workings and not, strictly speaking, spells. Spells begin with words, and can include oils or dirt or other accessories, but the essence of spelling is words. The early medieval meaning of spell was story, so you could say, a spell is a story you tell over to yourself until it is true. You “bind” a spell by saying or writing or repeating it. I just wrote on this in my blog earlier this week, and called it “Binding Words.”
http://cariferraro.blogspot.com/2009/05/binding-words.html
Thanks for posting this link though.
Cari
posted May 17, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I’ve been doing spells since the 60′s. The essence of a spell to me is the intention and the ability to move the energy with it. When you work with energy, and it does take some practice, you will know it, feel it and sometimes even see it. Parking spaces, yeah that’s the easy one…I’ve been trying for some more fulfilling things than that, however, I continue to work on it. And I have manefested many great things in my life, including, my 45 pound weight loss. This was a spell and also I refer to it as the use of holistic method, as holistic work truly is like using spell work, you must put your body, mind and spirit into it. So that when moving energy with the intention you have of making something happen, or perhaps it is allowing it to happen, you are doing something holistically. Check out my blog above on my space. I wrote a book, with a 2nd one coming out soon, which describes the methods I used to lose the weight and maintain my weight loss.
posted May 21, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Do you think Judika had originally written “allegedly” into all of these spells, or did Beliefnet add them to add an aura of skepticism? Hmmm…
posted February 21, 2013 at 7:48 am
Spell casting works wonderfully, if you believe.. Eventually, it’s always the power of your belief. Our belief has an incredible power. The stronger it is – the higher chances for your spells of wishes to actually happen..