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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 3:17 pm
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:20 pm
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:24 pm
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:32 pm
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:56 pm
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:05 pm
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:49 pm
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 4:48 pm
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 5:47 pm
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 7:01 am
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 4:05 pm
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:17 am
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 10:01 am
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I was raised with a healthy dose of generic paganism, so there is no real first. My parents were both neopagan lite, especially before their separation, and it never really left me. I didn't get serious about it as pursuit of a path, however, until high school, at which point I read every dreadful resource I could online. However, I learned pretty quickly that someone's badly-designed geocities "book of shadows" really did not make me feel inspired. Some of the ideas were cool, but I couldn't follow through without feeling that the whole thing was cheapened by not being connected to much of anything. Among the first books I read in a serious matter was Scott Cunningham's Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, and it made me pretty sure I was barking up the wrong tree.
What would I recommend as a first resource? That's a tough one, because I don't think any book I've read adequately covers an introduction to seeking a pagan path without being flufforiffic or trite. My advice would be to read mythology and folk stories first. It was only when I started looking at stories, and started examining which ones just hit me deep in the gut and why that might be the case, that I really started getting introspective.
There is no handy guidebook for my path, and I wouldn't want anyone to try and make one. I'm still learning and exploring, and I think that trying to lay down a roadmap would sort of defeat the purpose. So advice for someone wanting to hardcore syncretize the way I do (why anyone would really feel the need to do this out of the blue is beyond me, but you never know) the best advice I can give is to read anything you can get your paws on, and see where it all fits. My first suggestions? The Bible, the oldest myths of the geography or culture you're most realistically attached to, Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell, and any philosophical text that you enjoy more than you want to chuck it across the room.
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:58 am
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:04 am
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Nuri It sounded like a fun exercise. What was your first resource? What's the top one you'd recommend now? For a beginner to Paganism or Witchcraft? How about your current Path? I started with Kveldulf Gundarsson and Edred Thorsson along with the Pagan and Magic forum on ISCA bbs.
Yes, I'm old. 8P
I'm not sure what I'd recommend now. Thorsson's scholarship is overall decent, but he's not really Asatru. Gundarsson has his heart in the right place, but his books are old, and even he says bits of them are hogwash. Of course, that can be a good place to start cutting one's teeth on picking out what UPG one agrees with, but I'm not sure that's a beginner thing.
Someday, I think I'd like to write something, but it might not be publishable since I tend t do things like, oh, use Paris Hilton as an example of someone with excellent hamingja who is squandering it. 3nodding blaugh
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