🌿 Introduction to Paganism - A Beginner's Guide
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2023
- Paganism, wicca, heathen, green witch, hedge witch, forest witch... it can be very overwhelming when looking to learn about nature-based spirituality! In this video I take it back to basics, and provide an introduction to paganism for complete beginners.
I talk about the definition and origins of the word 'pagan', the history of pagans, and then what modern paganism looks like and how people practice today. Enjoy!
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Hello Luna I am 68 years old and have been Pagan for a very long time! When I was 5 or 6 my school was C/E and they wanted to tell me a load of bull, that I thought was not right. I lived in Wiltshire a small village and followed the way of the land and seasons. To be a Pagan is what you feel inside. You seam to have the right incentive and is good to hear.Blessed be Nigel.
For those who are just looking into the world of paganism and wish to adopt the practices, I'd like to stress to not put too much pressure on having to know everything off the bat and to perform your rituals and traditions in perfection. We are used a specific lifestyle in the here and now, where busy schedules and technology take up our focus. Start somewhere you can implement consistently, and build upwards from there on. This is LIFE practice, you have your LIFE to study and build your connection and spiritual experience.
ABANDON PAGANISM
@@ptr2307 uh, no
@@ptr2307 shut up christcuck
@@ptr2307 I just choked on my ravioli 😂
Thank you, this was very helpful and encouraging. ❤
Wow. I started looking into Paganism last month, after losing someone. I'm starting to think I have always been Pagan, I just didn't know the word for it. Thank you for this.
I've been a pagan for 2 years now. I've studied the Norse and Celtic pantheons. When you said one might worship local gods/goddesses, that hit home for me (you did/said nothing wrong, just made me really think). Being an American, I don't have local gods/goddesses (I know Native Americans have deities of worship, but I feel that's closed off to me IMO). I can't visit places of ancient worship unless I go to another country. I can't visit my ancestors unless I go to another country. Sometimes I feel unworthy of even making an offering to a god/goddess when I'm physically away from ancient ties, if any of this makes sense.
I felt this.
Trace your family tree. I was born in the UK but I have family from all parts of the UK and probably some roman blood somewhere so I also find it difficult to define my roots.
I took a dna test 63% was scottish plus found a grandfather born in Scotland. I have been studying the beliefs/history, folklore/mythology, for my spiritual journey
The Divine is everywhere! If it makes you feel happy and connected to do ritual, do it!!!
So my grandfather was a pagan of welsh ancestry. He did a blend of mostly Celtic and some Native American because….of his blood (Celtic) and the soil he stands on and it would be rude to not acknowledge the local deities.
I’ve walked the path of a Druidic Pagan as best I could for most of my life. I feel an immensely deep connection to nature, the spirits of any land, and the gods who inhabit the ancient groves around the world. Every time I am forced to spend an extended period of time in cities and urban environments I get physically ill and my mental and spiritual health suffers horribly. I’ve lived in Tokyo for over 5 years and I’ve become horribly depressed and anxious because the land is just dead.
I can understand that very much
Fellow Druid here. Earth is very much alive, it's the monotony and energy of the people who make it feel dead. Don't forget there is a ton of nature, even in Tokyo, if we know how to tap into it and feel the earth beneath our feet. Next time you're at the eki waiting for your next stop, do some grounding and breathwork and tap into the cement while people scramble around you. As much as we would like Tokyo to feel like Osaka or Kyoto, the truth is that the energy of humanity affects us more than we realize, not so much the earth. The earth will deal with humanity in due time, but it's a falsehood that it's dying. If anything, the earth is adapting to wipe humanity out, not self destruct. However, we can still tap into the teachings of the Ogham and connect with the fae to reestablish our purpose as human Druids. Deithe Dhuit
Advance from Pagan to Wiccan and let Nature direct you throu the arts.
DIMENSIONS Lili
The Underworld, the Netherworld, a place most cannot see
Where people from the past exist, their time our future now
When mystery of stranger things, appear we are perplexed
Visits from the other side who knows what will be next?
But it's not new, the ancients knew, the evidence abounds
Lines of pyramids, we cross, they cross, it's all in knowing how.
Within our minds if we explore, the portals as they're known
The doors will open wide, some find them just by chance
And venture through lost for all time, they cannot leave the trance
But others from one side or both who learn the way to pass
Can travel and return again, a new world, future, past
What's to be gained? reward or peril we cannot just stay still
We've gained the gift, we can't refuse our destiny at last.
A strange new world, we learn to speak the tongues all spoken there
Some we meet who've traveled too, we find we can converse
We learn from them, they learn from us and so our minds expand
To learning Nature's deepest truths within our Universe
And when we find the travelers lost, we show the long way back
Lead them to the portal's door and then they leave our hand
But most have chosen not to leave, they've found their promised land.
