Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : The Ethics of Love Spells : Hoodoo and New Age Wicca Compared …in modern terms, love magic has taken a very “safe” and “harmless” approach to obtaining your perfect mate. Much of the “harm none” and “no magic without someone’s permission” ethics that we’ve assumed as the pinnacles of morality have simply bled [...]
SOURCE : Wicca as a self-directed, non-initiatory path In recent decades, this creative blend of ceremonial magic, 19th-century romanticism, and Celtic custom has enjoyed a synergistic relationship with feminism and the women’s spirituality movement. Wicca is a goddess-focused religion, and this has made it attractive to those exploring alternatives to patriarchal theology and culture. Wicca [...]
SOURCE : PAGAN AND NEOPAGAN HUMAN SACRIFICE Neopagans call themselves such to avoid being linked with the dark actions of Pagans in ancient times. Yet at the same time, any Christian alive today is as guilty of the Inquisititon or the Salem Witch Trials as someone who lives centuries ago. What evidence do we have [...]
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 : Stephen Hayes on Witchcraft, Wicca, Neo-Paganism and African Traditions By assuming that witchcraft and paganism were formerly the same phenomenon, they (Wiccans) are mixing two utterly different archaic concepts and placing themselves in a certain amount of difficulty. The advantage of the label “witch” is that it has all the exciting connotations of [...]
SOURCE : The Three-fold Law of Return, Exposing This Lie and its Origins This three-fold teaching was taken from the eastern concept of “karma” after it merged with Western Christianity. After the eastern teachings of karma picked up the Judeo/Christian overtones of divine punishment, the product evolved into yet another system of control with the [...]
SOURCE : MEANING OF THE WORD WITCH FROM AROUND THE WORLD The biggest hurdle in trying to have a rational discussion about Wicca is the definition of the word “Witch”. Now, you know the idea of what a Witch is, don’t you? A witch is an evil sorceress, an old crone, flies on a broomstick, [...]
