Tag: spirituality

  • Choice

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    Bettina Adragna
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    I don’t want to give myself the illusion that I have more choice than I do. For example, some people believe that before they were born, they chose to live on this earth and learn specific lessons. I have no way of knowing if this is true for myself. And while I do have a…

  • Positivity with wisdom is a bittersweet delight

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    Bettina Adragna
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    I was thinking today about my seventeen-year-old self, and how part of me wants to get back to that. Then trying to justify the recent years of sadness with “Well, I’ve learned lessons,” and whatever.Then I realized – why can’t I just go back to that?True, I don’t want to lose whatever I’ve learned in…

  • Pagan Humanism

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    Bettina Adragna
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    I think I have found another marker on my path. (My spiritual path, that is.) I am reading a book called “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe” by Greg Epstein. It is truly inspiring. The book deals with a positive philosophy, or the term that the author likes to borrow, “life-stance,”…

  • More on the Mother/Lover

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    Bettina Adragna
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    I was thinking recently again, “What is a childfree, pagan woman to do about the Mother stage of Maiden/Mother/Crone?” One thing I just realized is that part of it is growing up enough to be in charge of your own life. I don’t know if this part is as relevant, considering that the Maiden is…

  • Persephone

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    Bettina Adragna
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    After reading some work by Jung and Kerenyi on the Maiden, Kore, and discussing it briefly with a friend, I thought I’d try to formulate my own ideas. What intrigued me and frustrated me about reading this book (“Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis”)…

  • Attachment

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    Bettina Adragna
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    I think I finally understand the Buddhist idea of “attachment.” I think it came about when I was thinking last night of how easily I had let my beloved off the phone, because he had to go. Earlier on I would be very reluctant to let him go. It occurred to me that when you…