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vectorvillain about religion, which is, I suppose, one of the subjects that he and I talk about a fair amount when he's findable.
One of the comments he made was about something he called the Time of Prophets, the initial stages in the development of a movement, a religion. Paganism as a whole is still in its Time of Prophets, its point when individual personalities are shaping the face of what exists, where the founders of religions are still in their breathing days, where personal convictions and personal disagreements can lead to the founding of entire religions as a result of taking one's ball and going home.
It's an interesting time to be living in. In sort of the traditional curse sense.
I don't like this sort of interesting time, really; it leaves me feeling like I'm in the middle of some catastrophic literature. The natural order is upturned and all, nothing's established, nothing's stable. The raw order isn't merely ripped up; it doesn't exist yet, it hasn't even been built. I don't like it; I'm far too conservative of ba for this sort of interesting, this sort of transformational period.
The raw energy of creation, of defining the scope of the possible with the words we speak and write today, is ripping loose and through the extended pagan movement. Witness disputes about what 'Wicca' means: the shape of the word is being flexed by people, some of them people who don't even know how much their words can bend things. The energy is raw, very raw in some places, unconstrained; it makes new forms and rips them apart again. The forms that are shaped today and built well, the ones that will survive, have the potential to reach far into the future.
It's an amazing thing, to think that today's research, today's insights, today's connections, today's stories told might cascade out like that. It's terrifying. Djet is scary; it's so big. I can't live responsibly in neheh without recognising, though, that djet comes out of neheh's iterations, and in times of transformation, in intermediate periods, order is not merely maintained, it is defined.
It fills me with awe, awe complete with the oft-forgotten layers of fear.
I think the world probably needs more awe at djet.
What was ittnh says? "We live in extremely interesting ancient times"?
vectorvillain about religion, which is, I suppose, one of the subjects that he and I talk about a fair amount when he's findable.One of the comments he made was about something he called the Time of Prophets, the initial stages in the development of a movement, a religion. Paganism as a whole is still in its Time of Prophets, its point when individual personalities are shaping the face of what exists, where the founders of religions are still in their breathing days, where personal convictions and personal disagreements can lead to the founding of entire religions as a result of taking one's ball and going home.
It's an interesting time to be living in. In sort of the traditional curse sense.
I don't like this sort of interesting time, really; it leaves me feeling like I'm in the middle of some catastrophic literature. The natural order is upturned and all, nothing's established, nothing's stable. The raw order isn't merely ripped up; it doesn't exist yet, it hasn't even been built. I don't like it; I'm far too conservative of ba for this sort of interesting, this sort of transformational period.
The raw energy of creation, of defining the scope of the possible with the words we speak and write today, is ripping loose and through the extended pagan movement. Witness disputes about what 'Wicca' means: the shape of the word is being flexed by people, some of them people who don't even know how much their words can bend things. The energy is raw, very raw in some places, unconstrained; it makes new forms and rips them apart again. The forms that are shaped today and built well, the ones that will survive, have the potential to reach far into the future.
It's an amazing thing, to think that today's research, today's insights, today's connections, today's stories told might cascade out like that. It's terrifying. Djet is scary; it's so big. I can't live responsibly in neheh without recognising, though, that djet comes out of neheh's iterations, and in times of transformation, in intermediate periods, order is not merely maintained, it is defined.
It fills me with awe, awe complete with the oft-forgotten layers of fear.
I think the world probably needs more awe at djet.
What was it
tnh says? "We live in extremely interesting ancient times"?
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It doesn't help that I'm afraid to bring up my spiritual beliefs to pretty much any organized group of practitioners who might have useful information. Djhwty spoke to me, but so did Kuan Yin; and I won't choose one or the other when they've both shown me how well they get along. They aren't arguing... but I suspect that most living Egyptian practitioners would. :/ So I continue to make it up as I go along.
... feh. *sigh*