What is ethical thinking, and how can Pagans apply it to live in a way that is consistent with our spiritual beliefs? In this third lecture in our four-part Pagan Way 40th Anniversary Lectures, New York City high priestesses Silkie O-Ishi of the Grailwood Coven and Courtney Weber of the Novices of the Old Ways explore the foundations of ethics within Paganism, and discuss how Pagan ethics can guide our relationship with the environment and the actions we must take to preserve life on our precious, endangered planet.

The lecture took place on December 4, 2012, at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by the recent publishing of Michael Lloyd's Bull of Heaven: The Mythic Life of Eddie Buczynski and the Rise of the New York Pagan, the series aimed to recount the origins of the New York Pagan community, highlight issues that have shaped who we have become today, discuss how we as a community can help effect positive change in the world today, and imagine what our next steps might be together.

Photo: (L to R) Brian Brewer, Rev. Jude Geiger, Silkie O-Ishi, Courtney Weber, Gary Suto

The lectures also featured a collection to provide Hurricane Sandy relief to the Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit that provides shelter to homeless LGBT youth. Attendees generously donated $670 over the course of the four lectures. Please make a donation to the Ali Forney Center today to continue growing the good karma.

Photo: Courtney Weber and Silkie O-Ishi looking out onto the attendees in the chapel

These lectures are presented by the New York Pagan Alliance, the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn, New York, and the New York pagan community.

You can read more about this lecture at The Juggler, a blog featuring New York Pagan, author, and blogger Puck Zan Fraser's reflections on each of the four Pagan Way 40th Anniversary Lectures.

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On November 20, 2012, the second in a series of four Pagan Way 40th Anniversary Lectures took place at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by the recent publishing of Michael Lloyd's Bull of Heaven: The Mythic Life of Eddie Buczynski and the Rise of the New York Pagan, the lectures aimed to recount the origins of the New York Pagan community, highlight issues that have shaped who we have become today, discuss how we as a community can help effect positive change in the world today, and imagine what our next steps might be together.

Photo: Lady Rhea and Gary Suto

"Male/Female Polarity in Paganism: Do We Need It?" the second in the series, focused on the roles of gender and sexuality in Paganism today and how rules based on gender and sexuality can influence, enhance, and sometimes detract from the spiritual and magical journey.

This lecture features Gary Suto, founder of the New York City Gay Men's Open Pagan Magick Circle, which will celebrate its 100th ritual in April 2013, a minos (high priest) of the Minoan Brothers, an all gay men's male mysteries group, and founder of the New York Pagan Alliance; and Lady Rhea, proprietor of the Magickal Realms shop in the Bronx, and founder of the Minoan Sisterhood, an all gay women's female mysteries group.

The lectures also featured a collection to provide Hurricane Sandy relief to the Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit that provides shelter to homeless LGBT youth. Attendees generously donated $670 over the course of the four lectures. Please make a donation to the Ali Forney Center today to continue growing the good karma.

These lectures are presented by the New York Pagan Alliance, the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn, New York, and the New York pagan community.

You can read more about this lecture at The Juggler, a blog featuring New York Pagan, author, and blogger Puck Zan Fraser's reflections on each of the four Pagan Way 40th Anniversary Lectures.

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Please share your comments in the comments section below. You can also visit us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/newyorkpagan and Twitter athttp://twitter.com/newyorkpagan or @NewYorkPagan.

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New York Pagan is a collaborative effort produced by and for the New York Pagan community. We are seeking contributors to this podcast. If you are interested in becoming a contributor, please email [email protected] for more information.

On November 13, 2012, the first in a series of four Pagan Way 40th Anniversary Lectures took place at the First Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by the recent publishing of Michael Lloyd's Bull of Heaven: The Mythic Life of Eddie Buczynski and the Rise of the New York Pagan, the lectures aimed to recount the origins of the New York Pagan community, highlight issues that have shaped who we have become today, discuss how we as a community can help effect positive change in the world today, and imagine what our next steps might be together.

Photo: (L to R) Gary Suto, Brian Brewer, Margot Adler, Michael Lloyd, Rev. Jude Geiger

"New York Pagan History: How We Got to Where We Are Today," the first in the series, featured author Michael Lloyd, whose painstaking efforts to chronicle the historic and cultural forces that influenced the establishment, rise, fall, and rebirth of the New York Pagan community have produced a treasure trove of well-documented insights into the earliest beginnings of the Pagan movement.

Joining Michael for this first lecture was Margot Adler, award-winning NPR correspondent and author of Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America, a seminal work on modern Paganism's origins and the renaissance of Earth-centered, Goddess worship in today's world. Margot, who provides the foreword to Bull of Heaven, shares in this talk how her earliest encounters with the Craft were deeply influenced by Eddie Buczynski and the emerging New York City Pagan community of the early 1970s.

The lectures also featured a collection to provide Hurricane Sandy relief to the Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit that provides shelter to homeless LGBT youth. Attendees generously donated $670 over the course of the four lectures. Please make a donation to the Ali Forney Center today to continue growing the good karma.

These lectures are presented by the New York Pagan Alliance, the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn, New York, and the New York pagan community.

You can read more about this lecture at The Juggler, a blog featuring New York Pagan, author, and blogger Puck Zan Fraser's reflections on each of the four Pagan Way 40th Anniversary Lectures.

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Please share your comments in the comments section below. You can also visit us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/newyorkpagan and Twitter at http://twitter.com/newyorkpagan or @NewYorkPagan.

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New York Pagan is a collaborative effort produced by and for the New York Pagan community. We are seeking contributors to this podcast. If you are interested in becoming a contributor, please email [email protected] for more information.