Welcome to the Rehab Center

[Sam Oaken Willow 17]

Hi! I'm new to the guild, but not to paganism. Been pagan for about 5 years and I joined to get involved in intelligent conversation. If you ever need advice on anything, feel free to PM me!  

[TeaDidikai]

Sam Oaken Willow 17

If you ever need advice on anything, feel free to PM me!

Welcome to the guild.

What credentials do you have that would make you someone to turn to for advice?  

[Sam Oaken Willow 17]

I'm a good listener and if I don't know much about a certain problem I will be glad to learn alongside whoever I'm talking with. I feel like different insights to certain problems should be taken into consideration before making big decisions, and my advice shouldn't be the only advice considered before moving forward.  

[TeaDidikai]

Sam Oaken Willow 17

I'm a good listener and if I don't know much about a certain problem I will be glad to learn alongside whoever I'm talking with. I feel like different insights to certain problems should be taken into consideration before making big decisions, and my advice shouldn't be the only advice considered before moving forward.

That doesn't really provide much context.
And if you're hoping they'll get a well rounded group of opinions, how do you do this when they're communicating via PMs?  

[Sam Oaken Willow 17]

I'm sure they have other friends to contact. smile  

[TeaDidikai]

Sam Oaken Willow 17

I'm sure they have other friends to contact. smile

Could you perhaps give us some idea about what you have studied?  

[Sam Oaken Willow 17]

I'm going to school for anthropology and religious studies and German. I love discussing cultures and religions, but don't claim any kind of proficency in the German language. When it comes to paganism I do astral work and energy work, though I wish I would have more time to do both. Triple majoring doesn't really leave time for much else.

However, I am interested in doing more healing work. Or I guess I should say "start" doing healing work.  

[TeaDidikai]

Sam Oaken Willow 17

I'm going to school for anthropology and religious studies and German. I love discussing cultures and religions, but don't claim any kind of proficency in the German language. When it comes to paganism I do astral work and energy work, though I wish I would have more time to do both. Triple majoring doesn't really leave time for much else.

However, I am interested in doing more healing work. Or I guess I should say "start" doing healing work.

Do you have a specific tradition?
What books have you read about your practices?  

[Sam Oaken Willow 17]

I'm in the middle of coming out of eclectic paganism and into forming my own tradition or path. I have plenty of books (well plenty in my opinion) but have actually read: Edain McCoy's If You Want to be a Witch, Buckland's Big Blue Book, some Scott Cunningham, a part of Nocturnal Witchcraft (still working my way through that one), Ganapati Song of the Self, Kessler's Studying Religion...and I'm sure a few others that have influenced me. There are also books that are partially read somewhere that I can't think of at the moment.  

[TeaDidikai]

Sam Oaken Willow 17

I'm in the middle of coming out of eclectic paganism and into forming my own tradition or path. I have plenty of books (well plenty in my opinion) but have actually read: Edain McCoy's If You Want to be a Witch, Buckland's Big Blue Book, some Scott Cunningham, a part of Nocturnal Witchcraft (still working my way through that one), Ganapati Song of the Self, Kessler's Studying Religion...and I'm sure a few others that have influenced me. There are also books that are partially read somewhere that I can't think of at the moment.

~wince~ Heh... hoboy.

Well, like I said, welcome to the guild.  

[Sam Oaken Willow 17]

TeaDidikai

Sam Oaken Willow 17

I'm in the middle of coming out of eclectic paganism and into forming my own tradition or path. I have plenty of books (well plenty in my opinion) but have actually read: Edain McCoy's If You Want to be a Witch, Buckland's Big Blue Book, some Scott Cunningham, a part of Nocturnal Witchcraft (still working my way through that one), Ganapati Song of the Self, Kessler's Studying Religion...and I'm sure a few others that have influenced me. There are also books that are partially read somewhere that I can't think of at the moment.

~wince~ Heh... hoboy.

Well, like I said, welcome to the guild.

Spill it. You know you wanna. Let it out.

On a side note, "hoboy" just sounded funny in my head.  

[TeaDidikai]

Sam Oaken Willow 17

TeaDidikai

Sam Oaken Willow 17

I'm in the middle of coming out of eclectic paganism and into forming my own tradition or path. I have plenty of books (well plenty in my opinion) but have actually read: Edain McCoy's If You Want to be a Witch, Buckland's Big Blue Book, some Scott Cunningham, a part of Nocturnal Witchcraft (still working my way through that one), Ganapati Song of the Self, Kessler's Studying Religion...and I'm sure a few others that have influenced me. There are also books that are partially read somewhere that I can't think of at the moment.

~wince~ Heh... hoboy.

Well, like I said, welcome to the guild.

Spill it. You know you wanna. Let it out.

On a side note, "hoboy" just sounded funny in my head.

Two racists, one initiate who ended up having his work sold under a mislabeled title...  

[Sam Oaken Willow 17]

Okay now you lost me. Explain please?  

[TeaDidikai]

Sam Oaken Willow 17

Okay now you lost me. Explain please?

McCoy and Buckland are two of the biggest racists who publish in the pagan scene.

Cunningham was initiated, but what he wrote about wasn't of the Wica and didn't do a good job of distinguishing between itself and the cult.  

[Sam Oaken Willow 17]

TeaDidikai

Sam Oaken Willow 17

Okay now you lost me. Explain please?

McCoy and Buckland are two of the biggest racists who publish in the pagan scene.

Cunningham was initiated, but what he wrote about wasn't of the Wica and didn't do a good job of distinguishing between itself and the cult.

That's okay because I'm not Wiccan nor do I claim to be.

And have you ever actually met McCoy and Buckland? Because I feel like Buckland came off as an a** in the Blue Book, but I hear from someone who has met him that he is a really nice person. Same thing for McCoy, though her books don't rub me the wrong way.