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Here is what we have for you this issue.
Article 1
The Krigarenve, Northern European
Martial Arts
Interview with Vincent Enlund
Heathen martial arts? vincent fills me
in on a fighting system using old
fighting methods from Northern Europe
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Article 2
The Temple of Cybele
Interview with Temple founder,
Priestess Jean
If a goddess gets in touch with you in
dreams and visions, what happens next?
Priestess Jean fills me in on her story with
Cybele and her worship of a of a single
goddess.
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Article 3
Creating a Pagan community
Interview with Tammy Bazzle
You are Pagan a feel all alone and discover
others that feel the same. How do you
create a community out of isolated Pagans.
Tammy tell us how she went about it.
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Article 4
Licensed Professional Counselor, Clinical
Hypnotist, Shamanic Healer, Teacher, Author
Interview with Colleen Deatsman
You are a counselor helping others. But what
happens when you get sick with long term illness
that modern medicine can do little about. It
becomes a case of counselor heal thyself and
creating a whole different type of therapy.
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Article 5
Witchcraft: superstition or religion?
By Damon Leff
Demon continues the difficult story of Paganism
in South Africa where thousand of innocents are
hurt and killed for allegedly being "Witches" and
where others are trying to say Witches are not
real. So where does that leave neo-Pagans in
South Africa?
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Article 6
Wiccan Author, Teacher, Speaker
Interview with Mike Nichols
By Rev. David Reffit
Rev. David interviews one with 30 years experience
in American Wicca, a long time teacher, a popular
speaker, and now the author of "The Witches' Sabbats".
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Article 7
Wiccan Warrior in a War Zone
Interview with Shadow
In Witches' Voice I found an essay by this Wiccan
Warrior and decided to interview him. Here is his
take on being both Wiccan and a Warrior on the
front lines.
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Article 8
Book Review
The Return of the Dead
Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of
the Pagan Mind
By Claude Lecouteux
Our Heathen ancestors had a very different view
of the dead, who remained part of their family,
living in their tombs and sometimes visiting, not
as ghosts, but as full bodied powerful and magical
creatures. They could be both powerful allies or
dangerous enemies. This was a view the early
Church had to change as it contradicted their
teachings.
Wisdom is what is left after you have done all the dumb stuff.