Friday, @bolt451 and I went to a talk at the lit festival. It was about the rise of people moving away from Christianity towards paganism and other 'alternative spiritual practices'. It was really good, I don't think I heard anything new but it was just great to hear other people talking about things I'm interested in.
The talk was with two women - one who is a secular tarot reader, the other a Wiccan who had written a book (at 21!) about Wicca. She didn't go into wheather she took the psychological, engery or full on belief view of her beliefs but they only talked about the psychological view. That's what Freya finds most interesting, I do mostly but am more open minded and been surrounded with that side of life much more so float about between all the views. One of the great things about witchcraft and paganism is that it doesn't really matter what view you have! If there is nothing more than psychology to it, it doesn't matter as psychology and the placebo effect are real and can have major benifits to people.
As you can see, I've collected a few books over the years, I also used to have one called 'The real witches kitchen'. I've read bits of all of them (save the new one) but most of then are Wicca based. Wicca just never grabbed me. Parhaps it was as people seem to see it as a teenage phase, the nameless, faceless or celtic divine Goddess and God didn't grab me, for something that speaks of the importance of balance its very female centric (which is great don't get me wrong!) but on reflection made me uncomfortable in a way I didn't yet understand, the arseholes (as every 'community' have), the tales of slightly dubias beginnings in the Edwardian times, etc.
I'm ashamed to say it but Marvel putting LGBT elements into the MCU and comics is what started my interest again.
