trying to get in touch with my past

[earth59x]

well my family has a history of witchcraft/shamanism going back to before we imigrated to the us, but the generation befor me (mom aunts grandmother) have all converted to christianity and destroyed anything realting to our past belifes.

so im taking it upon myself to at least try to keep the old traditions alive by studying shamanism, but.... i cant find anything realting to it. there is one bullshit store by my house that sells "new age religous books" but most of it all turns out to be "LIEK OMG IM TOTALY A TEENAGE WITCH NOW!" shit and i seem to die a little everytime i go there.



so for the sake of keeping an old family tradition alive can any of you point me to anything worth while in my pursuit of learning about shamanism? (celtic or northern european )

[ArgonPlasma2000]

*points in ArmsMerchant's direction*

But we all know you just want to get wacked out to the hardest psychadelic shrooms possible.

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[LostCause]

I know where you're coming from. My parents were in a coven when I was concieved and they decided they wanted to raise me in the temple so they quit, but I was raised with a lot of Wicca influence. I learned to read palms, and tarot, and cascades. But, I hated it in high school, which is kind of ironic, but I did because it had been shoved down my throat so much. I've done quite a bit of reading on the subjects of paganism and heathenism since then, though and I currently observe major Wiccan and Duid holidays.

Cheers,

Lost

[Digital_Savior]

quote:Originally posted by earth59x:

so im taking it upon myself to at least try to keep the old traditions alive by studying shamanism..

Why ?

[Adrenochrome]

They have some very good links to websites about Shamanism here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaman

[ArgonPlasma2000]

quote:Originally posted by LostCause:

I know where you're coming from. My parents were in a coven when I was concieved and they decided they wanted to raise me in the temple so they quit, but I was raised with a lot of Wicca influence. I learned to read palms, and tarot, and cascades. But, I hated it in high school, which is kind of ironic, but I did because it had been shoved down my throat so much. I've done quite a bit of reading on the subjects of paganism and heathenism since then, though and I currently observe major Wiccan and Duid holidays.

Cheers,

Lost

Could you read my palm?

[Digital_Savior]

Are you going to take a picture of it and email it to her ?

[earth59x]

quote:Originally posted by Digital_Savior:

Why ?

because in 30 years or so the only trace of it left would be a bunch of kidiots trying to summon satan

[ArgonPlasma2000]

quote:Originally posted by Digital_Savior:

Are you going to take a picture of it and email it to her ?

Scan

[Digital_Savior]

quote:Originally posted by earth59x:

because in 30 years or so the only trace of it left would be a bunch of kidiots trying to summon satan

But why single out Shamanism, when your family is now Christian ? Why not Christianity ?