How have you / will you do your dedication? Video responses would be excellent! 🙂
Song taken from split 10″ with Pagan Rites, released Feb. 2008 by Nuclear War Now! Prods.
How have you / will you do your dedication? Video responses would be excellent! 🙂
Song taken from split 10″ with Pagan Rites, released Feb. 2008 by Nuclear War Now! Prods.
I tried last year to do a long backpacking trip (I saw it as a potential spiritual journey) but it fell through. I’ll try again this North American spring, this time alone, which is more appropriate. Similar to your idea. Perhaps it will be a dedication.
But I’ll have a tarp at least! Consider a tarp! You can still feel the night air and the spiders while you sleep.
(Squirrel)
I’ve been calling myself pagan for almost three years, and I keep wondering if I should do a dedication, but the thing is it hasn’t felt right yet. I’m slack at practice. I don’t think a dedication would change that, and I would hate to do a dedication just to go back to being slack and missing my favorite holidays!
Wow, I’ve been looking to do something like that for ages. I didn’t have a name for it, or a concept, it was just instinctive. For the past month I’ve been doing a lot of searches on “rites of passage” and “self initiation” .
Seems the link and similarities are as strong as ever.
I hope it goes well for you, I’d love to hear all about it.
…now he is a VERY respected authority and lots of other people are getting something from his books so just because I’m not into him doesn’t make him less of a respected authority. it just means his books are most probably not for me.
Does that make sense?
As for what resources are more valid, you have to decide for yourself. If something sounds like rubbish to you it is obviously not for you, if you read it and it has a ring of truth then it is relevant for your life and spiritual practice 🙂
For instance, most Wiccans love Scott Cunningham but I cannot stand his writing. It feels very clumsy to me which distracts me from the message he is trying to deliver, and I find what I have read of his (the book Wicca) just too simple for me…
Wow…thank you! 🙂 I do try….
I will do some of these kinds of videos but I don’t want to hold myself up as an authority or an expert because I am not. I will make videos on what I do know though.
Totally! LOL
Yes yes i agree more people should do elephant impersonations in shops its the in thing these days
hopefully you inspire others. it creates a sense of openness that is important when discussing anything really.
i do have a request/idea, if you feel comfortable with it, of course.
you were doing some veganism 101 videos, I would appreciate if you would make some occult 101 type videos.
i’m really interested in learning more, but i am unsure what resources are more ‘valid’ or respected than others, etc. And you always approach topics so level headed. i value your opinions greatly.
Cheers, I’m going to do a video this weekend explaining why I have one, why I feel it is neccessary. BB )O(
great disclaimer btw
ROFLMAO
I guess it doesn’t count if you get really drunk, go to sleep in a ditch and wake up to the sound from a marching band because you’ve forgotten that it was the National Day that day and you got sunburn under the chin..?
Cheers 🙂
Blood? EW! You’re nasty!
Ha ha ha ha I could not agree more! 😀
Thanks for the sentiment but I am very happy and at peace as I am 🙂
Hi, good to see you again. It’s good to have spiritual practice. Do not worry about the Huntsman spiders, worry about Australian soap operas! LOL 😉
I have put you under the Blood Of Jesus. You will be healed.
Darn, that aint fun. I do hope that your camera is Ok as its so nice to see you so relaxed and at peace.
I will check that out with Eric since he is the computer technician of the house and I am the artist LOL Thanks for your suggestions gorgeous!
Yep. Wow. You said that wayyy better than I did!
I just checked…camera not broken, just needed to fiddle with my computer 🙂
Ah, now I get you…like I should incorporate something within the dedication ritual that I can repeat daily thereafter…like a mental trigger that makes me remember it and puts me in the same headspace? Awesome idea! 🙂
Oh, I didn’t mean that you should, like, camp out with big scary spiders daily, lol! But rather a Buddhist has a formal refuge ceremony, but then also takes refuge daily, whether in the form of a prayer, or a prayer said while prostrating, making offerings, etc.
I guess what I was (trying to) say was that you should have some kind of a rite that you can do every day, to kind of “keep you in that groove” after whatever formal rite you do.