PaganPages.org is online!

Just wanted you to know that http://PaganPages.org is up again, and the February issue (the recovered December issue) is up.  My monthly article for PaganPages is titled “Door to the Beyond: Paganism and Mental Health”.  The crash gave me a chance to catch up on my life, and I’m halfway done with the next article already.

Please read it and comment.  Archives are available on-site, or you can write me for my previous articles.

Hugs,
Me

Comments (3)

  1. xBitteR_SwT_FlameZx

    thank you =)

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  2. LadyCelt357

    I checked it out.I’ll comment on a couple articles. First, on the Pagan Theology about the Pagan tombstone and how Pagans are treated……I’m a Christian (but I do view God as not only male, not only female, but beyond that.) I also believe in something like animism (or maybe it is animism who knows) and a degree of pantheism (which John 1:3 seems similar to.) I’ve found verses in the Bible where God is female and God is plural. Sadly, I feel I judge within my own faith. I do not say my views on God etc to everybody (especially within my own faith.) I think part of why I am open to view Pagans as no less than me is I have friends who are Pagan and Wiccan. I know that they are not all “bad” people because I am around them. I find it to be a blessing that there are peopel in my life of other faiths. I am so sick of this us vs. them mentality. I am so tired of people condemning people for being gay, having sex, being another religion, not having God etc. I also think it threatens peopel to know how many are of “alternative” religions and that it is growing. Maybe part of it is these attitudes and having it feel forced upon people. In my view, that is a big part of it. By calling things frivelous, people heathen, etc…. it validates them as the enemy. Throughout history, people call their oponents bad names and barbarians. Religions that practice magick etc throughout the ages still labled their enemeis witches and condemned them for magick. Throughout the ages, translations and peoples’ own agendas have impacted the Bible more than people may realize. Are there Pagans who do bad stuff? Yes! Are there Christians, atheists, etc who do? Yes! I don’t think that this particular religion has more “bad seeds” than any other set of beliefs. Frankly, a Pagan forum I’m on is much more open minded than the Christian ones I’ve been on 🙁 And, yes there are people who get heated about hard vs. soft polytheism, rconstructionism/following only one pantheon vs. ecclectic Paganism, etc. But, I do like how there isn’t the feeling that if you aren’t of this particular sect or denomination, then you’re going to Hell. I think that God alone (or whatever people believe) have the knowledge, power, and abilitiy to know where someone goes and put them there. People are so busy trying to shape others into THEIR image of God and are ruled by fear and ignorance that they (in my opinion) feed people more of the “devil” than the loving idea of God and the love of Christ. Christ gave his life to help the world better itself, so why do people make people feel they are better off dead? Freedom of Religion should not be the same as freedom of ignorance. But, maybe people feel the need to keep others bound in chains so that they may be the free ones. Not only are other people of other religions hurt by people who shove their views upon others, but I truly believe a lot of Christians are too. The article about the term pagan….. It has truly been transformed into a derogatory term. The same as heathen. In the anthropological perspective, I am not troubled by the term heathen. Sadly, it has been used to degrade people and their religions.

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  3. LadyCelt357

    shoot, sorry (gotta love my add lol), you wrote only the mental health one. And, I can’t find it. Sorry about that.

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