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When I was reading T. Thorn Coyle’s Make Magic of Your Life, I had an epiphany. A desire had been lurking in the bottom of my heart for years, and even though I kept discounting it, it continued to surface. Last month, I finally listened and took the plunge. I’m going to participate in a yoga teacher certification program. Although my yoga practice has been consistent (if a bit lazy) for years, there’s always been a little voice whispering in my ear that someday I would be good … [Read more...]
In the ancient Celtic world, there were people with names such as Giolla Bride (“Servant of Brighid”), Mog Nuadat (“Slave of Nuada”), and so forth. We can't really say exactly what these names meant to the ancient Celts, but we can get a glimpse of different types of devotional relationship that are possible for any worshiper. Aritgenos, “bear-born,” might have seen himself as the son of the bear goddess Artio or some other deity whose animal was the bear. Brannogenos, … [Read more...]
In Hinduism, bhakti is a mystical path focused on intense love of the divine in the form of one of the gods. Bhakti is radical devotion to a god or goddess in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment through love. In modern paganism, something similar to bhakti has been developing organically through the practice of devotion to the gods of the old pagan pantheons. This wasn't very common until fairly recently, and it seems to have started spontaneously, outside of any formal neopagan … [Read more...]
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