Re: Unverified Personal Gnosis
Contextual understanding of transcribed lore is a big thing for me, I helped set up a regular but small moot ( only 18 or so people ) of people interested in understanding and practicing "heathen" based spirituality.
Quite quickly it became clear that some individuals took the eddas and prose as a form of gospel to reinforce the common perception of northern European paganism.
They refused any SPG or UPG as fantasy as they expected all such interactions to be backed by word and verse.
They had no room in their understanding for any form of context , or really wanted to accept anything beyond Odinist ideals.
Even when its quite clear such ideals were not the entire regional norm.
I have heard some crazy UPG but in most cases just the act of supporting and talking with the person about their experience, getting them to find out why their experience was different can hae "filter " changing effects on their later experiences... Or possibly yours ;-)
In the past there would of been a family and village information and support network to do just that, I believe the solitary pagan as we tend to mostly start with now is an alien concept. People would of started off immersed in their particular faith from birth and would to a degree all have synchronised "filters".
Contextual understanding of transcribed lore is a big thing for me, I helped set up a regular but small moot ( only 18 or so people ) of people interested in understanding and practicing "heathen" based spirituality.
Quite quickly it became clear that some individuals took the eddas and prose as a form of gospel to reinforce the common perception of northern European paganism.
They refused any SPG or UPG as fantasy as they expected all such interactions to be backed by word and verse.
They had no room in their understanding for any form of context , or really wanted to accept anything beyond Odinist ideals.
Even when its quite clear such ideals were not the entire regional norm.
I have heard some crazy UPG but in most cases just the act of supporting and talking with the person about their experience, getting them to find out why their experience was different can hae "filter " changing effects on their later experiences... Or possibly yours ;-)
In the past there would of been a family and village information and support network to do just that, I believe the solitary pagan as we tend to mostly start with now is an alien concept. People would of started off immersed in their particular faith from birth and would to a degree all have synchronised "filters".
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