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Gods&Radicals Press is deeply excited to offer this collection of interviews of scientists, feminists, theorists, psychologists, journalists, environmentalists, and other important thinkers, all addressing the most overwhelming crisis of our time: Climate Change and the collapse of industrial civilization.We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us collects interviews by audio journalist Patrick Farnsworth which first appeared on his popular podcast, Last Born In The Wilderness.  This collection weaves together the words of these thinkers into a profound narrative that challenges the way we think about the future of the planet, unflinching in its approach while always grounded in love for humanity and nature.We Live In The Orbit Of Beings Greater Than Us features 30 interviews, along with Patrick Farnsworth commentary on the significance of each interview to our collective work for each other, ourselves, and for the earth.Includes interviews from:Dahr Jamail  ΓÇó Silvia Federici ΓÇó Bayo AkomolafeNicholas Humphrey ΓÇó Franscisco Sanchez-BayoWilliam Rees ΓÇó Holly Truhlar ΓÇó Iain McGilchristRhyd Wildermuth ΓÇó Gerald Horne ΓÇó Tad HargraveShane Burley ΓÇó Sini┼ía Male┼íevi─ç ΓÇó Liyah BabayanDezeray Lyn ΓÇó Peter Gelderloos ΓÇó Gord HillMake Rojava Green Again / Xabat ΓÇó Ramon Elani Michael Sliwa ΓÇó Rob Seimetz ΓÇó John H. Richardson Jasper Bernes ΓÇó Paul Beckwith ΓÇó John Halstead Karla Tait ΓÇó Stephen Jenkinson ΓÇó Joe Brewer

A dead bard on a desolate hill, giants on a cliff-edge, a heroin-addict in a dumpster, blood-soaked shattered glass on a window-ledge, and midwinter sunlight streaming through the tomb of Newgrange...A Kindness of Ravens is a collection of forest-edged words arrayed against the theft of meaning and the death of dreams. Find within essay on civilisation and its end, poems on gods & love, and journals from an unlikely pilgrimage each haunted by the songs of the Singers in the Darkness and the rage of the Raven King.

The tea-soaked and rain-drenched musings of a nomadic punk bard. Encounters with the gods, the dead, and the spirits of forest and stream. Musings for the dreaming rebel in the leaf-strewn tavern, the urban poet following the course of buried rivers beneath her feet, and all those who await the return of the gods and the uprising of the trees.Your Face Is A Forest is a collection of essays, poetry, and travel journals from Rhyd Wildermuth. This is the second edition of Your Face Is a Forest, now published by Gods&Radicals Press

With your freedom, what would you make of this world? Gods&Radicals Press is pleased to announce our newest release: Circling the Star, by Anthony Rella. Circling The Star is a practical journey into the esoteric wisdom of the Iron Pentacle for activists, witches, rebels, and mystics seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and of the world they wish to transform. Circling the Star offers the seeker a spiritual philosophy which will empower their resistance to capital and Empire. Weaving together psychology, Egyptian polytheism, queer and occult theory, Kabbalah, intersectional feminism, and Feri witchcraft, witch and therapist Anthony Rella offers us a powerful manual for personal and political liberation. Those already familiar with the workings of the Iron Pentacle but seeking a more engaged witchcraft will find Circling The Star invaluable. Those new to these workings will find Circling The Star an ideal introduction. And the many of us wary of mass-market glossy 'magic' texts and white-light spiritual bypassing will find Circling the Star an exhilarating glimpse of what engaged, radical witchcraft can be again. Drawing on his years of magical practice and spiritual study, Tony blends his own devotional practice with his training in psychotherapy. The result is a deep understanding, coupled with a dash of poetry. He calls on us to open to states of wonder. To plumb our depths. To be strengthened and renewed. These tools can change you, too, if you let them. -T. Thorn Coyle Featuring illustrations from Alley Valkyrie, cover art from Li Pallas, and a foreword from T. Thorn Coyle, Circling the Star is due for release on 14 February, 2018, the 3-year anniversary of the birth of the beautiful resistance that is Gods&Radicals.

"We are returning from the fallen otherworlds, the factories and highrises with their bankers and malls--prisoners and prisons, we have broken the manacles." The fourth issue of the Gods&Radicals journal, A Beautiful Resistance: The Crossing wakens the worlds between worlds, the spaces between spaces, and all those who transverse those spaces. Edited by Lia Hunter and Lorna Smithers, with a foreword by Peter Dybing, The Crossing features the writing and artistry of 28 dreams from eight countries and four continents.

