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New research suggests the healing effects of forests may not come from tree scents alone. A study on essential oils found little measurable benefit, reinforcing growing evidence that immersion in living ecosystems, not bottled nature, may be what truly restores human well-being.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical warns about artificial intelligence, exploitation, and dehumanizing systems — but beyond its Catholic framework, Magnifica Humanitas may also offer an unexpected invitation for interfaith cooperation around human dignity, ecology, labor, and shared ethical concerns.
“‘Shadow and Bone meets The Selection,'” the marketing promises, banking on glittering courts and will-they-won’t-they tension,” writes Beatrix Kondo in her analysis of the romantasy sensation. “What the book actually delivers is something else entirely—the first chapters of a feminist high fantasy saga with a queer and Pagan reading.”
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews Jeffrey E. Anderson’s study of the historical evidence for the theology, organization, and ritual practices of the Voodoo religion of the Mississippi River Valley in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: a Church of England court allows the Green Man on a headstone after ruling the image compatible with Christian symbolism, Indigenous communities in Brazil unite to protect endangered forests, Pan’s Labyrinth returns in a restored edition, Star shares her Tarot of the Week AND House of Black Cat Magic earns a national cat café nomination!