Tag: paganism
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Folkism: What Is It and How Do We Avoid It?
Basically, every tradition has a fascist element. This is because fascism is prevalent in our society. Just like Christianity and other religions, all forms of paganism will have fascist sects. Rather than tarnishing these religions with a brush of paint that symbolises that they’re all ‘evil’ or some such descriptor, we should instead acknowledge these…
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Invoking Balance: Why We Need to Complicate the Light/Dark Binary
Darkness has come to mean things in culture, often through metaphor, just as light has. But has the association between darkness and light as a binary opposition which then maps onto such concepts as fearful/awesome, evil/good, death/life, rebellion/order, primal/spiritual and others always been so? Well, in short, no it hasn’t. And is it a quite…
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The Gods Get Their Hands Dirty: A Revivalist Approach to Ritual Purity in Hellenic Polytheism
The more I have learned about the gods, the more I have learned about the things they rule over. As I have looked into this, it has become more and more apparent that these domains are filthy, in spiritual terms.
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The Gods Stand With You, Even in Defeat: Fascism, Crises of Faith, and Spiritual Allies
I will not tell you how to grieve. But I wish to share some UPG (unverified personal gnosis) on why the gods may not have been able to give us the result we want, and why they still stand with us in our fight against tyranny and oppression. Perhaps this may offer at least one…
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Stop Taking Things So Damn Literally: Why We Need Media Analysis Skills for Myths
We must bear these startingly inequalities—patriarchal, unequal sexual roles, age, class, citizenship—in mind when we analyse any myth because they will surely influence the way the mythmakers made sense of their gnosis and wrote/recited their tale
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I am Blessed, I am Damned: On Having Psychosis With Religious Themes When You’re a Witch
…psychosis with religious or spiritual themes is exceedingly common in those with this form of mental distress: the linked article above, from the website Living with Schizophrenia, explains that around half of people with schizophrenia will have some form of religious delusion at some point.