This weekend was an interesting working weekend for me. My colleague U. came down and we both presented at a local interfaith seminary. I taught on polytheism, ancestor work, and indigeny in the morning, and he gave an afternoon full of deep meditation and trance work focusing on honoring the earth and connecting with animal and elemental spirits. We come from two different traditions: mine Norse and his Dagara and seeing us working together and reinforcing each other's teaching was, I think, very enlightening for the students. It really highlighted certain commonalities found across the board in indigenous traditions (like honoring the ancestors). The students themselves were amazing: they were engaged, enthusiastic and very brave given how ready they were to join in the work we were doing never having met either one of us before. I was honored and humbled to be amongst them. Obviously though, since I’m writing this article, something went awry during the course of the day and as my title suggests, that something had to do with ritual protocol. Actually, I think it had to do with common respect or lack thereof, but I'll get to that in a bit.
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An interruption is rude regardless of source, especially with a sign posted. There are some rituals which should not, for sake of -
The first of November I had the privilege of hearing Rev. Dirk Ficca, former director of the World Parliament of Religions speak a
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Those are beautiful principles and if that was what actually happened in interfaith communities, I'd be exhilarated. it's not thou -
She didn't explain but apologized later, which is fine. but this really is indicative of the overall, overarching attitude not jus
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Thanks for the clarification, which has made clear that the expectations were clearly set forth in advance. Which makes her condu
