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		<title>PantheaCon 2010 Day 4 Monday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last day of PantheaCon always has an element of sadness. People are packing and going back home. Virtually everyone is requesting a late checkout and it takes hours to get one of the trolleys to move your things back to your car. Attending workshops becomes a challenge, but I managed to get to two.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PantheaCon 2010 Day 3 Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I presented my first workshop on the morning of Sunday 14 February 2010, at PantheaCon. This was quite a special day, being both Valentines Day and my second wedding anniversary. My workshop was titled “Magickal Initiation in Ancient Egypt.” The workshop went quite well, with a large group experiencing an authentic Graeco-Egyptian ritual.
I was very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hermeticmagick.com/blog/2010/02/18/pantheacon-2010-day-3-sunday/</link>
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		<title>PantheaCon 2010 Day 2 Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to start Saturday 13 February 2010, at PantheaCon with “Ancient Egyptian Prayers” by Tamara L Siuda, the current head of the Kemetic Orthodoxy group. While Tamara holds two Masters Degrees in relevant fields she doesn’t limit herself to a purely academic approach of worshipping the ancient Egyptian deities. She and her group incorporate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hermeticmagick.com/blog/2010/02/18/pantheacon-2010-day-2-saturday/</link>
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		<title>PantheaCon 2010 Day 1 Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday 12 February 2010, PantheaCon kicked off. While I don’t know the exact numbers, PantheaCon is the biggest event that Jo-Ann and I attend, and typically attracts roughly 3000 pagans from all over the US, as well as a few from overseas. PantheaCon is put on by Glenn Turner of Ancient Ways, along with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hermeticmagick.com/blog/2010/02/18/pantheacon-2010-day-1-friday/</link>
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		<title>CHS Winter Conference 2010 Afterthought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday 11 February 2010, the day before PantheaCon started, Cherry Hill Seminary (CHS) held their Winter Conference. The conference, which featured Steven Posch, went really well with participants thoroughly enjoying themselves. Steven was his usually bubbly effervescent self.
We were privileged to have Robert Brandon Longcrier of the Military Pagan Network in attendance. He recently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hermeticmagick.com/blog/2010/02/17/chs-winter-conference-2010-afterthought/</link>
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		<title>Pagans Excluded From First Amendment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patrick McCollum has been fighting for years to overturn the State of California’s “five faiths policy”, which limits the hiring of paid chaplains to Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, and Native American adherents. The lawsuit began with Patrick and a number of pagan inmates claiming that it was unconstitutional for the state to deny the pagan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hermeticmagick.com/blog/2010/02/03/pagans-excluded-from-first-amendment/</link>
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		<title>6th Conference on Current Pagan Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 30 &#38; 31, 2010 saw the 6th Conference on Current Pagan Studies held at Claremont Graduate University. Scholars and practitioners gathered to discuss Sustainability. Keynote speakers were Donald Michael Kraig and T Thorne Coyle. The conference was organized by Dorothea Kahena Viale.
While not every presenter was an academic, there were a large number of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hermeticmagick.com/blog/2010/02/02/6th-conference-on-current-pagan-studies/</link>
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		<title>Tragedy in Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing like a tragedy to bring out the best and the worst in people. You have those who contribute to aiding victims in whatever way they can on the one hand, and the profiteers on the other.
A magnitude-7.0 earthquake on January 12 killed an estimated 200,000 people, left 250,000 injured and made 1.5 million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hermeticmagick.com/blog/2010/01/20/tragedy-in-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Patrick McCollum&#8217;s Take on the PWR and the Definition of Paganism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have previously written about the controversy surrounding the Eurocentric definition of paganism proposed at the Parliament of World Religions (PWR) as reported by Ed Hubbard in his commentary on the PWR. Andras Corban-Arthen, who was at the centre of the controversy, provided a clarifying statement in The Wild Hunt. The matter has not died [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hermeticmagick.com/blog/2010/01/09/patrick-mccollums-take-on-the-pwr-and-the-definition-of-paganism/</link>
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		<title>Representing the Pagan Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a recent conversation with a friend who is very prominent in the Australian pagan community about the issue of just who should represent pagans at events such as the Parliament of World Religions (PWR).
Organized mainstream religions have the benefit of hierarchies with clearly defined leaders. It is thus very easy for such religions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hermeticmagick.com/blog/2010/01/05/representing-the-pagan-community/</link>
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