To begin with, in the interests of being as fair and objectively informative as I can, some less happy posts about the "Northern Traditions" that I have come across follow, along with others that call for inclusiveness:
Some of those links are relevant for a book review I am working on.
Also, I found these interesting:
- The Millenium Report, from The Archdruid Report blog
- Combat Magic, found on a page on Freya Awynn's site, with the author's page here
- another page on Freya Aswynn's site leads here
- and this was an interesting book review on a Freya Aswynn page
- mediumship (Wikipedia)
- New Age (Wikipedia)
- spirit guide (Wikipedia)
- the Avalon series of books
- the Hrafnar (associated with Diana L. Paxson, co-author with Marion Zimmer Bradley in a number of cases, including some of the Darkover series, and later continued the Avalon series)
- Living in Tower Time Author: Diotima Mantineia http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usnc&c=words&id=14041
- The Village Witch Post details: We Call It "Tower Time" http://blogs.citizen-times.com/blogs/index.php?blog=18&p=10975&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
- The First Direction Of Divine Creation Author: Erik Stearns http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=ustx&c=words&id=14010 (this relates somewhat to my "downside of mythology post", but goes beyond that: is EXCELLENT post
- http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usnj&c=words&id=13895
- Tea-leaf reader looks into iFuture, July 9, 2010 - 3:00AM; URL: http://www.theage.com.au/national/tealeaf-reader-looks-into-ifuture-20100708-102ak.html
- Monkeys catapult to freedom over fence, July 9, 2010 - 3:00AM; URL: http://www.theage.com.au/world/monkeys-catapult-to-freedom-over-fence-20100708-102bc.html
- http://wildhunt.org/blog/tag/ley-lines which includes the following links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michell_(writer) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort, which in turn includes the following:
Some skeptics and critics have frequently called Fort credulous and naïve, a charge his supporters deny strongly. Over and over again in his writing, Fort rams home a few basic points that were decades ahead of mainstream scientific acceptance, and that are frequently forgotten in discussions of the history and philosophy of science:
Fort often notes that the boundaries between science and pseudoscience are "fuzzy": the boundary lines are not very well defined, and they might change over time.
Fort also points out that whereas facts are objective, how facts are interpreted depends on who is doing the interpreting and in what context.
Fort insisted that there is a strong sociological influence on what is considered "acceptable" or "damned" (see strong program in the sociology of scientific knowledge).
Though he never used the term "magical thinking", Fort offered many arguments and observations that are similar to the concept: he argued that most (if not all) people (including scientists) are at least occasionally guilty of irrational and "non scientific" thinking.
Fort points out the problem of underdetermination: that the same data can sometimes be explained by more than one theory.
Similarly, writer John Michell notes that "Fort gave several humorous instances of the same experiment yielding two different results, each one gratifying the experimenter."[8] Fort noted that if controlled experiments – a pillar of the scientific method – could produce such widely varying results depending on who conducted them, then the scientific method itself might be open to doubt, or at least to a degree of scrutiny rarely brought to bear. Since Fort's death, scientists have recognized the "experimenter effect", the tendency for experiments to tend to validate given preconceptions. Robert Rosenthal has conducted pioneering research on this and related subjects.
Love, light, hugs and blessings
Gnwmythr
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Tags: Northern Tradition, demons, discrimination, attitudes, runes, Freya Aswynn, sexuality,
First published: Saturday 3rd July, 2010
Last edited: Friday 9th July, 2010
