tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post5512913264857636979..comments2024-01-03T17:02:06.646+00:00Comments on ASTROTABLETALK: Confessions of a Cultural AppropriatorBarry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-16508472424689604132016-07-21T17:15:53.241+01:002016-07-21T17:15:53.241+01:00Well said, everyone!! All of us need our connectio...Well said, everyone!! All of us need our connection to Spirit and without it we are lost. Generations build on each other and can't exist without the history and knowledge of our predecessors.LotusLady9https://www.blogger.com/profile/12375358810789712470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-53590517713317505132016-07-21T12:34:11.464+01:002016-07-21T12:34:11.464+01:00Cultural appropriation. I love that. The Roman an...Cultural appropriation. I love that. The Roman and Greek gods became angels and archangels in Christianity, didn't they? What's not to like? Have you ever asked how much Roman temple ceremonies were adapted to Christian ceremonies when Christianity became the official faith of the Roman Empire? <br />I think we're all searching for some kind of answer that may or may not be delivered by a Pastafarian deity. What most people miss is that the answers, the temple, the spirit path, all of that - all of it is within you. <br />Whatever you do is the outward manifestation of Spirit. It does not matter if it's you making a stone circle in your back yard or me raising blue flowers to attract the Faeries and allowing carpenter bees to have their place on the railing of my front steps. <br />The stone circle, the iron charms on a shaman's shirt, tossing coins into a personal wishing well, dropping a tithe into the plate on Sunday mornings - it's all the same thing, a wish for a connection to Spirit. <br /><br /><br /><br />Saranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-42564709021915136132016-07-20T23:37:10.735+01:002016-07-20T23:37:10.735+01:00Yay! I'm with you. All of these things bubble ...Yay! I'm with you. All of these things bubble up from some deep source and belong to all of us. And people who get upset because you've borrow elements of their costume or food are trivializing our common humanityCKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13902794275509809459noreply@blogger.com