I'm glad I got this video today. I'm going through a time where I didn't think I'd get back on my spiritual path. But I felt a strong calling back to journey and I definitely trying to get my hands on anything involving spiritual stuff. Being pagan, wicca, or witchy. I'm gonna listen and learn all I can. But the one thing I know, I'm finding my footing and courage to knowing myself. Hope you have an amazing new year and I wish everyone well!
As misunderstood as everything else is I imagine. Your content is much appreciated by me. Thanks for the effort to make original content that is interesting.
A great video and not ‘rambling’ at all, well formed in fact. Greetings from a pretty much solitary, easy going Druid, originally from Sussex and now living in Ireland. Oh and with Welsh, English and Scots ancestry…. and an Irish Citizen. The most important thing you said - in my humble opinion - is what I’ve always said. All beliefs/Spiritualities/Religions are just different routes to the same destination. It all goes wrong when one of them says “Ours is the right/true/only way.” Ah well…we’ll see about that. Great video.
Yes...I agree we can be both Christian and Pagan...especially here in Ireland..All our holy Catholic days are Pagan holy days too. Back in the day it was soo difficult to convert the Pagans without including many Pagan rituals and beliefs. The way I connect the pieces...Good Friday ( the death ) .Holy Saturday ( rest period) and Easter Sunday resurrection ( rebirth) . Life ..death..rebirth.
It's interesting how you hit on so many things I've been researching and mulling over in the past year. Then you described your book, and I thought, "That's right up my alley!" Went to Amazon, read the description, and found out the protagonist has my name. Well now I gotta read it! Great video, thank you.
I don't think we are meant to complete the puzzle. We long for connection to nature, each other and everything. Our ancestors created that out of necessity and it was lost. Some of the lore is perhaps no longer relevant in modern times but we still crave it. We are kind of free now, to create connections, some old, some new, some shared, some personal, some religious even. As long as we follow our hearts and those connections are made with love, I don't think any gods or god will mind 😉
I'm enjoying reading these comments so much❤ I haven't watched this yet. Some YT videos I just listen to, but I want to spend time with this when I can actually sit down and watch and listen properly.
The eastern mountain range in the united states are the same ones that run through Scotland and I can feel that connection to this day. The spirits in the western part of the U.S. are different... but there is a very deep connection between celtic spirits and the Appalachians. Like you can connect to Scotland and your ancestors through it. JMHO
I have been following your channel for a few years now. I really appreciate your honesty and non-bias. I love Norse.. it seems very megalithic based on what we know. I know odin is why I want to travel and why I love to experience other cultures' food. Now Scotland, I know by records my family came over after the battle of Culloden. So I am looking forward to this.
I like a lot of what the RUclips channel Taliesin's Map has to say about the Celtic deities and how they map to the Indo-European complex, though I do agree that animism is maybe more important for them than many other Indo-European cultures, even if just a little more. As for also being an "American pagan", it definitely changes how one connects to the Gods of the European cultures we descend from. I'm mostly of "Celtic" ancestry (Scottish, Welsh, Irish) with some English, but as an American having been raised on Greco-Roman mythology as well as being raised in Choctaw territory, I relate to the sun as a "male" and the moon as "female", though in Welsh the word for sun is grammatically masculine and the word for moon is grammatically feminine so who knows where my feelings about that truly come from.
You are the best, as usual! I too have gone away from calling myself Norse pagan/Odinist most of the time. I just think we have so much to gather from around the world, and animism feels more natural to me than polytheism. Even with the Norse specifically, I'm more curious about who our ancestors worshiped before 3-4k years ago - possibly the jotuns, primordial forces of nature.
I have always had difficulty with labels for me they separate rather than unite so it was good to hear your views on that. I would also like to experience more face to face interactive honest dialogues with people on just about anything if I could just get them to pause between dashing from one headlight to another. Time Jacob that’s what we need to make more of time and togetherness. Thank you for the work you put in to making these videos I really appreciate them.
This might upset some folks, but I think that your genetics connect you way deeper than what people might think. If you are of northern descent I do think you will have an easier time feeling a deep connection to the ancestors, just the way one with Middle Eastern roots will feel connected to those places.
American Pagans may be in a particularly good position to explore the larger puzzle. Our ancestry is more mixed than other people's, and our culture is extremely dynamic--and we're in a season of trying to discover who we are. This energy aligns beautifully with spiritual exploration of every kind. It may annoy some--but Americans annoying other people's and each other is just another Tuesday. Hopefully some good will emerge from our chaos.