The Spirits help us find the doors, we're joined within our heart
They travel with us to the door and bid us to depart
We're home again but where is home when different worlds entice?
I love them both, there must be more
I crave for more, more worlds, more joy, more time
When we return we find that time for us has all stood still
But we have learned from lifetimes there and now we all must share
The gifts we all have taken back, our minds, our hearts fulfilled.
They call us Witches, evil beings, they'd hang us all today
We don't hurt them, they would kill us if they could
Wizened Spirits, they'd burn and torture, slay
But if they ask we'd teach them all the secrets of the worlds
The potions for their health, their own Gods will not share
Now who is evil when their book, not one word does impart
One recipe, one herb, one potion, one word for broken hearts.
Try to grow a tomato or herb in the window or balcony as it will bring life to your space and inn Tokyo your space is small. There are hanging tomato plants that grow upside down in water. Or an air plant or two. Look up easy apartment gardens or tiny space plant ideas. It helps. It really does. Even an air plant
Oh how I relate to this. I am city born and bred but discovered and have kept alight a spiritual flame. Whenever I have managed to spend time elsewhere, in greener parts, the flame becomes a fire. Upon returning home I can feel that energy slowly fading.
Thank you for this video, I want to be a Pagan but I was worried about doing everything right and correct but knowing that no one knows how to do stuff right makes me feel better, that simply just enjoying nature and taking a moment to just spend time with nature is enough. Thanks for that.
I was blessed to have a father and mother who both encouraged me to find my own religion and gods if I so chose. My dad owned a lot of witchcraft books and books on Pagan traditions, and there’s so much to learn about ancient traditions and rituals, old folk magic and stories... I just love learning about my old Celtic and Germanic roots through Witchcraft, and I’ll more than likely be a witch for the rest of my life because of my old witchy roots from my dad and great grandma :)
What's a witch?
@@ezyfnef someone who practices magick and things of the sort. Theyve been falsely associated with satanism and demonic practices by christians (though there are a few that really do practice those things, but they are very rare)
So very cool! I wish all parents were that open and encouraging in the pursuit of knowledge.
I don’t think those who practiced polytheism, which is really the better name for this instead of paganism, took it as serious as many here are. It was what it was, the same way many people are “Christians” yet go to church twice a month and do nothing else.
This idea of constant worship is a bit of modern loneliness created by social media. People trying to fill a void with something edgy and new.
My evidence for this would be people who worship Egyptian, Celtic, and Norse gods. The shit makes no sense to me.
@Ericsaidful People have been practicing daily worship for 1000's of years.
I was brought here because I believe I have been experiencing something paranormal, and my brother practices pagan rituals. Upon seeing this video I was reminded of a time when I was outside in my backyard, where there is a large tree right in the middle of our fenced in area, and I just felt the urge to give the tree a hug, so I did. I felt so happy and grounded and at peace. I have always been fascinated with the beauty and complexity of nature, and to see this being talked about has really opened my eyes to something new that I may explore.
Rah! Outstanding! I'm a retired Irish-American living in the countryside of The Panhandle of Florida. Mother Nature is my muse. The Old Ways are best. Music & meditation are my pathways to peace. Ramble on! Slainte!
I was a Christian for about 30 years, I got really into it and found that I had to jettison the "religiosity" of it and stuck to the core fundamentals. Saying that I have jumped back and forth in the Finnish flavour of Paganism. About 5 years ago my step brothers and I put aside Christian "religion" and returned whole heartedly to our ancestral ways, ie the old ways. Got into our old gods, shamans and various nature spirits, and I find it more liberating and free than the traditional European Christianity.
I liked your video. Very informative
Christianity is not european, but glad you found your way out of it
Sounds like you just want to do whatever you want? Does Paganism have an explanation for the origin of life?
@@semosancus5506 oh...yeah, screw choices and yes, just like scriptures do. You know, the scriptures which were plagiarized from Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and Phoenicians
@@kalnieminen65 fr, bros really feed the narcissistic personality of some random storm god from the desert that tries to proclaim himself as the one and only
@@semosancus5506 Why does it matter? Nobody knows the origin of life, especially not bronze age desert books.
Paganism is growing in our region. This is helpful. I want to understand where people who have different beliefs from me are coming from. It also helps me understand more the dreams and desires that those being drawn to paganism. Thank you.
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts here, especially the idea that we can keep it simple, but still tap into that innate peace which comes from connecting with nature and staying true to nature.
#1 Do you believe that There is existence?
- You see existence around you and you yourself can confirm that you exist
#2 Do you believe that There is uniformity, regularity, and stability in nature?
- Currently I’m wearing a t-shirt
- Why is this shirt not randomly combusting, exploding, or flying away?
- It is because there are basic principles that don’t allow that?
