Building a Better Meme
(I’ll post answers my answers in a little while)
Please describe briefly your Path:
Please describe briefly how you practice it:
When did you first commit to your Path?
How is your practice different now than it was then?
Is your practice different today than how you thought it would be back then?
Does your Path and core belief system differ now than how it was when you first started?
What is your heritage and how does this inform your Path?
What are your main influences for your Path?
Which do you do more: practice or research?
Do you feel that one is more important than the other?
What values and ethics are important on your Path and in your practice?
What sort of cycles do you feel your practice goes through?
What is one of the greatest obstacles or struggles you have had to over come?
How do you see yourself practicing in ten years?
How do you incorporate your practice into your life?
Has walking your Path changed you as a person?
Do you consider yourself to be a priest/ess? How so?
A witch? How so?
A shaman? How so?
Which matters more: getting the vocabulary right or… 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.
Today’s Rant: Hypocritical Feminists
My Mother and Grandmother’s generations fought hard against men telling them what they can and cannot do with their own bodies. They burned bras and refused to shave their legs. They fought for the right to wear what they wished.
They raised us (my generation and younger) to never let anyone tell them what we can and cannot do with our bodies or what to wear.
But what they really meant was “everyone but them”
Those same women who fought so hard now turn around and snipe and sneer at younger women. They tell us we what we can or cannot do with our bodies, they tell us what we should or should not wear.
Ladies, if you want feminism to be carried forth. If you want that respect you deserve for your efforts. If you want us to listen to what you have to say, then please:
Stop telling us whether or not we should shave our pussies.
Stop telling us we shouldn’t wear short skirts.
Stop telling us we shouldn’t shake our asses on the dance floor.
Stop telling us what kind of sex we should be having with our men.
Stop telling us that a woman who… Continue reading
Regarding Pagan Clergy
* First of all we don’t need to follow a monotheist model of clergy. If you should shudder at the thought of people having the authority to dictate the desires of the gods to you, then you need to study some other spiritual traditions. Not every religion now, or in history, has/had such a set up. In many traditions, including ancient Pagan ones, clergy were facilitators, teachers and sometime guides or counsellors but not some middle man between ourselves and the divine with enough authority to molest little boys and get away with it.
A great model to consider is that of ancient Rome (and this coming form a Celt!) where the clergy were in charge of temples and larger civic shrines, they made sure the correct offerings (okay sacrifices) were given on the right days, they did the big public rituals and things of that nature, but everyone had a house altar and they all got to talk to the gods, do their own family rituals, give offerings and work with deity as they saw fit.
So before you get up in arms over the thought of Pagan Clergy, make sure you are not having a knee jerk reaction… Continue reading
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