Fred went on to say that Gardner's breach with the rest of the New Forest group came specifically because Gardner saw what we now call Wicca as having the potential to become a real, active religion meeting people's real spiritual needs in the real world. The other members of the New Forest Coven evidently were extremely unwilling to attempt to move beyond what they saw as little more than an interesting exercise in magical theory.
It seems like a lot of Pagan religions started out that way. I remember seeing a similar story in DDtM about a group of college students looking to recreate something akin to Druidry, and being totally unprepared for the results of what they had created.
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Date: 2006-05-22 05:39 am (UTC)It seems like a lot of Pagan religions started out that way. I remember seeing a similar story in DDtM about a group of college students looking to recreate something akin to Druidry, and being totally unprepared for the results of what they had created.
--Phae