Syncretic Electric: Looking at our History (Part 4) – Egocentrism and our Future
It is my honest belief that a proper understanding of Paganism, its history and its present, is vital if we are going to continue to move forward as a community into this next century.
View ArticleSyncretic Electric: Materialism and Narcissism
As a community, we need to be very aware of the risk of presenting real spiritual experience as a commodity that all Pagans are entitled to. Gnosis and other spiritual experiences must be earned, and...
View ArticleSyncretic Electric: Looking at Our History (Part 5) — Feminism
Not every Pagan views their spirituality as a site of political action, but, for many of us, this has been one of the lasting gifts of Feminism. For the early Feminists, spirituality and politics were...
View ArticleSyncretic Electric: We Need to be Challenged, or Why I am Thankful
There are moments when Pagan dialogue becomes so concerned with acceptance and diversity that we lose track of the subject of our discussions and stop saying anything at all. Sometimes, I think we...
View ArticleSyncretic Electric: A Brief Reflection on Fiction
Fiction definitely had a great impact on my life, as it continues to do. However, in the end, I was not brought into Paganism by these delightful fictions. I grow nervous when people appeal to these...
View ArticleSyncretic Electric: A Reflection on Mythology
Each of us will come away from mythology with our understandings, and each of us will deploy that mythology in a way that suits us. However, it is important for us to make the effort to allow mythology...
View ArticleSyncretic Electric: Some Questions for Pagan Identity
Perhaps Paganism isn’t a collection of religions, but a certain way of being in the world. Perhaps being Pagan means that we have chosen to experience the world differently than the larger society...
View ArticleSyncretic Electric: Communities or Movements?
Before Christmas, I wrote that Paganism could perhaps be better understood if we examined it through the lens of culture. Now, a month or so later, I feel that I must retreat a bit from that position,...
View ArticleSyncretic Electric: Why I Am a Polytheist
It baffles me to see people come to Paganism, willfully decide to embrace all the pain and hardships that being a member of a minority faith entails, and yet stop short before they are able to really,...
View ArticleSyncretic Electric: Shores, Oceans, and Orientations
What if we could think of Paganism like the ocean in the above metaphor? What if Paganism was not a object, but an orientation? Maybe if we could conceive of Paganism as a way of being in the world, as...
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