by skepticalseeker | Jul 11, 2018 | Feminism, Paganism, personal growth, Spirituality
One of the ideas that originally got me interested in pagan practice was the Goddess, aka the sacred feminine. A feminine conception of the divine is one of those things I didn’t even know I was hungry for, but now that I’ve had a taste I realize I’m...
by skepticalseeker | Jun 15, 2018 | Paganism, personal growth, Spirituality
If I were to say I believe in the Goddess, I wouldn’t mean the same thing that I once meant when I said I believed in God. I believe in the ideals and powers that the Goddess represents. I am also strongly drawn to a female idea of divinity. Maybe that is a...
by skepticalseeker | Jun 11, 2018 | Feminism, personal growth
When I think about the ways women have been held down in the past, and how women are still held down today (when we should be past that) I feel a barely suppressible rage. And it’s hard for me to say that, because in my upbringing being angry was cause to have...
by skepticalseeker | Mar 5, 2018 | Atheism, Paganism, personal growth, Skepticism
In the course of developing my ritual over the past few months, I have considered some ideas that I have previously considered to be ridiculous, or at least kooky. Well, not just even considered, but actually done. Dabbled, experimented, whatever you want to call it....
by skepticalseeker | Feb 24, 2018 | Paganism, personal growth, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism
I started doing a morning ritual a few months ago, in late Summer 2017. When I first started, I had a practical and mental-health focused goal in mind. I’ve noticed that when I dive into my day (sometimes no so enthusiastically as that wording sounds) my brain...
by skepticalseeker | Feb 14, 2018 | Atheism, Paganism, personal growth, science, Skepticism
I’ve come to really appreciate cognitive dissonance. It’s the feeling of unease when there is a incongruity between what you really believe and what you think you believe, or think you should believe. (That is my very informal definition anyway.) As a...
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