Many pagan parents consider Harry Potter a mixed blessing. Thus, she is considering home schooling to avoid having to compromise her family's strong beliefs. Ultimately, this entire neo-pagan revival is about choice, she said. More and more Americans are claiming the freedom to find their own gods and goddesses, their own rituals, their own truths and their own brands of spirituality. This revival is about believers insisting that they can be their own priests and priestesses.
People are out there searching for a personal relationship with a god and with nature.
They don't want dogma. They want new experiences and their own kind of spirituality. They are ready to try all kinds of things. D.C. He writes this weekly column for the Scripps Howard News Service. All columns are the sole property of the author.