Solitary Musings
Mar. 16th, 2008 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdehnersWhile miserable, All that forced bedrest triggered a bit of a wallow about what a shitty heathen I am. It was a nice healthy pity party, with lots of “wailing and gnashing of teeth”. Then I “heard” a “voice”. “What is the Prime Directive?”. That was a no-brainer. The Prime Directive in my life since at least middle school has been to return to the Gods of my Ancestors. “Oh!”. Clue received. I had gone on this journey to return to Regin. Everything else is “frosting on the cake” and you can live without “frosting”, though many folks prefer it over the actual “cake”…
I’ve become quite comfortable with the idea that I’ll be Solitary for the rest of my life because in truth…I’m not. The Regin are always around. Since I’m not in a group, I don’t have to worry that I may accidently teach personal stuff AS our particular brand of Heathen thought. Since I’ve decided to stop teaching, even more so. I don’t have to worry about “leading folks astray” .
Funny, yrs ago before the aids meds came out I’d talked to Weyland and Boðvarr about the stuff I’d collected over the yrs; my meditations on Lore and Runepoems, Trancework,etc. That all that work would be lost. Now I understand why in the old days folks had their journals Cremated with them. There is Religion and there is Mysticism. Religious writing should be saved. They teach Proper Behavior between Folk and God/desses. Mysticism deals with the personal relationship between an Individual and their God/desses. This should be Cremated with the Creator.
Religion is easy. Do the Rites, be a Good Person according to that religion. If you can’t at least try to do either, LEAVE….
Mysticism is hard because communications and relationships are hard enough when all members have physical bodies;>……..
Truth,
Pat
I’ve become quite comfortable with the idea that I’ll be Solitary for the rest of my life because in truth…I’m not. The Regin are always around. Since I’m not in a group, I don’t have to worry that I may accidently teach personal stuff AS our particular brand of Heathen thought. Since I’ve decided to stop teaching, even more so. I don’t have to worry about “leading folks astray” .
Funny, yrs ago before the aids meds came out I’d talked to Weyland and Boðvarr about the stuff I’d collected over the yrs; my meditations on Lore and Runepoems, Trancework,etc. That all that work would be lost. Now I understand why in the old days folks had their journals Cremated with them. There is Religion and there is Mysticism. Religious writing should be saved. They teach Proper Behavior between Folk and God/desses. Mysticism deals with the personal relationship between an Individual and their God/desses. This should be Cremated with the Creator.
Religion is easy. Do the Rites, be a Good Person according to that religion. If you can’t at least try to do either, LEAVE….
Mysticism is hard because communications and relationships are hard enough when all members have physical bodies;>……..
Truth,
Pat
