Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth

In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.

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Everyone Wants to be a Radical

When Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act in the late 60s, writer and Druid Isaac Bonewits (1949-2010) couldn't wait to see his FBI file. What would it say?

Subversive religious thinker?

Dangerous radical?

Finally the file arrived. Eagerly, Isaac tore it open.

Harmless religious fanatic, said the file.

 

These days, it sometimes seems like everyone wants to be a radical.

Let us take a moment to savor the irony.

These days, there's nothing more conformist than being radical.

 

 

Lest anyone accuse me of ill-speaking the dead, Isaac used to tell this story on himself.

If you're going to be a religious fanatic, at least be one with a sense of humor.

 

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Poet, scholar and storyteller Steven Posch was raised in the hardwood forests of western Pennsylvania by white-tailed deer. (That's the story, anyway.) He emigrated to Paganistan in 1979 and by sheer dint of personality has become one of Lake Country's foremost men-in-black. He is current keeper of the Minnesota Ooser.

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