Post by theoccultchrist on May 12, 2006 22:06:05 GMT -5
Hey everyone I'm new to this board.
My name is Paul.
I was referred here by John/ Senbecc.
I consider myself an eclectic.
I grew up Christian - but never felt fully comfortable with it.
I still believe in Jesus' teachings and I see the holy Spirit in a feminine light.
I am a seeker to paganism. - interested in Wicca, the Nordic and Celtic Traditions, the Greek Pantheon, Native American Spirituality/Shamanism. I am also interested in Gnostic-Christianity and the Jewish Kabbalah. I whole heartedly believe I can merge my christian influenced background and love and admiration for Jesus The Christ with my desire to learn and incorperate paganism into my own spirituality and become a positive, spiritual person and role model and have spiritual peace at last. I see divinity in nature and consider it scared. I see the divine in this way: Mono-Polytheisim if you want to find a suitable label for it since we humans have the condition to want to label everything and any thing. I see divinity simply like this; The Tree Theory: The roots of the tree is the unknowable divine energy you cannot see it but you know that it is there. Then there is the tree trunk which manifests to some people as a God or a Goddess or sometimes both...it manifests to me in the form of a God and Goddess. They are two separate entities but they come from the same source - some people will tend to stop there. But if you go on up the tree to the branches that is each individual pantheon (Greek, Roman, Nordic, Celtic, Egyptian, ect.) * I believe other religions can fit on there as well - examples: Christianity, the Jewish faith, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, ect.* and then if you go even farther to each little twig that is each individual god(s) and goddess(s). They are all separate yet they flow into the one divine energy. So, me personally I see divinity as many Gods and Goddesses ( including Jesus Christ and the Mother Holy Spirit ) but they are just facets of the one divine energy. I do not really know for sure what you would call it..because it is not quite monotheism nor is it exactly polytheism/pantheism but somehow a combination there of. Polytheism because I see more than one god/goddess but monotheism because I see it all springing from the same universal highest source. I see spirituality as one big communal Change Jar. I think we all deposit and collect money from the same place no matter what your religion of choice is I think if you look hard enough you can see a connection with your religion/spiritual path and many, many others. I think there is ALOT OF GREY area in spirituality. that there is simply no wrong way or right way for that matter to do it. It is a beautiful expression of the self and of the spirit. And My Spirituality is to become an Ecclectic Christian Witch.
I have a myspace acct. which is where i found John on one of the Wiccan groups and he invited me here.
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=29366106
Also, here is a link to my Personal BoS - www.geocities.com/xlx_maverick_xlx/BoS
I also wrote an essay for WitchVox that was featured on thier main page during the week of April 30th
Here is the link to that - www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usoh&c=words&id=10624
I hope This turns out to be a positive experience for me as well as all of you.
Be Blessed!
-Paul
My name is Paul.
I was referred here by John/ Senbecc.
I consider myself an eclectic.
I grew up Christian - but never felt fully comfortable with it.
I still believe in Jesus' teachings and I see the holy Spirit in a feminine light.
I am a seeker to paganism. - interested in Wicca, the Nordic and Celtic Traditions, the Greek Pantheon, Native American Spirituality/Shamanism. I am also interested in Gnostic-Christianity and the Jewish Kabbalah. I whole heartedly believe I can merge my christian influenced background and love and admiration for Jesus The Christ with my desire to learn and incorperate paganism into my own spirituality and become a positive, spiritual person and role model and have spiritual peace at last. I see divinity in nature and consider it scared. I see the divine in this way: Mono-Polytheisim if you want to find a suitable label for it since we humans have the condition to want to label everything and any thing. I see divinity simply like this; The Tree Theory: The roots of the tree is the unknowable divine energy you cannot see it but you know that it is there. Then there is the tree trunk which manifests to some people as a God or a Goddess or sometimes both...it manifests to me in the form of a God and Goddess. They are two separate entities but they come from the same source - some people will tend to stop there. But if you go on up the tree to the branches that is each individual pantheon (Greek, Roman, Nordic, Celtic, Egyptian, ect.) * I believe other religions can fit on there as well - examples: Christianity, the Jewish faith, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, ect.* and then if you go even farther to each little twig that is each individual god(s) and goddess(s). They are all separate yet they flow into the one divine energy. So, me personally I see divinity as many Gods and Goddesses ( including Jesus Christ and the Mother Holy Spirit ) but they are just facets of the one divine energy. I do not really know for sure what you would call it..because it is not quite monotheism nor is it exactly polytheism/pantheism but somehow a combination there of. Polytheism because I see more than one god/goddess but monotheism because I see it all springing from the same universal highest source. I see spirituality as one big communal Change Jar. I think we all deposit and collect money from the same place no matter what your religion of choice is I think if you look hard enough you can see a connection with your religion/spiritual path and many, many others. I think there is ALOT OF GREY area in spirituality. that there is simply no wrong way or right way for that matter to do it. It is a beautiful expression of the self and of the spirit. And My Spirituality is to become an Ecclectic Christian Witch.
I have a myspace acct. which is where i found John on one of the Wiccan groups and he invited me here.
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=29366106
Also, here is a link to my Personal BoS - www.geocities.com/xlx_maverick_xlx/BoS
I also wrote an essay for WitchVox that was featured on thier main page during the week of April 30th
Here is the link to that - www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usoh&c=words&id=10624
I hope This turns out to be a positive experience for me as well as all of you.
Be Blessed!
-Paul