authenticity
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As we approach the end of the Season of Communion [Link], I am contemplative… I have been a priest in one form or another for a long time. Long before the Cyrenaian Hedonic Church, I served as a Steward of the Night Carnival. At the Temple of Condition the Stewards assist visitors in placing requests at…
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No denial. Storage. Containment. It is sometimes the only responsible thing you can do when the contents of the jar are corrosive and you still have a life to live.
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Odin breathed life into ash and elm, but first he learned what it meant to be without breath.
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Awnings…serve no structural purpose, and many fine buildings are aesthetically pleasing without them. Yet they act as a kind of way station, a place to pause while between an inside and an outside.
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You call yourself Monster, Primal, Menace, Other. Not in metaphor. In invocation. You were not built for the mundane. You were made for Worship.
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Communion does not mean a loss of individuality or the surrender of self into some collective whole. It is the moment when distinct lives, distinct journeys, and distinct truths are offered into relationship with one another.
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We do not live inside reality first. We live inside language about reality.
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You will (not) be safe here. You will (finally) be alive.
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The only dangerous idea is that there are dangerous ideas.
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Even in rupture, There must be rest.
The Cyrenaian Hedonic church 