http://wicca.cnbeyer.com/the-validity-of-eclecticism-and-non-initiation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-validity-of-eclecticism-and-non-initiation Sun, 10 Mar 2024 10:33:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wicca.cnbeyer.com/the-validity-of-eclecticism-and-non-initiation/#comment-6180 Tue, 29 Sep 2015 05:46:58 +0000 http://wicca.cnbeyer.com/?p=68#comment-6180 Doreen Valiente started the whole solitary thing including self-initiation. She had been in two influential covens; the now defunct Cockrane’s coven and Gardner’s covens. Yet she made this system and was always publically vying for witchcraft and Wicca to become more acceptable as a practice. I don’t think she is incorrect.

]]> http://wicca.cnbeyer.com/the-validity-of-eclecticism-and-non-initiation/#comment-5689 Tue, 26 May 2015 12:16:20 +0000 http://wicca.cnbeyer.com/?p=68#comment-5689 I’m confused; I always thought Gardner called his followers and his religion “wica” (with one c). Is this not so?

]]> http://wicca.cnbeyer.com/the-validity-of-eclecticism-and-non-initiation/#comment-4990 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:51:12 +0000 http://wicca.cnbeyer.com/?p=68#comment-4990 I thank you for this opinion piece. The most relevant argument I’ve used myself, other than the one stating that many Traditionalists (at least when I started in a Gard trad years ago) referred to the newcomers or ‘fluffy bunny’ sorts as Wiccans and only the initiated as Witches, is that Gardner himself was an eclectic practitioner and indeed the Gardnerian Trad is based on an eclectic mix of many things, as you have stated above.
My personal opinion is that there is Eclectic Wicca, and Traditional Wicca etc – Wicca being the the common ground term, much as Chrisitianity is a term used for a wide variety of practices for those that call themselves Christian.

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