Life and death are a mystery, the Yew tree’s drooping branches can root and create new trees, and new daughter trees can grow up from the stump of a tree that has been cut down. New life from old, symbols of rebirth. At the same time, all parts of the yew: berries, … Continue reading →
If you are new to Changing Times-Changing Worlds, you may not realize that we have two main sorts of events: Panels and Workshops. At various times we’ve also had author signings, social events, rituals, performances, art shows, healing sessions, readers, auctions, ghost hunts, and other activities, but mainly it’s workshops and panels. … Continue reading →
The more I read and speak to people, the more I can see one of the major reasons that the occult is so hard to pin down (“like nailing jell-o to a tree” as they say), is because there is no one universal fact about anything we can put forward. While science … Continue reading →
It occurs to me that we are once more in a “liminal time”. The CTCW conference is done, mostly, for 2020. (We still have a few things to finish up. We are hoping to caption the recordings that we have posted, and Orion has offered to do the class he missed for … Continue reading →
Of Gods And Men…And ConsBy Rev. Robert Nolan I have been attending CTCW since it began and have always made an effort to offer up something interesting, with varying degrees of success. This last year (2015), I offered a workshop on the origins of gods, not culturally or psychologically, but the metaphysical … Continue reading →