Post by maolsheachlann on Sept 25, 2013 13:42:29 GMT
I don't know if members of this forum have had a chance to read the Lughnasadh/Harvest Festival issue of Brigid's Fire, Ireland pagan magazine. I was scanning the religious journals shelves in UCD when I noticed the new arrival, which I assume is a donation.
The Editorial by Dáithi Ó Laoidhigh is entitled "Let's Hear it From the God" and calls for a rebalancing towards an appreciation of "male energy" after "a decisive reaction against centuries of patriarchal religion".
As if in response, an article called Herne, the Master (written by a woman) celebrates this horny god. "Each man needs to see himself a half-animal....an animal who Wills. Will is the effort it takes to feel the rage in the belly, the hunger for recognition, the demand for pleasure, the striving for dominance, the challenge and the joy of battle, and to master it. Herne is the Master." There is also a cookery page, an article about the Egyptian deity Thoth, and an explanation of Shamanic Healing.
I thought forum members might be especially interested in this excerpt by "Magic and the Sacred Land" by Josephine McCarthy:
We use the Christian/Judaic model in our approach to the ancient consciousness within the land without really realising it and it can be very hard to truly step out of that model. While this is not a bad thing in many ways, it can end up recreating the same dogmatic patterns that are no longer applicable to our land and culture and it can quickly devolve into dressing up and role playing with an added side of psychology. Ever come across a Celtic Druid Shaman Goetic Klippoth therapist who wants to wash your aura in the blood of Tubal Cain's second brother's wife (who happens to be named Lillith) at a high mass? I mean, how Catholic can you get?
(Be as syncretic as you like, but for goodness sake, stay away from Catholicism!)
In general, the magazine is affable, good-humoured, and cheerfully tolerant almost to the point of pain. There's nothing subversive going on here, and nothing very challenging either. It's hard to tell whether the deities referred to are meant to exist in a literal sense or whether they are simply projections or avatars of some underlying world-soul.
A "Moots and Meetings" panel advertises seven regular "moots" around the country, mostly taking place in pubs.
The Editorial by Dáithi Ó Laoidhigh is entitled "Let's Hear it From the God" and calls for a rebalancing towards an appreciation of "male energy" after "a decisive reaction against centuries of patriarchal religion".
As if in response, an article called Herne, the Master (written by a woman) celebrates this horny god. "Each man needs to see himself a half-animal....an animal who Wills. Will is the effort it takes to feel the rage in the belly, the hunger for recognition, the demand for pleasure, the striving for dominance, the challenge and the joy of battle, and to master it. Herne is the Master." There is also a cookery page, an article about the Egyptian deity Thoth, and an explanation of Shamanic Healing.
I thought forum members might be especially interested in this excerpt by "Magic and the Sacred Land" by Josephine McCarthy:
We use the Christian/Judaic model in our approach to the ancient consciousness within the land without really realising it and it can be very hard to truly step out of that model. While this is not a bad thing in many ways, it can end up recreating the same dogmatic patterns that are no longer applicable to our land and culture and it can quickly devolve into dressing up and role playing with an added side of psychology. Ever come across a Celtic Druid Shaman Goetic Klippoth therapist who wants to wash your aura in the blood of Tubal Cain's second brother's wife (who happens to be named Lillith) at a high mass? I mean, how Catholic can you get?
(Be as syncretic as you like, but for goodness sake, stay away from Catholicism!)
In general, the magazine is affable, good-humoured, and cheerfully tolerant almost to the point of pain. There's nothing subversive going on here, and nothing very challenging either. It's hard to tell whether the deities referred to are meant to exist in a literal sense or whether they are simply projections or avatars of some underlying world-soul.
A "Moots and Meetings" panel advertises seven regular "moots" around the country, mostly taking place in pubs.