I've felt myself pulled in many directions because of this. I feel like a rolling stone; a tree with no roots. I would like to settle down someday, but where and with whom I do not know. Perhaps soon I'll finally be in a position to travel and feel what calls to me.
@@PsychicAlchemyMy best wishes for your future travels! In the meantime, I hope resources and people find their way to you--so at least your mind can explore, even if you're bodily in place.
From my experience so far people either think Paganism is evil with sacrifices, or they think it's stupid and childish that we worship nature. But I don't care, they can think what they like while I enjoy life as a Chaos Practitioning Pagan/Witch/Pantheist/Taoist ect. I dip into so many ideas that I don't bother with labels. Feels a million times more fulfilling than my previous 24 years of Atheism.
I think people tend to label certain belief systems as “evil” if it doesn’t fit some kind of institutionalized religion. When people practice ‘individuality,’ it tends to scare the ‘powers that be’ because they can’t instill a doctrine of fear and control. Just my opinion.
As a Scot I lol'd with what you said about the Scottish climate. We literally still say to each other daily 'At least it's no pishin doon' assuming it isn't. You're correct though. If humanity doesn't learn to live together, we will learn to die together.
Speaker and teacher of Scottish Gaelic here. You should read Ronald Hutton's book Queens of the Wild if you want to understand the Cailleach. She's a RECENT phenomenon, like 1800s, MAYBE back to the 1600s, which I can attest personally from my studies of folklore and mythology through Scottish history. Yeah, there's an early-medieval reference to the "Cailleach Bheura," but it's a poem about a Christian nun from a place called Beura or Bearra. People have tried to interpret Beura as her name, but that makes no sense because "Cailleach Bheura," with that H added, means "veiled one (i.e. nun) of Beura." Beura is in the genitive, denoting her place of origin. The name passed into folklore and gradually developed into a powerful embodiment of winter. The really fascinating thing is that what the Cailleach turned into in the Early Modern period has nothing Christian about it whatever, and yet she arose in a Christian period and among a very Christian culture. And she isn't the only supernatural figure to have done so! Which leads to questions about whether Christianity and paganism are really so binary as Christians like to tell us they are. Anyway, the Cailleach is fascinating and well worth learning about, but you should all be warned that she is NOT pre-Christian -- more than a thousand years too late for that -- and thus cannot be trusted to be representative of pagan beliefs in pre-Christian Scotland. Perhaps she might resemble them, perhaps she doesn't; we don't have enough information to know. Hope that's helpful and interesting! 😊
I'm very new to norce paganism, coming from a short spell studying wicca, but one thing I am connected to is nature. I am from the UK so there is no shortage of nature, its the one place I feel truly at one (give me a woodland walk over a shopping trip any day). I came across norce paganism after a walk b4 yule the name jord came into my head and just wouldn't go so I looked it up and found out who she was(and found your channel)now I have a lot of fascinating studying to do.
Great "rambling" video (as you called it). I really like what you say in it and your open mindidness. Loads of wars would have been avoided if more people left others live their spirituality the way that suited them.
Love your videos I am very new to all this and watching you has been very helpful for me Thank You .I am Scottish and French decent . I wish I knew more of the my Scottish side of ancestry. Being from Quebec Canada I cannot find much about Pagan belief . I for sure will be watching more of your content on youtube Thanks again !
I have read books where occultists and others have complained about different groups keeping their knowledge , putting it in a box and sitting on it. These books by the way are several decades old.
I couldn't agree more with you we all can learn from each other. I really feel a connection to the Germanic Gods such as Woden and Hludana Tyr. But not necessarily just those I'm I'm open to other Gods and goddess too. I've had experience even with Native American Gods and the land. Really enjoyed this content as always.
Like many things, our beliefs are often shaped by our life's experiences. My ancestry is Celtic with some Scandinavian, but I spent every summer of my childhood with my granny in the Appalachian Mountains (with it's Scottish & Irish influences) & a goodly chunk of those summers at the reservation for the Eastern Band of Cherokee. I've also spent a good part of my adult life in New Orleans. My Nordic & Celtic/Irish paganism has definitely has been influenced by that & because of it, my beliefs do include a little sprinkling of essence from Native American stories & voodoo practices - making it a bit of a spiritual gumbo. It's not for everyone but it works for me.
