Freakchylde's

Yesterday was a good day. I managed to make it through my discussion in one piece, went really well and I’m quite happy with it. Today, I found the present for my grove sister, she’s going to love it. Washed the car and stickered it up. Didn’t go with the pagan fish, instead, I settled with a celtic friendship knot. I must admit, the local pagan shops are hilarious. I was walking through, looking for stuff (found some cool stuff for me) and happened in on a conversation between a sales associate and a couple of customers. The sales associate was amusing as hell because he was telling them that they needed to add some “basic tools” to their knowledge, like how to ground, how to raise and direct energy. He was showing them some books on all this. Now, I understand that this is a bookstore, it’s not an educational center, unless they’re having a workshop, but this is one thing I’ve noticed about various bits of predominant pagan culture. The choice of making book-read pagans, vs experienced pagans. Don’t get me wrong, reading is a wonderful thing and I’m quite happy that people still read. However, reading a book does not the knowledge make, being able to have a practical application to go along with that knowledge is what’s important. Yes, our society has made it next to impossible to progress within a spiritual sense for the sole purpose of growing in that fashion (gotta love capitalism). It requires a half-focus in all directions (unless you’re lucky enough to manage a lucrative career that involves spiritual growth). And I have no clue where I’m going with this.