{"id":9,"date":"2003-04-07T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2003-04-07T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-07T01:55:00","slug":"pokemon-the-pagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon the Pagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a scholarly controversy that I had been unware of: whether there is a conflict between the teachings of Wicca and of Pokemon<\/a>. That assumes that Pokemon has “teachings,” of course.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, getting ready for a workshop on traditional European entheogens next summer, I’m enjoying revisting Eliot Cowan’s Plant Spirit Medicine.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a scholarly controversy that I had been unware of: whether there is a conflict between the teachings of Wicca and of Pokemon. That assumes that Pokemon has “teachings,” of course. Meanwhile, getting ready for a workshop on traditional European entheogens next summer, I’m enjoying revisting Eliot Cowan’s Plant Spirit Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,6],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-entheogens","tag-wicca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7166,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7166","url_meta":{"origin":9,"position":0},"title":"Ancient Precedents for a Norwegian’s Pro-Psychedelic Campaign","author":"Chas S. 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