Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel

RevKess has started a new hobby - sort of. Recording stories. Many will be original content, written by RevKess. Some will be taken,m with permission, from other authors. Often he will include a pieceof music related to the story. This is the first of those stories.It is a story of Ganesha and his brother Karthik. In this story you will learn how Ganesha was named the wisest of the Hindu deities. This story is adapted from a children's site.

Shauna Aura Knight joins RevKess and KaliSara to continue their conversation on Pagan leadership. They will dive deeper in the ethics, skills sets and psychology/sociology of Pagan leadership.

We sometimes take our topic inspirations from odd places. Shauna Aura Knight's blog isn't al that odd, but the reblogged article she shared early in January might at least seem that way. Are You a Highly Sensitive Person? She shares some very personal aspects of her own hypersensitivity in the following post and also shares how the information may be valuable to people and to leaders. KaliSara and RevKess explore that topic in this edition. Shauna may join them for part or all of the discussion. UPDATE: We apologizxe for the abrupt ending to the show, both Shauna and KaliSara lost ther connection at the same time. The conversation will continue on February 2nd. SHOW NOTES available here.

Once again Shauna Aura Knight joins RevKess and KaliSara. This time to talk specifically about leadership in the Pagan community. The jumping off point for this edition is Shauna's January 12 article about leadership and the series that follows. Shauna is the author of Spiritual Scents: Creative Use of Scent and Fire in Ritual as well as Dreamwork an Initiate's Path, both available through Jupiter Press. She also writes erotica and has had articles included in various anthologies. Along with RevKess and several others she is an author on PaganActivist.com. Read her bio from her blog site here.

In this episode RevKess and KaliSara get really personal, and possibly really loud, on the topic of rape, cisgenderism, radical feminism, and other hot topics. Thanks in part to a blog article on Radical Wind and the continued off the wall commentary from (in)famous Pagans like Z Budapest, this is a discussion that has been resurfacing for three years or more in the Pagan global community. Enough is enough. Your hosts will lay it all out for you on what they think on these and other topics that keep cropping up across the internet and in print publications.

For our first episode of 2014, RevKess and KaliSara are doing an anything goes type show. What they'll talk about is anyone's guess until it happens. Be prepared for a conversation revolving around Paganism, Witchcraft, Magic and Magick, the metaphysical, astrology, mythology, and just about anything else that comes to mind. Anne Hill joins the show for a chat about her new class through Cherry Hill Seminary. Real World Pagan Ethics is being offered as a Tuesday Goggle Hangout class through CHS as part of the Rhizomes Courses. "What does it mean to be an ethical magical practitioner? How can you tell if a teacher or coven leader has good boundaries? When we step into leadership, how can we make sure we are doing right by our communities? This course is designed to help clarify our internal ethical code, and then apply it to the areas of Community, Service, Ritual, and Leadership." Required readings from Brendan Myers' 2008 book "The Other Side of Virtue".  Listen in for NEW music from SJ Tucker, FishBird and Damh the Bard.

Starting out 2014, Corwin and Phil talk about religion, politics, sports and health on the 149th edition of Lavender Hill. Airing live on KZUM on 5 January 2014, this edition of LavHill talks religion, politics, sports and health. Everything from a recent book that talks about LGBTQ issues in Protestant Christianity to marriage equality issues around the globe to sports stars who are gay or allied to falsified medical findings.

2013 has been an eventful year both for the Pagan acommunity and the world as a whole. Join KaliSara and RevKess as they review some of the highlights for 2013. A focus will be given to the Pagan community with some talk of how things have changed in the rest of the world. From blogging and publishing to music and entertainment, from honey bees and GMOs to marriage equality and the legal status of Pagan "churches". Later in the show, the hosts will talk about some of what they see coming in 2014 as well as plans and projects coming to fruition for them.

This episode originally aired live on Sunday 29 December 2013 on KZUM in Lincoln, NE. Phil went solo for the show as Corwin was having car trouble. The lead story was the front page of the Lincoln Journal Star and their 20 year follow-up on the Brandon Teena murder. Phil followed that up with coverage of the Boy Scouts of America and their new policy allowing for openly gay Scouts and troop leaders that went into effect on January 1, 2014. Other stories were covered as well. Twenty years ago Brandon Teena and two of his friends were murdered in a house outside of Humbolt, NE. The murder had a personal element to it for Phil. He had family in Humbolt at the time, worked with Brandon's sister and was discovering what the Nebraska atmosphere for the LGBTQ population was like at the time. Twenty years later and things are only slightly better. Listen to the episode to hear more and learn about some of the other issues that Phil talked about during his first solo edition of Lavender Hill.

