#quaker pagan

[phoenyxoftheashes]

I know I've asked this before, but for those who identify as Quaker Witches or Quaker Pagan, how do you overcome the fact that early Quakerism was very anti- paganism (even to the point of renaming Sunday "first day"), and wanting to do away with rituals?

[mygoddessmusings]

At the retreat, I was given a chance to share a few tools from the Quaker toolkit.  I got a chance to offer a workshop on something I call spiritual accompaniment.  (Quakers call it something else―eldering―but that word has a completely different connotation than it does in Pagan circles.)

One of the mistakes I see Pagans making, as a group, is that we confuse talking a lot with getting a lot done.  There is a kind of centering into the spiritual heart of a community that can be completely silent and yet is so deep that it helps to center everyone in the room.  I don’t have a Pagan vocabulary for this yet, but I have certainly seen Pagans who have a gift for it.  But where Quakers celebrate this kind of gift, among Pagans it is almost always invisible.