I have a question, and I'm sorry that it doesn't pertain to this video. This was my first Yule, and I built my first alter. Gave offerings and really felt fulfilled with this experience. My question is, what would you recommend my next step be?
Good thoughts overall, but I imagine that indigenous people on this continent might have concerns about us using bits and pieces of their practice out of context. As a very experienced witch the best way forward with that is not always clear. There is a thin line between acknowledging and taking.
Humans are by nature territorial and tribal but don't have to be a-holes about it. I've noticed a lot of Gen Z are very label-intensive. The old hippy in me cringes at this having spent most of my adult life trying to shed labels and be tolerant of differences. The definition of pagan is loosely, "holding or constituting religious beliefs other than those of the main or recognized religions." So I've always seen it as a big tent with room for everyone who fits that definition. I hope we can keep from being hostile to our fellow pagans however they choose to define themselves. Even if they don't share my values, they have the right to their own destiny. "An ye harm none, do what ye will"
I live in Omaha, NE, I'm pagan, I don't follow the Abrahamic religions. I invoke Egyptian gods, the Yezidi high angel, but also a chief indigenous spirit from my own area.
Traitorrrrr! 😂 Just kidding, I've come to the same conclusion. Never joined groups because I don't need to be apart of a collective to have spirituality, 2 , nothing felt right, 3, I would be limiting myself. Especially some groups are very structured, no room for ideas. I get the need to establish but it's pretty silly with the lack of solid information we have.
I'm with you on the labelling it's why I have chosen for over a decade now (nearly two) to just identify as a neo pagan witch because I'm identifying that my paganism is neo (new/modern) and it's based upon my location as well as being eclectic. The witchcraft is small w as it's the craft of the witch not a spirituality per-say for me personally. I'm quite agnostic sometimes atheistic in my beliefs.
Peter J Carrol is a great author to explore. There is a meta system that makes all the cosmologies both true and false in that they are incomplete and primarily for a culture at a time to understand the One Who Cannot Be Spoken.
For Me. There are no fixed ways I have to follow. Not from anyone anywhere anytime. My Spiritual Practise is an Eclectic mix of Everything. To best resonate with my own Spirit Energy. It feels to me. That the Spirit Beings, Gods, Creative Forces etc. Existed long before Humans and the Human way of Understanding with Words. So it resonates with me that we Humans tend to Manifest the supreme Spirit Energy into a form that best suits our individual needs and understanding. The Gods appear to us in the way they know best connects them to the individual. This is the understanding my Spiritual practise has left me with. It is mine. It is unique to me. Everyone else has their way unique to them. I am having a go at giving the Expectations of the established Gregorian calendar a miss this Winter. So no happy new year from me. As I am refusing to be bound to made up Time constraints from Pope Gregory, as and when I do not really have to. Could I go as far as saying, there are no such thing as years really? Just the constant Cycle of Natural Occurrence? Blessings and Respects to All.
I think the misunderstandings come from people not understanding history. We are all worshipping the same things. All of these things came from the same part of the world because civilization started in one part of the world, then spread out and the deities changed names, and stories were slightly changed to account for geological, ecological, and meteorological changes of different regions. So just folliw what makes sense to you and how and where you live your life.
I can't help but wonder if some of the reasoning behind how Celtic deities are seen as beings to sacrifice to, to stay away and are less emphasized vs Norse is due to a combination of the Celts practicing oral traditions and the earlier influence of the church. The new religion would have wanted to paint the deities negatively and having no earlier written records to say otherwise it's stuck all this time.
At least in north America modern neodruids and what Celtic pagans I know don't view them in that kind of way and very much honour and ask for blessings much like you would Norse. However you have had the chance to meet pagans in Ireland, Scotland, England etc so their perspective being raised in the modern descendant of the Celtic world might be more grounded. Perhaps North Americans are fantasizing about them in a more positive light.
Thing is, if you elect to segregate and pigeon hole your faith/belief/need, then I believe your spiritual growth is stunted. Of course most organised faith/belief systems are, to my mind, instruments of control, of governance and, ultimately, exploitation. I was interested in your viewpoint regarding the Scottish pagan vision. The Scottish Christian vision is quite similar in that it’s based on fear, rejection and regression. The landscape and the environment feed into this, and from such an environment, spiritual as well as physical, the Scottish people have continually and successfully fed into international creativity in a wide range of fields.
