Sunday, May 02, 2004

Here's something I can relate to

A site you can find when googling for Hedgewitch. Apart from the personal history, this is pretty much what I believe too:

From Realm of the Hedgewitch

I was brought up a Christian, but as I grew older I started to feel uncomfortable with the restrictions that the clergy put on the faith. Everything was black and white to them. Good and evil, God and the Devil, an item and it's opposite with no middle ground and no room for discussion. Pray for your salvation or you will face an eternity of torment in Hell. When will they learn that Hell is not a place. The real Hell is to be removed from the sight of your God.

I have never understood why people should want to shut themselves away in a church to pray and give thanks. When they look upwards they see only the roof that man has created but if they were to stand outside and look upwards then they would see what the Goddess has created. Still, it is their choice and if that is how they choose to worship then so be it.

I remember asking as a child if animals go to heaven and being told that they have no spirits and only people go to heaven. Even at that young age I knew that all living things had a spirit.

Many of the 'Tree Spirits' that I have met on my journey have become old friends and visit me often and have been of comfort to me in my times of trouble.

I also seem to get "feelings" about places as well. They come to me as emotions such as happiness, sorrow and loneliness etc. I know that some past event has caused the emotion that I am feeling, but as yet, I have not been able to visualise the past event in my minds eye. I know that one day I will see it because it is there waiting for me. I only have to open my mind a little more for it to enter.


There's a little more on that page, but otherwise the Site's been shut down. Bit of a shame.