Singing in the Night

It's quite amazing to me just how easily one's life could've been completely different..

See when i was in my first wave of identity questioning, late teenage early college. and exploring witchcraft/the occult. I read a few books by Silver Ravenwolf..

Wiccans/Occult practitioners more generally are already cringing/cursing at their screens here.

Ravenwolf is problematic because of her antichristian attitudes among other things,

And i just didn't vibe with it. So i put Witchcraft/Neopagenism aside as not for me.

But it was still a fruitful path, because it lead to me discovering both progressive christian theology, and folk piety/ older pre reformation attitudes toward things like ghosts etc.

This merger of rationality with deep mysticism inside the progressive catholic tradition is central to my identity now . The core around which my sense of self is built one might say.

Had i read Deborah Lipp as an introduction to the occult i think my spiritual journey would've been radically different. And hence my identity

Weird thing is I can't even imagine. The person that would've been.. Even though i know the way Lipp puts things would've called to my past self in a profound way.