RE: What do you think of Wicca?
June 19, 2018 at 5:40 pm
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2018 at 5:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 19, 2018 at 5:23 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: You were helpful. And then, you got a big head.Na, it;s always been this big. Just, weirdly big. In all seriousness, though...the psychology and sociology of belief and how that relates to religion, faith, spiritualism and occultism isn;t a black box. I couldn;t pick you out in a crowd, and I don;t know your favorite flavor of icecream - but it's pretty easy to connect the dots when a person wants to know about wicca for rituals and spells and mentions that they miss mass.
Pageantry and evocative religious imagarey denote a particular kind of believer that responds to specific stimuli. Thats why those stimuli exist in those traditions in the first place. To facilitate the sense of the numinous. You are entirely likely to find wiccan ritual unfulfilling if your baseline for comparison is mass. Wicca just doesn;t have the organizational clout to pull it off, and unless you find yourself particularly drawn to the narrative ethos of pagan gods..the whole thing will be a wash.
Most people "try" wicca. Very few stick with it. That;s part of the reason why. The people who stick with it have commonalities, so do those who try it and leave. Spell seekers and tourists from christian traditions are the shortest lived demographic. I don;t have to know you in any intimate sense to know that about wicca or to know that about people. You'll find these remarks in the books I recommended as well..for what it;s worth.
You could sum the whole thing up as a long winded way for me to tell you that wicca isn;t the droid you;re looking for.
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