I do not feel uncomfortable, presently, calling it simply witchcraft (sensu lato).
Yet, I find it odd that one could apply the term "witchcraft" to a practice which assumes itself to be supernaturally impuissant. There is a respect for nature, for the variated macrocosm, and an acknowledgement of the unknown and the tacit realities which are not immediately accessible by temporal, human knowledge & consciousness. But outside of the ritual tools, the kernel of form adapted from "traditional" Wiccan or pagan ceremony, and a worship decentralized from any particular ego/personage/deity - how much does it have in common with "witchcraft"?
Purely from the opinion of an unqualified observer, I think you could probably dismiss the term (and its familial factions and schisms) entirely. Not that I have a handy, sound-bite worthy alternative to suggest. Pancosmic Beatificist? Metamillennial Heathen? Eremitical Ecstatic/chthonicist? Esoteric Meta-terrestrialism? Those took me forty five minutes to approximate.
I like "metamillennial heathen" as a title (rather than a movement or religion) if only for the conventional division from non-Judo/Xtain/Islamic traditions, and the possibility of transcendent chronology.
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.
Don't sweat it. A lot of those questions were rhetorical. I appreciate your willingness to discuss this topic with an "infidel".
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Nomenclature
Date: 2006-12-07 05:01 pm (UTC)Yet, I find it odd that one could apply the term "witchcraft" to a practice which assumes itself to be supernaturally impuissant. There is a respect for nature, for the variated macrocosm, and an acknowledgement of the unknown and the tacit realities which are not immediately accessible by temporal, human knowledge & consciousness. But outside of the ritual tools, the kernel of form adapted from "traditional" Wiccan or pagan ceremony, and a worship decentralized from any particular ego/personage/deity - how much does it have in common with "witchcraft"?
Purely from the opinion of an unqualified observer, I think you could probably dismiss the term (and its familial factions and schisms) entirely. Not that I have a handy, sound-bite worthy alternative to suggest. Pancosmic Beatificist? Metamillennial Heathen? Eremitical Ecstatic/chthonicist? Esoteric Meta-terrestrialism? Those took me forty five minutes to approximate.
I like "metamillennial heathen" as a title (rather than a movement or religion) if only for the conventional division from non-Judo/Xtain/Islamic traditions, and the possibility of transcendent chronology.
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.
Don't sweat it. A lot of those questions were rhetorical. I appreciate your willingness to discuss this topic with an "infidel".