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Original post: HecatesDarkWitch

Mine is Dark Neo-paganism. What's yours?
There's so many paths that you can follow, that it is so unbelieveable.
LOL

Original post: KaiyureBoy

would you mind PM your MSN to me? thanks.
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Original post: roxaz

im very interested in nordic gods, runes.. i wouldnt say its my path yet, but it may be one day ^^

Original post: Gau

in honesty, im still figuring it out at the moment, i have my beliefs written down in my journal, ill share them one day ^.^

Original post: Noctiluca Moonfly

I'm still figuring things out too. I know that I am technically what's classified as a chaos magician, but I haven't really gotten into sigil and servitors and I don't know if I ever will. I am more of an occultist than a pagan, but I do believe in higher entities that may or may not have intervened in human affairs. And by higher entitites, I don't mean aliens, which may have or may not have intervened in human affairs. I'm talking about higher as in other dimensions. These beings could just be higher energies or actually sentient. Probably a mixture of both. In order to get in touch with them, I am crafting my own deities, rather than follow someone elses interpretation of the higher entities, if they were even interpretations of existing beings. More than likely, most gods and goddesses existing were created to explain quite natural earth processes. But I, being a creature of flesh and blood, need some symbols of my own design to help me tap into what is in higher planes. I do believe in magick, but that might just a usual process when working with higher entities and energies. Currently I believe magick to be simply affecting the world with just willpower. I don't believe in modern karma. There was a discussion on this forum about how karma simply means action in Sanskrit, and doesn't imply anything like doing something bad will make something bad happen. I don't believe in the three-fold law either, which is essentially karma. And I don't believe in an objective morality.

Well, I shared my beliefs, or at least what I can write on here.

Original post: MatthewK

My path through being like one who lives in the countryside, ironically enough, is overgrown with briar bushes and littered about with stinging nettle, locust groves, the occasional fir and a whole lot of maples. This is because I am literally pagan: I live in the country.

Other than that, I am becoming something of a Sumerio-Babylonian-Simonomiconistic something-or-other. There's really no name for the path I follow. I follow my heart, which leads me to Enki; I follow my gut instinct, which leads me to Marduk; I follow the macrocosmic overarcing trend of my desires, which leads me to Inanna.

Above all else my path is that of one who decides for himself what the next step will be. The Order into which I've begun my initiation insists on finding your own way. None of us follow a syllabus or set routine in our workings, it's all very loosely organized and centered more around learning and growing than memorizing and grading.

Sometimes I wish there was someone who could tell me the "right" way or the "best" way, but those are in my weaker moments It's more rewarding to take that first step and follow through on my own to find out what it means myself.

Original post: Noctiluca Moonfly

[QUOTE=MatthewK] really cool stuff about independent spirituality[/QUOTE]

There really needs to be more people like you.

Original post: MatthewK

Thank you There are more who would disagree than agree, I think.

Original post: StarfireRhythm

Are you able to share what order you're working with?

I'm very curious

Original post: MatthewK

Templar Ordo Ki-Engi, or the Disciples of Enki if you like.

Original post: StarfireRhythm

Cool. I'll look them up. Thank you.

Original post: Whitewolf

I'm a [hard] polytheist pagan with leanings towards Shamanism/animism. I feel a connection to the Egyptian, Norse and Celtic pantheons. I do feel close to the darker Gods and Goddesses.

Original post: alacardkane

hmm... To put it out in writing has been something I've tried before. I tend to think I associate with the shamans...but only in that I believe I understand the root of most. the Celtic tradition is what one could call a very diverse and changing path, but their "typical" gods are not mine...in fact, while I believe in gods, in fact most gods, even those most have/will never hear of due to some being just little fledgeling thought forms, I do not worship.

I walk with them, Ive had tea with Morgana and Odin at the same table. Perhaps these are just the madness of my own mind, but this is how my path is. I defend the defenseless against those vile spirits and help those that wish to cross from the astral to the other side.

I run and hunt with my guides at night, shape shifting on the astral and tuning my physical senses for each new day. Learning how to survive in this ever changing world the best I can while still striving for my dreams.

Bhudda had a lot to do with my thoughts, as does the science that we are just animals.

Perhaps we are gods within our own rights, being the only one of us in existence and able to change the world if we really want to.


I guess really....the only way to say this is...

the path i walk, is mine.

Original post: Yue

I'm fairly animistic in my philosophies about the spirit world, and hold the belief that all physical beings, from animals to kitchen chairs, carry some sort of life force. Although, I'm not of the mind that a bar stool is on the same spiritual level as Mr. Woofers, but I do feel there is a connection, an energy, that exists within all things. Does your outdated tv-vcr have a soul in the same way we know it? Not likely, but I believe a core force resonates within it.

