Pagans, Paganism and PAN in the Media
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SMH 20 June 2014
Here comes the sun: pagans celebrate the solstice
As pagans, we feel it’s really important to be connected to the earth’s cycles so that we can help to heal the land and our relationships with the land.
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The Examiner
Nature casts its spell over pagans
Mr Garland said pagans, in all their various forms, had a strong affinity with nature. "Basic pagan tenants are that the sun goes up, the moon goes down, it becomes a full moon and we have the high tides - these things are all indisputable, and have been throughout human history. These were the things that pagans lived by," Mr Garland said.
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ABC Local Sunday Nights
The Goodlife, Wicca And Pagans At Harvest Festival/Samhaine (Part 2)
David Garland (who has a Green Man tattoo) leads Australia's Pagan Awareness Network; an organisation that seeks to increase the profile of pagan practice- but also to correct misinformation about pagan practice.
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ABC Local Sunday Nights
The Goodlife, Wicca And Pagans At Harvest Festival/Samhaine (Part 1)
You're unlikely to be arrested for witchcraft these days in Australia- but our history shows that being simply a witch or Wiccan in Australia carried with it social stigma.
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Newcastle Herald
No more mooning about – call for pagans to come out of the shadows
The Pagan Awareness Network, of which Mr Hepworth is vice-president, is urging its many and diverse faith paths - which include Druidism, Shamanism and Lesbian Feminist Goddess Worship - to nominate paganism as their religious category in this year's census.