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b"Remember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com\\n\\xa0\\nS3E23 TRANSCRIPT:\\n----more----\\n\\xa0\\nYucca: Welcome back to the wonder science-based paganism. I'm one of your hosts, Yucca, and this episode, we're doing something new and kind of exciting that we've never done before. This is our mail bag episode. So we've gotten a lot of responses and questions from all of you on the email.\\nAnd we wanted to talk about some of these.\\nMark: Yeah. We love it when we hear from our listeners. It's really helpful for us to know what you're enjoying what you'd like to hear more about all that kind of stuff. And we've, we've recently received some messages with some topics that probably aren't big enough for a whole episode by themselves, but they're important questions and we want to address them.\\nSo, yeah, this is, this is the mail bag and I imagine, going forward, we'll probably do more of them as we get more, more messages from listeners.\\nYucca: Yeah from you. That's right. So let's start, we've got a few from Paul and I've just cut out the, the bits from the emails, right? I'm not gonna read the whole thing, but this first one is if you guys felt like commenting on any pointers, other podcast books, webpages, etcetera, that could help a nube in the beginning of this journey.\\nThat'd be great. So I think mark, this is one that might be great for you to take. Cause I think you have a little bit more exposure to some of the, the blog world and all of that.\\nMark: I mean, I can certainly, there's a, a group of there's a resources and links page on the atheopagan blog@atheopagan.org. And I would recommend checking out a bunch of those links. Natural pagans.com is a is a an aggregation site that pulls writing on naturalistic paganism from a bunch of different sources and puts them together in one place where you can find them.\\nSo that's one thing to look at the naturalistic paganism website is another great source for information.\\nYucca: right,\\nMark: if you just want kind of overviews on what Ethiopia paganism is and the principles, and just sort of, broad descriptions about, what it is that we're practicing and what our values are.\\nThe website of the Ethiopia society is a good one to go to. And that is V AP society.org.\\nYucca: mm-hmm\\nMark: Uh, so that once\\nYucca: AP as in atheopagan mm-hmm\\nMark: Yes. So it's V AP society.org. That's another place where you can find quite a bit of information and you can legally Orain\\nYucca: right, of course. Your\\nMark: Just like at the universal life church, it's perfectly legal.\\nYou can perform weddings, all that kind of stuff. Because we are a registered religious nonprofit in the United States. So that's something that's cool and exciting. In terms of,\\nYucca: own book, right? Mark has an excellent book\\nMark: Oh yes. My book Ethiopia, paganism and earth honoring path rooted in science. You can order it from any bookstore.\\nI recommend your local independent bookstore because they are great and we support them. And I'm working on another one, which there will be hopefully news about sometime soon. But it'll be a while before it's done. So. In other books, I really recommend rating Sweetgrass by Robin wall Kimmer, which is it's more of a worldview book.\\nIt's not really a, here's how to do rituals book, but it's, she is both a botanist an academic botanist and a registered member of the citizen. Patua Tommy Native indigenous tribe. And so she comes at her perspective about the human relationship with nature from both of those perspectives and weaves them together in this very beautiful and illuminating kind of way.\\nSo that's once against braiding sweet grass by Robin wall Kimmer\\nYucca: mm-hmm\\nMark: I know that she's written other steps that's out there on the web. You can search for her name and you'll find good stuff that she's published.\\nYucca: Right.\\nMark: It's not nontheistic, but I do recommend the earth path by Starhawk, which I think is.\\nYucca: It was very inf"