The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/spirituality)
Lyonel Perabo explores his own lack of experience of a numinous or supernatural aspect to Paganism, and raises the question of Paganism, and religion in general, as being based within human need and experience rather than the divine.
Norwegian columnist Lyonel Perabo reviews Shaman Durek’s “Spirit Hacking: Shamanic Keys to Reclaim Your Personal Power, Transform Yourself, and Light up the World,” and finds its approach to shamanism lacking.
International columnist Lyonel Perabo considers legacy, identity, and language as he prepares to learn German.
Karl E.H. Seigfried writes on the need for Pagans to engage in public discourse, using that as an opportunity to show what is unique and valuable about Pagan worldviews in response to the assumptions made under majority religions.
I should begin by noting that I think everyone has the right to choose a spiritual path that’s meaningful to them. You’d think that wouldn’t be controversial but a couple of thousand years of history suggests otherwise. Second, let me say that I’m not a physicist, but I have taught statistical mechanics; that would also be the semester I last said “sure, I‘ll help.”
So now we can backtrack a bit. Picture it: grad school, 1992. There was this lowly PhD student who was brilliantly good at statistics sitting in class deeply focused on an advanced lecture on fixed vs.