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Title: Seeking 10,000 Teachers of Witchcraft And Wicca Needed To Supply Global Shortage
Source: www.paranormalpalace.com
URL Source: http://www.paranormalpalace.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=14
Published: Jun 19, 2006
Author: paranormalpalace
Post Date: 2006-06-22 01:32:16 by Mind_Virus
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Views: 740
Comments: 55

Seeking 10,000 Teachers of Witchcraft And Wicca Needed To Supply Global Shortage

2006-06-19

Have you ever considered learning Wicca and the Art of Witchcraft? Well, stand in line because there is a global shortage of teachers and the demand continues to grow. By next decade it is very likely that Wicca will be the third largest religion in America, and there is simply not enough teachers.

Hoopeston, IL (PRWEB) June 19, 2006 -- Wicca is America's Fastest Growing religion and is anticipated by religious experts to be the third largest religion in the United States early in the 21st century behind only Christianity and Islam. Such a rapid spiritual revelation is occurring that the need for thousands of Wiccan teachers over the course of the next decade is required to meet the demand for basic teachings. People want to understand and embrace the Wican Rede and allow themselves to awaken their inner abilities. Wicca's liberating beliefs and useful skills are in such demand that they need ten thousand teachers in the next few years.

America is on the brink of awakening and discovering it's inner magic and it is changing the world. How we change depends on what we believe, and more people are looking at Paganism and Wicca than ever. If Pagans are right, then we have contact with a whole other dimension to our already rich existence. It is a another vision of life where magic occurs alongside the daily workplace, among science and technology, among people and filling in all those different places with a sense of awe and wonder. It is about Soul freedom. It is about being aware of how much freedom we truly have.

People becoming Wiccans today have a desire to teach and share their faith in ways never previously before conceived. Fearful of the dangers of remaining in the closet, and yet knowing how discriminatory American culture can be, Wiccans desire to build their community in a free and open manner, legally protected under Constitutional law. We benefit from the freedoms we have fought for and served for, and that our forefathers and mothers strived to maintain for us and we will pass these freedoms onto our children. This freedom is opening this sacred community to the deepest thinking and development of their sacred arts in history and allowing Wiccan to show the world how useful these skills will be in the future that races toward us all.

And discovering Wicca has never been easier and more public. If you ever thought about Wicca and asking what it is, you can take a free Wicca Course at http://WitchSchool.com. Witch School is the leading distance education system in Wiccan studies worldwide, and has now helped tens of thousands of people learn about Wicca and their own inner abilities.Maybe you will be one of those new teachers and not even aware of it yet. But even if you never practice, the study of Wicca is a fascinating subject and part of our great American experience.

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#7. To: Mind_Virus (#0)

Wow... In Hoopeston Illinois no less. Talk about podunk America.

The idea of Wicca taking over the United States, is about as attractive as me having to learn Spanish.

Give me a break. Are there that many women who simply don't want to shave their legs? How about all the dorks who don't want to bathe.

Now I've met a couple people on this forum who don't fit that stereotype, but there's a reason WHY it's a stereotype. Soon, you'll have a lot of dorks claiming they have powers, flashing curses and other nonsense, and the next thing you know, we'll have 4 additional holidays that the state employees will get.

If it's a religion found in a book, and you have to pay money for it, chances are, it's bullshit. If they have a "For Dummies" book for your religion, chances are, your religion is a crock.

I'm going to start my own religion based on the idea of self reliance and common sense, and nobody will have to pay a dime to learn it. It would be the ONLY religion in history that was altruistic in its agenda.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2006-06-22   8:14:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I'm going to start my own religion based on the idea of self reliance and common sense, and nobody will have to pay a dime to learn it. It would be the ONLY religion in history that was altruistic in its agenda.

I think Ayn Rand has already beaten you to it. Maybe you could write "Objectivist Ethics for Dummies", however.

peteatomic  posted on  2006-06-22   8:43:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Nah... Then I'd be just like the other tards who are putting out false faith and nonsense.

