Smarty Pants!
You don’t need “Pagan” books to be a smarty-pants Pagan. Most libraries (even small ones) have books on history, mythology, folk lore, archaeology and so forth.
There’s more to being a smarty-pants Pagan than being well read as well.
Its called critical thinking and deep thinking.
How about observation? That’s a good one too!
Here’s an important one: application of knowledge.
And another thing! Thinking for yourself and not doing what a book tells you, but sorting the information and coming to your own conclusions, then trying them out, then back to the drawing board.
The problem is that a couple of books or classes aren’t going to make you an intellectual or a smarty-pants Pagan. That’s the first step on the road.
Random Encounters
I was reading Sarah’s blog over at the Forest Grove and was struck by this post:
They’re Watching You
… as well as the comments made by her readers. Go and read it, then come back…
Okay.
I once had a boyfriend who was very much an Odin’s Man tell me of how one time while down on his luck and far from home he went to the bus station to see how much a ticket home would cost. He was something like $3.12 short and they refused to sell him a ticket even though he was short only a few bucks. He was sitting on the curb outside the bus station trying to sort out what to do, when suddenly an old homeless man walked up to him calling his name. The homeless fellow seemed to know him and said he was so glad to have found him, that he had the money he owed him. My ex had no idea who this man was and had no idea why a homeless man would owe him money. The homeless man insisted he owed my ex money and gave him the exact amount of money he was short for the ticket… Continue reading
Fire on the Mountain: A Gathering of Shamans
1999 documentary. For five days, shamans & elders (and the Dalai lama) from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Australia meet to talk and share rituals at a Buddhist monastery in the French Alps.
Link Love
I have been updating the link sections for the Hedge and for the podcast. So I figure it’s time to point you all to a few of the blogs, articles, websites and podcasts that I wander over to now and then. (Sorry if there are any repeats from previous link posts)
If Witches No Longer Fly: Today’s Pagans and the Solanaceous Plants by Chas Clifton
Something I am Working On …
… a snippet of the start of something. Raw and unedited.
Abbé Henri Breuil sketched diligently by the dim gas-light, in a high alcove deep within a cave system. What he drew there and in other caves, what theories he later published about his discoveries, would help shape not only modern archaeology but also modern Paganism.
The Abbé was a man obsessed, crawling through narrow passages and scaling walls, only to lie upon the floors of caverns humanity had not set foot upon for thousands of years. All to draw the images he found there within. The most ancient of art in European history called to him. Cave art; depictions of bison and horses, lions and hand prints. And, in only a few instances, images of the human form mingled with that of an animal. The experts call these part-human, part-animal figures therianthropes.
The Trois-Frères cave was just one of many ancient cave systems Breuil would visit in his lifetime. In fact, it is far from the most famous of caves he worked in. Discovered in southern France, the art in this cave dates back to the mid-Magdalenian period of about 14,000 B.C.E. This cave features some 280 engraved images… Continue reading
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