so-so3/5⭐ Offers many useful meditation & visualization exercises. Provides alternatives for different learning types (visual, kinesthetic, auditory, etc). I appreciate the balance between grounding in reality & journeying through the spiritual/psyche. The info gets repetitive, & the copious examples illustrate her points without adding to the conversation. The last 1/4 of the book, which delves into religious/deity theory, is an unfocused tangent.
(Odin be praised) These amazing texts from the 13th century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the Lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and the end of the world, etc.
bailed“Although some liberal watchdogs have tried to define Thor‘s hammer as a hate symbol, most of those who wear it are as positive in their outlook as those witches who wear the pentagram”…no one is wary of racist iconography because it‘s “negative”. No one is like “those Nazis are such Debby Downers”. Having your religious iconography co-opted by assholes happens, ask the Buddhists, but don‘t downplay it.
Sunday mornings are sooooo much better now than the ones of my childhood. Now it's tea with Jane and #pemberlittens then it was my parents crazy cult. Those church services would make you long for a sermon from Mr. Collins!
#heathen #prideandPrejudicereadalong
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My essay “Heathen” is now live at:
https://asitoughttobemagazine.com/2020/06/27/cody-sexton-heathen/
check it out!
#athinsliceofanxiety #asitoughttobemagazine #essay #heathen #atheist
