Paganism, Religion, New Age, Jerry Falwell, Kaballah, And My Non-Philosophy Of Life
First and foremost it is important that I not introduce myself as an expert or authority on
religion, new age beliefs, physics (or much of anything else for that matter); one might say
I could now be “a pseudo-expert” regarding cartooning or e-commerce, but I think anyone
becomes “an expert” at just about anything after persisting and doing it long enough.
The topic (or topics if you will) of this article regards matters such as energy vortexes, New Age religion, traditional religion, paganism, etc. and how they all have similarities, yet are so very different in traditions. It talks about why we are here, why we believe what we do, what we can do (or not do) with it, and a myriad of ramblings that, sometimes, I get in the mood to discuss. Again, I do not claim to be an expert on any of them, simply thoughts from readings and observations. I am a believer, but I certainly don’t demand it or judge others if they are not.
I guess the place to start is with paganism. How the word “pagan” ever got a negative
connotation from anyone is beyond me. It is an ancient Greek word meaning “rural dweller”
or “person or family living outside of a city”.
The ancient pagans did not really behave that much different than city-dwellers, except for the
fact that since they relied so intensely on nature, that is, mostly farming, they were considered
to worship it. Fruits, berries, herbs etc. were used as medicines. G-d (we use the spelling
of G-d in Judaism and I happen to be a believer, which has very little to do with my story
or observations).
So when the Torah (or first bible, or Jewish Bible or often referred to as The Old
Testament) was written; much was