| I cannot rightly say "all," or even
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| | than the conscious creation of
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| "most," but certainly many of the Wiccans
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| | resolutions to those ills and a brighter
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| I have known or observed over the years
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| | future for everybody.But I understand
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| appear to find in Wicca a unique brand of
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| | those nostalgic feelings, I really do.
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| escapism from the travails of our modern
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| | Society, at this present moment in
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| world, a safe haven from the uniquely
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| | history, is frighteningly unbalanced in
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| complex moral, environmental, social and
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| | favor of violence, fascism, corporate
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| political issues that define our era.
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| | hegemony, misogyny, the Industrial rape
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| They appear to seek to turn back the
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| | and pillage of the Earth and its parallel
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| clock, to retreat into a pagan agrarian
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| | attack on the human spirit in the form of
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| culture that no longer exists, or to
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| | rampant consumerism, etc. We are clearly
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| "resurrect" a Medieval,
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| | headed at break-neck speed toward almost
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| "thatched-cottage-on-the-edge-of-the-wood
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| | certain disaster. Faced with our present
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| s" society that is far more a product of
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| | real world situation, who wouldn't "Look
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| Renaissance festivals and paperback
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| | homeward with longing?"There's an episode
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| fantasy novels than of anything to be
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| | of the old 1960s Star Trek television
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| found in real, recorded history. This
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| | series in which Kirk and company beam
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| nostalgic (from the Greek nostos algos,
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| | down to help evacuate a planet whose sun
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| or literally, "To look homeward with
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| | is about to go supernova. But when the
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| longing") brand of Wicca generally
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| | "away team" reaches the planet's surface,
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| embodies an abdication of responsibility
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| | they find nobody home.
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| for the ills of modern society, rather
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