We must be carful to make sure that we are not inject new-age hippy ideals into our ancestors traditions. Without living the Heroic ideals and being ready to save blood and soil this is just cope and maturation. It's time the hippies in this moved over. All of the cultures you quoted in this video spring from one perennial people who spread those ideas.
I haven't watched the video yet but I can tell you yes absolutely yes. I'm sick of everyone assuming I'm either a devil worshiper or Wiccan.
I'm glad I got this video today. I'm going through a time where I didn't think I'd get back on my spiritual path. But I felt a strong calling back to journey and I definitely trying to get my hands on anything involving spiritual stuff. Being pagan, wicca, or witchy. I'm gonna listen and learn all I can.
But the one thing I know, I'm finding my footing and courage to knowing myself.
Hope you have an amazing new year and I wish everyone well!
As misunderstood as everything else is I imagine. Your content is much appreciated by me. Thanks for the effort to make original content that is interesting.
Excellent, brother! I had a feeling you were heading in this direction about a year or so ago. Thanks for bringing me along for the journey!
I love your message about sharing and finding the different pieces of the puzzle. There's so much we can still learn. Thank you.
A great video and not ‘rambling’ at all, well formed in fact.
Greetings from a pretty much solitary, easy going Druid, originally from Sussex and now living in Ireland.
Oh and with Welsh, English and Scots ancestry…. and an Irish Citizen.
The most important thing you said - in my humble opinion - is what I’ve always said. All beliefs/Spiritualities/Religions are just different routes to the same destination.
It all goes wrong when one of them says “Ours is the right/true/only way.”
Ah well…we’ll see about that.
Great video.
Im a Christian and a Pagan and I agree with you about sharing the puzzle pieces. Everyone has something to contribute and we need to be guarding less.
Yes...I agree we can be both Christian and Pagan...especially here in Ireland..All our holy Catholic days are Pagan holy days too. Back in the day it was soo difficult to convert the Pagans without including many Pagan rituals and beliefs. The way I connect the pieces...Good Friday ( the death ) .Holy Saturday ( rest period) and Easter Sunday resurrection ( rebirth) . Life ..death..rebirth.
have you read the Essene Gospel of Peace?
i think Jesus/Isa/Yeshua (whatever) may have been a Pagan.
Thank you for all of your informative videos! May the new year bring more success and growth in your ventures
It's interesting how you hit on so many things I've been researching and mulling over in the past year. Then you described your book, and I thought, "That's right up my alley!" Went to Amazon, read the description, and found out the protagonist has my name. Well now I gotta read it! Great video, thank you.
Hope you enjoy the book and tale of Ethan when it gets to you, Ethan ;)
I don't think we are meant to complete the puzzle. We long for connection to nature, each other and everything. Our ancestors created that out of necessity and it was lost. Some of the lore is perhaps no longer relevant in modern times but we still crave it. We are kind of free now, to create connections, some old, some new, some shared, some personal, some religious even. As long as we follow our hearts and those connections are made with love, I don't think any gods or god will mind 😉
I'm enjoying reading these comments so much❤
I haven't watched this yet. Some YT videos I just listen to, but I want to spend time with this when I can actually sit down and watch and listen properly.
The eastern mountain range in the united states are the same ones that run through Scotland and I can feel that connection to this day. The spirits in the western part of the U.S. are different... but there is a very deep connection between celtic spirits and the Appalachians. Like you can connect to Scotland and your ancestors through it. JMHO
That probably because celtic Irish was there (in the Appalachians) long before Christians were.
I have been following your channel for a few years now. I really appreciate your honesty and non-bias. I love Norse.. it seems very megalithic based on what we know. I know odin is why I want to travel and why I love to experience other cultures' food. Now Scotland, I know by records my family came over after the battle of Culloden. So I am looking forward to this.
Your ramblings are my favorite. Thank you!
you are awesome at 'rambling,' i wish i could be as well-spoken! thank you for the video and i appreciate your channel. have an awesome new year!
Happy new year to you as well!
