{"id":4420,"date":"2012-07-06T09:11:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T18:42:33","slug":"pentagram-pizza-some-good-reads-and-free-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4420","title":{"rendered":"Pentagram Pizza: Some Good Reads and Free Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \u2022<\/strong> Finding a complementary relationship between Paganism and Tantra <\/a>at The Pagan Perspective. <\/em>Not this:<\/p>\n

My sabbatical led me down the rabbit hole of tantra<\/em>, or rather neo-tantra<\/em>, which turned out to be nothing more than a mobsterized store front for polyamory and polysexuality. Now I am the last person to dismiss sexuality or the free expression of it; however, when sexuality becomes a religion in disguise, we lose something of both sexuality and religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022<\/strong> Download a free compilation album, Songs of the Goddess<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Edward Butler, who has published two articles in The Pomegranate<\/a><\/em>, has put them and some other material into a book: Essays on a Polytheistic Philosophy of Religion.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Occult Chicago<\/em> links to an old article about a “spirit photographer”<\/a> of that city. Some people sure did want to believe, didn’t they.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Finding a complementary relationship between Paganism and Tantra at The Pagan Perspective. Not this: My sabbatical led me down the rabbit hole of tantra, or rather neo-tantra, which turned out to be nothing more than a mobsterized store front for polyamory and polysexuality. Now I am the last person to dismiss sexuality or the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,5,337,90,40,42,22],"class_list":["post-4420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music","tag-paganism","tag-pentagram-pizza","tag-philosophy","tag-polytheism","tag-sexuality","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-19i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4212,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4212","url_meta":{"origin":4420,"position":0},"title":"Pentagram Pizza for May 15, 2012","author":"Chas S. 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