- For example it’s a fact that you sitting on your bed means your bed won’t just decide to eat you up
- For example you walk around you’re confident that your leg won’t just detach from your body
- For example a tree won’t start growing out of you now all of a sudden
#3 Therefore there has to be an existence that explains the uniformity, regularity, and stability in nature
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Now that’s what we say is the first cause
>
- because if there is an existence that explains the uniformity, regularity and stability of nature, That first cause needs to have certain attributes
First attribute:
- first cause means that its the start of everything
Second attribute:
- The first cause implies that they are not first causes, it’s a first cause; singular
- the distinction I’m making here is monotheism and polytheism
- People that believe that there’s only one God and people who believe that there’s a bunch of gods
Third attribute:
- now this first cause is alone and doesn’t rely on anything or anyone since it’s the first cause isn’t it
First by definition meaning that there’s no one else there but the first
- so it’s by itself, it’s self-sufficient, relys on itself and then what comes afterwards relys on the first cause
- a way of thinking of this is that everything’s now being produced from the first cause
Now if that first cause “came into existence”
Then it won’t be the first cause because there’s something that came before it and made that come into existence innit (the one that came into existence)
Therefore that first cause must be omnipotent (been there forever)
Omniscient (knows everything)
And the designer and creator of all
(Does that make sense?)
- so we as Muslims believe that the first cause has attributes and these attributes are best explained via Islam
- Hinduism -> many gods (contradictory to first cause principles) can’t have many gods
- Christianity-> Jesus (an entity that came into existence) which is also contradictory to the first cause principles
I learned a lot from this video. It is so true about the connection you feel to the earth by taking a quiet walk in the woods, sitting in your flower garden, or drying herbs. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Simplicity is always the best approach for me.
#1 Do you believe that There is existence?
- You see existence around you and you yourself can confirm that you exist
#2 Do you believe that There is uniformity, regularity, and stability in nature?
- Currently I’m wearing a t-shirt
- Why is this shirt not randomly combusting, exploding, or flying away?
- It is because there are basic principles that don’t allow that?
- For example it’s a fact that you sitting on your bed means your bed won’t just decide to eat you up
- For example you walk around you’re confident that your leg won’t just detach from your body
- For example a tree won’t start growing out of you now all of a sudden
#3 Therefore there has to be an existence that explains the uniformity, regularity, and stability in nature
<
Now that’s what we say is the first cause
>
- because if there is an existence that explains the uniformity, regularity and stability of nature, That first cause needs to have certain attributes
First attribute:
- first cause means that its the start of everything
Second attribute:
- The first cause implies that they are not first causes, it’s a first cause; singular
- the distinction I’m making here is monotheism and polytheism
- People that believe that there’s only one God and people who believe that there’s a bunch of gods
Third attribute:
- now this first cause is alone and doesn’t rely on anything or anyone since it’s the first cause isn’t it
First by definition meaning that there’s no one else there but the first
- so it’s by itself, it’s self-sufficient, relys on itself and then what comes afterwards relys on the first cause
- a way of thinking of this is that everything’s now being produced from the first cause
Now if that first cause “came into existence”
Then it won’t be the first cause because there’s something that came before it and made that come into existence innit (the one that came into existence)
Therefore that first cause must be omnipotent (been there forever)
Omniscient (knows everything)
And the designer and creator of all
(Does that make sense?)
- so we as Muslims believe that the first cause has attributes and these attributes are best explained via Islam
- Hinduism -> many gods (contradictory to first cause principles) can’t have many gods
- Christianity-> Jesus (an entity that came into existence) which is also contradictory to the first cause principles
@@huzi46straight and utter fax
@@huzi46mate, you talk a lot, but you're not saying much.
@@mezlay2 you read a lot yet you’re blind.
I'm a committed Christian and I've felt the very same things you feel in fact it was nature that brought me back to God.
I love the idea that paganism is such a personal belief system, every person is unique, therefore wouldn't every person experience differently? Thank you, I will continue focusing on what resonates with me.
This was a perfect beginner video, thank you! I also really enjoyed how you highly encouraged not labelling and being open to find what resonates with you- not worrying about what others are doing. I found this super inspirational and informative :)
I’ve been pagan for 7 years now but I’ve been in and out of the practice personally in my life and I went through large periods where I was not studying and was slowly starting to forget the practice I still deep down always believed in. This video has helped me get back on track of relearning my faith and getting myself back on my feet. Thank you and Blessed Be!
I love your focus on bringing it back to basics. I'm on a sort of spiritual journey right now, and this is really resonating with me
I love the grounded, high vibe approach you take in sharing the basics of paganism. Thank you for sharing your thoughtful insights and suggestions, too! ✨️💫
I very much enjoyed your exploration. As a way of natural living, I have learned from the 5 seasons and the 5 elements, and the corresponding changes experienced in nature and myself. I now feel that each season empowers us to experience a profound cycle of change. Living in close harmony to nature is for me healing and fulfilling.😊
I've been a pagan for about 40 years.
