In a fraught and hurting world, it was nice to get this small bit of good news today: You Are the Spell was chosen as the @kickstarter Publishing Featured Project of the Day!
Is my personal #Pagan practice and something I will be speaking on from time to time on here. I have also created a subreddit at https://www reddit.com/r/MidgardMedicineWheel for those interested in the beautiful synthesis of #heathenry and #nativeamerican#spirituality
The Gods are ends in themselves, no promise either of earthly success or eternal life is necessary to make them worthy of respect. There is no hierarchy in the universe, no being fundamentally "deserves" or "doesn't deserve" worship, because moral categories are socially emergent. Ultimately the category of "God" is a social relation between two beings.
In the City of God, Augustine goes on and on about how only the god who made the world and promises eternal life is "worthy" of worship and it's like, why? The only people who should be worshipping Jesus are people who have an edifying relationship either with him as a god, with one of his saints or with his church. Eternal life and his identification with the logos or the demiurge or whatever don't enter into it.
No one will believe this, but that's ok. We'll couch it in a what if to make it easier to digest.
What if, when you brought your creative will to bear, the energy that drove you to create was bound in your creation? A piece of your soul woven into reality. What would that look like from the other side of veil?
What if I spoke to someone from the other side last night, and they said that these creations are alive? That they ripple like firefish on the surface of an obsidian pond, the poetry swimming with the music, slipping through art and magick in fractal schools of imagination, the brilliance of math waltzing with philosophy, storytelling a prophecy of infinite possibility.
What if they sang that the Akashic record is a living ecosystem of imagination when seen from the in-between? And that the most curious thing is that even as we create it, it creates us - our dreams brush it as we drift in sleep, our desire is born within it, and we ourselves are the result of the creative spark in our parents eyes (or thighs, as it may be)....?
And what if this is why the fractal elves (themselves woven of this weave) laugh at us when we cross the boundary - just as we laugh at NPCs and characters like Deadpool who break the 4th wall?
@bibliolater@philosophy That's because it's "a meditative practice developed over the last two millennia or so by Buddhist monks and nuns in south and southeast Asia. In its native habitat, it forms one part of a well-polished toolkit". Stripped of those other parts its dangerous.
The days are inching toward Lughnasadh. The harvests are well underway as the mountains get smokier and the buzz of insects in the afternoon gets more insistent. Even as the days get hotter, I yearn for cool autumn mornings wet with dew and the fragrance of bracken browned in the sun.
pagan.plus: My home Mastodon/Hometown server! Our admin is fantastic and communicative, and he really cares about the safety of everyone in the community. There's 0 tolerance for any kind of bigotry here, and kindness/respect are highly emphasized. Plus it's filled with all kinds of awesome pagan folk!
the.occultist.space: A brand new occult-oriented Calckey server. Even though only a few people have joined so far, it seems like a promising space. Some trolls from a different server tried to harass me when I first joined, and the admin was very quick to respond and put a stop to it. The admin seems dedicated to making a safe server for all folks and isn't afraid to admit and fix mistakes.
weirdo.network: While I'm not a member of this Mastodon server, I follow a bunch of people from it. It's a paranormal/high strangeness server! Lots of cool stuff gets posted here.
Opinion: Greta Thunberg, Misrepresentation, and Ásatrú Climate Change Ethics ~ As in the Ziggy Stardust song from more than a half-century ago, we’re simultaneously surrounded by evidence of catastrophic climate change and absolutely unwilling to make the necessary changes to mitigate it.