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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:35 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:42 am
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Dristinia I'm curious why there seems to be a lot of "hate" for Silver Ravenwolf's books. I looked over her credentials and it seems like she knows what she's talking about. 1) She lied about a fair number of her credentials to begin with. 2) She instructs minors to lie to their parents. 3) She perpetuates anthropology and armchair archeology that was debunked ages ago in order to make her path seem more valid. 4) She treats other religions with a great deal of disrespect- engaging in fallacious reasoning to justify her prejudice.
Quote: I'll admit I'm new to the pagan lifestyle and I'm not sure if I'm doing things right ( since I currently own two books on the "black list") I'm just trying to get a feel for why these books are "wrong" to learn from. sweatdrop As long as you have them, you might as well read them unless you have trouble separating fact from fiction.
But really- there are tons of better books out there.
Quote: About me - I was raised christian in a small town in florida where it is a christain area. A few years ago I decided that the christian faith wasn't my style anymore so I began looking into other religions. I currently practice tarot with celtic wicca deck but I'm not sure if I can really classify myself as "wiccan" because of it. I recently moved to massachusetts where thankfully its more cultured religion wise and found this guild through the GL's siggy. What makes a Wiccan is being Clergy within the Wiccan Lord and Lady's fertility cult.
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:53 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:16 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:23 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:28 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:51 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:54 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:17 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:49 am
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Seconding Tea's suggestion with a bit of elaboration. For someone who does feel called towards paganism but not to a specific flavor, generic neo-paganism is a great way to go, and does not necessarily deserve the somewhat bad rap it can get.
Basically, you can go different ways with eclecticism. Most popular neo-pagan authors tend to go, unfortunately, the way of mashing everything together, devoid of context. The watered-down soup of decontextualized traditions forms the bulk of most books I've paged through that use "Wicca" or "magick" in their titles.
The other way you can go in regards to eclecticism is admittedly harder, but shouldn't your religious beliefs be worth it? Basically, research is key. Sure, read some of the easy mishmash stuff, but read up on historical occultism (helps too to research within your geographical area sometimes-- I know I was frustrated when a lot of what I was reading assumed a natural environment full of deciduous forests and water, when I live in a desert) and specific paths. Build up knowledge and find out what tugs at you. As an added bonus, with some research you'll learn what it's okay for you to do within the context of other traditions, since running around offending someone else's gods by trying to yank them out of their cultural context isn't the best idea.
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:05 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:18 pm
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There isn't exactly a master list. You can get a pretty good idea from a variety of places online, but they certainly aren't going to be all-inclusive. A pretty good start is just going to the Pathways section of this forum and poking around. Some of them are open traditions, some are not, and all of them will give you a good idea of the wide variety of what's being perfectly practiced. It certainly isn't a list of all that's out there, but it's a start.
Also, go to the religions and occult section of your local library, and see what there is to see there.
In my less than humble opinion, you shouldn't try to learn about all the paths all at once so that you can pick one. Take it a few at a time, explore at a reasonable pace. It may mean that you go without direction for a while, but that's okay. Being able to label yourself something particular right away isn't important. Finding what's right for you in your own time is. And if something is out there waiting for you, chances are you'll come to it sooner or later.
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:49 pm
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:52 pm
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