Many years ago a good friend of mine was meeting with the Priest and Priestess of the local Gard group here in Indy. This friend of mine was fairly new on her path at the time and was told by one of these fine folks that you could not cast a circle without a blade. Now having Trad in me I understand this person's statement.
But at the same time my friend thought (and I agree with her), 'May the Gods help you if you are ever paralyzed from the neck down and unable to left your blade to cast a circle, whatever will you do.' To me this person's statement is very much a dogma about their beliefs.
Now dogma to me is like the big shit monster in the film of the same name.
It is a lot of stuff we carry with us from teaching former teaching, or what ever. Not all dogma is bad I have many dogma's that serve me well. But it is like a shit monster and I do have to deal with it. I ask myself am I ok to hang on to this? What is it serving in me by keeping it? I would encourage everyone to take those old dogma's you have out at take a closer look at them.
See if in fact they are not some big shit monster keeping you from reaching a higher level of understanding about something because you are too afraid to flush it done the loo.
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