It's nice to start all over again every once in awhile.
This is a beautiful video, thank you!! I love that you’ve brought things back to basics and emphasised the importance of individual personal connection rather than boxes/rules/aesthetics. You’re very generous with your knowledge and I’d love to see more videos like this. Sending you much love and peace xx
Paganism is every single culture that was not of the roman desire ..full stop..all faiths except from Catholic....xxxxx
According to the Christian lies xx
@@helenhunter4857atleast jesus was not a homosexual like pagan gods
@@helenhunter4857 Jesus loves all of us, including you ❤️
#1 Do you believe that There is existence?
- You see existence around you and you yourself can confirm that you exist
#2 Do you believe that There is uniformity, regularity, and stability in nature?
- Currently I’m wearing a t-shirt
- Why is this shirt not randomly combusting, exploding, or flying away?
- It is because there are basic principles that don’t allow that?
- For example it’s a fact that you sitting on your bed means your bed won’t just decide to eat you up
- For example you walk around you’re confident that your leg won’t just detach from your body
- For example a tree won’t start growing out of you now all of a sudden
#3 Therefore there has to be an existence that explains the uniformity, regularity, and stability in nature
<
Now that’s what we say is the first cause
>
- because if there is an existence that explains the uniformity, regularity and stability of nature, That first cause needs to have certain attributes
First attribute:
- first cause means that its the start of everything
Second attribute:
- The first cause implies that they are not first causes, it’s a first cause; singular
- the distinction I’m making here is monotheism and polytheism
- People that believe that there’s only one God and people who believe that there’s a bunch of gods
Third attribute:
- now this first cause is alone and doesn’t rely on anything or anyone since it’s the first cause isn’t it
First by definition meaning that there’s no one else there but the first
- so it’s by itself, it’s self-sufficient, relys on itself and then what comes afterwards relys on the first cause
- a way of thinking of this is that everything’s now being produced from the first cause
Now if that first cause “came into existence”
Then it won’t be the first cause because there’s something that came before it and made that come into existence innit (the one that came into existence)
Therefore that first cause must be omnipotent (been there forever)
Omniscient (knows everything)
And the designer and creator of all
(Does that make sense?)
- so we as Muslims believe that the first cause has attributes and these attributes are best explained via Islam
- Hinduism -> many gods (contradictory to first cause principles) can’t have many gods
- Christianity-> Jesus (an entity that came into existence) which is also contradictory to the first cause principles
Thank you for this breakdown. Im just learning about paganism and this was a perfect description for some of the more rudimental questions i have. Gives me a lot more guidance about the direction im seeking so thank you very much ❤
I very much enjoyed your explanation. It was a very informative (and, I thought, skilled) summary! You weren't rambling at all except in the most pleasant, congenial sort of way, much as the fast-paced, modern world might want to disparage that.
Also, I appreciate you encouraging people to let go of all this obligation to the aesthetics of a spiritual pursuit. I am so with you there!
Thank you for another delightful, peaceful video. My life is so obligatorily hectic now, it's nice to periodically escape to the sort of calm I look forward to making for myself again.
Great post, very well researched. Total agreement with the idea of rules and labels not being important. Keep it up! ( also, nice shout out to R. Hutton, huge fan of that guy)
It was helpful, thank you for taking the time to talk to us!
#1 Do you believe that There is existence?
- You see existence around you and you yourself can confirm that you exist
#2 Do you believe that There is uniformity, regularity, and stability in nature?
- Currently I’m wearing a t-shirt
- Why is this shirt not randomly combusting, exploding, or flying away?
- It is because there are basic principles that don’t allow that?
- For example it’s a fact that you sitting on your bed means your bed won’t just decide to eat you up
- For example you walk around you’re confident that your leg won’t just detach from your body
- For example a tree won’t start growing out of you now all of a sudden
#3 Therefore there has to be an existence that explains the uniformity, regularity, and stability in nature
<
Now that’s what we say is the first cause
>
- because if there is an existence that explains the uniformity, regularity and stability of nature, That first cause needs to have certain attributes
First attribute:
- first cause means that its the start of everything
Second attribute:
- The first cause implies that they are not first causes, it’s a first cause; singular
- the distinction I’m making here is monotheism and polytheism
- People that believe that there’s only one God and people who believe that there’s a bunch of gods
Third attribute:
- now this first cause is alone and doesn’t rely on anything or anyone since it’s the first cause isn’t it
First by definition meaning that there’s no one else there but the first
- so it’s by itself, it’s self-sufficient, relys on itself and then what comes afterwards relys on the first cause
- a way of thinking of this is that everything’s now being produced from the first cause
Now if that first cause “came into existence”
Then it won’t be the first cause because there’s something that came before it and made that come into existence innit (the one that came into existence)
Therefore that first cause must be omnipotent (been there forever)
Omniscient (knows everything)
And the designer and creator of all
(Does that make sense?)
