Love your characterization of neopaganism as an esthetic, as a way to furnish your house with pagan bricabrac and pagan themed parties. I know one person who is fiercely anti christian but also collects various tibetan and other buddhist statuary. That is, she claims to be a materialist but also seems to yearn for some sort of spirualism…
Love your characterization of neopaganism as an esthetic, as a way to furnish your house with pagan bricabrac and pagan themed parties. I know one person who is fiercely anti christian but also collects various tibetan and other buddhist statuary. That is, she claims to be a materialist but also seems to yearn for some sort of spirualism as long as she can purge it of spiritual content. The key is that she cannot acknowledge the existence of spirit for intellectual reasons while yearning for it for emotional reasons. But we know where her heart is.
Love your characterization of neopaganism as an esthetic, as a way to furnish your house with pagan bricabrac and pagan themed parties. I know one person who is fiercely anti christian but also collects various tibetan and other buddhist statuary. That is, she claims to be a materialist but also seems to yearn for some sort of spirualism as long as she can purge it of spiritual content. The key is that she cannot acknowledge the existence of spirit for intellectual reasons while yearning for it for emotional reasons. But we know where her heart is.