Why do I feel like Spooky has somehow inspired this title?
Because you are clearly a bright garda.
My question is (at this point) should you ever end up penning Post-Industrial Paganism, would you expect anyone else to adhere to it?
No. I would not expect it. I would, however, be pleased if they did, as one thing I feel I've lost is fellowship. The whole species of one, parahumanism thing was a logical, perhaps inevitable conclusion, as was the creation of my own path — after a long period of denial — but both have come at a high price, I feel.
Would it be a viable religious praxis for anyone other than oneself?
I can't yet answer that. Maybe I never will be able to answer that.
When does adaptation of an existing ethos become so distanced from the original source(s) as to become a distinct spiritual concept?
Well, if we restrict the question to Wicca, especially to contemporary American "white witch" fluffy bunny Wicca, I'd say that I've already passed that point. I've rejected the Rede and the Three-fold Law, both of which are held fairly dogmatically by "orthodox" covens (there's an oxymoron). I do not yet know what this new thing is, but I'm increasingly sure it won't be right to call it Wicca much longer. I could always plead schism and slap a branch label on it. I could stoke my ego and call it Kiernanian Wicca. I could call is Scientific Wicca. But in the end, all such lables are just a vain attempt to avoid the obvious fact that it is no longer the religion that Gerald Gardner invented and for which he tried to claim an ancient pedigree. I do not feel uncomfortbale, presently, calling it simply witchcraft (sensu lato).
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Date: 2006-12-07 05:01 am (UTC)Because you are clearly a bright garda.
My question is (at this point) should you ever end up penning Post-Industrial Paganism, would you expect anyone else to adhere to it?
No. I would not expect it. I would, however, be pleased if they did, as one thing I feel I've lost is fellowship. The whole species of one, parahumanism thing was a logical, perhaps inevitable conclusion, as was the creation of my own path — after a long period of denial — but both have come at a high price, I feel.
Would it be a viable religious praxis for anyone other than oneself?
I can't yet answer that. Maybe I never will be able to answer that.
When does adaptation of an existing ethos become so distanced from the original source(s) as to become a distinct spiritual concept?
Well, if we restrict the question to Wicca, especially to contemporary American "white witch" fluffy bunny Wicca, I'd say that I've already passed that point. I've rejected the Rede and the Three-fold Law, both of which are held fairly dogmatically by "orthodox" covens (there's an oxymoron). I do not yet know what this new thing is, but I'm increasingly sure it won't be right to call it Wicca much longer. I could always plead schism and slap a branch label on it. I could stoke my ego and call it Kiernanian Wicca. I could call is Scientific Wicca. But in the end, all such lables are just a vain attempt to avoid the obvious fact that it is no longer the religion that Gerald Gardner invented and for which he tried to claim an ancient pedigree. I do not feel uncomfortbale, presently, calling it simply witchcraft (sensu lato).