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Recieved: 2001/07/18 00:37
Subject: Re: [K-list] witch hunts
From: Serenasbliss
On 2001/07/18 00:37, Serenasbliss posted thus to the K-list:
In a message dated 07/18/2001 8:48:33 AM W. Europe Daylight Time,
CLEOCATRAsATnospamaol.com writes:
> Dear Serena,
>
> Witch hunts are sometimes about releasing attachments and letting loose of
> investments. Witch hunters try to go after the things that are important
to
> you... remember, though, nothing in this world is significantly important.
> Witch hunts are only a test and a lesson in these things.
>
> Knowing who you are and staying grounded through these trials and you can
> only be more enlightened by them. Witchhunts are more about the people
> formulating them then about you, sometimes they are also entity driven and
> knowing of your weaknesses.
The necessity
of trials and the unimportance of this world are stock features
in writings about the Christian contemplative life. Pagans
can and have appropriated these notions, but I think it is
still interesting to note the source as the flavor lingers.
I am not name calling or saying these notions are only
"Christian". It is simply that in the writings
of Christian contemplatives that both ideas have been so thoroughly
explored/developed... I think they are important ideas.
There is usually the notion that God is ultimately the source of the
trials, because they lead to the purification of the contemplative.
Even if the Devil is doing the work of tormenting the contemplative,
God permits it because it serves his purposes.
Pagan literature/mythology deals with trials too, but quite differently.
That is another post.
Five years ago I would have been nodding my head in agreement
with your post on every point, and your words would have resonated
with me completely.
Now I am not so sure. It just doesn't fit my experience any more.
Maybe I have been through enough of such trials that it is time
to move on in some way, and I am casting about/searching within
for how to live differently.
What I have gotten from my inner voice
is that joy is my compass. That doesn't square so neatly with a life of
trials/witchhunts. I have been fighting witchhunt type
battles for so long, I think maybe I've done my time and there
has got to be another way for me. Revelations come from
meeting challenges, sure, but they come in other ways too.
I'm ready for something less battle-mad, and more joyful.
I suppose if I'm "burnt-out on trials", this is a matter between me and
my Goddess; I will have a word or two with her.
At this point, I can't do anything but dread witchhunts, and look
for another path. I would like to believe that if I stay strong and
centered, I will come through intact and wiser and so on.
I've got some scars that tell a different story. Sometimes
there is wisdom in running away from fights, choosing carefully
where one will give one's energy, and declining to give that
energy to every malodorous being that comes along and demands it.
Serena
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