New community for urban Pagans.
I've just made a new Pagan LJ community to fill a gap that's been bothering me for a while. The community's unnaturalpagans, and I'll quote from the community profile to give you an idea what it's about:
unnaturalpagans is a community for people who follow a Pagan path, but don't believe that Earth/Gaia-worship is a necessary part of Paganism.
The goal of the community is to provide support, advice, and information for urban Pagans that is often severely lacking in traditional Pagan communities and groups, who are largely focussed on reintroducing 'country' elements into city life. While acknowledging that there's nothing wrong with Earth/Gaia-worship, this community is for people who don't feel that it's a necessary part of their religious and spiritual beliefs and practices and want to discuss the realities of modern urban Paganism without being told to get a window box or grow a herb garden.
This community is not about bashing people who do use a connection to 'nature' as part of their beliefs - and such people should really feel welcome in the community, as long as they keep in mind the focus of unnaturalpagans. There's plenty of Pagans who live in cities and might want to discuss better ways to integrate city life into their practices, even if they do like to grow a herb garden in their window box.
I think there'll be a degree of overlap with technopaganism, but I think that the goal/focus of the community is a bit different - it's not just about technology and technological magic. (For example, in a city like Edinburgh - where I live - there's plenty of non-technological city magic based on the very old stone here.) I think that unnaturalpagans will be somewhat broader than technopaganism, also discussing the practicalities of urban Pagan life.
It's all very new, so I'm open to suggestions - see the first post in the community for details.
Thanks!
unnaturalpagans is a community for people who follow a Pagan path, but don't believe that Earth/Gaia-worship is a necessary part of Paganism.
The goal of the community is to provide support, advice, and information for urban Pagans that is often severely lacking in traditional Pagan communities and groups, who are largely focussed on reintroducing 'country' elements into city life. While acknowledging that there's nothing wrong with Earth/Gaia-worship, this community is for people who don't feel that it's a necessary part of their religious and spiritual beliefs and practices and want to discuss the realities of modern urban Paganism without being told to get a window box or grow a herb garden.
This community is not about bashing people who do use a connection to 'nature' as part of their beliefs - and such people should really feel welcome in the community, as long as they keep in mind the focus of unnaturalpagans. There's plenty of Pagans who live in cities and might want to discuss better ways to integrate city life into their practices, even if they do like to grow a herb garden in their window box.
I think there'll be a degree of overlap with technopaganism, but I think that the goal/focus of the community is a bit different - it's not just about technology and technological magic. (For example, in a city like Edinburgh - where I live - there's plenty of non-technological city magic based on the very old stone here.) I think that unnaturalpagans will be somewhat broader than technopaganism, also discussing the practicalities of urban Pagan life.
It's all very new, so I'm open to suggestions - see the first post in the community for details.
Thanks!