Along side that, I also identify with certain Pagan aspects of spirituality, and feel there is an entity, which, at least for me, leans towards the feminine persuasion, that has created the world around us.

And so, being an unholy lover of nonsensical psuedo-words, I dub myself a Paganimist. That's right. I just came up with my own pretend faith system. I shall now market it, write 30 books about the subject, and become obscenely wealthy. XD

(And yes, this is the first time I've posted anything in these forums for about 8 months. You wanna fight about it? =P)

Original post: Cronus

I dont know what path I follow. I follow my own path. I make the road that I follow. What does this make me?

Original post: Serafan

Cronus are you even pagan O.o?

Original post: istiphul

[QUOTE=Cronus;346714]I dont know what path I follow. I follow my own path. I make the road that I follow. What does this make me?[/QUOTE]

"Aut viam inveniam aut faciam." same here:rolleyes:

Eclectic paganism may be the best definiton for me. and, aut viam inveniam aut faciam, yeah.

Original post: Cronus

no serafan XD. i just felt like saying i dont have a path in general. (sorry for no caps, im on my cell phone)

Original post: AstralMagickCraft

My "path through paganism?" the shortest, spend as little time as possible, get out ASAP.

Sorry, I had to make that pun...

Original post: MadKate

My path is a very slow meandering sort. I could call myself an ex-Wiccan, though I'm not sure I was ever really hardcore enough in hindsight to consider myself one, though I called myself one years ago. Spent time in the atheism department, now I'm not sure what to call myself. Other than a really bad Jew. I'm not entirely sure who I'm communicating with "up there", if it's always been the same entity, if they've changed, if they rotate based on need or their own schedule, or if they're all in my head. I'm hesitant to call myself Pagan, but I don't mind the term "heathen" when flung by Christians to mean people not like them, rather than referring to Asatru.

(Reminds me of certain heretical things said by me and a Jewitch friend at Shabbat dinners that would have good Christians keeled over in shock at what people that looked like good religious girls could be saying...all this, and I've never needed to go *near* Satanism!)

Right now, I'm sitting at a crossroads asking for spare change.

ETA: Considered making my own path, but the sticks and thornbushes and blackflies kinda say "Maybe you should come back later once you've gotten a compass, a machete, and some bug spray."

ETA2: Would I still be in the "hard polytheist" category if I believe that yes, there are many gods and goddesses, distinct from each other, even during times I may be choosing to "worship"/deal with (in the "you shall have no other gods before me" sense) only one of them? That tends to qualify as monotheism among the general population if the one you're in a relationship with is named Allah or "God" (and you expect everyone to automatically know exactly which one you're referring to), but not if you prefer, say, Thor. Even though at the very beginning of the book, the god that people just call "God" admitted that there were more of Them...

Original post: Serafan

Im with the Mother Goddess, seeing Her as good and bad all at the same time and sometimes work with Her aspect of Skadi.
Though im not sure how to show respect to the Goddess in altar stuff and yea =S

Original post: Whitewolf

I'm also pretty eclectic. Some of the Gods I feel a closeness to:
-Set [being the main one]
-Odin
-Loki
-Thor
-Anubis

The Goddesses I connect with and honor:
-Sekhmet
-Kali
-Freya
-The Morrigan
-Bast
-Pele
-Epona

Set is the first God that I was absolutely fascinated with. I still am. He is the one who comes to me in my dreams. I also believe in Nature spirits like faeries and totem animals. Some of my beliefs lean towards Native American spirituality.

Original post: Ice Flower

You guys are AWESOME.... I love everyone here!

I am a very ecclectic (and very solitary) Wiccan. I'm one that has the notion that all Goddesses are one Goddess and all Gods are one God. Furthermore, all Goddesses and all Gods are One Higher Thingy which we call.... the Universe. You know, here where we live. So anytime I want to talk to the Goddess I can just think. Or talk to the tree outside, to the clouds, or my left foot. This is what's known as ?pantheism? unless my vocabulary is off. I could look it up but I won't.

I respect people who identify with certain deities, and I even envy them. I wish a specific one would pick on me. I even used to go looking for one, because of the Wiccan education suggested getting a patron God/dess. No such luck for me. But I'm not sore about it. Indeed, I feel a little funny calling on a specific one when I think they're all the same force... I also would feel funny calling on, say, Minerva because I am not a Roman. In fact there are no more Romans. So I think it is a question of culture, not of Goddess identity.

I also enjoy knowing and learning about all sorts of occultish stuff like herbalism and astrology and chaos magic and much much more. I take what I want from what I know and I work with that. But my hardcore spiritual beliefs are Wiccan.

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Original post: Whitewolf

I also am fascinated with the Goddess, Gaia, plus I have leanings towards Shamanism/animism. It took me awhile to find out what my path was.