Pagan activities with a group of people can draw strange looks and even the occasional nutter who wants to “save” everyone.I have discovered that, sometimes, practicing your spirituality alone can lead others to think you are actually insane.I suppose I should add this to the list of differences between Traditional Pagans and Solitaries.It isn’t that we are crazier than Traditional Pagans (at least I don’t think so), it’s just that Solitaries seem to be more suspect than groups.
Perhaps when someone sees a group of people doing something out of the ordinary it is viewed as strange but nothing more than “a bunch of wackos”?Perhaps when the same behavior is practiced by an individual it crosses the line into “crazy”?Let me give an example.
Nice to run into another one of your posts. From this one I noted another one "Solitary does not mean Isolated" June 30, 2013 on w
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