“I Walk The Path Of The Ancient Ones.”
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Steve Skojec
That’s what the bumper sticker I just saw said. It was on a Ford work truck, with a guy that looked like your average carpenter at the wheel.
Of course, my suspicions proved correct about the meaning of the thing. It’s a witchcraft/sorcery/occult saying. I expect to see the old biddies who were bitter about getting picked last during the sexual revolution with bumper stickers from the dark side. I don’t expect to see dudes driving around looking like they actually have a purpose in life latching on to this nonsense.
I think I’d be happier to see the one that so nearly made me crash as I tried to figure it out all those times I saw it on the beltway:
“Honk if you don’t exist.”
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Of course, that same guy thinks our religion is a lot of silly mythology. Even so, he somehow thinks that standing in a stone circle under a full moon will give him power over the elements (or some crap). I am completely bewildered by how people can call Catholicism superstition and then attend Samhain celebrations, or insist that they are Cleopatra reincarnated, etc.
Steve,
John Michael Greer (of “The Archdruid Report”) claims that, contrary to what one might think, the majority of his neopagan order happens to be in flyover country — and the demographics are more “regular working guy” than “overeducated college grad”.
For what that’s worth.
Greer is an odd one - and I do mean that in the nicest possible way. His writing on historical trends and the coming decline are on-target, I think. And (as opposed to other neopagans I could think of), he’s pretty relaxed about Christianity — in fact, he has before predicted a flourishing resurgence of Catholicism in its more traditional forms as a religion particularly suited to the times ahead. Go figure.
Interesting times, these.
peace,
Jettisoned, along with much else that is true and good, after the Second Vatican Council, was the Catholic mystical tradition. I’m sorry, but the ’social gospel’ is no match for the mystical writings of Saint Therese of Avila and Saint John of the Cross. No wonder that those who have spiritual leanings are drawn to these religions: the Church hasn’t fed them.
Since Abraham, the first patriarch, lived nearly four millenia ago- well before the Druid religion was practiced and the poetry of Homer was written- our ‘ancient ones’ are more ancient than most of the practitioners of the religions neo-pagans claim to be reviving.
Witchcraft is pretty common and not just in places like New Orleans. I walked past two stores for followers on a main street in my town. Devotees look just as normal as you and I.