Thoughts on various issues that have been raised either in online discussions or in person at discussions And presentations. They are in no particular order, although I have tried to group them by subject matter.

1. 御神水 [ ごしんすい / goshinsui ] Holy Water! バットマン BATTOMAN
2. Praying For A pokkuri Moment — ぽっくり
3. It's Finally Happened
4. You Can't Save The World
5. Among The Trees And Rocks: Life In An Urban Forest
6. The Four Riders of Baba Yaga
7. Walking On The Wild Side
8. Living With Your Ancestors
9. Solving The Paradox Of Tolerance
10. Passageways To Spirit Worlds
11. Dealing With Sacred Junk
12. Magic Is Ephemeral
13. Stuck In ômagatoki And Hoping For hinode
14. If You're Not At The Table, You're On The Menu
15. Need a katashiro?
16. Using kokkuri san
17. Cultural Competence vs Cultural Humility
18. Wanted — miko For A Small Family hokora
19. wara ningyô
20. What You Need To Know About shimenawa
21. What are oni And kijo?
22. "Cooked" Nature vs "Raw" Nature
23. Japanese Color Symbology
24. Japanese Magic Numbers
25. BABA YAGA And yamauba
26. Honoring The monogoto In Your Life
27. How Can You Get Purification
28. zen Without The Excess Buddhist Baggage
29. DEI vs Meritocracy
30. shinto And LGBTQIA2-S+
31. The Ephemeral Nature of Folk Magic
32. Jesters To The Gods
33. Why shi-yaku-jin no hokora Is hokora And Not jinja
34. Why Is The Japanese Sun Red?
35. Why Does The shi-yaku-jin no hokora Exist?
36. Who Really Owns Your Religion?
37. What's Needed For A Shrine?
38. What Part Does The Emperor Play In shintô?
39. What Is shintô? Part 2
40. What Is shintô? Part 1
41. What Does It Really Take To Practice minzoku NEO-shintô?
42. Unintended Bullseye
43. Training, Huh, Yeah. What's It Good For?
44. This Is Not Your Grandfather's shintô
45. The Wonder of minzoku shintô
46. There Are Myths And Then There Are Myths
47. Syncretism Part II
48. Syncretism In minzoku NEO-shintô
49. Syncretism And Pragmatism
50. Spirituality Or Religion?
51. So What Makes It A Shrine?
52. Some Thoughts On minzoku shintô And XOR Religions
53. Some Sources Of minzoku shintô
54. shintô Myths #11 — shintô Can Be A Universal Religion
55. shintô Myths #10 — Japan Is The "Land Of kami"
56. shintô Myths #9 — They Should Bring Back kokka shintô
57. shintô Myths #8 — It's Not Really shintô Unless It's Lead By A shinshoku
58. shintô Myths #7 — You Really Need A jinja To Properly Practice shintô
59. shintô Myths #6 — shintô Is Just For The Japanese
60. shintô Myths #5 — shintô Needs To Get Back To A More "Pure" Version
61. shintô Myths #4 — shintô Is Ecological
62. shintô Myths #3 — shintô Is shintô
63. shintô Myths #2 — shintô Has Existed Since Time Immemorial
64. shintô Myths #1 — shintô Is The Indigenous Religion Of Japan
65. shintô Myths
66. shintô And Pollution
67. Return Of The Shinto Police
68. Pulled Over By The Shinto Police Yet Again
69. Pulled Over By The Shinto Police Again
70. Pulled Over By The Shinto Police
71. Proper Behavior?
72. Performance Anxieties
73. Pardon Me While I Mount This Soapbox
74. On Validation
75. On Respecting Other Traditions
76. On ofuda
77. On jinja And tera
78. On Feeling Like You Don't Fit In...
79. On Cultural Appropriation Or Rather Misappropriation
80. On Belief And Faith
81. Nuts And Bolts Of Running A Shrine
82. Notes On Tradition
83. Go! Fight! Win!
84. Freedom Of Religion
85. Are You an Existentialist Or Essentialist?
86. Any Port In A Storm
87. And If You Believe That, I've Got A Bridge…
88. About The shi-yaku-jin
89. About The hokora kami