- so we as Muslims believe that the first cause has attributes and these attributes are best explained via Islam
- Hinduism -> many gods (contradictory to first cause principles) can’t have many gods
- Christianity-> Jesus (an entity that came into existence) which is also contradictory to the first cause principles
Oh wow, this is amazing! I've been interested in following the seasons all my adult life, I'm now 50. I was put off by god worship as that doesn't fit well with me so I haven't followed the seasons as much as I'd wanted to. I'm completely with you on the nature based aspect of paganism and this year I am going to emerge myself in it, with your help. I am so exilerated t have found your channel. I will be sharing this video with as many people as possible to help them understand what I want to follow. 🎉😊
My word, what a wise young woman you are! Intelligent, well spoken and focused -- you are a force. What an amazing guide you are, and will be. My blessings on you.
This is THE most helpful video I've seen on this topic. I get overwhelmed by info quite a lot so the way you explain all of this so simply has made me so happy! Thank you for speaking on the label aspect, I get caught up on that a lot, so to be told to just bring it back to basics was amazing for me! New subscriber!!
love how you say, don't need to label, define, follow a certain belief
I am celtic pagan. My ansisters are celtic. I have always felt alive being in woods and around lakes. So mote it be ❤
I appreciate the time you took to make this video. You touched on a lot of things but did it well. It was informative and definitely helped me on my pagan journey. I have always loved nature and the natural order of things. I spend a lot of time in the woods just enjoying the peacefulness of it all. Im still learning and exploring all the paths of paganism and im enjoying the journey.
You just got a new subscriber. I've been wiccan for just over ten years but I've as always been interested in paganism as a whole. Very helpful video! It's definitely something I should research more
I really just started studying this so thank you for the video and I'll keep looking at your channel
I loved this! Im so new to paganism and i love that you talk about bringing it back to basics. Instant follow 🥰
I’m not too sure if I should switch to paganism too, mostly because I’m an atheist, who doesn’t believe in anything except myself
Learn the truth and then you will be set free. Jesus Christ is the only way, only truth, only life. And no, the roman catholic church is NOT Christian!
well atheist satanism is basically abt believing yourself
Thank you, Luna, for this very informative video. I very much look forward to other videos of yours on similar subjects. ❤
What a lovely, well made video young lady, well done I've subbed. Paganism is something that has always had an attraction to me. I always feel at peace when in the woods and when I go to dartmoor I always feel as if I've come home . 😊
Thank you so much for your video it was very clear and you were so gentle with your approach, as you mentioned it's very overwhelming when you're first coming to it!
Wonderful explanation. Please do more of these more of these!!
Thank you for this video! I also love nature and want to connect with it, this is a great introduction into Paganism!! :)
Just found your channel Luna. Very interesting, thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. I wasn’t sure what to call myself but this way of life does resonate with me. Lots to learn for sure. I’m researching how to celebrate Yule this year which is fascinating and very enjoyable.
Thank you Luna! It clarifies my own evolution from Christian to non-deist pagan. While I accept the presence of spirituality, it is not the focus of my life. I follow the Wheel and mark the seasons.I accept the pagan terms for the points on the Wheel as reference points. I do not have an altar or practice what goes with it! My perspective is wholly internal! It only becomes external around the Fall and winter Solstice! The usual decorations :) Peace and Love and Blessed Jul!
thank you from one UK pagan to another, your videos are helping our community 🖤
This was very wonderfully said ! I appreciated it !
I am glad you’re doing this video. I studied the books of Scott Cunningham published by Lewellyn. He was a more pure Pagan. I realized in the ‘90s that my having grown up in the Blue Ridge Mts of VA with a strong ancestors influence on my beliefs. The area is steeped in “the Mountain Ways” rooted in the Earth. I also studied under Lori Cabot, the Salem Witch who helped bring it into the realm of recognized and accepted religions. Over the past 30 years, I’ve also learned much about the ways of our Indigenous community. We are caretakers of our planet and our souls. )O(
Thank you. That is the most sensible description of paganism that I have ever heard.
♥️Thank you 🌿✨🌙
Very pleasant to watch you in your natural and fresh energies, talking about such tremendous Ancient and important topics. You are inspiring ✊✨💕
Wish you all the best and the best protection from different evil forces, which like to spread low-vibrations on good people.
Genuinely amazing video. So inspiring and informative. Thanks so much!!!
Well done! An excellent introduction to a very complex topic.
I've been studying Wicca for 26 years and this is a nice relaxing overview of neo paganism.
