May god bless you...
And may the Goddess bless you!
Okay here it goes. Non believers. Non wiccans. Witch hunters. Trouble makers. Christians. Whatever they may be.
How do we face them and how do we live openly as Pagans, Witches and Wiccans around them. You know I'm not talking about people who want to literally burn us at the stake or bludgeon us but the people who find it their duty to either prove to us that we are evil or that our goddess is. While I try to convince them that my goddess is the same entity in essence as their god and any mythology is just the symbolism of how she weaves throughout nature and our existence... Still some how that is dark and evil or of satans doing. Now I don't have to convert anyone to my beliefs, but I will respect them just so long as they respect me and only up to that point.
I'm speaking of the beings that I know to exist that, like to mislead us, they tell us things during meditations or just some how weasel in during every day life. Things we know to be untrue but still we take them in because they are coming somewhere outside of ourselves that must be mystical. Well I can say that just because you had some prophetic dream with a being that claimed to be our goddess and other things they spoke of were true, it doesn't mean they were honest. The spirits have no contract wherein it states they have to be honest. Whether you weave boundaries and limitations into your magic or not inviting any entity in is inviting some level of unknown and unpredictability. I mean I had a traveling session one night were I wound up at my best friends house watching her read (which she later confirmed that she was reading and she did call out my name)! That wasn't exactly what I was looking for XD.
So when someone who looks up a page or two or checks out some book decides they want to come face to face with the goddess and they see some dark and foreboding thing...It doesn't mean anything.
All that this encounter has made me come to realize (rather slowly considering how many of these people we do encounter in life) that as there are misleading spirits and entities there are misleading people. People are beings themselves, we all forget that sometimes.
So I can't be extremely wary, at the same time, I can't give at the will of some misleading being trying to make me believe I am evil and my goddess is evil when all I see is beauty.
Okay here it goes. Non believers. Non wiccans. Witch hunters. Trouble makers. Christians. Whatever they may be.
How do we face them and how do we live openly as Pagans, Witches and Wiccans around them. You know I'm not talking about people who want to literally burn us at the stake or bludgeon us but the people who find it their duty to either prove to us that we are evil or that our goddess is. While I try to convince them that my goddess is the same entity in essence as their god and any mythology is just the symbolism of how she weaves throughout nature and our existence... Still some how that is dark and evil or of satans doing. Now I don't have to convert anyone to my beliefs, but I will respect them just so long as they respect me and only up to that point.
I'm speaking of the beings that I know to exist that, like to mislead us, they tell us things during meditations or just some how weasel in during every day life. Things we know to be untrue but still we take them in because they are coming somewhere outside of ourselves that must be mystical. Well I can say that just because you had some prophetic dream with a being that claimed to be our goddess and other things they spoke of were true, it doesn't mean they were honest. The spirits have no contract wherein it states they have to be honest. Whether you weave boundaries and limitations into your magic or not inviting any entity in is inviting some level of unknown and unpredictability. I mean I had a traveling session one night were I wound up at my best friends house watching her read (which she later confirmed that she was reading and she did call out my name)! That wasn't exactly what I was looking for XD.
So when someone who looks up a page or two or checks out some book decides they want to come face to face with the goddess and they see some dark and foreboding thing...It doesn't mean anything.
All that this encounter has made me come to realize (rather slowly considering how many of these people we do encounter in life) that as there are misleading spirits and entities there are misleading people. People are beings themselves, we all forget that sometimes.
So I can't be extremely wary, at the same time, I can't give at the will of some misleading being trying to make me believe I am evil and my goddess is evil when all I see is beauty.