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 Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:40 am
Tomorrow I'm going into my class on New Religious Movements with some questions for a guest speaker, Dr. Gus diZerega, who is the author of a book called "Pagans & Christians: The Personal Spiritual Experience" which was published by Llewellyn.
According to the back cover of his book, he "holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory. He is also a Third Degree Gardnerian Elder, and studied six years with Brazilian shaman Antonio Costa e Silva. His numerous articles have appeared in both scholarly and spiritual publications".
What I have read in the book so far [the first 50 pages, what I have to have read by then, basically] is an overview of the differences between the Pagan mode of spirituality and the Christian mode.
Anyway, I was curious to see what any of you would ask this person if you were offered the chance. I believe I'm going to be asking him questions related to his opinions on the publisher of his book, eclectic and/or commercialized neopaganism, and a specific question about one of his assertions about Pagan spirituality in his book related to pantheism/panentheism.
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:46 pm
I might ask him about his Gardnerian lineage. I might also ask him what he thinks about hyping the Pagan/Christian dichotomy to form an "us vs. them" mentality. That seems to be an issue in Neo-paganism.
I might also ask him what he thinks of specific authors causing the entire publishing house to be looked down upon.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:13 pm
Do you think the power of thought? That if you believe your eternal soul is meant to go to a certain spiritual plane, you will in fact go there?
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:51 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:51 pm
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