Choosing a Pagan Path - How to Choose Your Pagan Tradition

The faith are not pagans or heathen and believe in moral being made of light called light elves and the god of the light. Stronger and better structured then any pagan or heathen group in the USA with more wealth flowing in and are considered anti-universalists who only allow certain kinds of Germanic tribes to join their churches and gatherings. Not very Christian in some ways and very Christian in others. Their beliefs are not based upon disliking or hating Christians or liberal or conservatives politics. Doing so would make them some kind of a conservatives liberal Mix. Pro-abortion, supportive of certain kinds of woman rights, Anti-migration, anti-mixing, Anti-whoredom. Easily offended by Queers .Christians are big on universalism the faith are not and this is clearly reflected in their values and morality. The Faith can be offensive sometimes like the claim that Jesus is a woman who got nailed by the romans. The faith has a game called trick the Christian where member wears a Christian cross and approaches Christians and pretends to be one of them. What does a Christian look like? Anything.

I have a question: if you could list any of pagan religions that are closed practices and which are open ones😊

Kemtic and Roman belong to us. Egyptians should choose Their old Gods or Roman Gods as Egypt was part of the Roman empire. To make it easy, identify with your roots and what you belong to. Hinduism is universal those days though.

I like your distinction at the beginning between Magickal Practice and Pagan Faith. I am a Kaos Mage, but am Northern Trad Animist Heathen who follows the standard Celtic/ Wicca Feast Calendar. If that makes me a Universalist, so be it. Heck, i study Mazdaism, Hermetica, and Neoplatonism...even Gnostic Christianity. When asked, i simply say Folk Heathen. Never belonged to any Coven or Magickal Order...but i always try to make offerings to the Woodland Spirits where i live.

I feel like I took nature for granted until I moved to a big city where vegetation is few and far in between. After living here for a few years, I've been longing to be surrounded by nature again. Anytime I have the opportunity to be around it, I feel such a connection now. I have never really been a spiritual person for most of my life, but after experiencing such a cut-off, I definitely feel it now

Why do you have to pick any path I have been pagan all my life and I have incorporated what works for my spiritual path not focusing on any spiritual dogmas in fact I avoid any path that has a negative history

What cracks me up is how many modern "pagans" are city-dwelling, left-of-center folks, considering the etymology of the word "pagan". For those who don't know, it is obviously Latin- from "paganus". Most literally, "country dwellers". But it was a derisive term, so "redneck", "hick", "bumpkin", etc. I just find it endlessly amusing knowing that there are people out there bashing contemporary "rednecks" for being ignorant and uneducated while simultaneously praising long-dead "rednecks" for their wisdom and insight.

As for paths, I think "eclectic" is the only valid path. That is, until someone shows me empirical proof that some set of practices is universally more effective than all others. We are individuals. All magic, prayer, meditation, or whatever is simply a mnemonic device to goad our brain into doing what we want it to do. Self-guided therapy, if you will. Obviously, herbalism, fasting, physical training, and similar practices can have tangible effects. But, by and large, all religion is an attempt to program ourselves to be the way we think we should be. As such, I think it is unlikely any particular path will suit a given individual perfectly. This is why sects exist in the first place, disagreement over minutiae. If you can find a path that truly resonates with you, take it. But don't squish yourself into a path that's "close enough".

I am an eclectic pagan myself. I incorporate deities from different pantheons primarily egyptian practices, native american practices, norse practices, greek practices and irish gaelic practices and animism. I feel it allows me to gain the full benefits of everything that the metaphysical world encompases and with me working with crystal healing and magic having all of those different deities gods and godesses really brings alot of power to my manifestation practices. I dont even refer to gods and godesses as such i call them the divine ones cuz i like to to adresses all the higher powers that i believe in while praying meditating and setting intentions with my crystals. Thank u for sharing this. Now i dont feel as bad about having more then one pagan path

Pagan Paths - Pete Jennings

Do you have any alternatives on the paths? Because my dad is superstitious and my uncle and that household are christrian

So is being a norse pagan inculding being a witch?

