Oohkay. o_O

[lagopus]

Shakti Wicca. Erm. In our series of "desperate to shove everything under one umbrella much"?

What's more, it's not even completely Shaktist--they incorporate Reiki and Taoism and Buddhism! WTF?

Not that this is much different from my Tantrik-influenced practice, but declaring it's a whole new tradition of Wicca, eh... clutching at straws there,

Comments

[mielikkik]

What's more, it's not even completely Shaktist--they incorporate Reiki and Taoism and Buddhism! WTF?

Sounds to me that someone has just learned a cool new word and wants to use it even when doesn't quite know the exact meaning of it.. ;)

[snowgrouse]

Or just Fit In with others. There aren't many places in which a Western devotee of Hindu deities can fit in whilst still being witchy and radical, but hm, forcing a new definition... *shrug* in the end, it's inevitable, I suppose, even more so when people are starting from a non-dogmatic background, that things will fuse and merge. Things like that just seem a bit rash.

[mielikkik]

Yeah, that might also be the case here :)

[cavefelem]

No comment on the contents of the article, but I hate it when people use Wikipedia as a free advertisement space to promote their own group/practice/ideology/whatever. It defeats the whole purpose of a free encyclopedia.

Hmm... maybe the word "encyclopedia" should be on every Wikipedia page with big, red, capital letters. Maybe that would stop people from putting in their "come and join us" leaflets or school essays word-for-word and calling them impartial, informational articles.

Then again, maybe not...

[snowgrouse]

Wikipedia is just one boiling cauldron of clashing beliefs and interpretations... some of the stuff is pretty mind-boggling. It's representative of the whole Internet, really--whoever gets there first gets to spread their mis/dis/information on the widest scale.

[rob_t_firefly]

whoever gets there first gets to spread their mis/dis/information on the widest scale

Actually it's whoever got there just before you did.

[kainoliero]

Sometimes I wonder what's wrong with being just Wicca... maybe they got bored and decided to get all vaishnava about the world?

But srsly. XD

[snowgrouse]

They couldn't get the stamp of Hinduism so they tried for something else, easier to nick:)...

[cavefelem]

'Cause it's so boooooring! Why wouldn't you want to be an Egypto-Celtic Atlantean Romany Satanist Shaivite Wiccan if you can?

Seriously, I think part of it is that you can only go so far with Wicca totally on your own. The system wasn't originally designed to work like that, and that's why many people (not all - some are perfectly happy with it!) find that at certain point, there seems to be nowhere to go, no way to progress spiritually. That's when people either a) drop Wicca and say it wasn't for them after all, b) mix other influences into their Wicca, or c) find someone they can learn more from.