Calm voices, various backgrounds and beliefs, with respect one of the common denominators. From a time in which Americans believed one’s right to an opinion extended to the next person. From a time in which marches prioritized adhering to the expectation of non violent protest.
200,000 or so attended the March, or ~ 0.13 % of the U. S. population.
Later, the division, labeling and stereotyping kept voices apart or raised in anger or absorbed with misunderstandings. Today’s issues discussed over sixty years ago. Caveat: Language changes over time. A respectful word yesterday is verboten today. Of course, one word never was.
The reactiveness of today; the replacement of discussion with noise. I hope you will find this 1963 discussion edifying.
He didn’t know the whereabouts of his inheritance because he had never been directed towards it. He was now internally captive to a system compelled by its own greed yes. This was centred round the biological and philosophical aspects of what war mongering is. It was not the acceptance and abandonment of accumulating differences.
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Differences - Interaction VS Veneration VS Worship
Interaction with an entity (including but not limited to deities, demons, angels, saints, spirits, ancestors, and more) is often considered a baseline of engagement. If you don’t usually give offerings to a deity, but you do for this one spell, that is interacting with them, often referred to as ‘working with’ them. Though 'working with’ takes off sometimes to also mean repeated offerings over time, but without strings, promises, pacts, or emotional ties. Each specific time you interact with that entity, that would be an interaction.
Interactions are more casual, and many practitioners go as far as to refer to the entities that they are working with in these casual settings with nicknames and phrases they would say to their friends. I’ve seen several practitioners refer to Aphrodite as Girly-Pop, I’ve seen one practitioner refer to Loki as Bruh, and I’m sure there are more.
Veneration is a step up, usually involving some sort of reverence or great respect. This is often a good middle ground for people who don’t quite want to go as far as outright worshiping an entity but who still want to note their relationship as being more than just a casual interaction. It is more common for people who venerate a deity to use more formal language with them. This is where the promises and pacts usually come into play. Of course, practitioners who are only interacting can also make promises and pacts; it’s just less common than it is at the veneration stage.
This is usually the step where people start building dedicated altars to that entity. Definitely not all practitioners will have a dedicated altar, especially those who are limited on space, but it is more common with people who venerate an entity rather than just interact with it. Titles such as Lord, Lady, King, Prince, whatever is appropriate for that entity, are more commonly used with people who venerate rather than interact.
Worship, on the other hand, tends to come in several distinct flavors. You’ve got the average kind of worship, these are practitioners who see an entity that they resonate with and they pick that one or claim that entity reached out to them, and they dedicate time and space, usually a modern altar to that entity, they use titles that they feel are appropriate, and they often have symbology of that entity around their home or on their person. Many practitioners in this camp cite unverified personal gnosis as their reality with that entity. Some practitioners believe UPG is valid, others claim it is only valid to you as the individual and should not be spread as information about that entity, and others claim it’s invalid altogether. Personally, I’m at the camp that I think it’s valid.
Then there’s the reconstructionist camp, or people who try to be as faithful as they can to the way those entities were worshiped in the time period they came from. This is not usually used for worship in the sense of demons, for instance, because they weren’t really worshiped when they were first written about, but it is used more for things like Hellenic Polytheism, Kemetic Polytheism, Nordic Polytheism, and so on. These are practitioners who have frequently chosen to educate themselves further about the culture, some going as far as to get degrees in that study. Unfortunately, this also breeds elitism via 'my way is the only right way’ beliefs in some circles, disguised as academic integrity and adherence to historical accuracy. There is discourse over whether or not it actually is elitism.
These are the practitioners who are making their own white linen robes after 3 days of ritual purity with the intent of further ritual purity while they make it, and spending their entire savings on authentic antique bronze tripods and other things to recreate as close as possible to the culture of origin of their beliefs and practices. This is primarily because in reconstructionist circles, accuracy is the most important thing, and in a lot of these ancient religions that they are reconstructing, accuracy to the ingredients and the words you say is actually more important than the intent behind it.
Then there’s the casual worshiper. These are usually people who simultaneously worship and still maintain a casual air with their entity of choice, such as the nicknames mentioned earlier and the way they speak and interact with them. This method has been growing in popularity with the rise of witchtok and witchblr, on TikTok and Tumblr respectively, as some worshipers who do interact with their entities that way post about it, and other worshipers who don’t interact with their entities that way use that kind of language to paraphrase when they’ve said, and either way it usually causes discourse in the comments relating to respect and whether or not one should address an entity that they worship that way.
