“The cosmos is an unfolding and contingent process filled with endless spirals of life, death, and rebirth,” (Green 143). Death is a universal concept among all people because it is an inevitable part of existing in the physical world. But the concept of death and how it is made sense of differs among religions across the globe.
For Neo-Paganists, the belief in reincarnation is one embedded in holding nature as a sacred entity. Death is not something to be feared, rather, it is something to be looked forward to after living a fulfilling life because death itself is part of nature (Buckland 68).
There has been much debate and confusion about whether Paganists, Wiccans, and Witches are synonymous. Through extensive research in the limited number …show more content…
Thus human lives are “symbolically linked with the endless cycles of the seasons that shape our planet” (Cunningham 76).
Margaret Murray stated that Wicca involved fertility and rain-making rituals (Crowley 172). In the fertility aspect of Wicca, the rebirth factor plays a major role because fertility in this sense is not only applying to the cultivation of fields, it is also applying to the cultivation of the mind and soul as well as ideas (Crowley 174).
Within the cultural context of Wicca, it is believed that people pass through a certain number of lives and that each life holds individual lessons that add up to a full curriculum of life knowledge (Buckland 19). Therefore, death is not seen as a concrete end-all-be-all, but it is seen as the end to a learning period in the way commencement might be to a college graduate (Buckland 68). A college graduate might have learned how to be more efficient in their choice of career field—in a parallel, Wiccans believe that in their past lives, they might have learned lessons on humility of poverty or the joy of blessings (Buckland …show more content…
Instead, they accept it as a part of the journey of living. People are born, they grow up and learn lessons, then they grow old and die (Buckland 19). Death is a “liberating force” as seen with the story of the Oak and Holly King, which is a symbolization of regenerative forces versus the forces of death (Green 132). The two kings engage in battle that reaches climaxes biannually during the midsummer and winter solstices. Spiral dances during sabbat also happen to symbolize rebirth (Buckland 255).
Reincarnation is used to explain what happens to someone’s spirit after their physical body has passed.
Some Wiccans state that after death, souls travel to a realm known as the Land of the Faerie, the Shining Land, or Land of Eternal Summer that is neither a heaven or an underworld—it “simply is” (Cunningham
For Neo-Paganists, the belief in reincarnation is one embedded in holding nature as a sacred entity. Death is not something to be feared, rather, it is something to be looked forward to after living a fulfilling life because death itself is part of nature (Buckland 68).
There has been much debate and confusion about whether Paganists, Wiccans, and Witches are synonymous. Through extensive research in the limited number …show more content…
Thus human lives are “symbolically linked with the endless cycles of the seasons that shape our planet” (Cunningham 76).
Margaret Murray stated that Wicca involved fertility and rain-making rituals (Crowley 172). In the fertility aspect of Wicca, the rebirth factor plays a major role because fertility in this sense is not only applying to the cultivation of fields, it is also applying to the cultivation of the mind and soul as well as ideas (Crowley 174).
Within the cultural context of Wicca, it is believed that people pass through a certain number of lives and that each life holds individual lessons that add up to a full curriculum of life knowledge (Buckland 19). Therefore, death is not seen as a concrete end-all-be-all, but it is seen as the end to a learning period in the way commencement might be to a college graduate (Buckland 68). A college graduate might have learned how to be more efficient in their choice of career field—in a parallel, Wiccans believe that in their past lives, they might have learned lessons on humility of poverty or the joy of blessings (Buckland …show more content…
Instead, they accept it as a part of the journey of living. People are born, they grow up and learn lessons, then they grow old and die (Buckland 19). Death is a “liberating force” as seen with the story of the Oak and Holly King, which is a symbolization of regenerative forces versus the forces of death (Green 132). The two kings engage in battle that reaches climaxes biannually during the midsummer and winter solstices. Spiral dances during sabbat also happen to symbolize rebirth (Buckland 255).
Reincarnation is used to explain what happens to someone’s spirit after their physical body has passed.
Some Wiccans state that after death, souls travel to a realm known as the Land of the Faerie, the Shining Land, or Land of Eternal Summer that is neither a heaven or an underworld—it “simply is” (Cunningham