In other news
I don't know if I'd mentioned it, but I'm starting the Hellenismos 101 course offered through HTAZP. Yes, I've been worshiping Apollon for about a decade or so and Pan only slightly less time. But doing group worship more regularly has highlighted some gaps in my knowledge and background that wouldn't so much turn up doing things solo. Also, I'm kind of a swot, for those who hadn't noticed. So, whenever priest-dude sends me the first lesson, I start, in hopes of catching up before the 102 course begins. That one I'm actually a bit more interested in, but see above re: holes in background.
The two main texts are Kharis by erl_queen and Devotion: Prayers to the Gods of the Greeks by hearthstone. Small world, the Hellenic polytheist community. *g* Both books are excellent so far. I would like to shake CreateSpace, though. They told me Kharis wouldn't even be ready to ship until tomorrow, about two and a half weeks after the order date, then had it to me in three days. *facepalm* While that's better than messing up the estimate the other way around, sandbagging like that is a good way to potentially put off a customer. I also picked up Longing for Wisdom: The Message of the Maxims, which looks good, though I've not started actually reading it yet.
Kwan Yin seems mildly amused by all this Hellenization, not to mention by my frequent inquiries about what-all else I ought to be doing for Her. The occasional meditation sits and visits to Buddhist monasteries are all well and good, but I don't really approach Her from a Buddhist mindset. I guess I'm wishing there was some Kwan Yin-focused equivalent of HTAZP, because I do seem hard-wired to need to be part of a worship community, and with my eclecticism, that ends up meaning needing more than one of them. On the other hand, the way I've been juggling my rather, erm, diverse pantheon feels like it's no longer really working, and I need to figure out how to integrate things more rather than fragmenting them further. So that'll be one of the questions I ponder as I do this course, even though that's unlikely to be *part* of the course itself.
The two main texts are Kharis by erl_queen and Devotion: Prayers to the Gods of the Greeks by hearthstone. Small world, the Hellenic polytheist community. *g* Both books are excellent so far. I would like to shake CreateSpace, though. They told me Kharis wouldn't even be ready to ship until tomorrow, about two and a half weeks after the order date, then had it to me in three days. *facepalm* While that's better than messing up the estimate the other way around, sandbagging like that is a good way to potentially put off a customer. I also picked up Longing for Wisdom: The Message of the Maxims, which looks good, though I've not started actually reading it yet.
Kwan Yin seems mildly amused by all this Hellenization, not to mention by my frequent inquiries about what-all else I ought to be doing for Her. The occasional meditation sits and visits to Buddhist monasteries are all well and good, but I don't really approach Her from a Buddhist mindset. I guess I'm wishing there was some Kwan Yin-focused equivalent of HTAZP, because I do seem hard-wired to need to be part of a worship community, and with my eclecticism, that ends up meaning needing more than one of them. On the other hand, the way I've been juggling my rather, erm, diverse pantheon feels like it's no longer really working, and I need to figure out how to integrate things more rather than fragmenting them further. So that'll be one of the questions I ponder as I do this course, even though that's unlikely to be *part* of the course itself.