In this edition of the Pagan Weekly News RevKess brings you some holiday news and talks about a couple of wonderful books that are available to the Pagan community. An anthology about our spiritual ancestors and an anthology on being Pagan with disabilities. Later in the show he talks about x-ray technology being used to read ancient scrolls, the Pope and Duck Dynasty. Zaracon was unavailable for this edition. Music in this addition courtesy SJ Tucker, Karina Skye, Ricky Kej and Louis Colaiannia.

Hestia rules the hearth-fire, which we use for cooking, warmth and security. But how does that make us human? RevKess & Kalisara will discuss a new thesis on how cooking food is responsible for making us modern humans. We will also talk about the psychological and social needs for fire, the spirituality surrounding Hestia, and (if we have time) FOOD!

We strayed from the topic of the show, but spent nearly three hours talking with Lupa about her projects, her books, her personal spiritual beliefs. We hope that you, the listener, enjoy the conversation as much as we did. As Lupa put it "a three hour interview-turned conversational artwork".  Lupa is back to talk about her newest book, Engaging the Spirit World, and the concept of animism. About Engaging the Spirit World (taken from http://www.thegreenwolf.com): Animism--the belief in spirits--is considered to be an integral part of many pagans' paths. We call on these beings when we create our rituals, when we work magic, and even in our everyday lives. For some, though, spirits are the very center of their practices. This book collects writings from a variety of practitioners, exploring animism in nature, in technology, and even within the human psyche. Speaking from both theory and practice, the authors present personal experiences to demonstrate concepts, and provide ideas and tools for the reader to work with. Featuring essays from Dawn M. Allenbach, Kali Black, Veronica Cummer, Kenn Day, jaymi elford, Taylor Ellwood, S. Kelley Harrell, Raven Kaldera, Erynn Rowan Laurie, Rhiannon Louve, Lupa, Bari Mandelbaum, Paleo, Pia Van Ravestein, Andrieh Vitimus and Mel White. Talking About the Elephant is an attempt to shatter that stillness and to promote constructive communication about the issues surrounding cultural appropriation in neopaganism.

Kari Tauring is a völva, staff carrier of Nordic tradition. Völva (Old Norse): a woman who carries the staff, the history, magic, and cultural legacy of the Nordic people.  In 2010, Kari  was elected to represent the Midwest as völva at the Midwest Thing, recognized for her scholarship and ability to share the deep roots of the culture through songs, stories, and teaching. Her Volva Stav training program teaches this method of cultural expression internationally through on-line resources. On this show, she will share with us her knowledge and understanding of spå, a type of Nordic magic. The Norse traditions view magic differently then many Pagan and Wiccan traditions, so we will be talking about those differences, as well.

This episode of Lavender Hill originally aired on KZUM-HD in Lincoln, NE on Sunday 8 December 2013. Lavender Hill is Nebraska's only LGBTQA+ news and talk program on community radio. Corwin and Phil bring their listeners a unique perspective on issues that effect the LGBTQA+ community - locally, nationally and globally. Music wise this edition: A queer twist on Christmas classics. Find us on Facebook and Google+. Email us with comments at lavenderhill89.3@gmail.com.

Selections from the Mess is a series of outtakes from Murphy's Magic Mess on KZUM in Lincoln, NE. The Mess has been airing for over 19 years, the five years previous it was called Spiral Dance. Bringing you nearly a quarter of a century of Pagan content radio, Nadine Murphy and her cast of minions are pleased to share Pagan, secualr humanist, new age and out of the ordinary music and information every Sunday from 9-11am.  Tune in on the radio (if you live in Lincoln) at 89.3FM or online at www.kzum.org. In this addition, Michelle Harris from the Order of the Red Grail, Church for Transformational Wicca, sat in on the microphone to share about the Grail's upcoming combined effort with the Nebraska Heathens United. A Yule celebration at the Unitarian Church in Lincoln - 6300 A Street.