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Yet Another Journal to Update
Sep. 5th, 2010 09:54 amSo I jumped on the bandwagon and got this shiny new Dreamwidth account. While it would probably make a lot more sense to just crosspost stuff from Livejournal, I feel compelled to make this journal something different (especially since only a few close friends know of this journal's existence anyway).
Those of you who know me also know that I identify as Wiccan/Neopagan. For the past couple of years I've been kind of a lapsed Pagan; letting myself grow too busy/lazy to really pay attention to spiritual matters. Lately, though, I've felt very drawn back in. I feel like my life is more in order than it's been in a long time, that I'm at least mostly mentally and emotionally stable enough to take a look at this part of myself and that I'm suddenly very in-tune with the progression of the seasons. I once again picked up my copy of Scott Cunningham's "Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" and, having since shed off any baggage I've felt about the need to be a "real," honest-to-goodness initiated Gardnerian-style Wiccan, have found that the ideas in the book have really clicked with me. I've never been one to think that religion is something that is something that can and should solve all the problems in one's life, but once I began to examine and try to tackle my own problems myself, it was the more stable "me" that opened up to what this path has to offer.
Anyway, one of the exercises in the "practices" section of Cunningham's book is to keep a "Mirror Book," a journal of one's spiritual experiences, dreams, personal revelations and thoughts. I have a paper version of such a book, but I thought (perhaps mistakenly, lol) that other people might be interested in reading some excerpts of that should I feel compelled to share them. I know a lot of people who are, for lack of a better description, "anti-religious" (which is a term that sounds sort of hostile but I don't mean it that way) or atheist, sometimes due in part to the attitudes of some organized bodies of the world's major religions. I understand that wholeheartedly, believe me! I'm not trying to convince anyone otherwise or try to dissuade anyone's hostility. This is just my exercise. Feel free to comment/ignore as you see fit.
Those of you who know me also know that I identify as Wiccan/Neopagan. For the past couple of years I've been kind of a lapsed Pagan; letting myself grow too busy/lazy to really pay attention to spiritual matters. Lately, though, I've felt very drawn back in. I feel like my life is more in order than it's been in a long time, that I'm at least mostly mentally and emotionally stable enough to take a look at this part of myself and that I'm suddenly very in-tune with the progression of the seasons. I once again picked up my copy of Scott Cunningham's "Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" and, having since shed off any baggage I've felt about the need to be a "real," honest-to-goodness initiated Gardnerian-style Wiccan, have found that the ideas in the book have really clicked with me. I've never been one to think that religion is something that is something that can and should solve all the problems in one's life, but once I began to examine and try to tackle my own problems myself, it was the more stable "me" that opened up to what this path has to offer.
Anyway, one of the exercises in the "practices" section of Cunningham's book is to keep a "Mirror Book," a journal of one's spiritual experiences, dreams, personal revelations and thoughts. I have a paper version of such a book, but I thought (perhaps mistakenly, lol) that other people might be interested in reading some excerpts of that should I feel compelled to share them. I know a lot of people who are, for lack of a better description, "anti-religious" (which is a term that sounds sort of hostile but I don't mean it that way) or atheist, sometimes due in part to the attitudes of some organized bodies of the world's major religions. I understand that wholeheartedly, believe me! I'm not trying to convince anyone otherwise or try to dissuade anyone's hostility. This is just my exercise. Feel free to comment/ignore as you see fit.