It's pretty simple to live on Planet Earth. The problem is that people need to complicate things because they're just a pain in the ass.

Wicca I'm sure has a lot of rules, just like everything else.

I like the idea of having a VERY small rule book. About a paragraph, and that's all.

Don't kill people, don't be stealing, don't be lazy, and don't be a prick or bitch. Be kind to others, treat animals nicely, don't get your pants in a twist, and if you can't kick someone's ass who deserves it, don't worry, there's always traffic.

Seriously, this whole life thing could be condensed down to one sentence.

If you're going through life being an asshole, you're going to die lonely and unloved.

And after all, who the hell wants to die unloved?

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2006-06-22   9:19:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Wicca is very simple, elegantly so. There are no curses, and our manner of wishing change in things is done as a positive force and is no more insidious then Christian prayer - it is much the same thing.

Our traditions and beliefs though Wicca is only around 50 years old and are very old and come from several of the old religions. Ours is fertility, Earth- based and nature oriented; we recognize and worship during the change of the seasons and the full and new moons. We worshiped at the day's close yesterday in fact and had groups in Eugene who had a wonderful time and got allot out of the ceremonies.

My religion is unique in that it has no dogmas, doctrines or set of rules. This often is confusing for new practitioners, because Wiccan practices are derived from within, are personal and individual and are not mandated by any one person, hierarchy, or "Bible".

The Wiccan Rede frames what we believe well, and here it is in a short, nutshell form:

These Eight words the Rede fulfill:

"An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"

Ferret Mike  posted on  2006-06-22   9:34:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

The difference between the Bible and religions like Wicca is that the Bible is actually a blueprint for how to run a successful community over the course of generations. THat's what all the laws and rules, etc, are actually about, and that it works is proved by the Jews who have lasted for 5000 years believing and practicing the rules therein. When they stop practicing what their Bible teaches, they die out and become absorbed by the larger group. Wicca being based on individualism, is not a religion (I predict) that will ever be successful for community building or continuation of the tribe/group.

I'm a great believer in the community as that's ultimately how individuals survive.

mehitable  posted on  2006-06-22   11:38:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I disagree. When Goddess based religions were common in the world, before the demonetization of it by religions like Christianity who murdered many leaders and destroyed as much of those religion's structure as possible, it was a rich part of th tapestry of a community and the mere fact the we, a young but in many ways one of the oldest religions in existence endure us we represent the human spirit in an excellent fashion.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2006-06-22   12:31:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Oh, I have to totally disagree with that. I don't know if there ever actually WAS a time when Goddess based religions were in the majority. I think that's a myth or fantasy propagated by new agers. There were pantheons with male and female gods, of course, and many of those cultures practiced behaviors that are now abhorrent to us such as infanticide or human sacrifice.

I have nothing against Wicca personally, but I don't think there's any glorious past associated with it. Wicca was invented by English eccentrics about 50-60 years ago. It has no real history.

mehitable  posted on  2006-06-22   12:58:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

"Oh, I have to totally disagree with that. I don't know if there ever actually WAS a time when Goddess based religions were in the majority. I think that's a myth or fantasy propagated by new agers."

Actually the suppression and overt destruction of this sort of religion is very well documented and so is the fact many died in the process.

It was even talked about in the historically well researched book The De Vinci Code. I take it you haven't even read that book as well as not looked at historical fact?

Ferret Mike  posted on  2006-06-22   20:30:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

It was even talked about in the historically well researched book The De Vinci Code. I take it you haven't even read that book as well as not looked at historical fact?

Okay, Mike, you just blew all the fuses. I personally don't care what religion people practice as long as they don't do animal or human sacrifices. Other than that, pretty much be my guest.

