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Tantric Spirituality Teaching Course: III Paganism  To find out what is special about these tantric spirituality courses, please see the Tantric Spirituality Teaching Course page on this web site. Paganism has deep and ancient spiritual roots that stretch back to the Ice Age. It draws also on shamanism, High Magic and folk magic. However both Hinduism and tantric Buddhism have also shaped some of Paganism's modern development. Paganism understands the interconnectedness of all things: the Web. Paganism is appreciated for its overwhelming reverence for the sacred Feminine and the sacred Masculine: the many faces of the Goddess and the God. It is appreciated for its reverence for the human body and for fertility; for the great Seasonal Round, and for its powerful tantra drawing down deity into humans for them to become Priestess and Priest, co-creators, Goddess and God. The Goddess of Wicca is beauty and greatness: Virgin, Mother and Crone, fecund source of all life - she who also knows when to wield the death-dealing knife. The dying and resurrecting Horned God of Wicca poignantly moves through a destined year-cycle and is a powerful exemplar of the divine masculine. Paganism has a wonderful sense of the shadow world. It exalts intuition, path-working and creative ritual. It has a powerful sense of the personal magic of each individual: your capacity to sense and ride the currents of the universe. Paganism also has a folk magic, a knowing, magical awareness which exudes greenwood and tangled roots, dancing and the moon. The Modules
PA 1. Historical Introduction
Modules PA 18 and PA 19: The Deities of Paganism: 'I am the gracious Goddess, who gives the gift of joy unto the heart of every man'.... Arise and come to me for I am the soul of nature, From me all things proceed PA 18. The Goddesses of Paganism PA 19. The Gods of Paganism Modules PA 20 to PA 42: A 'typical' Wiccan Ritual.
THE MAIN RITES
This is a tantra, imported into Wicca from eastern spirituality where a human becomes a god. This is found in the practices of Hinduism and Tibetan (Vajrayana) Buddhism. It is tantrically invoking the Goddess into the Priestess, by the Priest. The term is drawn from the aphorism that the power of Thessalian witches was so great that they could pluck the Moon from the sky.
PA 39. There will also be other rites or path workings, scrying or healing, especially in connection with any of the Eight Great Festivals that may be being celebrated, and usually, consecration of sacramental cakes and wine takes place - these are then shared. Some pagans call this a sacrament. CLOSING RITES
Modules PA 43 - PA 50: THE PAGAN FESTIVALS As with modules PA 2 - 17, these modules impart factual information which you develop through awareness-raising meditations and preparatory rituals at this stage. This information-sharing and learning is the basis of the practical, experiential ritual work in Section B, below. In these modules, we gather the factual information we need to underpin Pagan Festival ritual and work tantrically with deity. We learn about the festivals, and their history, and these modules incorporate tantras to realize the changing faces and phases of the Goddess and the God.
PA 51. Present and Future issues in modern paganism: The Agenda for Modern Paganism. B. The Experiential part The experiential part of the course covers the following 5 modules. They are all coded 'PB': PB 1. Pagan Goddess meditations and rituals
The Goddess Cybele PB 2. Pagan God meditations and rituals PB 3. Wiccan Rituals and Festivals (Eight ritual modules are offered): 'I invoke thee and call upon thee, By seed and root, by bud and stem, I do invoke thee, to descend upon this,
'Listen to the words of the Great Mother,
"Oh Great Stag God of the Earth, Herne, oh Great One, come forward for all to see you. Lord of Strength and Honour, Envelope your Priest with Virtue and Potency, Beat back the darkness and enter into the Light. Let the hammer strike the anvil. Here, the focus is the rites of the eight great Festivals and the invocation of the Goddess and the God. NEW TANTRIC RITUALS PB 4. The Bodhisattva White Witch Vow This is a very powerful and beautiful, totally new ritual. It brings the challenge of making a clear ethical stand of compassion in modern paganism. Invoking Goddess and God, we make a stand as co-creators and work out how to make this vow within the true traditions and energies of Paganism. We each offer it as a new threshold contribution to the future of modern Paganism. PB 5. Avalokiteshvara and the Horned God This is the same ritual as Buddhism module BB 5. In this very special unique tantra, we focus on the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara and the Horned God of Paganism: what aspects of compassion have Buddhism and paganism got in common? This module is absolutely unique; it is invaluable, powerful and unforgettably transformative. We experience the different energetics of compassion that are inherent in the Pagan God and Goddess, and in the Bodhisattva. Ritually and meditatively we join these hitherto culturally cut-off but at-root identical forces of compassion.
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