Then there are extreme worshipers. These are the kinds of people that I grew up with in a Christian family cult. These are the people who believe that to worship accurately, you must do so with the utmost humility, you must put all of your humanity and whole being in faith, and everything into it at any given time when you are called to worship. If it is the day that you have set aside to praise your entity, then you must praise until you are red in the face and sweating and half yelling and jumping around and hooting and hollering and proclaiming, 'in Jesus name, amen’! Many times, this often comes with instructions to humiliate yourself or to prostrate yourself before your entity and grovel and beg for forgiveness for not being as perfect as they made you to be. This can also lead to dangerous self-harm behavior in terms of repentance. These practitioners usually use multiple titles of extreme reverence for their entity: 'the Lord Almighty God, our King who art in heaven, my savior, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and Omega, all that is or ever was’, just to name a few from what I grew up with.
Not all Christianity is like this, not by any means, but extreme worshipers are like this. Some people even go on to do dangerous things in the name of faith, like rattlesnake handling. Some families have the good sense to keep the children away from the rattlesnake handlers while they’re actively handling, but there are some families who put the children right in there with them in the name of faith in the conviction of their deity. Extreme worship can go to extreme lengths, and in my experience, is not usually healthy.
Of course, there are all sorts of worshipers in between who fill just about every nook and cranny of the spectrum from one extreme to another. There are some people who consider themselves very respectful worshipers who have nicknames and a casual nature with their entities. And I’m not saying that TikTok and Tumblr only teach people how to be casual worshipers or trying to equate it with anything inherently negative. Just like any other source of information, anyone can write or create a video about anything they want with any amount of knowledge that they want, just like people do with books, just like people do with blogs and documentaries. There are people who are good at it, and there are people who could do better. It’s about gaining multiple perspectives and sifting through the information to find out what resonates, what’s good for you as a practitioner, and what doesn’t make sense for you.
Whether or not you interact, venerate, or worship, they are all valid ways to engage with an entity. Yes, it is true that some entities like deities in certain religions require certain things, for instance, if you are going to engage with an entity from the ancient Greek pantheon, it is more often than not considered good form to wash yourself before you do to avoid miasma. This is something that many casual practitioners and those who choose interaction-level relationships with their entities might miss because they simply haven’t learned about it or been exposed to it.
Even then, that doesn’t necessarily make modern practitioners casual relationships 'wrong’, even when they don’t necessarily follow ancient rules to a T. There’s a lot of contexts surrounding ancient rules, like lack of access to clean bathing water, accessibility to ritual tools being not something everyday people could afford, more infrequent cleaning then than there is now, and so much more that affect how certain things were perceived then. The fact is, the world is mostly cleaner now than it used to be in terms of personal hygiene, house cleanliness, and the like. We don’t have to rely on meat to sustain ourselves as much; it’s a lot easier than ever before to go vegetarian or vegan, keep from touching blood, or keep clean for ritual purity. We aren’t going to be as surrounded by miasmic things like they would have back then.
The times have changed, our understanding of things has changed, and the context surrounding why certain rules were put into place has also changed within our societies. It is therefore logical and reasonable to assume that the way people worship the same entity can also change from ancient times, especially considering that even during ancient times, it changed from one thing to another, especially as the religion grew.
Some practitioners will go through all three methods with their entities. Other practitioners will only be at one method for their entire magical career. I’ve personally been at all three throughout my life, and I’m sitting at the veneration point right now with two entities. I started and was threatened and blackmailed into extreme worship as a child, and I’ve worked casually and still do sometimes with some other entities in interactions. It’s possible to do multiple of these at once with different entities.
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In my belief system, when you think something that is the spark of something existing or changing. You have to think about stuff before you can make stuff happen, that’s just how thinking works. So there is a little bit of magical output by thinking about it, just not a lot.
But then there’s thinking really hard about something. This is when you meditate on it, when you’re holding items and charging them with intent. This is the basic form of charging. This form of thinking can be greater in power than writing something in, say, pencil.
Next up is writing something, and depending on how it’s written depends on what kind of energetic output it has. Something written in disposable pen will have less energetic output then something written with a reusable quill and a special ink magically attuned for spell writing. That will be less energetic output than burning something into wood. Wood would be less than carving something into stone or metal. This form of writing can be greater than whispering.
But with speaking it, I believe that the vibrations of the sound that exits your body or if you use a text to speech thing, that’s a form of energy output so it’s more than if you write. Sometimes you can sing it loudly or yell it in certain cases, or do whatever it is you do in your ecstatic trance how you speak in those.
With speaking at, you are putting your own personal power into something, you are using your breath to bring it to life. I use breath as a very powerful breath of life type force in my practice.
And then if you combine them all that makes for a more powerful driving force in my practice. Alternatively, if you’re someone who doesn’t speak but still wants to get the most energetic output with this system, you can use text to speech for the physical sound vibrations, and you can use blowing on the item that you’re using as a breath of life thing.
Power and energetic output in this context does not mean moral weight or a guaranteed outcome, it’s just a degree of energetic engagement with your spell.
It should be noted that there are some belief systems that switch the energetic output of writing and speaking, putting writing as the most energetically potent method and speech between it and thinking. In my experience these are usually from belief systems that deal with more ceremonial and ancient magic.
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