Category Archives: Series – Into the Mundane Series

In the pagan community, most people have been trained in some degree (by formal training or by personal training) to be contemplative and more reserved about their actions. I suppose to outsiders it seems like a conundrum, but it really isn’t. In the community, we try to make a point of contemplating and thinking (or at least we try to) before we make those thoughts into actions. For example, in the community if someone has an opinion that doesn’t exactly comply with another’s thoughts, as spiritually striving people, we usually try to give consideration that something might have validity although … Continue reading →

What I find particularly interesting in the mundane is the preoccupation with things: a new car, a Louis Vuitton purse, a shopping trip to New York, etc. It is actually rather obsessive to the point that measuring self-esteem seems to be based upon what was bought/acquired in the past few days. It’s rather…sad. I mean it’s all well and nice, but it is just a thing after all. And what happens when you have acquired all the things to make yourself feel accomplished and worthy? You have to trade up to bigger, better, newer things. Rather intriguing way of walking … Continue reading →