I like a lot of what the RUclips channel Taliesin's Map has to say about the Celtic deities and how they map to the Indo-European complex, though I do agree that animism is maybe more important for them than many other Indo-European cultures, even if just a little more. As for also being an "American pagan", it definitely changes how one connects to the Gods of the European cultures we descend from. I'm mostly of "Celtic" ancestry (Scottish, Welsh, Irish) with some English, but as an American having been raised on Greco-Roman mythology as well as being raised in Choctaw territory, I relate to the sun as a "male" and the moon as "female", though in Welsh the word for sun is grammatically masculine and the word for moon is grammatically feminine so who knows where my feelings about that truly come from.
Finding a piece of the puzzle and bringing it back to share with others…Love that perspective so much 🙏🤗✨🌲
Happy New Year, Jacob. ❤
You are the best, as usual!
I too have gone away from calling myself Norse pagan/Odinist most of the time. I just think we have so much to gather from around the world, and animism feels more natural to me than polytheism. Even with the Norse specifically, I'm more curious about who our ancestors worshiped before 3-4k years ago - possibly the jotuns, primordial forces of nature.
I wish there was more on Germanic Paganism.
It's sad we haven't got more, yes, but Nordic Paganism is Germanic Paganism
I don't see where people are getting Nazi from your channel. Thank you for being real.
People tend to demonize what they cannot categorize. Thank you for sticking around 🙏
I have always had difficulty with labels for me they separate rather than unite so it was good to hear your views on that. I would also like to experience more face to face interactive honest dialogues with people on just about anything if I could just get them to pause between dashing from one headlight to another. Time Jacob that’s what we need to make more of time and togetherness. Thank you for the work you put in to making these videos I really appreciate them.
I study religious studies in a university. Hearing your perspective on paganism is very valuable and refreshing, thank you!
This might upset some folks, but I think that your genetics connect you way deeper than what people might think. If you are of northern descent I do think you will have an easier time feeling a deep connection to the ancestors, just the way one with Middle Eastern roots will feel connected to those places.
Excellent comment 👍🏼
American Pagans may be in a particularly good position to explore the larger puzzle. Our ancestry is more mixed than other people's, and our culture is extremely dynamic--and we're in a season of trying to discover who we are. This energy aligns beautifully with spiritual exploration of every kind. It may annoy some--but Americans annoying other people's and each other is just another Tuesday. Hopefully some good will emerge from our chaos.
I've felt myself pulled in many directions because of this. I feel like a rolling stone; a tree with no roots. I would like to settle down someday, but where and with whom I do not know.
Perhaps soon I'll finally be in a position to travel and feel what calls to me.
@@PsychicAlchemyMy best wishes for your future travels! In the meantime, I hope resources and people find their way to you--so at least your mind can explore, even if you're bodily in place.
From my experience so far people either think Paganism is evil with sacrifices, or they think it's stupid and childish that we worship nature.
But I don't care, they can think what they like while I enjoy life as a Chaos Practitioning Pagan/Witch/Pantheist/Taoist ect. I dip into so many ideas that I don't bother with labels. Feels a million times more fulfilling than my previous 24 years of Atheism.
Probably because Atheism is a structured human belief system.
I think people tend to label certain belief systems as “evil” if it doesn’t fit some kind of institutionalized religion. When people practice ‘individuality,’ it tends to scare the ‘powers that be’ because they can’t instill a doctrine of fear and control. Just my opinion.
Beautiful work
Interesting post which I enjoyed. I have followed a Gaelic path for many years, have a century in fact. Dar Dagda... We call it Creideamh Sí.
Thanks for posting! Always enjoy your videos!
As a Scot I lol'd with what you said about the Scottish climate. We literally still say to each other daily 'At least it's no pishin doon' assuming it isn't. You're correct though. If humanity doesn't learn to live together, we will learn to die together.
Speaker and teacher of Scottish Gaelic here. You should read Ronald Hutton's book Queens of the Wild if you want to understand the Cailleach. She's a RECENT phenomenon, like 1800s, MAYBE back to the 1600s, which I can attest personally from my studies of folklore and mythology through Scottish history. Yeah, there's an early-medieval reference to the "Cailleach Bheura," but it's a poem about a Christian nun from a place called Beura or Bearra. People have tried to interpret Beura as her name, but that makes no sense because "Cailleach Bheura," with that H added, means "veiled one (i.e. nun) of Beura." Beura is in the genitive, denoting her place of origin. The name passed into folklore and gradually developed into a powerful embodiment of winter. The really fascinating thing is that what the Cailleach turned into in the Early Modern period has nothing Christian about it whatever, and yet she arose in a Christian period and among a very Christian culture. And she isn't the only supernatural figure to have done so! Which leads to questions about whether Christianity and paganism are really so binary as Christians like to tell us they are.
