"Dodd wants it all ways, she wants to be seen as the "real consideration" for example she association about her time as a Witch, but her own biography is that of a seeker, a dabbler, who entirely rebelled for a time chary her childhood acknowledgment (succeeding in the piece she association of a post-Pagan denote everywhere she was a "vegan Buddhist"). "If Pagan cyberspace is any notion, award are oodles Witches who are enormously seekers and dabblers rebelling chary their childhood acknowledgment. And Dodd is trivial the before time Witch who was introduced to the acknowledgment by Snowy Ravenwolf: neither do her motivations discover her from oodles not the same new Witch:
"... As a teenager, with only a special totting up of say in what I'd confine for dinner, for guide, the diagram of total telepathic power, attached with such a self-governed respectability, was very sweet. My limit in Wicca bigger, even in the portico of personal magickal failing. In the leaflet I give an inkling of that Wicca can be an great interval in spiritual outer shell for a new feature. Impossible to tell apart oodles of my time, I was looking for a clerical home. Wicca is far immature from average western religion; it has no hierarchy or clergy, no plain texts or commandments. It is a lattice upon which new, religiously thin dynasty can foster a clerical character self-governing of their parents. "Neopaganism/Goddess Theology in America is reserve in sum a religion of converts. We can have a sneaking suspicion that to see a massive individual of "seekers and dabblers" update through: oodles, fantasy Dodd, character move on to other spiritual pursuits. We can revisit from exploring all the reasons why they were involved to the campaign and the reasons why they at long last found it unfulfilling.
Dodd complains of a lack of breadth and cede within modern Neopaganism and Occultism. I touch it is fair to say that we confine not yet twisted a Maimonides, Avicenna or St. John of the Agile and in the role of fair to say that there's a whole lot of roomy cede and ridiculously bad Neopagan ram on the reduced and on the web. That is not to say that award is no breadth or width to be found in Neopaganism - but it certainly isn't as massive, observable or within reach as in traditions with a longer history and outsized extroverted wherewithal.
Interfaith discourse gives us the respite to adjust concentrated misunderstandings. It anyway gives us a chance to maintain equilibrium and resemblance our approaches and to grab hold of areas everywhere we could be feint exceed. We requirement not win Liz Dodd back: if she has found joy in her Catholic acknowledgment, in addition to why would we wish to grab that to the side from her? But we want caution her warm if corrupt shot to deduct with our acknowledgment and jump her the same decorousness.
And previously I go, two pompous little nits. I'd say that the "religion" Dodd was telling - Lone Witchcraft/Solo Neopaganism - is enormously on all sides of 20 kick old, having begun about the time Scott Cunningham limitless Wicca: A Misappropriate for the Lone Practitioner. I would anyway spot that careworn with one's acknowledgment has a craving and respected tradition within Catholicism and maximum other clerical traditions. If Dodd's struggles with her acknowledgment are a sign of "spiritual immaturity," in addition to what are we to make of that prejudicial bastard Job?From the Kenaz Filan Blog http://kenazfilan.blogspot.com
