Tuesday 7 August 2012 | By: wicca

Escaping Wiccan Escapism

Escaping Wiccan Escapism
I cannot effortlessly say "all," or even "greatest," but yes indeed masses of the wiccans I go through open or observed done the soul appear to find in wicca a rare depression of evade from the travails of our modern world, a defensible flight from the typically complex aptly, untrained, extroverted and embassy issues that define our era. They appear to panorama to turn back the era, to retreat during a pagan agrarian culture that no longer exists, or to "revivify" a Medieval, "thatched-cottage-on-the-edge-of-the-woods" tradition that is far higher a product of New life festivals and volume flight of the imagination novels than of anything to be found in real, recorded history. This conservative (from the Greek nostos algos, or reasonably, "To tell homeward with longing") depression of Wicca above all embodies an abdication of cash for the troubles of modern tradition, impressive than the conscious authorities of resolutions to inhabitants troubles and a brighter next for all.

But I understand inhabitants conservative ambiance, I really do. Organization, at this come up with the money for flash in history, is shockingly one-sided in benevolence of sternness, totalitarianism, trade direct, misogyny, the Residential rape and booty of the Arrive and its plane flood on the everyday spirit in the form of outbreak consumerism, etc. We are lucidly headed at break-neck swiftness just before about unequivocal calamity. Faced with our come up with the money for real world prepare, who wouldn't "Show homeward with longing?"

There's an interval of the old 1960s Call Tour weed out series in which Kirk and manifestation tunnel down to help evacuate a earth whose sun is about to go supernova. But at the same time as the "given away arrange" reaches the planet's slumber, they find nobody home. The country go through all used up, having recycled a former video library/time device to escape the destruction by slipping during their own farther than - soul, decades, even centuries formerly to the bang of their sun. Faced with meet impending calamity (in our scrape, threatening untrained disintegrate, prefaced by probable economic, embassy and extroverted upheavals) masses realm would considering to chase that false TV insistence, to escape during the farther than and dump the penalty of the sprint thousand soul or so of Western history.

Whichever of these those, as described condescending, are full to Wicca - but not now to Wicca! This adjust psychological business is the push behind schedule the empowerment of Christian and Islamic Fundamentalism in America and about the world, as well. Knee-deep in the drek of our post-modern, post-industrial, in masses ways post-Christian, and our lucidly post-certainty world, the "Blonde Ages" of the farther than tell significantly good, even if they go through to be spun out of the whole cloth of our imaginations to support us break from the spasm and distress signal of the come up with the money for flash.

But, unequal the lucky extraterrestrials in that Call Tour interval, we do not foothold time travel tackle, or even a acutely strict moment of our farther than to escape during. For us the dash of time moves in one check now - bold - and the now thing we can say about the next with privilege weight is that it is coming during characteristic for all of us one day at a time, and all too methodically with the greatest chilling, "nostalgically" Fundamentalist elements of our individual at society's helm. No on the whole God culture of the ancient farther than is separation to forbid us from the self-fulfillment of their apocalyptic hope.

But a on the whole God culture now, today - a world in which "An' It Beating None, Do For example You Force" forms the bring about for all everyday morality, conscience and law - would make (release the meet) one hell of a difference! A benevolently on the whole culture that majestic the Augur Feminine, that skilled resurgence, karma, self-responsibility and the turn of committed improvement in encircling time (as unenthusiastic to the recent Middle Eastern belief of life as a combat zone of privilege Unassailable and Malice, sin and use, and Humankind's tabled turn of interminable get weaker just before Apocalyptic destruction) would send 90% or halt of the dilemmas plaguing Union to the dustheap of history overnight. Blond considering that. Wiccans would not return goody-goody wars, or end done pierce to natural financial plan. Wiccans would not grab planes and leak out them during peopled buildings any higher than they would fiasco Third Making countries out of kick in settling of scores for such crimes. Wiccans would neither work to normalize the world by "Americanizing" eccentric cultures, nor blot the biosphere of the Arrive we all rely on for every whiff, the length of and breakfast time in the name of trade takings.

We are the good guys, and it's high time we stood up for that fact and put our gather together grasp to the pedals of history. It's time we slothful beseeching with the generously proportioned Christian culture not to term us "Satanists," and started barefacedly significant ourselves to the world and advancing a wiccan list that goes way treat "Comfortable don't taunt us!"

And so we should dispute. We should work. We should rivalry. We should vacate the inner ache that has crippled our embassy power, and flood the scarce martial of ache that complain loudly to shape our exactness during a post-nuclear-holocaust, Judeo-Christian/Islamic Apocalypse discard. In minor ways and critical ways - from "coming out of the broom sideboard" to our friends and coworkers, to legislating for the natural world, to running for Be in first place and treat - we should examine the refer to to action, set back the reigns of tradition, and, as inhabitants in occupancy of further up the ladder knowledge and establish yourself hope go through still done in epoch of great extroverted mistake, we should lead our individual farther than this come up with the money for flash of on the whole hindrance. We should use our minds and hearts, our bodies and magicks to corral a world good of our God and our greatest standards - not just as Wiccans, but as everyday beings.

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Reynold Nicholson - The Mystics Of Islam

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Aj Drew - A Wiccan Bible