Please please please excuse my ignorance. I respect your beliefs and really want to understand your religion, so I hope you won't mind me asking this.
When you talk about astral shape-shifters, is that reflective of a kind of "journey" into the unconscious mind, or are you actually talking about a spirit world? The only way I can even wrap my mind around that is to compare it to Chinese filial piety.
This is all incredible to me. Hard to swallow, of course, but that's just the iron skeptic in me. I spent most of my childhood looking to the sky, waiting to feel something. It seems like everywhere I go, there's a tinfoil spaceman waiting to bum me out.
I've always wanted to find a way of "connecting" to my Native American ancestry, without resorting to a "...but I'm honoring you, dude" scenario. My grandmother died when I was 12, and my grandfather was a disgusting pedophile, so needless to say, I never really had a chance to speak with either of them on the subject.
It's probably really weird/soulless of me to ask this, but what exactly do you gain from making these connections? I realize there's more to it than that, but...yeah.
Oddly enough, I'm one of the most skeptical people you'll find, although I tend to define it better as "pragmatic" (I've experienced that, so I know it exists, I've yet to experience/find significant evidence for that, so I don't believe in it/have my doubts
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Thanks, lady. My particularly jabbering on posts (see: 95% of them) I'm glad are at least semi-coherent.
It means to feel the veil between the worlds thin, which usually occurs most (in folklore, anyway) around Hallows, Beltane (May 1st), and the Summer Solstice, although there are those that argue it's thin around all of the eight sabbats (the others being the Spring Equinox, Imbolc (February 2nd), Lammas (July 31st), the Autumnal Equinox, and the Winter Solstice). What I take "feel the vein thin" to mean is to feel the fact that the other worlds/planes are closer/more tangible and that psychic energy is up. A lot of the world on this survey was kinda... weird.
Apologies for any of this you already knew; I'm a repeating cow.
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When you talk about astral shape-shifters, is that reflective of a kind of "journey" into the unconscious mind, or are you actually talking about a spirit world? The only way I can even wrap my mind around that is to compare it to Chinese filial piety.
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I've always wanted to find a way of "connecting" to my Native American ancestry, without resorting to a "...but I'm honoring you, dude" scenario. My grandmother died when I was 12, and my grandfather was a disgusting pedophile, so needless to say, I never really had a chance to speak with either of them on the subject.
It's probably really weird/soulless of me to ask this, but what exactly do you gain from making these connections? I realize there's more to it than that, but...yeah.
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What does it mean to "feel the veil thin?"
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It means to feel the veil between the worlds thin, which usually occurs most (in folklore, anyway) around Hallows, Beltane (May 1st), and the Summer Solstice, although there are those that argue it's thin around all of the eight sabbats (the others being the Spring Equinox, Imbolc (February 2nd), Lammas (July 31st), the Autumnal Equinox, and the Winter Solstice).
What I take "feel the vein thin" to mean is to feel the fact that the other worlds/planes are closer/more tangible and that psychic energy is up. A lot of the world on this survey was kinda... weird.
Apologies for any of this you already knew; I'm a repeating cow.
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