Introduction

Each person eventually chooses the spiritual system they wish to follow if, indeed, they wish to follow any system at all. Some are born into particular systems such as Catholicism and stay with it for the rest of their lives. Some begin life in one religion then move on to another and maybe on to yet more. Some start as believers and lose their belief; others reverse that direction.

Then there are also some people who basically develop their own spiritual system from bits and pieces of a variety of other systems. This has been my approach. Much of my own "spiritual system" comes from the Native American Medicine Path. Some comes from Wicca; some from Shinto; some from the principles in the Tao Te Ching; some from ancient mythological systems and parts from various other paths.

What it basically ends up being is a spiritual system based on the IDIC approach from Star Trek. That was the Vulcan philosophy known as Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. This is the idea that we should delight in the differences that exist amongst peoples (and belief systems) and that the sum total of what we get when we combine these people/systems is greater than the sum of its parts.

In comparing the Medicine Path, Wicca, Shinto, various Pagan approaches and other approaches I have come to a kind of conglomeration spiritual approach. Do I have a name for it? No.

"The way that can be told is not the eternal way.The name that can be named is not the eternal name". That's from the Tao Te Ching. My way, then, also has no name.

What my "way" does is to emphasize living in harmony with all parts of one's environment (which includes your own self).

This is a system in which we do not abuse our relationships with plants, animals, or minerals. It is a system where we try to grow spiritually without forcing our beliefs on anyone else. It is a system that tries to take the best parts from a variety of sources and weave them into a harmonious whole that will allow us to live in peace with all our relations- plants, animals, and minerals.

It is a system that recognizes that Spirit is in all things, and that all things are essentially sacred. It is also a system which recognizes that the world has changed, and that we must change with it. It is possible to walk a spiritual path even in concrete canyons where most of us live.

It is also not a system in which we can simply sit back and let the world go by. It is an active system in which we must fight for the good of all our brothers and sisters, be they plants, animals, or minerals.It is also a system based on common sense; not an idealized system that no one can really live with, but one based on ancient practices mixed with modern, some good common sense, a little logic, and a lot of love.

I have tried to make all the ceremonies, meditations and rituals ones that are clear and practical, things that you can do in the privacy of your own home or yard. In the present world there are not very many of us who can go out into the wilderness as did the original Native Americans or the ancient Pagans to follow our spiritual path. We live mostly in immense cities where nature is a rare thing indeed.

So the activities are geared to living in that kind of environment. What can we do here and now, without extremely fancy and expensive equipment. Hopefully this work will be able to give you a wide variety of suggestions that you can follow no matter where you live.

DISCLAIMERS

The information given in this part of my web site, in relation to herbs, crystals, and other topics of healing is not meant to replace the ministrations of a qualified physician in any way, shape, or form. The information in this section is not meant to replace the use of licensed, qualified medical practitioners.

For the English purists out there: yes, I have capitalized some words that normally aren't. I have (in most cases) capitalized the words North, South, East, West, and Mother Earth, along with a few other related terms. I have done this because I feel these are very special terms, and deserve very special treatment.