Thank you for this information. I'm a Pagen.

When you mentioned asking yourself questions about what higher beings/powers you believe in the best way I could describe it in my head was basically the movie soul lol

oh my goodness thank you bc i never knew about eclectic peganism it's what i fit in best so thank you!!!

hey! firstly, thanks for this video, it really helped me a lot. ever since i was a child i believed in reincarnation cycle and that was it. i didn't see myself fitting into any of the abrahamic religions as i didn't believe in heaven and hell, and i also don't believe in the christian god or the islamic god. i believe that we are part of the nature and the creator, that everything is alive, breathing and has a soul. i see nature as sacred and believe that gaia/mother nature is its source. that part is certain, i believe in magick but i want to stay close to nature as possible as i can so i don't want to participate in it. i believe that we can connect with the deity/deities through rituals so i'm really open to doing that. the thing is, i don't necessarily believe in mythological stories, i feel like the deities are real but the stories are exaggerations. the purpose of them is to make us understand our earthly mistakes through stories. ( i believe that the thing they call heaven and hell is on earth, our souls chose to come here to experience and when the cycle ends we return back to where we are originally from -to gaia-, because all souls are part of her) i also think that since some mythologies share common deities, they were just named differently but the deity was the same one so we can call them by whatever name we want. i celebrate the sabbats, try to live according to my beliefs. what i wanted to ask is, since ancient pagans believed in nature and there is polytheism in neo-paganism and i participate in both, what should i call myself? i'm really confused about the mythological part of my beliefs. i really do believe in deities but also, gaia is the main goddess i believe in, she is everything. so it feels like i'm underestimating the deities and seeing them as lower. i don't know where to place them in my head.

Came for the smile, stayed for the music. Fun video. Thanks

Hey I was wondering I've meet lots of wicaians and all of them are girls but I'm a guy and almost all of them tell me I can't be a pagen if I'm a guy so I was wondering what your opinion is.

I believe that the heavens and reincarnation is real and karma lol

I’m still just a normal pagan but this video could definitely help me pick a path it’s been awhile since I’ve last seen it

I am drawn to paganism and witchcraft I am pagan witch I’m formerly Catholic. I am drawn to Greece and Egypt. I am interested in working with Persephone and Athena. I need to look more into Egypt mythology and religion.

Thank you to you and Heather. I am really learning a lot from your channel! You have reassured me that I can be electic in my spirituality. It really fits in with how I feel. I believe in reuncarnation, I dont know if there is a god and I feel a great affinity with Nature. Like you I feel ok that I dont know.

Sanatan Dharma is a major religion & Sanatan is Pagon & vice-versa.

Very helpful, thank you. I've been Christian for many years but my interest in herbs, natural health etc has seen a number of people identify me as a witch, and I've always felt some pull to that identity.
At this stage I'd describe myself as Christo-pagan, emphasis on the 'Christo' and with prayers in place of spell work, but have accepted that I'm currently in an unfinished time of significant change so am focusing on forming my 'Pagan' identity and interrogating my Christian aspect in light of this

It’s weird because in my mind most of anything someone believes in can be true. Animism, witchcraft, the God and Goddess, Nordic religions, Christian religion, etc… It’s a feeling of both the terrifying unknown and complete wonderment of what could be. I lean towards The God and Goddess of Wiccan religion, Mother Gaia as a Goddess, the plants and animals having a souls, the idea of magick in all living things around us, magick and soul in the elements, magick in all things we do if we keep ourselves aware and do things with intention, the magick in belief, etc… I’m going to ask myself the questions you posed in this video to try and figure these things out for myself.

I am beginning my journey into Scottish Polytheitic. The more I research, the more confused I am.

I love this video…what’s with the jazz music though?

JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH IS LORD////BE BAPTIZED IN HIS NAME AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL. AND YOU WILL BE SAVED////

Bewitched,Since I'm 1/4 Russian & Witchcraft is a part of my heritage ....So I' m going to walk the Karelian ( East Slavic & Russian) Path with Wicca
Moon Magic DJ Conway is a book that's similar to Drawing Down The Moon

Wow thanks I've been a witch for a year now and this video is the first one to help me decide that i'm also a eclectic pagan. Blessed be 😁🧙‍♂️🙏

the thing is im actually a high believer in all things and beings if you sya its out there most likley i am going to believe you
so werewolves vampires ghost's fiary's slenderman greekgods satan jesus adam and eve god lillith reincarnation heaven hell all of that and so much more im not wieghed down by any one type of belief but i do feel like there should be type of belief system like that i dont nessecarely believe all of these thigngs are one spirit or energy but i do believe we may have all been created and put here by something greater then a multiverse and i need to find a path and religeon that acceptts all of that but doesent leave me stuck believing in one god i velieve that when we die what happends to us entirely despends on our beliefs and preferences but i also believe there is an other worldy type of punishment for if you werent the greatest person in your past life but you also vind of have this path pre amde and chosen by ur higher self . i have very conflictingg beliefs and i need a path that'll sorta bring all of that together in a sense.

The music spoils this video

I'm a bit of an existentialist and I also hold pretty close onto Marxist materialism. I believe that the universe and the world is completely unexplainable and unprovable beyond our own senses, and the only thing that truly exists is material as it's the only thing we can interact with on a mutual basis and understand beyond our own shared abstractions. And this interaction with the material world is what shapes society and social relations which in turn largely shape is as people. I'm interested in paganism because as an existentialist I believe whatever brings you value and fulfillment is just as valid as anyone else's as long as it doesn't degrade it, it may not be good but it's valid to them. And I think this is a good way of exploring what brings myself value.

At the beginning of the video I was like, being a pagan doesn't mean you're a witch, it's not the same thing, BUT I'm glad I continued watching the video. Very well made video, finally someone who really does understand this topic/religion! Good job! 👏🏻😌You earned my subscribe ❤️ (slavic pagan here 🙋🏻‍♀️)

I recommend the book,
“Paganism - An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions”, by Joyce & River Higginbotham.

In my opinion, it does an amazing job in covering this mass umbrella term of Paganism. Let’s face it, trying to define it is quite a complicated. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.
-Eugene

Very new ti thus thank you 😊 🖤

Is this a joke

Sounds to me like you’re a perennialist. You’re not thinking about how absurd what you’re saying is. All of these different views are ways of viewing reality itself, and they’re mutually exclusive as they have different views of metaphysics. Contradictions are nothing more than nonsense. So the only coherent position for you to take is something like there is one truth underlying all pagan religions that each individual religion has its own expression of. The question then becomes what criteria do you have for demarcating which beliefs in the many religions are true and which are false?

The gods choose me, so I didn't get to choose the path. I am kemetic/Hellenistic/Norse eclectic pagan now.

So I've been in and out of pursuing a greater understanding of my spirituality for most of my life. I was able to find Drawing Down the Moon online and I'm reading it just eyes wide. I've never considered magic, religion, and other views described in the book until now and I feel like it's sort of blowing my mind. Thank you so much for making this video and recommending this book!

Really interesting video, posing the relevant questions that need to be considered when choosing a path. Very intelligent and lovely person 🤓

The music spoils this I did not watch it all because of the music.

Blessed be to all

Thank you. Great helpful advice! I'll buy the book! Only issue with the video was that I found the music distracting

For me I know that I believe in a god or gods and the Greek stand out to me because they are flawed rather then the Christian god who’s supposed to be perfect

I also believe in ghosts and demons

I'm currently christian but something is drawing me to paganism. I've always felt different from my family in beliefs. So I'm trying to find my path, I need to know what I'm talking about and what I'm doing before I openly practice because my family will have words with me.
I feel like I might have skills in herbs and "spiritual communication" (if that's what you call it, idk) but I'm thinking over going down that path. As well as I'm leaning towards, Norse or Celtic religion. 😊

I’m still having trouble deciding what path I’m currently going down

Really appreciate this!

this helped so much thank you

I really enjoyed this video. I celebrated my 1st Winter Solstice. I'm not a polytheist, but I want to embrace my heritage. Thank you for this video.