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“Why I Do Not Call Myself a Pagan” by Dave Salyers
I have long felt conflicted about calling myself a “Pagan”. I have a focus on ancestral and animistic nature veneration, while the term “Pagan” in the Western sense seems to be conflated with casting spells to alter the natural flow of things and resurrecting worshipping of pantheons of deities from ancient civilizations.
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Read More“Why I am a godless Heathen”
When I say that I am godless, it is a shorthand method for stating that I am a Naturalist, a Rationalist, and an Evidentialist. When I say that I am a Heathen, I am announcing my allegiance with the reconstructed philosophies, beliefs, and morality of ancient Germanic peoples.
Read More[A Pedagogy of Gaia] “The P-Word” by Bart Everson
I call myself Pagan because wild nature is awesome, and I experience Earth as sacred, and I realize I don’t have a well-delineated self separate from the planetary ecosystem. I call myself Pagan because I think honoring the ancestors is a good idea, and I feel a connection to antiquity, and I like mythology. I call myself Pagan because dancing under the moon is my kind of religion, and a purely rational approach to life is deadening.
Read More[Starstuff, Contemplating] “The Circle of Death & Life” by Jon and Heather Cleland Host
Samhain is a time of remembrance. It is a time to honor the dead. We celebrate how our dead loved ones have shaped our lives. We are also affected by those who have gone from the living deep into our past. Samhain is an opportunity to remember those gifts, to reflect on what we have gained as human beings from ancient Ancestors that have gone long before us, both human and non-human.
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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