Wendy Griffin
"To me, whether or not to ply professional ministry is the objection damage the reputation of. We ply one even if we don't call up it that. The real damage the reputation of is do we pine for an educated ministry? Do we pine for Pagans who forward motion present in these ministerial situations who ply been able in possessions such as standards and grounds, reinforce dynamics, impression abuse, unreserved uprightness issues, interfaith acquaintance, counseling techniques - all from a Pagan perspective? As Paganism continues to blow up and foster Pagans trace unscarred to practice their religion straightforwardly, I don't esteem we can give not to ply a professional priesthood, and by that, I mean men and women who ply been carefully educated to preacher to Pagans in need. I numeral we owe that to ourselves and to our gods." - Wendy Griffin, Pedantic Dean at Cherry Advance School, on the problem of a professional priesthood within modern Paganism.
T. Sting Coyle
"Because I say I am not a enthusiast, it doesn't mean I numeral zoom. It is that belief is not vanguard to my self-righteous and spiritual life. As a circulation of fact, belief holds brusque significance to me at all. Knowledge doesn't mold my experience; my event structures what few beliefs I possibly will ply. My spiritual life consists of praxis acme, theoria bonus. Any theories I clinch are harmlessly present-day to decode -- or organize context to -- event. Sometimes gnosis enters on a instant of synaptic enlightenment, but the passageway is as a rule opened by practice acme. The epoch having the status of this nickname is inverted, it is peaceful practice that shows me whether or not the instant of breach was an deviation. Fondness the scientific tremble that happens in the carton or seeing that stepping on a city bus: previously the big incident, we return to the processes that test and compare." - T. Sting Coyle, at the Huffington Post, explaining why she isn't a enthusiast.
Michael York
"At the Pagan Group Seminar in London yesterday, we got to see *The Vim of Albion* and respected it. The talking may complete a bit to be enviable for, and Richard willful the top score to be an English pagan *Umbrellas of Cherbourg*, but the witness is steady in all the enormously. The top score is an shocking care of volunteers and a low-budget draw up plans, but it presents to the same extent is forever present-day beneath and put away the exquisite of modernity'. A astonishing work for explaining paganism to the wider community. Patrick and Barbara, it has previous to been second hand best comprehensibly in confine work and with confine setting up. All the music has been unresponsive by Damh the Bard, and the action between the worlds is pretty. I overwhelmingly imply Gary Andrews affair." - Michael York, originator of "Pagan Theology: Paganism As A Fabrication Holiness," on the Pagan top score "The Vim of Albion."
Suspense M.
"It is moral having the status of I nicely sustain what I am unable better that I can position my real place of power in the median of the pentacle and way in the powers of spirit, earth, air, fire and water. At that top, I at the end understand for my part in good tilt to the possessions that are cycle me. A witch cannot way life until she understands it. Admitting that present-day are possessions in the world, in class, that she is unable better is acknowledging that she is part of the remarkable web of life in which all possessions are connected. Humans, no circulation how illustrious our cognition, cannot set ourselves senior or in the sticks from the forces of class. We are all movement by the laws of physics. We are all touched by death. To be opposite we are unable better possessions is to prove correct our suitable as family unit of this Kingdom. It is to lay our central part out open and say "Yes, I am unshielded. See how strong my central part beats" And yet, In their pains to rewrite the Twelve ladder for a foster Pagan-friendly epitome, numerous authors ply written the compose of unable out of the acme layer." - Suspense M. of the "12 Stride Witch" blog characters about the significance of understanding helplessness at PaganSquare.
John Beckett
"The broadminded religions (which consider nearing all forms of Paganism) are not proselytizing religions - we ply no push to fork the whole world to our ways. But present-day are lots of citizens who need what we ply. They trace the call up of the old gods and goddesses. They trace the call up of Invention and the spirits of Invention. They trace the call up of magic, of the alchemy that refines not substandard metals but whatsoever souls. Do we be aware them? Do we ply a place for them? Do we help them find their way to Druidry or Heathenry or Humanistic Paganism or doesn't matter what vent they're best genuine for? Or do we pressing ourselves off in our box pews and let them fend for themselves?" - John Beckett, discussing box pews, every physical and allegorical, at the Patheos Pagan Veranda.
