Many people have been denounced as pagan or heathen, not because they were primitive or uneducated, but because the advanced culture, art, science, and philosophy they followed was regarded as threatening to belief oriented traditions and their simplistic patterns of salvation and damnation. There is an underlying affinity, if not unity between European pagan, dharmic, and native traditions. Such groups share a respect for all nature as sacred, an honoring of the presence of spirits in nature, and a seeking of higher states of consciousness of unity with the living universe. They usually promote tolerance, free thinking, and, diversity, and recognize the existence of many paths to truth. They do not have any overriding agenda to convert or conquer the world, but regard culture and spirituality like a garden, requiring different plants in order to truly flourish.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:29:51 +0000
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