In my last post, I hinted cryptically at something new in the works for me, spiritually speaking. The quick and dirty version is that a week from tomorrow my family will celebrate Samhainn and I will, in honor of the new year of the ancient Celts, officially begin my candidate year with the Ancient Order [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mysticism’
My Vow To Athena
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Athena, Goddess, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenismos, Impiety, Minerva, Mysticism, Oath, Omen, Paganism, Pallas, Promise, Religion, Spirituality, Supplication, Vow, Worship on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today I prayed and made an offering to Athena, in response to the omen I believe she sent me earlier this week, rebuking me for my impiety. At the conclusion of my devotion, I had the distinct impression that this was fine and good… for a start. So, I made a vow to [...]
An Omen?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Animal, Athena, Athletics, Civilization, Conversion, Goddess, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hermes, Impiety, Mercury, Minerva, Mysticism, Neopaganism, Nike, Omen, Owl, Paganism, Piety, Polytheism, Prayer, Religion, Running, Sacrifice, Wisdom on October 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
My belief in the gods is based largely on two things: 1. I find them compelling enough to believe in, and 2. I have experienced their presence, existence, and sometimes even immanence. Not so with Athena. Of all of the major Hellenic gods, Athena has just never seemed that real to me. [...]
The Lizard King Can Do Anything
Posted in Music, Spirituality, tagged Alcohol, Aldous Huxley, Bacchae, Bacchus, Catharsis, Chaos, Church, Classic Rock, Cult, Danny Sugerman, Delia Morgan, Dionysian, Dionysos, Dionysus, Drama, Ecstasy, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Entheogen, Euripides, God, Gods, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hero, James George Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Jim Morrison, Magic, Music, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Neopaganism, Nietzche, Olympus, Paganism, Pan, Paris, Patricia Kennealy, Persephone, Philosophy, Polytheism, Proserpine, Ray Manzarek, Religion, Ritual, Rock, Rock and Roll, Sacrifice, Shaman, Shamanism, Shrine, Snakes, Spirituality, Symbolism, The Bacchae, The Doors, The Golden Bough, Theater, Theatre, TV, Violence, Vision, Wicca, Wine, Worship on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I came across a pretty cool essay on Jim Morrison and Dionysus, and the pagan spiritual implications of Morrison’s life, music, philosophy, and his unique and fascinating madness. It gets a little closer to what I was trying to write a few days ago about the Lizard King. With all due respect and [...]
The Blue Bus Is Calling Us
Posted in Music, Spirituality, tagged Afterlife, Art, Bacchus, Black Magic, Death, Dionysian, Dionysus, Ecstasy, Elysium, God, Gods, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hades, Hellenic Polytheism, Intoxication, Jim Morrison, Liberation, Magic, Magick, Music, Mysticism, Neopaganism, Nietzche, Paganism, Polytheism, Power, Prophet, Rebellion, Rebirth, Rock and Roll, Shaman, Shamanism, Spirit, Spirituality, The Doors, The End on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been tossing around this idea for awhile, but haven’t written much about it because I haven’t really done the research to write something good, something that will capture the idea that is looming in my head. But I want to jot down the idea now. Later on I will flesh it [...]
Worship And The Pagan Gods
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Christianity, Church, God, Goddess, Gods, Greco-Roman Polytheism, Greek Mythology, Heavenly Father, Hellenic Polytheism, Holy Ghost, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kharis, Mormonism, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Neopagan, Neopaganism, Pagan, Paganism, Polytheism, Religion, Spirituality, Worship on September 7, 2009 | 21 Comments »
I was a faithful Mormon for nearly three decades, and while I definitely busied myself spiritually, and tried to be close to Heavenly Father, I never actually wanted to worship him. Worship in Mormonism is problematic anyway: in my experience Mormonism is much more about trying to experience certain things, trying to feel the Holy [...]
Brahman
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Belief, Divinity, Earth, Faith, Flowers, Ford Mustang, God, Knowledge, Love, Monism, Music, Mysticism, Panentheism, Pantheism, Polytheism, Relationship, Spirituality, Unity, Universe, Vedanta, Weather on July 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I believe in an ultimate divine unity that encompasses all things–humans, gods, the universe–and is also beyond all things. Because it is everything and more, it is at once like all things individually and like nothing else in the universe. It can be intimately known in the smallest, simplest facet of the world at the [...]
God Is A Woman
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Beauty, Birth, Brahman, Death, Divine Feminine, Family, God, Goddess, Hellenic Polytheism, Hinduism, Humanity, Life, Love, Marriage, Meaning, Mormonism, Mysticism, Mythology, Paganisn, Polytheism, Sex, Spirituality, Vedanta on July 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I feel a much closer connection to the divine feminine than I ever did to the divine masculine, my patriarchal Mormon upbringing notwithstanding. I guess either it just didn’t take, or it just wasn’t true. Or both, probably. I feel an intimacy and closeness with the overwhelmingly feminine divinity of Aphrodite that I have never [...]
Values From The Age Of Aquarius
Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Age Of Aquarius, Aquarius, Astrology, Brendan Myers, Counterculture, Crystals, Dreams, Enlightenment, Ethics, Family, Fifth Dimension, Hair, Heritage, History, International Pagan Values Month, Jupiter, Liberalism, Liberation, Morality, Music, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Nature, Neo-Paganism, Neopaganism, New Age, Paganism, Peace, Reconstructionism, Revelation, Sixties, Spirituality, The Other Side Of Virtue, Theater, Utopia, Values, Virtue, Visions, Wicca on June 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Note: This is another post for International Pagan Values Month.
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
I have been thinking about the post I wrote yesterday on sources for pagan values, and I have realized (partly because of a conversation that [...]
Khaire Aphrodite!
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Bees, Biology, Botany, Cosmos, Dance, Death, Deity, Egypt, Emotion, Eternity, God, Goddess, Greco-Egyptian Syncretism, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Humanity, Kemeticism, Life, Love, Michael Pollan, Mystery, Mysticism, Olympus, Paganism, Politics, Polytheism, Religion, Roses, Science, Seduction, Sex, Spirituality, Syncretism, The Birth of Venus, Uranus, Valentine's Day, Venus, William-Adolphe Bouguereau on June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To honor Aphrodite, Sannion has put up three goddess-related posts on his Livejournal, and as I am myself a devotee of the Cyprian, I wanted to share them with my readers. First, he shares a meditation he wrote on the cosmic significance of Aphrodite:
We think of her primarily in connection with our courtships and pleasant [...]
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