I will grant my friend Valerie lives off grid and does subsistence agriculture, see https://wildhunt.org/2026/02/pagan-community-notes-week-of-february-5-2026

I will grant my friend Valerie lives off grid and does subsistence agriculture, see https://wildhunt.org/2026/02/pagan-community-notes-week-of-february-5-2026.html https://wildhunt.org/2026/02/pagan-community-notes-week-of-f... but she is a high priestess even if she omits "high". Now I did get a high when I went to Litha (summer solstice) at her place that lasted for days because the experience was ethereal and otherworldly. But she's a professional who does this full time. I got a very similar high at the fourth of July; driving up to Little York lake I was rehearsing a five minute sermon on "the magic of blessings" with the consequence that whenever anyone said something like "enjoy the fourth of July" it exploded in my head like a firework and eating soft serve on the midway felt like what Martin Prechtel talks about when he says "the feast is the only ritual". So when Valerie says we can recover ancient agricultural animism and restore a consciousness similar to what indigenous people experienced she's right. But we can also recover the old religion that lies under the surface in contemporary ordinary activities like being a sports fan, like at Cornell we have a bear statue that people tie scarfs to and make other offerings. People don't think this is a religious activity but it is. So far as tech goes I am starting to put some effort into the back end of this system https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116086491667959840 https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116086491667959840 for months these tokens have all had unique identifiers and I am now looking at what I can do in terms of relationship building (register cards to an individual when I hand them out) and building territories (register cards that I install on a bulletin board to a place and enroll in an AR game) And of course there is the wearable system that supports my photography on the go like being able to show people the group portrait I just took and reshoot if somebody had their eyes closed that is a work in progress. I'm like a theme park performer who brings the whole park with me everywhere i go.