Excellent video, thank you for keeping it simple. I look forward to watching more of your content.
This is really good/learned IMHO. Thanx
I'm going to link this video to people who ask me about Paganism.
There are many definitions but I think yours is pretty good.
You just made me feel so much better about how I feel. Thank you
Thank you very much - a really good overview and some intelligently stated points!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom 🙏🏻. I found your words to be very helpful!
I've watched the first 6 minutes and will watch more later. Rationally presented and well researched.
Overwhelmed & frustrated I was until I was reminded why I was Pagan. I will continue to use this video to become grounded & calm.
What a wonderful video. You are very intelligent and articulate which's makes listening to you a joy.
Thankyou so much as a new pagan, this has been very helpful as I start On my journey. Blessings x
As a complete newbie I found this video interesting and informative, thanks for that. I like that you emphasised the importance of keeping it simple, that is what I am looking for, something that I can gradually grow into.
...enlightning! Personally I'm keeping researching in what You mention: "scattered resources" and am building my own "way"... and, as You say, that is for me too: "very simple things are needed". But connection with Nature is one of my basics. It follows from my belief in my gods and goddesses.
I would like You to make a video
on "divination"... thank You!
When you said that it can be overwhelming, I absolutely felt this. I don’t know where to start but have been diving deep into figuring out my spiritual journey. I do not claim to be anything in terms of spirituality but learning has been my biggest struggle at the moment because of all of the books and resources available.
My advice would be to follow your heart and your intuition more than anything, look to the natural world and what resonates with you the most.
You're totally on point. I see all environments as nature; even the office and factory. There is an ecology and a life flow there no matter how cold and indifferent it might feel. Magic is not what you make but what you discover and bring into your surroundings.
Lithuania still has a lot of remnants from pagan times, lots of traditions are still practiced to this day. Herbal medicines and things like that are also very common, even most of our names our taken from nature. If you walk through nature parks and woodlands you will still commonly find wooden carved statues of gods and spirits.
We were the last pagans in Europe before the crusaders started slaughtering anyone who did not accept Christianity and destroying Holy groves or places of worship. But it still persisted through all the oppression
I like your vibe on the whole pagan thing. Simple, open to personal interpritation and nature focused.
I watched the whole video rapt with attention. Thank you for sharing your views on the topic, one that is completely new to me but the last few years I have spent so much more time outside and with nature. Something chimes with me but I can't put my finger on it, I have subscribed and will watch your other videos with interest! Thank you!
When discussing the beginnings of modern witch craft one really must mention Gardenarian, tradition as well as the Alexandrian tradition. They are BOTH worthy of mention in this context. Thanks for providing us with your perspectives. :)
Thank you so much for this, you are really helping me a lot . I'm new to Paganism
Thank you so much for the video, delightfully informative and enlightening :) Thank you, this clarifies a fair few things for me. Cheers!
Hey, you answered a lot of questions I had! I feel like I've always been Pagan without knowing it ❤
Love your video, I have been search for the last few months about who I am , I am very nature orientated, I love nature, and I think you have reconfirmed my region, thank you. Religion itself can be very confusing and complex, which in a sense put me off. Thank you.
I really resonate w the idea of community and our relationship w nature (the best we understand)as my personal views on paganism has been attacked it seems to be the best path to truth i c
notes on modern practice: ritual and ceremony (e.g. meditation, chanting, morning ritual, spells), communion with nature (e.g. nature walks, gardening, activism, tree spirits, fairies), living with the moon phases (and maybe lunar magic), altars and sacred spaces (e.g. little altar in the house, special celebration space), divination (e.g. tarot cards, runes, mirrors), community and celebration (celebrating the seasons and sun, see pagan festivals like summer solstice, harvest festivals, folk dancing, maypole), ancestor reverence (e.g. seeking wisdom from your ancestors)
Hello Luna, I do appreciate your video on beginner paganism, and I loved your video of Samhain, I have been looking for a beginner video for a long time now, and I’m still new to paganism, exploring Druidry and Wicca and Norse Pagan, I thank you again and will gladly share with my friends, I don’t know if you have, but it would interesting to see a video on Druidry and Celtic paganism
Since yesterday i've been interrested in this stuff, mostly Celtic Paganism, and i am researching more.
some of these comments are a bit weird but thank you this is extremely helpful! i’ve been thinking i’m pagan/wicca for a while now and there’s not much accurate information on the internet for some reason so i’ve been looking for a good channel on youtube :)
Great video, really comprehensive and interesting. I could listen to you speak all day, so many accents in your voice.
I am a Hindu & surprised how much it is similar to other ancient religions.
