Individual vs Society - Shaping Reality

[fritterfae]

In continuing my thoughts from yesterday I want to raise something that came up in the last OHF Book discussion.  We read "God Is Not One" by Stephen Prothero. Among the two hours that we discussed the book we covered a lot of ground, and we started looking at this rubric of fundamental questions, answers, spiritual technologies, etc.  One of the

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[sheherazahde]

I've been thinking a lot about how the validity of personal experience is a central Truth in Wicca (it's probably true about other pagan paths as well but I like to limit my focus to Wicca). You are talking about it in terms of reveled truth but I've always associated reveled truth with Christianity and Islam, religions where truth was reveled once a long time ago and now everyone is supposed to accept this truth. I think one of the valuable things about Wicca is that we don't expect people to accept someone else's revelation. Although this is only incidental to what you are talking about

[fritterfae]

Zahde: I give you blanket permission to cross post anything I write on LJ to the Wicca community. I'm mostly writing this stuff for myself, and if comments come, then great. But I'm not really going out of my way to push my thinking-out-loud to other people beyond those who bother to still read LJ