Swimming Upstream

Swimming Upstream Swimming Upstream, "I am only looking for answers and I'm starving in my time I balanced on the edge of wisdom are impatient for a sign to continue with my senses, the crime is open imperfection in my humility, I hear we swim all of the other part. . ". > From "Swimming to the other side" by Pat Humphries,? 1992 Moving Forward Music can be heard on the Faerie Goddess CD, Elaine Silver item Used with permission. I practice a witch for over thirty years, and until recently I had believed that I have a fair understanding of my religion. I was wrong. Most of the religions of the world today are "faith", which means that faith in the divinity or an intangible principle of their supporters. On the contrary, most of the pagan religions tend to be experienced in nature. As a beautiful friend of mine to say "work for me" has a special meaning for witches. "He is right. My pagan religion (and there are many), who happens to be Wicca, relies heavily on observation of the world in which we live are our men and women, because it is noted that there are men and women lived in nature. Most of our practices around the changing of the seasons, the waxing moon and falling, the changes in our consciousness? all the things we see and taste and feel around us. Besides this, it really is amazing how easily we can ignore what we see and know. Wicca was once looking for a honest, the ancient religion of Northe European tribes, religion, practiced a little 'in order of 25,000 years. It is not a perfect reconstruction, of course. Too much is lost. But what we know, is surprising similarities with other religions around the world. My fellow witches, I probably want to bu at the stake for saying, but we also have strong similarities with Christianity. Like Christianity, Wiccan is splintered into many sects. All seven Wiccan recognize a goddess and a god. All seven Wiccan worship the goddess. The treatment of the god, but depending on the way to parity with the goddess by little more than a cosmic sperm donor. This type of sect often on women, the pressure points of a society shaped by 5000 years of brutal patriarchy and patriarchal religions that only a women's spirituality behind the walls of a monastery. Female sexuality and motherhood are not allowed, with a Christian spiritual vocation. "There are those who came to power through domination, were bound in their worship of the work of a man who died on the cross They sought control over the common people for their membership in the Church of Rome" The Pope, who has l ' Inquisition, it was a war against women, whose power was conceed this holocaust in this evil age of nine million European women died. . ". > From "The Buing Times" by Charlie Murphey? 1991 Bal Music, LTD in May to listen to the Faerie Goddess CD, Elaine Silver voice are used with permission. No wonder that many women do not find spiritual home in Christianity! Wiccan practices on the basis of "Wheel of the Year", with four major festivals on fixed dates, four festivals within the solstices and equinoxes, and sometimes even smaller festivals centering around the phases of the moon. This year the spiritual, the goddess changes, but not die. Our God marries the goddess at Litha (summer solstice, or about 21 June), then flows into the fire on Lugnasagh (August 1) for the fertility of the soil for his pregnant wife. He is crowned king of the dead on Samhain (October 31) and is rebo in the world as the baby was bo Sunday to God Goddess Yule (the winter solstice? O on 21 December). Sounds like Christianity, is not it? The concept of a victim of God, working for the world that loves and is rebo? The concept is also in the Persian Mithras, and many other faiths. It is no coincidence. Nor is it a coincidence that the rebirth of God takes place at the winter solstice. Over time, intermarriage and cultural exchange? not to mention the constant and often bloody Christian efforts to convert and "save", the "pagans" (pagans, the person of the heath, the country or a person)? the lines between a multitude of religions, more and more blurred. The attempt to ensure the truth can become a sort of puzzle, looking for points in general. Clearly, historical "truth" in capital letters, not much to be Wiccan, this is one of the sources of the Christian appeals to us. For Wiccan, the only meaning is a cosmic truth that works. Anything that makes us better people "the truth". The rest is meaningless. We must not believe. We are not of faith. We are looking for spiritual practices that help us grow and evolve, and tend to experience ritually and spiritually much more our Christian brothers and sisters. Extremely seven Christian actually discourage such attempts, and some even prohibit, which is another reason why we are shunned and feared. Wiccan are safe in the knowledge that we have, how long is our spiritual enlightenment. We are not on a life which is why the word "salvation" is a tendency to laugh a Wiccan. Do not we still need, as we are not now and has never lost. Our point of view of time is something very different. But due to the reaction against patriarchy, many of the best of our religion is often forgotten or ignored. I suggest that this was a mistake. Start my way into Wicca as a Teenaged rape survivor, the sect, and I found my way in, when was the "donor sperm cosmic" variety. All the focus was on the female. Honestly, it was necessary for me at that time, and helped me to heal. It was not long, but for me, to realize that my rejection of the male as it was wrong and unfair, since Christianity is the rejection of femininity. So I "converted" to another sect, as they were, and remain to this day. This is a sect in which men and women celebrate side by side. Physical and sex is back in joyful activities, he should always be. "Balance" is a fundamental principle of wisdom. However, I was myself deceived. All these years I had anxiety, masculinity, or ignored or detested, or enjoy on a purely physical level? but honestly I never tried to understand and appreciate me. We are all part men and part female, and we need to understand both sides of our nature to reach our full potential. The popular image (if the name is not Bob Barr) of a witch is to practice a tree hugger. We tend to be conservative to the point that there is more than a little 'awkward about this and there are almost always those who love animals. Us food. Thank you for life. I'm up to my retu to my