Anyway, the Cailleach is fascinating and well worth learning about, but you should all be warned that she is NOT pre-Christian -- more than a thousand years too late for that -- and thus cannot be trusted to be representative of pagan beliefs in pre-Christian Scotland. Perhaps she might resemble them, perhaps she doesn't; we don't have enough information to know. Hope that's helpful and interesting! 😊
Hi Jacob,
This is beautifully conceptualized & stated. Thank you! (LTB, age 80)
I'm very new to norce paganism, coming from a short spell studying wicca, but one thing I am connected to is nature. I am from the UK so there is no shortage of nature, its the one place I feel truly at one (give me a woodland walk over a shopping trip any day). I came across norce paganism after a walk b4 yule the name jord came into my head and just wouldn't go so I looked it up and found out who she was(and found your channel)now I have a lot of fascinating studying to do.
👍🫶🏻🤍🕯️happy new year to you my friend, wishing you the best! 🥂
Great "rambling" video (as you called it). I really like what you say in it and your open mindidness. Loads of wars would have been avoided if more people left others live their spirituality the way that suited them.
I think that listening more is as importtant as talking more.
Loved the shots from Steall waterfall.
Thank you so much for making this video. What a wonderful message to bring into 2025!🎉
I really liked the two videos you did on Finnish spirituality. Been looking for more...
Gotta make it back to Finland! I made one on the Sauna spirits as well if you missed it
Love your videos I am very new to all this and watching you has been very helpful for me Thank You .I am Scottish and French decent . I wish I knew more of the my Scottish side of ancestry. Being from Quebec Canada I cannot find much about Pagan belief . I for sure will be watching more of your content on youtube Thanks again !
I have read books where occultists and others have complained about different groups keeping their knowledge , putting it in a box and sitting on it. These books by the way are several decades old.
Beautiful video! 🍀
Oneness; communication; love 🙏🏼💚
I couldn't agree more with you we all can learn from each other. I really feel a connection to the Germanic Gods such as Woden and Hludana Tyr. But not necessarily just those I'm I'm open to other Gods and goddess too. I've had experience even with Native American Gods and the land. Really enjoyed this content as always.
I'm excited for scottland content, I'm primarily Scottish. One day will make it over there too. I think the feeling there will be astounding
Like many things, our beliefs are often shaped by our life's experiences. My ancestry is Celtic with some Scandinavian, but I spent every summer of my childhood with my granny in the Appalachian Mountains (with it's Scottish & Irish influences) & a goodly chunk of those summers at the reservation for the Eastern Band of Cherokee. I've also spent a good part of my adult life in New Orleans. My Nordic & Celtic/Irish paganism has definitely has been influenced by that & because of it, my beliefs do include a little sprinkling of essence from Native American stories & voodoo practices - making it a bit of a spiritual gumbo. It's not for everyone but it works for me.
I have a question, and I'm sorry that it doesn't pertain to this video. This was my first Yule, and I built my first alter. Gave offerings and really felt fulfilled with this experience. My question is, what would you recommend my next step be?
Good thoughts overall, but I imagine that indigenous people on this continent might have concerns about us using bits and pieces of their practice out of context. As a very experienced witch the best way forward with that is not always clear. There is a thin line between acknowledging and taking.
Humans are by nature territorial and tribal but don't have to be a-holes about it. I've noticed a lot of Gen Z are very label-intensive. The old hippy in me cringes at this having spent most of my adult life trying to shed labels and be tolerant of differences. The definition of pagan is loosely, "holding or constituting religious beliefs other than those of the main or recognized religions." So I've always seen it as a big tent with room for everyone who fits that definition. I hope we can keep from being hostile to our fellow pagans however they choose to define themselves. Even if they don't share my values, they have the right to their own destiny. "An ye harm none, do what ye will"
I have always preferred to call myself an Eclectic Pagan. It should be my choice who I choose to work with.
I live in Omaha, NE, I'm pagan, I don't follow the Abrahamic religions. I invoke Egyptian gods, the Yezidi high angel, but also a chief indigenous spirit from my own area.
Traitorrrrr! 😂 Just kidding, I've come to the same conclusion. Never joined groups because I don't need to be apart of a collective to have spirituality, 2 , nothing felt right, 3, I would be limiting myself. Especially some groups are very structured, no room for ideas. I get the need to establish but it's pretty silly with the lack of solid information we have.
