Pagan Aspies? Other Minority Religions?

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I am spiritual. I used to practice witch craft, celebrate the pagan holidays. I believe in god but not Jesus , I have and believe in psychic ability's. I believe in the after life, different dimensions, other kin and aliens. but i do not believe in global warming.

I think that covers it. if you dont know what other kin is you should look it up it is fascinating to me.

Yay more Pagans! I'm Pagan--I'm not following any specific branch right now, but I am partially influenced by Kemeticism because my patron deities are Set and Bast. I revere Earth, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets, and I believe that there are other deities in existence, but I only worship Set and Bast. I'm also kind of animist.

My favorite Pagan forum is www.paganjourneys.com if anyone wants to check it out!

Pagan religions is interesting to me.

Modern Pagans are nothing if not interesting. We are diverse, bewildering and sometimes even incomprehensible to each other.

Cool I thank yall would like the wicked series I have them all their all good books im reading the last one then im done with the series.

Belief-o-matic says I am a neo-pagan, but honestly I have no idea what that means.

Is paganism actually a religion. I always thought it was a derogatory term used by Christians to say you are not of a Abrahamic religion. In which case, it could actually be thousands of religions lumped under a single term and not a single religion. I may just have a misunderstanding of the term and the entomology doesn't help any because it just means country dweller.

Christians started using it that was the same way Jews would use Gentile and muslims would use infidel that way and yes it is a religion that is older then christianity islam and Judisam Paganism has been around as long as one of the oldest religions like shamanism.

I once dated a Pagan she rocked

Cash, I could, quite literally, expand on Paganism forever. I spend hours every day thinking, researching, discussing and writing about Paganism.

The best bet is to start with Wikipedia articles as a launching pad. Modern Paganism is incredibly diverse, from relatively new religions to the actual reconstruction of ancient religions. Wiccanate Paganism forms the majority of the modern Pagan movement. Unbroken indigenous religious traditions such as Shinto, Hinduism, Santeria, Vodou and Native American Spirituality are not considered strictly Pagan, but have a cousin relationship to modern Paganism. Most forms of Paganism, but not all, draw on the indigenous religious practices of Europe, the Mediterranean and the ancient Middle East.

Pagan comes from paganus, which means country dweller. As people in rural areas were usually the last to convert to monotheism they became known as pagans. Heathen is a term that has a similar origin. Most people feel that Pagan is a word that needs to be reclaimed with pride. There is a minority movement that rejects the term Pagan in favor of the term polytheist.

The various forms of practice and theology that fall under the Pagan umbrella can be overwhelming to take in at first. There are religions such as Asatru, Hellenismos and religio Romana that are reconstructed from ancient records and adapted to a modern sensibility. These tend to be oriented towards family and community, tend to be polytheistic and tend to be more conservative than other Pagan religions. There are religions like Romuva, the religion of the Mari people and other pockets of Pagan survivals. These are a bit controversial regarding their historical claims and very fascinating. Then there is Wicca, modern Druidry and Wiccanate Paganism, which are new spiritual traditions that get their inspiration from ancient paganism, ecology, feminism, GLBT movement and civil rights movement. Some of these traditions claim an ancient lineage, but to my knowledge none have academically proven a lineage beyond WWI.

I myself am a traditional Wiccan initiate who practices Hellenismos, or the reconstructed religion of ancient Greece.

I'm a Spiritualist and a Pantheist. I like to analyze the beliefs of other religions and try to make sense of them because they usually parallel Spiritualism in some way. I don't completely understand the spiritual and the workings of the omniverse, but I like to absorb information and try to increase my understanding. My religion could always change if I get new information that makes more sense. People have had a lot of strange experiences including myself. Trying to figure out which ones actually happened and how they fit into the omniverse is a challenge. I doubt there is a single person on earth who completely understands the spiritual and the workings of the omniverse. There is always more information to be found.

What makes you think the Cosmos is anything but physical? Spirit is a notion we have in our heads. It is not clear at all that it exists anywhere else.

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I believe that the spiritual is made up of energy so technically the spiritual is part of the physical. I'm convinced that the spiritual exists after having experimented with the pendulum dowsing chart and other occult things. My own experiences are only sufficient evidence for myself though, in order for others to be convinced of the existence of the spiritual they would have to experience these things for themselves. I wouldn't be able to convince anyone of the existence and nature of the spiritual who isn't already destined to be convinced of it through their own experiences and reasoning at some point in time. I'm not really interested in trying to convince anyone of these things. Making posts is just a habitual thing for me and I do it when I'm bored.

When I was younger I dabbled in a bit of Wicca and Paganism, I mostly liked the imagery and ideas but was not convinced at all by the supernatural/god side of it, I very much stayed an atheist with a love of paganism. I gave up after a few months though it seemed a bit of a hassle.
I still like paganism though I'm very much secular in every way possible.

There are actually a significant number of atheists in Paganism. They find the culture suits them. I guess you would say they practice a non-theistic nature religion.

So is casting a love spell ethical?

Only if it opens yourself up to more love opportunities, but casting a spell to make one person love you is seen as unethical. I read it in quite a few books.

Ah cool, I am fascinated by the science behind nature and stuff, there's nothing magical about to imo but I can see the logic behind revering it. I like how nature religions are the worship of things that are actually there, like the sun, rather than physical gods which I find utterly ridiculous.