spoiled animals, four cats and four months old German Shepherd PUP, which firmly in my heart spell. I could not change the situation, if I wanted, and I will not. This is the feminine aspect of divinity, and I am proud and happy, a woman in my toe nails. But that's not all I am. I am also of 'Homo sapiens, proud descendants of thousands of generations of hunter-gatherer tribe members. We must remember that Wicca is the religion of a rugged hunter-gatherer culture. People were hunter-gathers for 99.9% of our history, and many of the evils of the world today can be our efforts to change. As an animal lover, I always hated the game, but most of this feeling that a city girl. I knew that the hunters for most of my life, including an unlamented ex-husband, has bought six or eight cases of beer every year, went on a deer lease, if they drank from their heads, and suddenly the forest and a very, very few stayed sober enough, to take over something and they came home with a macabre trophy to hang on the wall. The vast majority do not know what it tasted like the game, and honestly horror the idea of trying to cook. City Hunter, and their lack of respect for life, I was upset? and still do. Hunting appalled me so much as a teenager that I even tried seriously to a vegetarian, and I damn nearly killed by malnutrition in the process. I had a creeping suspicion that vegetarianism was the only way to truly live decent, and consumption of meat from the supermarket was a little 'dirty secret addiction. I do not have that luxury anymore. Wicca is about observation, and my body has had some pretty great comments about me? with the weight of a good size anvil? four years ago. Chief among them was that if I ever eat agricultural products? namely sugars and starches? I wanted to die. Sliced and dried. The meat is no longer a matter of choice. Wicca is about observation. My only option to restore my health has been to some pretty unpleasant comments, beginning with the fact that I am a meat eater. And they are even if you are homo sapiens. One can not escape, and was not beyond. The worst thing that ever happened to her health has been the development of the agricultural sector. Unless you were actually on the back of the pioneering work of planting and / or collection, you have a sedentary lifestyle, because the plants that bind to a site. And if you are honest enough to your diet for your faith is almost certainly the food, the only very bad for them to end-toxic. And no, I'm not kidding. Most vegetables are very dangerous if not handled properly, are propagated by medical science as the most "healthy" sources of protein! In addition, increased development of the brain is the only chain of more protein than meat diet. ADHD was almost unknown to our ancestors were hunter-gatherers. You say you eat meat? Really? Abhors hunting, while in the shop to buy your steaks is just the highest level of self-deception. I have not the luxury of self-deception. I could not resolve this conflict, for me, and all achieved personal level of comfort at all until it was in the country and encountered a different kind of Hunter? hunters who hunt for meat, plums and the flock with care. A true hunter kills quickly and cleanly. His examination of their powers in the forest and its pitting intellect against that of its prey, but he takes no pleasure in cruelty. Of course, you can enjoy the fruits of the hunt, often feeding his family for several weeks or months for meat. If it is a trophy, is of secondary importance for the flesh, unless the prey was at least as dangerous as the man. The hunter often has more respect for life had the most to say that there has never been a loss of a house fly or a spider, and count how many of my close friends and respected today. Still doubt? Are you Wiccan? Have you heard? belong? Battery? Can you honestly tell me that your heart pounds that do not do not feel the rush of blood in your veins Echo, the operation of the King Stag Hoed Hunter close to his heels? If you are a man, you know, the wild joy of proof against the most difficult part, what we can imagine? and win? If you are a woman, you have never used violence and the tendeess of a man who proudly wore his antlers? Some of you, man or woman, finds that large, heavy weapon in your hands, that surprises and effective in that po 'pride Bitty goal seemed so many miles away? When God stretches out his hand to you, you are dancing! God has so much space in our lives, as the goddess. Forests wild, rampant sexuality, the playfulness and courage in all tissues are his dance. You dance with him, when you fly, when we parachute jumping or diving, if you are racing cars and boats? Yes, and when they hunt. When you go dancing, you leave behind what makes us human. To do so, we must give up courage and we must give pleasure. If we do, can and dead. Wicca is a vote for himself the rhythms of nature. Wicca can be reached about how deep in our genetic heritage and to find the courage to become what they are really what our loving Creator is always for us to be. Wicca is about tasting the full extent of what life has to offer. There can be no compromise here. Nothing less is swimming against the natural upstream, back-breaking, heartbreaking and, ultimately, is destined to fail. My decision to enjoy the hunt was not easy, but it is manufactured. They are anxious waiting for this first year ice. Two of my most loyal friends I have promised a boar hunt (I hate the game, and I like pork). So I have a good shot, but I never killed anything more sentient than a paper target. Honestly I do not know if I have the strength or the courage to pull that trigger, the reason for which I am grateful for their backup? I know that the wild boar is very, very dangerous. But if my work I can not brave enough to do that pork tastes better than any other meat I've ever eaten. I eaed with my ability and my courage. My mouth is already watering just thinking about it. What are you for dinner tonight? "If we want to achieve this goal, we discover the gifts that we have the stock has been with us since the beginning of life and have never noticed that there were, we are able to balance on the edge of wisdom not recognizing that we have come together Spirits love to swim We all live on the other side. . ". > From "Swimming to the other side" by Pat Humphries? 1992 Moving Forward Music can be heard on the Faerie Goddess CD, Elaine Silver item Used with permission.