Intellectual Pursuits
During my career as a student, I spent a lot of time studying and reading about people's perceptions of the Divine. What is religion? Who is God? Why do we care so much? There are very few people I've met who don't have some sort of passionate involvement with religion or spirituality. This fascinates me, and strikes me as a necessary condition of humanity. I also like to read about, discuss and write about politics, the human condition and politics and all sorts of related topics. Below are my various collected thoughts and sources of inspiration and information.

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• National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR).
  • My Notes
  • NCOR's Website
• Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT).
• Imagine Nation - Intentional Community in the Making (Ask me about my bizarre utopian community!)
• Ashuelot River Free School - Radical Democratic Education
• Political Blog
• Unschooling Blog
• Personal Blog

Tarot Explorations

• First Reading 5.25.03
• Second Reading 5.27.03

Fall 2001 Academic Papers
(from HACU 227 Philosophy of Religion w/ Mario D'Amato at Hampshire College)

• "The First Obscure Traces of Divinity" - An analysis of Hume's Natural History of Religion
• "From Virtue to Grace" Immanuel Kant's Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
• "Nietzsche on Buddhism as Compared to Christianity" from The Antichrist
• "The Ethical Necessity of Religion" on Freud's Future of an Illusion

Division III
A Division III, is an honors-thesis type paper at Hampshire College.

• The Cult of St. Brigid in Ireland - A look at how the Celtic goddess Brighde became the Catholic saint Brigid (Brigit).

Division II

• My Retrospective which explains a lot of what I studied, why I studied it and what it all meant.

• Some papers I wrote during my Div2:
  • Pro-Davidicism and Feminism in 1 Samuel 25
  • Social Context of Genesis 32
  • Hospitality in the Ancient Greek World
  • Images, Idols, and Icons in the Old Testament
  • The Iliad as a Source of Gender Relationships in Antiquity
  • "Why did you play this trick on us?" (Joshua 9:22)
  • Meaning of Liturgy
  • 10th Century France Peasant Religion
  • 20th Century Snake Handlers
  • The Tain
  • Travelling Tent Revival
  • Rites of Demeter in Ancient Greece
  • Druids in Ireland & Gaul
  • Martin Luther
  • Medieval Women Mystics
  • "The Inexhaustable Meal Chest" - 20th Century Irish Mythology
  • "Return to the Old Ways: Paganism in the 20th Century"

• An essay in progress on religion, etc.
• What I thought of Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace (Kiwi's Not-So-Humble-Opinion)
• Young Ones Drinking Game

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