A Mad World, My Masters

[poliphilo]

The world likes to oblige us.

It shapes itself as best it can to our perceptions of it.

When I was doing Wicca the world obliged me with low-grade magic- synchronicities, amazing coincidences, omens and the like.

Now I'm no longer doing Wicca the world has settled down quite a bit. It conforms to the views of the middle-aged rationalist it thinks I've become.

But I'm not fooled. I know just know how giddy it can be.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the world is very strange. But I do think it's a two way process- that the world responds to our response and mostly only shows us as much of itself as we're prepared to acknowledge.

Whimsy

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

It certainly says something about my current state of mind that I have now anthropomorphized the earth itself, and am hearing such things in my head as:

"*Must* you tread so heavily?"

and

"Would you mind terribly wearing something other than those detestable stiletto heels? How do you think it feels to have sharp pointy objects digging into your skin? Why not try and nice pair of flats? Or perhaps this soft pair of slippers?"

Re: Whimsy

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I spent most of the 90s thinking of the world in terms of gods and goddesses. I've moved out of that phase now, but it's left me with a tenderness towards things like trees and weeds and stones- all of which I relate to as beings with feelings to be considered.

My pagan days

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Let's see.....I spent the time between 1988 and 1998 as a pagan myself, but even prior to that point, I always felt an affinity for plants and animals of all shapes and sizes. I still have an abiding fear of insects, though. -shudder-

Re: My pagan days

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

When I left Christianity it was a grand old rumpus, with blazing anger on both sides. When I left Wicca it was a matter of gentle drift. I'd done it for long enough and my attention was wandering.

I guess I'm still a Pagan, but it's no longer a religious affiliation, more like a point of view.