{"id":6099,"date":"2013-11-15T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2013-11-16T13:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T20:23:41","slug":"doggerland-a-professor-of-esotericism-and-the-passing-of-a-priestess-of-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6099","title":{"rendered":"Doggerland, a Professor of Esotericism, and the Passing of a Priestess of Isis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b6 That\u00a0 Doggerland existed is not news (do you expect breaking archeology news in the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>?) but here are s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2167731\/Britains-Atlantis-North-sea--huge-undersea-kingdom-swamped-tsunami-5-500-years-ago.html\">ome cool images of this lost land.<\/a> I am still waiting for someone to create an authentic Pagan tradition based there.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b6 Ethan Doyle White interviews a <a href=\"http:\/\/ethandoylewhite.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/11\/an-interview-with-dr-egil-asprem.html\">Norwegian scholar of Paganism and esotericism, Egil Asprem. <\/a> Asprem credits role-playing games, among other things, for his ending up as a professor of esotericism at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b6 Philip Carr-Gomm r<a href=\"http:\/\/philipcarrgomm.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/15\/olivia-robertson-has-died\/\">eports on the passing yesterday of Olivia Robertson, founder of the Fellowship of Isis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>M. and I visited her (and became members, of course) in 1978 when honeymooning in Ireland.\u00a0 At that time the household of Clonegal Castle (a Jacobean great house) in Co. Carlow, consisted chiefly of her, her brother Derry, and her brother&#8217;s wife, Poppy, whose role seemed to be the &#8220;voice of normality&#8221; while Olivia and Durry (a retired Anglican clergyman) planned for the future of Goddess-worship \u2014 all while living in a mostly unheated and crumbling 17th-century manor.<\/p>\n<p>Once while walking down the drive after a visit with a member of Stewart and Janet Farrar&#8217;s coven, the covener, who was English, turned to us and said in amazement, &#8220;One <em>reads<\/em> about people like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And now that is all that we will be able to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b6 That\u00a0 Doggerland existed is not news (do you expect breaking archeology news in the Daily Mail?) but here are some cool images of this lost land. I am still waiting for someone to create an authentic Pagan tradition based there. \u00b6 Ethan Doyle White interviews a Norwegian scholar of Paganism and esotericism, Egil Asprem. 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A Conversation on Esoteric Knowledge, Alternative Spirituality, and Conspiracy Theories,\" with Egil Asprem and Giovanna Parmigiani. If, like me, you would sometimes rather read than listen, there is a transcript. For instance, here are some Egil's opening remarks: EGIL\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6090,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6090","url_meta":{"origin":6099,"position":2},"title":"Conferences of Interest to Scholars of Paganism and Esotericism","author":"Chas S. 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