The Virtual Symposium of Pagan Thought and Practice presents:
Dying and Death: Pagans Engaging End of Life Issues
to be held online on Saturday, 23 July, 2022 (9:00am to 5:30pm US Pacific Time - 1.30am to 10am ACST Sunday, 24 July, or British Standard Time 5pm on 23 July to 1.30am 24 July)
Death is an experience we hold in common. Whether it be the passing of a loved one or our own departure from life, the inevitability of death brings with it equally inevitable challenges. For Pagans of all paths and traditions these challenges may present differently, with no easy or compatible solutions offered by the currently dominant over culture. How do we, as magical folk, prepare for death? Where are the priests and priestesses to tend our passing? How shall our families, or friends, the people of the community celebrate our lives or dance upon our graves? How is the body disposed of? How are we remembered? How do we sit with Death?
This year we are proud to feature presentation on dying and death from end-of-life preparations, through grief and interment, and the processes through which those left behind remember the lives of their beloved dead.
:: Selena Fox (Green Home for Pagan Dead: Circle Cemetery)
:: Gordon Cooper (Death and Dying in Communities with Magicians and Their Kindred: Theory, Praxis and Exhaustion):: Ben Luoma (Gladly Do We Go? - A Case Study of a Heathen Facing Agonal Death),
:: Frances Billinghurst (Sitting with the Goddess of Death)
:: Griffin Ced and Carrie Wolf, (A TradCraft Compass of Death: A Traditional Witchcraft Presentation)
:: Hauk (To Write a Heathen Requiem)
:: Rev. Kathleen Reeves (Creative Transformation)
:: Herleena Hunt, Bettie Bune ( Abortion and Miscarriage: The Hidden Death),
:: Rev. Michael Brazell (Heart Tending: Crafting Rituals for Joy and Sorrow)
:: Natasha Kirby (Death: My Friend, My Ally), and
:: Macha Nightmare (What is Remembered Lives: The Magic of Eulogies, Obituaries, and Memoirs).
The schedule will be posted on the Commons of Modern Pagans and Spiritual Seekers website at https://www.pagancommons.org/.
Tickets for this one day virtual event are $16, and can be purchased at Stripe https://buy.stripe.com/7sIcNLcqcfuPbhScMM or through Venmo at COMPASS @Compass1313