"Their world lies behind ours like a bright shadow of reality: the shadow does not reflect what we have built (or destroyed), but what could be." What's it like to speak to a god? Or more importantly, how do you know you're actually speaking to one and not a voice you made up in your head? Why try to speak to gods at all? And what do we actually do about what they're saying? With earthly prose and her often hilarious wit, Druid and writer Judith O'Grady offers answers to these questions, along with deeply profound insight into the implications of modern animism in an overly-industrialized (and dying) world. Greatly expanding upon her earlier work (God-Speaking), Judith recounts her own experiences and rituals--from cleaning trash along river-banks to awakening sleeping spirits in abandoned urban places. Gods-Speaking narrates a world full of meaning in a time where we've forgotten humans are not the only beings with something to say. "If you've ever just wanted to know how to talk to gods and change the world, and you'd rather learn how to do it from a kind elderly Druid woman (rather than some dense and overwrought esotericist who's like 25 years old and can't tell the difference between a Birch and an Alder), I think this book will mean as much to you as it meant to me."

Much more than traditions and customs are lost when an animist culture is suppressed or destroyed. Into the abyss of forgetting goes also an entire way of seeing humans, animals, gods, and the rest of nature, as well as the relationships these things constantly forge with each other.These were also the worldviews of ancient Pagan cultures before the dominance of writing and monotheism supplanted them. Organic pluralism, an embrace of multiple, conflicting truths, and a deep understanding of the interconnection between humans and the natural world: all were core values of oral and animist cultures.As global climate change and the collapse of Empire throw the earth and our modern societies into crisis, these core values are what humanity and the nature it destroys desperately need again.In True To The Earth: Pagan Political Theology, author and professor of philosophy Kadmus weaves a narrative from the lore of Celtic, Greek, Norse, and indigenous traditions to show us how we once saw the world and how we can see it again. He unveils the modern assumptions which blind us from seeing the past and what we've lost, challenges the core foundations of literal, universalist thinking, and shakes us free from the unseen bonds monotheism has placed upon our understanding of ourselves and the world.Well-researched and erudite, yet written in an engaging and accessible manner, True To The Earth offers back to us what we have lost, and gives us fertile soil from which a new earth-centered political understanding can arise.

"The Empire under which we all suffer, under which we are all ruled, was born upon the factory floor and upon the witch's stake. But in the char of those burnings and the soot from those smokestacks we can see its impending death..." Beauty stolen in a tavern of a Scottish port. A dead Cathar's caress as a man waits for bootsteps that will drag him away. Rain-drenched grief over iron bridges. Plastic fairies littering an ancient stone circle. Sex amongst bones and the howls of the Hunter. A new collection of essays, mystic prose, and poems from Gods&Radicals co-founder Rhyd Wildermuth, including the expanded and previously un-released text of his speech, "Witches In a Crumbling Empire." Witches In A Crumbling Empire weaves together love, resistance, and magic into a ritual not to hold up the pillars of Empire as they fall, but to dance as they collapse

All That Is Sacred Is Profaned is the text from Rhyd Wildermuth's popular introductory course on Marxism, now available in print. Written for those without privileged academic experience and those too busy trying to survive to read economic theory, this book uses real-world examples to explain how capitalism operates, why it came about, and how it might be stopped.All That Is Sacred Is Profaned isn't just an economic or political text. Instead, Pagan and druid Rhyd Wildermuth teases out the intersections between Marx's ideas and the core worldviews of animism and Paganism: the magical transformation of the world through labor, the inspirited nature of the things we humans create and trade, and the sacred aspects of the world crushed beneath the demands of profit.

In ancient myths from throughout the world, the appearance of a white deer presages a warning, leads humans to crucial crossroads, and points us to a gate to better understanding our our relationship to the world. Also, throughout history and in science, the white deer has been a sign of imbalance, impending peril, and also profound moments of opening and transformation.In The White Deer: Ecospirituality and the Mythic, Melinda Reidinger chases the white deer down mythic paths and startling (and sometimes shocking) tracks. From the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand to the blue blood of horseshoe crabs, "monstrous" ladies and fallen knights to Magyar star-myths and desert forests, The White Deer speaks to a relationship with the living world we've forgotten but can learn to find again.Deeply researched and densely rich with details from science, history, myth, and dream, and written with a warmly engaging voice, Melinda Reidinger's opus also features the haunting interior illustration work of James Hutton and a foreword by Gordon White.

