Wednesday, August 19, 2009

cross posted with A Pagan Tapestry

Reading blogs and reading my own email and sometimes even the comments on my blogs, I realize that it is difficult for us to leave behind the concepts of deity that we are surrounded with in this society. I am talking about the role of the minister, rabbi, imam, priest, preacher.....and unfortunately the perceived role of the high priest or high priestess.

Do you still, sometimes, think of your deities as being 'over there' or 'out there' or 'up there' and they speak to an intermediary who will tell you what they said?
This is one reason I left Christianity.

I speak to my goddess.
I speak to the elements.
I speak to the spirits of the land
I speak to my spirit guides
and
THEY SPEAK TO ME.

If some little voice inside your head is right now going ....yeah-but....please take a deep breath, tell yourself out loud that you do not need anyone to speak to deity for you and say something out loud to the deity or element of your choice.

We are so conditioned to believe that someone else may speak to deity, but we, individually, do not. People with tin foil hats might speak to deity (or aliens) but we do not. Ministers and other clergy who are somehow morally superior may speak to deity but we do not. The high priestess may speak to deity, but we do not. We can grovel and beg and pray, but we do not converse.

Please leave that thinking in the closet where it belongs. If you want to have a personal relationship with deity, spirits, ancestors, elements or anyone else, you can do it. It is not weird, you are not crazy and there are no special requirements.

I found a book that can help you along this path, if you are interested but still skeptical or hesitant. Michelle Skye's book Goddess Alive is primarily a series of guided meditations and rituals to help you connect with deity. She focuses on the Celtic and Norse goddesses and their associations with sabbats and esbats. I recommend that you check this book out, it might be available at your public library. If a different pantheon is calling to you, this might still be helpful in showing you how to research and write your own meditations and rituals to connect to a particular deity. If you are seeking Celtic or Norse goddesses then she has done the hard work for you.
If you decide to use this book, please let me know what you think and whether or not it helped you.

4 comments:

  1. Thank you for recommending this book, I just ordered it and am anxious to read it!

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  2. Spot on, Celestite. And time more people understood that the only reason the God/Goddess is silent to them is that they are not listening for themselves. Well done!

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  3. Excellent post. For centuries people have been bluffed into believing they have to have someone else act as an "agent" for them in order to connect with deity and of course this is rubbish.
    Wonderful to see someone reinforcing that a relationship with deity is personal and that the responsibility for that lays with the individual.
    Smiles,
    Amethyst
    www.oakandmistletoe.com.au

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  4. One of the discoveries I made some years ago while actively channeling.....is that thoughts create even more subtle emotional wavelengths than we imagine. It is through the vibrations produced by the inner ear that we are able to "catch" their existence.....like dipping your head into a river and the river is full of thoughts...all extant from similar time/spaces both in the finite world where we now exist and throughout the infinite worlds of all existence. the human body is a "vessel" of and immersed in the 'spirit extant' and, as such, requires an ability to gain access to both its physical reality as well as the spirit's alternate realities.

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