As I was reading through Dwelling on the Threshold, I stumbled upon this sentence that struck me. It quite accurately explains something I've been considering for the past week, though the issue has been on my mind much longer. (You can read the post that this quote is from here.) ...the gods are entirely independent of  our brain chemistry, but our experience of Them is not. Since beginning walking a religious path, I've been dealing with doubt. Doubt is a part of discernment, for me, a … [Read more...]

I don't really have any taboos yet.   I didn't have any taboos. The taboos I'm discussing here are religious and spiritual ones, imposed on us either by the religion we are practicing or the gods and spirits themselves. As someone walking a path towards spirit work (well, I consider myself already on that path, but I'm still a novice) and mysticism, I always expected to have taboos given to me. None really came. A year ago I got brief, unsure impressions that I should no longer … [Read more...]

I’ve been reading through Dwelling on the Threshold, a book full of essays from A Forest Door, and a lot of what I’ve read so far rings true – on various levels – to my experience and life. I haven’t discussed it much on Patheos, or really anywhere, but I’ve been doing this religious and spiritual work and Work since I was around twelve. Which makes people uncomfortable – so young! I couldn’t really have started that little! (I started younger; I had an idea of what modern … [Read more...]