Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : The Education of Oprah Winfrey – Native American Literary Hoax First published in 1976, “The Education of Little Tree” was supposedly the real-life story of an orphaned boy raised by his Cherokee grandparents; the book became a million seller and sentimental favorite. In 1991, the American Booksellers Association gave “Little Tree” its first-ever [...]
SOURCE : Plastic Shamans and Astroturf Sun Dances: New Age Commercialization of Native American Spirituality Commercial exploitation of Native American spiritual traditions has permeated the New Age movement since its emergence in the 1980s. Euro-Americans professing to be medicine people have profited from publications and workshops. Mass quantities of products promoted as “Native American sacred [...]
SOURCE : The Disease of Modern Yoga The popular “modern yoga” has seriously degenerated from the religion of Hinduism. This pilfered “yoga” is taught by most anyone of an existentialist bent and generally as an exercise business or vague “spirituality.” Being dishonest and unclear, this “modern, new-age yoga” is based on duplicitous generalizations. The degenerative [...]
SOURCE : P.G. Davis’ Goddess Unmasked – Reviewed by Robert Sheaffer One of the fastest-growing new religions today is a neopagan tradition termed “Goddess spirituality.” It is especially popular among New Age disciples and radical feminists but its teachings are accepted at least in part by a large segment of society… A paradise supposedly existed [...]
SOURCE : Laveyan Satanism : A Puerile Philosophy of Stagnation On the surface, this idea of doing what you want and not getting caught might sound attractive, but in the longer term it only results in a way of living that provides short-term gains for long-term loss. It’s the old junkie syndrome… of needing ever [...]
SOURCE : Advice for Neo Pagan Authors They should not project contemporary spiritual assumptions onto texts from the past. The “Celts” didn’t have a “pantheon,” the Irish, the Welsh and the other speakers of Celtic languages were not homogenized into a single “Celtic” whole, and they certainly did not think of the “Lord” and “Lady,” [...]
SOURCE : Wicca and the Insult to Religion Nobody was brought up Wiccan. Nobody had their children named at a “blooding ceremony” straight after the “hand-fasting”, nobody took their children to campfires instead of Sunday School and nobody sat up night after night teaching their little ones enough Chaucer to give them a hope of [...]
SOURCE : The Wiccan Church of Canada: Frequently Asked Questions about Wicca The many individual gods and goddesses are seen by most Wiccans as being — at least to some extent — aspects of the one god and one Goddess, who are in turn aspects of one primal divinity, sometimes referred to as the Source. [...]
SOURCE : Wicca or Witchcraft? Wiccans usually believe in the eastern Hindu/Buddhist (and other) concepts of reincarnation. The idea is that each human spirit is reincarnated time after time into new physical bodies until a type of “spiritual enlightenment” is reached- each life being a new lesson and making the spirit “wiser.” This is not [...]
SOURCE : Defining Paganism: Paleo-, Meso-, and Neo- “Mesopaganism” or “Meso-Paganism” is a general term for a variety of movements both organized and nonorganized, started as attempts to recreate, revive or continue what their founders thought were the best aspects of the Paleopagan ways of their ancestors (or predecessors), but which were heavily influenced (accidentally, [...]