I sill say I'm a Norse Pagan (to some people), but I do love the spirits of Ireland
I'm with you on the labelling it's why I have chosen for over a decade now (nearly two) to just identify as a neo pagan witch because I'm identifying that my paganism is neo (new/modern) and it's based upon my location as well as being eclectic. The witchcraft is small w as it's the craft of the witch not a spirituality per-say for me personally. I'm quite agnostic sometimes atheistic in my beliefs.
I think the celtic ways are more nature connected rather than god centric.
Peter J Carrol is a great author to explore. There is a meta system that makes all the cosmologies both true and false in that they are incomplete and primarily for a culture at a time to understand the One Who Cannot Be Spoken.
Awesome
❤ this 😊
For Me.
There are no fixed ways I have to follow.
Not from anyone anywhere anytime.
My Spiritual Practise is an Eclectic mix of Everything.
To best resonate with my own Spirit Energy.
It feels to me.
That the Spirit Beings, Gods, Creative Forces etc.
Existed long before Humans and the Human way of Understanding with Words.
So it resonates with me that we Humans tend to Manifest the supreme Spirit Energy into a form that best suits our individual needs and understanding.
The Gods appear to us in the way they know best connects them to the individual.
This is the understanding my Spiritual practise has left me with.
It is mine.
It is unique to me.
Everyone else has their way unique to them.
I am having a go at giving the Expectations of the established Gregorian calendar a miss this Winter.
So no happy new year from me.
As I am refusing to be bound to made up Time constraints from Pope Gregory, as and when I do not really have to.
Could I go as far as saying, there are no such thing as years really?
Just the constant Cycle of Natural Occurrence?
Blessings and Respects to All.
5:34 - That’s because they were dethroned. Lugh is in charge and Nuada was before him.
I think the misunderstandings come from people not understanding history. We are all worshipping the same things. All of these things came from the same part of the world because civilization started in one part of the world, then spread out and the deities changed names, and stories were slightly changed to account for geological, ecological, and meteorological changes of different regions. So just folliw what makes sense to you and how and where you live your life.
I can't help but wonder if some of the reasoning behind how Celtic deities are seen as beings to sacrifice to, to stay away and are less emphasized vs Norse is due to a combination of the Celts practicing oral traditions and the earlier influence of the church. The new religion would have wanted to paint the deities negatively and having no earlier written records to say otherwise it's stuck all this time.
At least in north America modern neodruids and what Celtic pagans I know don't view them in that kind of way and very much honour and ask for blessings much like you would Norse. However you have had the chance to meet pagans in Ireland, Scotland, England etc so their perspective being raised in the modern descendant of the Celtic world might be more grounded. Perhaps North Americans are fantasizing about them in a more positive light.
Yes it is so much, especially by Monotheistic People hahaha
I wish for old semetic pagan gods & traditions to return. We don't see too much of it anymore.
Return?....they never went away...always been here.
semitic people turned the garden into a desert, man.
how bout 'new' ones? new knowledge/new gods....sustainability for all to share.
Have you thought about Yoruba or Dogan traditions from Africa? These traditions are 10 thousand years old…..
Todella vaikeaa pysyä pakanauskossa.
Thing is, if you elect to segregate and pigeon hole your faith/belief/need, then I believe your spiritual growth is stunted. Of course most organised faith/belief systems are, to my mind, instruments of control, of governance and, ultimately, exploitation. I was interested in your viewpoint regarding the Scottish pagan vision. The Scottish Christian vision is quite similar in that it’s based on fear, rejection and regression. The landscape and the environment feed into this, and from such an environment, spiritual as well as physical, the Scottish people have continually and successfully fed into international creativity in a wide range of fields.
Why don't you just make a Discord group? I think thats the best way for everyone here to join and chat.
Label lovers have very small minds.
The planet is primary.
did you know archaeologists found the healthiest soil on the planet...in South America?
"Terra Preta"
We must be carful to make sure that we are not inject new-age hippy ideals into our ancestors traditions.
Without living the Heroic ideals and being ready to save blood and soil this is just cope and maturation.
It's time the hippies in this moved over.
All of the cultures you quoted in this video spring from one perennial people who spread those ideas.
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I think the whole idea of "worship" and "offerings" sounds soy.