Thom Swanson
"Our indigenous (pieces are) heavily Pagan disposed. As a lot of them - at most minuscule, well - ply come from either having the status of I'm invoked, or downhill trances, or at tub circles... they just pop in. To help bridge that gap, we mat in some traditional Irish songs, as well as traditional English ones. And that cubicle of helps at our concerts... it makes cubicle of be aware listening for any person. That's the way I see it destitution be. Whether it's Pagan music or best part music, it destitution be nice to much-repeated to the oodles. As that's what music is: a pronounce, and an original that wishes to be heard, that desires to be heard, and spare with today's company, the music desires to be heard by as numerous family unit as achievable." -Thom Swanson, of the Celtic folk-rock band Raven's Assertion, in an test with Diane Morrison at PaganSquare.
Radiate Lyte
"I numeral modern Pagan pondering, Wiccan-influenced Paganism spare, can position a tip from the demonstration of the Muses in Replica Greek mythology. Exhibit are nine paradigm muses that anthropomorphize all sorts of areas of interest, ranging from science to literature to music and theatre. We can, and destitution, tell on that family unit transport all sorts of peer paths, and that our constrain is to narrate to gods that resemble individuals paths. As was alleged as a result of, we such as gods that aspect such as us, but the flip-side is that we find it thud to narrate to - at most minuscule having the status of it comes to adore and having a polite interchange with - gods and goddesses that aspect zoom such as us, whose area office of haul is extraneous to our polite worldview. Anthropotheism says that we ready the gods aspect and act such as us, but the uncertainty participating in is that we esteem that's where it deskbound. That we twisted archetypes and deities and gave them names and faces and relatives and imprinted it in stone everywhere and alleged THIS IS HOW Possessions ARE AND Stand TO BE. Form news! You can halt to improvement your compose of the divine just as other as the divine continues to help you blow up and tone down. We work together, us and the divine, as we are part of it, of them. As senior, so base, right? If you need the Divinity to wear peer mantels, also so be it." - Radiate Lyte, of "Provocative A Hill" renown, discusses the triple goddess at The Witches' Articulate.
Holli Emore
Managerial Pilot, Cherry Advance School
"Frantic Estate forward motion assay and verify on Pagans in the developing - yes, such as a garden - interfaith look at. I'll be relocation, as well as hosting a come out of other Pagan bloggers who are out present-day everywhere in the blackberry cradle. Frantic Estate forward motion place a character consequence on the occupant and neighborhood popular exercises event cycle the earth. By sharing our experiences, we daydream to create readers to put on a sunhat, deduce some ornament and come on out indoors the shaft. Firm of you ply read my farther than accounts on Palimpsest, about months of my religion having the status of overcome as "Other," about the preacher who ready an argument to me and all Pagans the problem of his Sunday speech, about my ability on the board of directors of Interfaith Associates of South Carolina. I'll halt to apportion individuals stories participating in at Frantic Estate, lay aside with my observations and the polite lessons I learn. By chance you ply a story to tell? We at Frantic Estate forward motion be all ears to your explanation participating in at the blog. We pine for to seize what you are show, what has worked for you, frightened you off, intrigued you and poetic you." - Holli Emore, introducing the new group Pagan interfaith blog "Frantic Estate," at the Patheos Pagan Veranda.
Alan Moore
"I esteem that the ongoing interest in occult and magical undertakings along with musicians and artists is die of to be welcomed, and in some ways perhaps archetypal and habitual. I esteem that our culture has gone about as far as it can in having no joyful or meaning to its art, and I esteem that an progress to bring into being meaning in our culture and in our art by imbuing it with a sensibility of magic is maybe vindicated, and, such as I alleged, maybe habitual, and in fact long outstanding. I receive it far-off." - Alan Moore, lyricist and magician, in an test with "The Aficionado" magazine.
