Neo-Pagans: Further discussion

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I wanted to clarify what I meant by neo-pagan being fluffy. It’s not that it’s wrong. They’re getting the same vibes that the rest of us are, but it’s how they go about it. The Mind controls the Body and Both are subservient to the Soul. Thus, when you have two thirds controlled by one third, you really need to be aware of what is happening. Examples I can think of on the top of my head: Astral Colors and Magnetism/Healing. If you don’t know about these, look up and read stuff on the Human Aura, Astral Colors, Human Magnetism, Thought Forms, The Prana Aura, etc.

So basically as far as my studies go, the human Aura is the field of energy around us that exists on the ethereal/astral/psychological level. It represents and in fact IS the projection of our moods, emotions, feelings, health, etc. The colors that it takes on are universal and represent specific states of being, happy, sad, sick, angry, etc. The colors also correspond to the physical realm, which is a duh, because the entire universe is in sync. So for example, the green hues of the grass and leaves on trees are calming and relaxing and soothing. If you aren’t sure you agree, picture a green field with a tree in the middle with lush green leaves. Now focus on this image very hard, and at the same time try to conjure anger/frustration/restlessness. If you’re strong willed/spirited/minded you probably can simultaneously do this, though more often then not you’re thinking back and forth like a pendulum, one second seeing the tree, then being angry, then the tree. But if you’re really linking to these colors and emotions, you will find that the colors sort of negate the fabricated anger. Anyways, point is, the colors have specific values. Human Magnetism as a healing art is the use of auric vibrations and astral colors to heal others/self. Basically, you stand with the patient, set your mind to the moods/healing/thoughts you want to impress on the patient, and the vibrations will hit their aura and produce a cause and effect situation. Now for added strength, and in fact a more complete magnetism healing, you think of the colors you wish your aura to be and impress upon the other person. If you want to cool and soothe them, you think on rich clear blues, if you want them to be stimulated you think on bright reds and then vibrant yellows.

Second example: the human body, just as any organism I’d venture to say, is the linking battery to the aura. Without the body the aura has no anchor/battery/source/fuel. This is not to say that the astral plane is not filled with entities and forces not linked to physical organisms, and this is not to say humans cannot transcend into an astral being and leave the body, but as a rule, the human aura requires a human body/person to link it. When you use energy you produce karma, consume energy, and expend astral material which must be recharged and refueled. It’s not that hard to refuel. A little rest. concentration/meditation on white astral colors, etc, but you have to do it or you get warn out. The body/aura will go into a sort of auto-preservation, which manifests as the human form requiring rest and “crashing” so that in an unconscious state the aura can regain energy without the impediment of an uneducated/immature human mind continuously sucking energy from it. Furthermore, you can’t fabricate something from nothing. You can’t create thought forms without a source aura, and you can’t project wishes and desires and positive occurrences without obtaining the energy from somewhere. In most cases this is from the self-battery. In other cases, even if unintentionally, this can be drawn from the environment and from other auras.

I do not define the modern pagan groups as a whole as “neo-pagans”. Sort of how whereas the common definition of religion is “a group of people practicing a faith together as one body”, I define it as “the dictation of a faith being created by a select few, and then forced/coerced/guilted/brainwashed/pressed upon a population, often times in subversive means”.
Neo pagan, and I should have clarified this, to me, is the portion of the new-age pagan group that does not practice holistically. Yes, intuition should guide you, intuition should direct what you believe and don’t. But neo pagans are the people that, knowing what I said about astral colors and magnetism try to practice without regard for the colors, or without regard for recharging themselves after. They’re the types that press and press and press and send their will out with no regard for the effects, no regard for the source of energy, and little consideration to the direction/force/capacity of these thought forms despite sending great amount of effort/energy into them. It’s like loading a black powder rifle and not measuring or even watching how much black powder you put in. The people that learn about casting intention spells (not sure a better word for this) where they are trying to obtain something and cast this spell with no regard for creating direction or limitations on it. They want a dog, so they cast an intention spell as strong as they can and with no real motive implanted, and then a week later their grandma dies and they get her dog, or someone’s dog runs away to their house and a little girl cries herself to sleep for two months. As per the second example, these are the people that shoot energy out in all directions with no regard for why or what. They burn down their battery and then, without even realizing it because they never took the care to learn or figure it out, suck energy from people and entities around them. I call those types astral vampires. Intentional or not, they still suck the life out of people. These are the types that want all the benefits and rewards with none of the prep-work, or effort, or study. They want to use the tool before asking what all the unlabeled buttons do.

Third, these are the type that do it not because they have a sincere calling. Maybe they were drawn to it initially but now it’s just a trend. Example: I was in a hippie head shop in Eugene. We walked in and the girl behind the counter said hello and then without any preface “There’s a lot of oppression in the air lately. Everyone is walking around with, like, desperation and in a hurry. I think I’m going to sage the room”. We nodded and smiled and kept looking around and again, “It’s just, like, everyone is frazzled and they keep bringing in their sad energies and it’s making the store really unhappy, I’m going to sage the room”. She gets some sage, lights it, and walks around, sort of half talking, half mumbling to us about “so heavy and oppressive. I feel, like, much better now. I can feel it lifting”.

Now granted, she has a sense of the current trends and motivators. She is possibly even driven by them. She might have the capacity to direct energy (but I sure didn’t feel it) and she chose to use sage to clear the room, which is a decent choice to start. But she had to announce it, like some sort of badly written script for an informational video on Wicca. She had to get affirmation from us, and she was intentionally pointing out all these energies she was feeling before dealing with them. And she had to find clique words like “sage” as a verb and desperation. “there is a desperation in the air” loses it’s strength, sincerity, and validity when changed to “there is, like, a desperation in the air”. She is trying to speak with a vocabulary and understanding above her actual one.

I see this as shallow pagan. It’s based in the same place, but she is doing it to be trendy. “Look at me, I work in a hippy store and know how to clear a room of energy”. She had to make sure we knew she was talking about something occult to get a reaction. If it had been me, or any number of people I consider traditional-pagans. They would have sensed it, dealt with it, and moved on, cleared the room, energized it, and just smiled. If there had been two of us, someone more experienced and myself, I might have asked them what she would feel is best to deal with it, but mostly out of a learning/educational stance. Furthermore, I’d have burnt some sage to clear the room, pressed some cleansing energy into the space, and then once the sage smoke cleared, flushed the room and then burnt some nice uplifting incense, or lavender. Something to bring pep and energy back into it. You can’t clear a room and then expect it to stay clear. Energy flows into empty spaces if they’re not guarded or constructed.

So, sorry for the rant, but I just wanted to clarify. I am not saying you should disregard your intuition in favor of following the trends, that would by hypocritical and backwards. I am simply saying, know the full breadth of the subject you are investigating before assuming completion. Does your intuition tell you to shoot energy out without regard for the source of that energy? When put in front of a 16 ton earth mover with 8 levers controlling various motions and enough horsepower to crush a large house, knowing that the pedal controls the forward motion of the tracks, does your intuition tell you to jump in and drive around, not knowing what the other 8 levers do, or just exactly how to turn the thing and not run something over? The problem is that human beings are, as an average of the whole, not educated/aware/in tune with the astral/ethereal plane, it’s something that you’re either very adept with, are trained to know, or must study/meditate/research/learn to know. Thus the problem with neo-pagans: they are trying to jump full into something without learning how it works. It’s the same trend in society as a whole; everyone wants the benefits and the privileges without the work, understanding, or effort.