A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire explores the truths we are all beginning to understand, the whispers on the plague winds, the portents in the polluted sky, the omens in the failing harvests and the chthonic call in the rising seas. Everywhere we look we see it: Empire is ending.But no Empire ends politely nor quietly, nor do the torturous forms of their control merely disappear with them. Centuries of oppression, of discipline, of the shaping of our thoughts and dreams will not merely go away when the Capitols and Capital no longer exert their mythic power over our lives.A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire is a ritual work of re-imagining, a revel and a parade back into the wilds of our own dreaming, our own symbols, our own forms of connection and community decoupled and divorced from what Empire has made of us.A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire is edited by Rhyd Wildermuth with the brilliant design work of Casandra Johns and features the literary, poetic, fictive, and graphic work of 27 artists and writers, including:Christopher Scott Thompson · Mirna Wabi-Sabi · Emma Kathryn ·Peter Grey · Rune Kjær Rasmussen · TWM GWYNNE · Ulrich Gehmann · V. Crowe · Shane Burley · Kathleen Yearwood · Frank Seeburger · TaHlia Palmer · Sonali Roy · Peter Mark Adams · Finnchuill · Jane Skjoldli · Maddy Hag · Allyson Shaw · Lia Vé · Mason Parker · Ayling Zulema Dominguez · Laura Welsman · Slippery Elm · LAURIE RAE DIETRICH · Mel Hill · Bea Xu ·Z. Sager · Rhyd Wildermuth · DOMINIK RINNHOFER

Why should Pagans care about Capitalism? This Primer, written by Alley Valkyrie and Rhyd Wildermuth, explains what Capitalism is, what it isn't, and why anyone who loves the earth and the spirits should fight it.An expanded edition of the photocopied zine distributed at the presentation which started Gods&Radicals, A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer is an essential introduction, accessible to anyone regardless of their previous knowledge. Includes a glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading.

A revolt led by a faerie queen...Factories destroyed by elves...Slave revolts led by a god of ecstasy... Landlords poisoned by witches....Uprisings initiated by a goddess of ame... Fantastic myths...or a blueprint for revolution?Pagan Anarchism is a history and a manifesto for magicians, witches, rebels, and heretics seeking to fight capitalism and authority with the help of the spirits, the land, and the dead.

"From here, I can taste the falling watersIn the air."Gods&Radicals Press is thrilled to offer Baedd & Other Poems, our first poetry chapbook through our mystic and esoteric imprint, Ritona.From poet and writer Twm Gwynne (published in A Beautiful Resistance) comes a short collection of profound poetry inspired by raw life, deep nature, and the spirit in all things."Twm's subtle grasp of the profound power in simple words manifests in poems that startle and linger long after you've read them."-Rhyd Wildermuth

"A story like "I don't matter" seems persuasive when it's ricocheting off the interior of our skulls but makes no sense from the outside. The truth is, we matter. Our bodies are literally matter. Once we exist, our very existence is an influence upon the world. Having a body means I take up space, I consume resources that could go to others, I am participating in life and culture and relationships. If I am in a room, someone sees me, and my presence impacts them in a certain way. There is no opting out."From writer, witch, and licensed therapist Anthony Rella comes a collection of short essays on emotions, boundaries, disappointment, guilt, hope, shame, intimacy, and connection. Written with the warm voice of a caring and patient friend, these essays help guide the reader to their own center where they can find power, balance, and joy not despite difficult moments and emotions, but because of them.

In this time of economic, social, and environmental collapse, we cannot rely on governments or leaders to guide us through the chaos. Yet this is no reason for despair, because these crises open old doors we thought rusted shut and old paths we thought too overgrown to ever find again.Reclaiming Ourselves is a guide to those paths and a key to those doors. With her clear and welcoming writing, Emma Kathryn presents an accessible and insightful map to rediscovering what we have always been capable of: reclaiming our relationship to ourselves, to our bodies, to the land around us, to healing, to food, to community, and to spirituality. Easily adaptable for any circumstance, her practical advice and tips on becoming more secure in this difficult world and her discussions of the struggles many of us face in reconnecting to ourselves feel like the words of a kind friend reminding us we will be okay.Reclaiming Ourselves, by Emma Kathryn, is an ideal book for everyone seeking strength and connection to not only survive but thrive and be a light for others in these dark times.

Solidarity Networks & Emergency Survival is a practical guide--in plain and direct language--for organizers, activists, and individuals looking to build networks based on mutual aid and prepare for crisis situations.

In an era of climate change and late capitalism, when everything sacred is paved over or commodified, how do you attune yourself to the rhythms of nature? How do you listen for-and hear-the language of the land on which you live? How do you push your magical practice beyond rote rituals into true communion with the spirits around you?This short book explores green witchcraft through the lens of five principles: 1. The Forest Speaks with One Voice (unity)2. Twilight Precedes Starlight (liminality)3. Witchcraft Lives in the Body (embodiment)4. The Witch Always Pays Her Coin (reciprocity)5. The Goddess Reveals Herself in Silence (silence)Originally published as a wildly popular and sold-out zine, Gods&Radicals Press now offers Five Principles of Green Witchcraft by special arrangement with the author.