An Array of Utopian Flowers
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LA River Revitalization: The Story of Master Plan Gone Awry
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Biotonomy: Designing Nature-Based Autonomous Buildings and Cities
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Paul Bowles Documentary: ‘Let it Come Down’
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Foray into Fungi: The Art of Farming
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Trees Please: Saving and Serving the Urban Forest
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
European culture Archive
Samoan “Chief Tuiavii” on European Decadence in ‘The Papalagi’
Posted on September 10, 2020 | 1 CommentIn 1920, Erich Scheurmann translated into German the speeches of Samoan Chief' Tuiavii from the village of Tiavea, a work called The Papalagi (The White People) that describes his impressions of European culture formed during a tour as part of a traveling show. Tuiavii's depictions of the greed and hypocrisy of the civilized Europeans has become a post-hippie inspiration for a counterculture movement to break out of the rigid confines of corporate capitalism.The Pagan Spring Fertility Origins of May Day
Posted on May 1, 2019 | 2 CommentsMay Day (May 1) marks the return of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, with origins in ancient agricultural rituals to ensure fertility, handed down from the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Later permutations included the Celtic festival of Beltane and Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls exactly half a year from All Saints Day (November 1), and cross-quarter day with pagan overtones. Today, this ancient festival survives, including gathering wildflowers and decorating a May tree or Maypole, around which people dance, and some use it for political protest in association with International Workers Day.Christmas Trees, Solstice Rituals, and the Garden of Eden
Posted on January 8, 2018 | 2 CommentsAn anthropological and archaeological study of the origins of the Christmas Tree customs that grew out of the older European pagan Winter Solstice rituals by the Old European Culture Blog.