Regardless, popularity for Neo-Druidism has been slowing building — today thousands of people still gather at Stonehenge to celebrate and renew their faith. Since Druidry has been recognized as an official religion in the United Kingdom.
Many Druids believe that nature is fundamentally spiritual and that Druidism is the spiritual path allowing a connection to this cosmic force. The majority of Druids believe that the soul goes through a process of reincarnations and that lives alternate from existing solely in this world and existing in the Otherworld.
James Lovelock, a British scientist, environmentalist and iconoclast, came up with the Gaia hypothesis while working for NASA in the s. The idea was that Earth is a living organism with a functioning self-regulating system which allows all other life to exist.
This hypothesis was essentially shunned from the scientific community from the beginning, since it basically goes against everything already established in biology and evolution.
But the general public embraced the idea — joining Gaia groups; creating Gaia churches. The idea that the Earth was a powerful entity and the use of Gaia — historically, a powerful pre-Titan Greek goddess — appealed to those already connecting with the humanistic Pagan movement. Lovelock has publicly said that this was not his intention : He was implying that Earth acted like a single, living being but was not actually a conscious and personal being.
Neo-Norse Paganism is reiteration of an ancient polytheistic religion, most commonly broken into two two branches of faith: Asatru and Odinism. This belief system also focuses on living in harmony with nature and follows gods like Thor. The mistletoe was harvested with bronze sickles for special ceremonies and then used as a cure for all sorts of ailments and diseases, especially infertility.
Celtic druidism was replaced by Christianity. Early converts believed that Jesus was a druid. They converted because they believed the Christian missionary "druids" performed better magic than the local druids. They continued to worship pagan gods under the guise of Christianity by simply adding "St. Some of these Christian sects lasted for over 1, years before they were wiped out in the Christian witch hunts of the Middle Ages.
In other areas, the worship of oak trees continued for longer. One notable example is the worship of Thor among Scandinavians. Occult Sciences-.
Occult Science is a spiritual system that fosters the free thought and will of the individual, encouraging learning and an understanding of the earth and nature. Most importantly, it teaches responsibility. Accept responsibility of your actions and deeds as a result of the choices made.
Do not blame an exterior entity or being for shortcomings, weaknesses or mistakes. To conclude, Wicca is a modern religion that is loosely inspired by ancient Druidism and other pagan religions. However, there are no direct ties. The distinguishing features given here may appear generalisations and extremes, but they still hold some validity.
In Wicca, it is common to honour the goddess and her divine consort, while Druids tend to be more polyethistic and animistic. Deity is often acknowledged as most important in Wicca, together with anthropomorphised spirits or entities, while Druidry tends to honour the environment, spirits of place, and the ancestors first.
Druidry is very much focused upon Britain and Ireland with some finding its heritage within other European landscapes , its gods and mythologies being of these islands, while Wicca more readily works with gods from any tradition, land and culture. Wicca often has a focus on creating change through spell working to improve lives, while the focus in Druidry is inspiration and creativity.
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