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PAGANISM - SURVIVAL OR REVIVAL?I have been thinking for many years that the most profound questions are the simplest ones - who are we? Where did we come from? What am I doing? In striving (even without success) to answer such questions I believe we come closer to our "true spirit" and our "true nature".One of principles of my own journey towards truth (whatever THAT is) has been to strip things back to their essence or origin in order to learn about them. Having performed such surgery on my own spirit back in my past and found that, after many years of not realising it, my spirituality was at its core "pagan" (which I WILL define absolutely in my talk) and my "religion' was, for the most part, witchcraft, I felt that I should look at paganism and the craft itself and see where THEIR absolute origins are and where THEY came from. Researching this accademically got me thinking about my ancestors and came with some interesting chanelling of information from spirit contacts who encouraged me to think more personally about the people and events I was describing. (Privately I named a few cavemen - they are mostly "Smith"!) Thus I found myself with personal insight into the historical question of whether modern pagan practices bear any relation to what ancient pagans did and if so, how and why . . . . This talk is a summary of some of the evidence and ideas that I collected in trying to answer this interesting question by approaching it (properly, in my view) from an historic/accademic point of view but with additional spiritual insight I could not ignore or exclude. My next talk and slideshow will be at Nottingham Empyrean on wednesday 1st October 2008. click here for more of my writings on matters spiritual and magic(k) |
