I recently published an essay entitled "Towards a Pagan Politics" over at the excellent new pagan website Gods and Radicals. You should consider checking out both the site and the essay if you are interested. I will be publishing pieces with them consistently, probably one about every month or so.
I do hope you will read the full essay, which includes reflections on Ancient Greece and Rome as well as aspects of Akan culture amongst many other elements, but I will include the concluding segment here. It attempts to sketch the basic elements of a pagan politics and I would be interested in discussing any or all of it:
A Pagan Metaphysics might Assert that:
1. Reality is irreducibly multiple, made up of numerous different forces. In other words, truth and reality are always plural.
2. Insofar as these truths are irreducible there is no one final truth
or god and conflict (whether constructive or destructive, whether play
or war) is an unavoidable aspect of reality.
3. There is no one right way to live, best culture, highest value or single purpose.
4. Wisdom consists in a gathering of diverse truths beyond that
attainable by any one individual, “Wisdom does not reside in one head.”
A Pagan Politics might be Committed to:
1. The rejection of all totalizing claims and authorities.
2. The promotion of productive rather than negative conflict (play over war) and an increase in different ways of life.
3. The commitment to creating an environment where each way of life can
reach its fullest most creative form as far as is possible, thus
rejecting the Roman model of one type of power ruling over all others.
4. The insistence that no one standard of evaluation can be applied to all things.
5. The recognition that most things should not be characterized in terms
of monetary value and so the resistance to the reduction of all values
to market values.
6. In a World Without Council, i.e. one already under the domination of
one reductive way of life, pagan politics would be committed to the
pursuit of the actions necessary to make pluralism possible.
The works and thoughts of a lifelong Ceremonial Magician influenced by Paganism, Goetia, Thelema, Chaos Magick, Qabalah and generally all things occult.
