Here\u2019s another quote from A History of God<\/em>:<\/p>\n When the Greeks looked back to the golden age of their heroes, they felt that they had been closely in touch with the gods, who were, after all, of the same nature as human beings. These stories of epiphanies expressed the holistic pagan vision: when the divine was not essentially distinct from either or humanity, it could be experienced without great fanfare.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe holistic pagan vision\u201d \u2013 that\u2019s what our culture has lost over the past 2000 years. That\u2019s what we need to reclaim as Pagans, as modern practitioners of ancient traditions.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s another quote from A History of God: When the Greeks looked back to the golden age of their heroes, they felt that they had been closely in touch with the gods, who were, after all, of the same nature as human beings. These stories of epiphanies expressed the holistic pagan vision: when the divine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n