We have 100s of forest goddesses whom different sections of people worship. We call them Shakti (Energy)
Is it true that the Christian missionaries genocide the pagan people around Europe calling them witches ? & forcefully converted them ? I am asking because thats exactly what they are doing to tribal people in India currently. Missionaries are converting them to Christianity in exchange for money
please make more videos about paganism!! i want to learn as much as possible
Jesus loves you
@@lettersandwordsandstuffs i do not love him
#1 Do you believe that There is existence?
- You see existence around you and you yourself can confirm that you exist
#2 Do you believe that There is uniformity, regularity, and stability in nature?
- Currently I’m wearing a t-shirt
- Why is this shirt not randomly combusting, exploding, or flying away?
- It is because there are basic principles that don’t allow that?
- For example it’s a fact that you sitting on your bed means your bed won’t just decide to eat you up
- For example you walk around you’re confident that your leg won’t just detach from your body
- For example a tree won’t start growing out of you now all of a sudden
#3 Therefore there has to be an existence that explains the uniformity, regularity, and stability in nature
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Now that’s what we say is the first cause
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- because if there is an existence that explains the uniformity, regularity and stability of nature, That first cause needs to have certain attributes
First attribute:
- first cause means that its the start of everything
Second attribute:
- The first cause implies that they are not first causes, it’s a first cause; singular
- the distinction I’m making here is monotheism and polytheism
- People that believe that there’s only one God and people who believe that there’s a bunch of gods
Third attribute:
- now this first cause is alone and doesn’t rely on anything or anyone since it’s the first cause isn’t it
First by definition meaning that there’s no one else there but the first
- so it’s by itself, it’s self-sufficient, relys on itself and then what comes afterwards relys on the first cause
- a way of thinking of this is that everything’s now being produced from the first cause
Now if that first cause “came into existence”
Then it won’t be the first cause because there’s something that came before it and made that come into existence innit (the one that came into existence)
Therefore that first cause must be omnipotent (been there forever)
Omniscient (knows everything)
And the designer and creator of all
(Does that make sense?)
- so we as Muslims believe that the first cause has attributes and these attributes are best explained via Islam
- Hinduism -> many gods (contradictory to first cause principles) can’t have many gods
- Christianity-> Jesus (an entity that came into existence) which is also contradictory to the first cause principles
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@@lettersandwordsandstuffsforced love kinda scary
I really like your style of talking about this. I am interested in finding out more about Paganism but a lot of Videos weren't really speaking to me. I like that you include multiple aspects about the history and that you specified what the word could include as an Umbrella therm. It kept me engaged while with others I felt like I was blindly adapting modern aesthetics with no respect to the sourcematerial
Thank you SO much!!! I just subscribed and what a phenomenal job! Very new to this
Thanks for a very interesting intro to paganism - I myself am extremely nature orientated with Nature & growing things - all the subjects you talked about of being a Pagan - I e moon phase following etc , even I don’t identify as a pagan - the roots of my belief go back to the roots of the Earth mother goddess - one of the first historically known gods fm many cultures - I belief is the true base of all religions that followed . Totally agree - connection with nature is a crucial for all ppl to understand that this is where u come fm & are apart of it , not apart fm it . I look forward to watching more of your visits as you have awakened my latent interest in Paganism - I am a singer - song writer & most my songs are nature inspired 🍃🍁 Thank you Luna - Karmwud 🙏
Thanks a lot, Luna. I immensely appreciate the part you mentioned the labelling game pervasive in the neo-pagan community. I agree entirely. However, there is something I want to add to this video: I think the most important aspect of Paganism is Nature. But the emphasis, as I see it, isn't in connecting with Nature, but in understanding it. I think we should revere Nature by learning its mechanics and physics. I think the essence of Paganism is the eternal urge to understand the wonders of Nature, both scientifically and philosophically.
Thank you for cutting through all the labels and aesthetics, i was getting very overwhelmed trying to figure out what I was, instead of practicing.
Brilliant and concise explanation, thank you.
Great video so helpful and enlightening!!
Very good, comprehensive explaination - thank you
Happy new year!🥂
Lovely video so interesting and makes so much sense thank you❤
Most informative. Thank you for sharing. I am Protestant. However, I take an interest in Paganism. I really enjoyed watching this video.
Great video, even at moments I wasn’t being necessarily informed (since I’ve been, at least adjacent to this topic for a while) it was still very affirming and relatable and I like how you brought up how these days everything is so connected and broad and resourceful that it’s really a great time to be a “pagan”.
