Eclectic Pagan Temple

If you are a Pagan or a Witch who is looking for community, then you’ve come to the right place! As a Pagan living in Pennsylvania, it has become clear to me that finding community is difficult. Most opportunities to connect with other pagans in person are at paid events and metaphysical shops. While I love shopping for trinkets and goodies at a metaphysical shop, I don’t particularly love the feeling of a paywall behind spiritual community. It is rather frustrating.

My goal is to create an eclectic pagan temple where people of multiple pagan paths can meet, bounce ideas off each other, and have a space to worship and practice. I want it to be a space where all feel welcomed and accepted, a place where people are encouraged to think for themselves, a place where you are allowed to question and be unsure.

One thing I do not want this space to be is a rigid bastion of authoritarian thought. Rather, I want The Eclectic Temple of Pagans to be exactly that, Eclectic! I wish for it to be a place where people can explore spirituality with no authority peeking over their shoulder to tell them that they are wrong or right. If religions were honest would call themselves a discussion. This discussion covers moral/ethical philosophy, speculation on the big questions we have about life, death, and divinity. The best way to engage in this discussion is with intellectual honesty and compassion.

The ability to admit when you are wrong and expand your capacity for change is extremely important when interacting with eclectic paganism. There are so many paths one could follow, and being able to respect others who don’t approach spirituality the same way you do is just the right thing to do. This is not to say every belief should be respected. No one should be expected to respect a belief that directly harms themselves and others. For example, I am a queer person, and a lot of times when people say something horrid about the LGBTQ community, they justify it as a difference of opinion. The so-called difference of opinion directly opposes itself to the humanity of other people. I don’t have to respect those beliefs. I respect someone’s right to hold and maintain that kind of belief, but I refuse to respect the idea itself. My hope for the world is that we can all learn to adopt beliefs that minimize the harm we do to each other.

If there are any tenants that I wish for the group I’m trying to form, they would be: Love and respect people, and strive to be less ignorant. Other than that, this group is not about rules; it is about community.

If my ranting seemed interesting to you and you wish to help start this community, get in contact with me, and we can begin to build this group.