tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post8421478824739307481..comments2024-02-26T08:43:47.488-08:00Comments on Domesticated: Paganism, Fantasy and LifeThe HouseCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576090040274742noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post-76019848296786940682013-11-07T02:35:17.204-08:002013-11-07T02:35:17.204-08:00I'm not sure why you sent me a link to your (I...I'm not sure why you sent me a link to your (I presume it's yours) poetry, could you please explain the connection> The HouseCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576090040274742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post-87332235381290076092013-11-06T16:54:06.545-08:002013-11-06T16:54:06.545-08:00http://1993pomc.blogspot.pt/http://1993pomc.blogspot.pt/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post-26587982842155280242013-11-06T12:18:27.522-08:002013-11-06T12:18:27.522-08:00I certainly agree with you, and that's a point...I certainly agree with you, and that's a point I should probably talk about in depth sometime. Another thing that bugs me is the false claims of ancient lineage I frequently hear, not by people trying to be deliberately fake, but often by people who don't know about 18th and 19thC neo-Druid groups, Stukeley's 18thC work on Avebury, or even about Gerald Gardener and Aleister Crowley - all important parts of the actual history of the Pagan revival.The HouseCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576090040274742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post-14325234349499208262013-11-06T11:59:29.664-08:002013-11-06T11:59:29.664-08:00I was always disappointed by the 'fantasy and ...I was always disappointed by the 'fantasy and modern myth' aspects of som Neopaganisms - I always thought that, in trying to connect with our preChristian ancestors or feeling greater communion with the Earth, injecting all this fantasy and ideas of what people want to believe old Pagans believed rather and using the evidence to determine what they actually believed just cheapened everything. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post-41612623210724377392013-11-06T08:47:58.036-08:002013-11-06T08:47:58.036-08:00I eat a lot of food from my own traditions (French...I eat a lot of food from my own traditions (French and English) and a lot of food from elsewhere - Thailand, Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc. - because they are tasty, and I think one of the wonderful things about the 21stC is that someone in the UK can eat food from the cultures thousands of miles away, and that someone from those countries can eat food from the UK (and contrary to popular belief, the UK has a lot of delicious traditional foods, it's just that a lot of that tradition got scrambled with things like rationing and the rise of fast food). But I eat it because it's tasty, not because I want to pretend I'm Malay or Thai or Japanese or try and buy my way into those experiences. I just like tasty food! <br /><br />Personally,I believe in magic, and the existence of non-corporeal 'somethings' that I don't call spirits or ghosts or fae, because I can't tell for sure that's what they are, and I don't want to overlay a bunch of presumptions over them. Quite recently I saw and heard a very unsettling presence in my living room that was certainly unlike the times in my teens when I was psychotic and hallucinating, and I'm sure there was /something/ there, I just don't know /what/. With Fae - there's the traditional version, and the modern, twee, sparkly butterfly-winged maiden version, and generally what I see is people who believe in little people with pretty wings and elves as from Tolkien, which owes a lot more to 19th and early 20thC fantasy than it does to either more ancient mythology or any actual non-mundane entity. A lot of cultures have equivalents to fae, daemons, ghosts and spirits, and a lot of people report experiences with 'supernatural' entities - but what they actually are is very hard to pin down, and explanations range from mass hysteria and hallucinations to the work of the Devil and extra-terrestrial activity, so I quietly have my own theories, but have very little inner need for certainty on the matter nor necessity to pry into other's experiences and push my own interpretation on them. The HouseCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576090040274742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5406319356659344188.post-69340697493181360252013-11-06T07:55:22.126-08:002013-11-06T07:55:22.126-08:00To a very great extent I agree with what you say h...To a very great extent I agree with what you say here. A long time ago I took a course in Cherokee medicine, which was guided and overseen by a Cherokee grandmother. I considered the ideas presented to be very profound, but not necessarily something meant to be taken literally. Still, this group had gatherings that were attended by non-native peoples, who seemed to insist upon eating foods unique to Native American culture. Somehow, I felt that these were missing the boat. The purpose of the course wasn't to pretend that we were something that we were not. It was to allow the truths presented to trickle into our consciousness. Eventually, I moved on to other things. <br /><br />As for magick, spirits and the Fae, I feel that I've had some personal experience with these. My relationship with Nature is intuitive and my actions reflect that. There have really been times in my life when I felt that something unseen had been looking out for me. Once I had a frightening experience in the house that I had grown up in. To this day, only something beyond what we understand as natural explains what happened--and I was not the only one to experience it! <br /><br />Anyway, I appreciate this post and certainly agree with your main points. Nightwindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07148270720593016700noreply@blogger.com