But when you start touting a complete piece of drivel like the Da Vinci code as "history" it proves that you don't know what the bleep you are talking about. There is no "history" in the Da Vinci Code - or precious little of it. In fact, the author plagiarized a couple of books to even create this one (and I've seen the proof - he literally lifted things page by page from one book in particular). It's egregious.

First off, there is no proof of any kind whatsover, suppressed or not, that Jesus was ever married or had kids. This information simply does not exist. It just doesn't. Anyone who says it does, is a liar. Now to me, it doesn't matter if Jesus was married or not - I don't care. It's a matter of historical fact to the extent that we can piece it together and there IS NO EVIDENCE OF THIS AT ALL.

All of this stuff about Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail is totally invented. There is no proof of it at all. Nothing. No original documents. Nothing. It's a fabrication.

Secondly, Da Vinci, did paint little jokes and things into this pictures, This is well known to art scholars. But the things that Brown claims are in Da Vinci's pictures, simply ARE NOT THERE. It's UNTRUE. The Last Supper for example. That is not a woman - it's the apostle John. That is the standard depiction of the apostle John during that era of art. He was depicted as an effeminate young man - a scholar/student type they called it. And Leonardo was gay, so he may have picked someone even more effeminate than usual. There's no mystery about it.

If you're quoting the Da Vinci code as your basis for information, you need to find some new sources. It's been totally discredited on many levels.

mehitable  posted on  2006-06-23   11:02:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

"All of this stuff about Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail is totally invented. There is no proof of it at all. Nothing. No original documents. Nothing. It's a fabrication."

Heh, I wasn't talking about that,I was talking about the relatively minor sidebar mention he made to the suppression of Goddess based religions in comparison to the core material of the book. ;-)

The De Vinci Code is correct in one thing beyond refutation; which is precious little is known about human history before Johannes Gutenberg invented the Printing Press.

"...While "the Goddess" has long been in hiding in such coded symbols, today She is, as it were, coming out of the closet, appearing in everything from feminine God(dess) language to "priestess training programs" in both Israel and the United States. Folklorist Taya Shere, a co-leader of one such program, says that she is merely recapturing an ancient, lost and more balanced Jewish religion. "Judaism came from somewhere, and it is comforting for me to be aware of its roots," she said. "Even the challah loaves come from the holy cakes baked for Astarte."

Today's ritual innovators may seem quite distant from the rural women described in Dever's volume. But as Dever notes, images of the Divine Feminine persist because they speak to deep human needs. Rational, philosophical monotheism, he says, "is in some ways less sophisticated — that is, less comprehensive, less flexible, less natural" than its more mythic antecedents. One is reminded how much more nuanced is the Zohar's dynamic, embodied human psychology than the linear rationalism of Maimonides, which posits one human faculty as supreme above all others..."

More in: The Jewish Goddess, Past and Present

My point is I don't trust Christian history either. Every bit as much as you don't trust accounts of non-Christian history.

Ferret Mike  posted on  2006-06-23   11:28:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Look, you're the one who pointed to the Da Vinci code as your basis for historical "proof" of your claims. The Da Vinci code is a plagiarized piece of crap - in terms of factual information. This casts suspicion on any other source you name because your first source is such an egregious pile of steaming manure.

mehitable  posted on  2006-06-23   11:31:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

"This casts suspicion on any other source you name because your first source is such an egregious pile of steaming manure."

You thing of it as manure if you wish my dear woman, I'll continue to think of it as fertilizer for the imagination to sprout new ideas, thoughts and concepts concerning about what actually did happen in the past concerning religion, and about how religion will look in the future.

;-)

Ferret Mike  posted on  2006-06-23   11:39:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#35. To: Ferret Mike (#34)

Then you use as your basis for information and philosophy a document that has been proven to be not only filled with lies and misinformation, but which is, in and of itself, a stolen (i.e., plagiarized) work. We have to review your statements in light of this revelation of what you consider as a desirable source of information.

mehitable  posted on  2006-06-23 11:46:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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