I think I’m a pagan at heart, or was transduced into one by organic phenomena and natural observation and tuning into my own calculated sense of what is really “the state of affairs” when it comes to life and reality. And for me, psilocybe and datura experiences imbued convincingly epistemic value and an almost Bayesian probability of ‘truth’ in their magical and thematic nature. They helped me accept that nature as a methodology is both of metaphysic purity but had a “back to basics” circumscribed; yet still open-endedness about magic and nature and maybe plant realms. Datura specifically, even here in Southern Californian chaparral and metropolitan culture; have given me a multidimensional, multi-angle view and fundamental understanding of a whole smorgasbord of Old-World, Hellenistic/Mycenaean, Irish/British Isles, Celtic, medieval, proto-history tropes in myth/magic/theology. Well psilocybin did obviously as well, and I think that’s the great thing about these days is that we’re all so eclectic in our lifestyles, practices, beliefs even when we have core principles and simplistic modalities on the surface we still relate in central ways.
I think us Westerners, even I, with Iranian blood I still identify mostly; worldview-wise with this kind of
protohistoric, medieval//early modern Western European folklore and/or Celtic-Euro-pagan ritual-type of magic and esotericism. And I have plenty of Irish, Welsh, English and German blood too but maybe something in us westerners and something about living in Irish/British European cultures or families enshrines in us this gravitation towards the more Celtic and “darkened-earth” stuff as Arthur Machen would say. Or we’re just on the same page kinda, I think a lot of pagans “like us”, despite maybe some superficial differences do view things actually very similarly on a core level, even in our more ‘plastic’ and malleable beliefs or stances.
Even though I still identify with certain spiritual/Otherness aspects of Latin American shamanistic ‘exoticism’ as well. Something still brings me back and centers me towards that Old-World, Euro-magical, Mag Mell-esque and ‘fae’ style of assessment in the natural world as well as my anthropic aura of thinking, connecting and perspective if you know what I mean or can relate. And for me, it wasn’t just about nature symbiosis and the ‘nearby invisible realms’ or the mystical, eerie, misty mountain-top stuff of psilocybe but datura made me understand and see and feel concepts like (rather than a spiritual Elysian) more so an archetype of a chthonic underworld, and ghosts and familiars and cunningness, herbalism, plants and poisons, power, necromancy, malevolence, sickness, madness, senility, sundowning, creatures, wandering, rainfall, water, blood, moonlight, magic, sacrality, etc. I admittedly don’t act on much of these themes presented by Datura, Brugmansia, etc. And I don’t feel like the “target demographic” per say either (it seemed to be largely themed around herbal-magical human female agency) but I find it satisfying enough (for now) to at least just appreciate the impression of quasi-disillusionment through nature. To recognize these archetypes and motifs even in our pop culture and mainstream lore and go “ah yes! I remember this theme from the nightshade realms”, even when just, say re-watching Hocus Pocus or something like that, or reading about the Maenads of Ancient Greece. I am also continually reminded I think through such processes that despite the recurring mythemes and iconographical clues, I still come to realize nobody really knows what’s going on behind it all. But it’s exciting to know such archetypal realms are accessible and within the biome and you can still even practice magic and divination in everyday existence and/or just with perspective going off what you saw or felt in your past direct experiences to shape your worldview and approach to metaphysics of nature or even the nature of metaphysics.
It’s like nature just shows you what’s on the table (even though you still barley or don’t understand the items), but it’s all just perfectly aligned with where you and how the state of things need be right now.
Ok and actually when I said “quasi-disillusionment” I meant demystification, not disillusionment. Got the definitions mixed up and/or figured they were synonyms.
Btw I also mentioned Arthur Machen, who was a Victorian author and I don’t know what he was smoking, but if you like fiction as well and want to be freaked out and unnerved and experience something uncanny, read Machen’s 1894 novel; “The Great God Pan”. Despite the name, it could pass for modern fiction (in a good way). It’s almost like the first true (modern) horror story. At least in English.
'@luna from a Norse Pegan, in the north east. thank you. well done on an educational and informative video. i had no idea i was in such a wide spread community. you seemed respectful and opened my eyes to a hole lot more of the community. thank you
i do a prayer and meditate, honoring our brythonic ancestors. i was brought up in church of england and honestly, its been hard to deconstruct it, i still have fears and worries about the afterlife (ive had a near death experience in 2013) so this is very important to me
im not Wiccan or pegan, but you have a lot of good information. Thank you for your channel
I've been an eclectic witch for like 7 years and I'm still practicing it today
Thank you for the information. This was very good.
Grateful for this guidance, thank you.
I have only found out about all this in the last few weeks, i had a dream about dead raven and thought it was a bad thing but it wasnt, but led my down this path. I have always been into bush craft and my place is the woods. I never likeed xmas but enjoyed the tree and candles so when i fould al this out i felt i was at home. Thanks you for your vido x
Great video. you did an awesome job explaining everything
Nicely done. As a chaos shaman, what you describe to me is what I'd call chaos naturalism or chaos animism. Chaos, which I stole from chaos. Magic just hai means I use if it works, not because somebody told me so
Wow!
You explain paganism so well. I love your content! Will be subscribing to your channel. Thank you ❤
Thank you so much! Welcome here 😊