and that's best written privately and personally, not by committee and most certainly not by governmental or neighborhood condo committee.

I don't go to church myself, no -- that was the woman whose blogpost I was highlighting. I think my biggest draw is to the concept of "collective consciousness" and that will continue to fascinate me, trying to figure out more about it before I slip the mortal coil. Deep thought akin to meditation, feeling connected to other living creatures as beings -- did the word creatures come from "created" though, oh dear!

The idea of "worship" and "prayer" though, any sort of mysticism, or intercession by men for other men who otherwise are at odds with the divine, is something that never really fit me.

OTOH, I don't like being subject to nature all that much either, having survived some nasty hurricanes and tornados, etc. in my lifetime, a car crash and nearly losing a child to drowning . . .so paganism may not be for me. I'm actually more of a cerebral CS Lewis type; I can and do wax rhapsodic about spiritual academics, understand and see value in almost any faith's power of story. Just don't ask me to pick one and reject all the rest!