neopagans

In the Northern Hemisphere, neopagans celebrate Samhain as the last harvest, the point at which the day has shortened and winter is setting in.

Kelley Harrell: Samhain -- Nature's Holy Day for Managing Seasonal Affective Disorder Kelley Harrell 2011

I've run into that attitude a lot among the more fluffy-bunny neopagans, and the idea that for example a 16 year old girl who was forcibly abducted from the local mall and raped "created her own reality" is more than a little bit creepy.

Definitions Steven Barnes 2010

Indeed, sociologist Helen Berger, who spent ten years researching and writing a definitive book, A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States, reports that an astounding 32 percent of Wiccans and neopagans are homosexual, bisexual, or “other non-heterosexual.”

HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010

Indeed, sociologist Helen Berger, who spent ten years researching and writing a definitive book, A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States, reports that an astounding 32 percent of Wiccans and neopagans are homosexual, bisexual, or “other non-heterosexual.”

HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010

Some Wiccans call themselves witches, pagans or neopagans.

July 2006 2006

Anyway, in spite of the hoo-ha about Druids both by Roman writers and modern neopagans, ancient priesthoods often weren't particular spiritual or mystical - it was all about the rites, and cultural status.

Lunar eclipses and the 'Dark Ages' Carla 2007

In addition to several run-of-the-mill Fae from Otherworld, I spotted two lycanthropes whispering in a corner booth, a werepuma who was reading a copy of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, a half dozen house sprites engaged in some sort of drinking game, and a couple of FBH neopagans who were taking divination lessons from one of the Fae seers who'd taken up residence Earthside.

Changeling Galenorn, Yasmine 2007

In "Cyberia," artists, scientists and hackers explore virtual reality using prototype computers with 3-D goggles, headphones and a tracking ball to move through real or fictional space without commands, text or symbols; Silicon Valley engineers and mathematicians attempt to unlock creativity via psychedelic drugs or fractal graphics mirroring our irregular world; urban neopagans access information networks and use witchcraft to promote planetary survival.

December 2005 2005

In "Cyberia," artists, scientists and hackers explore virtual reality using prototype computers with 3-D goggles, headphones and a tracking ball to move through real or fictional space without commands, text or symbols; Silicon Valley engineers and mathematicians attempt to unlock creativity via psychedelic drugs or fractal graphics mirroring our irregular world; urban neopagans access information networks and use witchcraft to promote planetary survival.

Cyberia 2005

I know that he has said some dismissive things about western magickians and neopagans, but I would have presumed that he was familiar enough with the rigorous side of these approaches to have recognized the Authentic Self --- which he describes quite well --- as a preoccupation of folks working these paths.

Authentic Self Tusar N Mohapatra 2006