There's a plethora of stuff online. I looked at several sites & they were much of a muchness to be honest. And I'd read about Victor Anderson & Gwydion Pendderwen years ago in Margot Adler's marvellous work, Drawing Down the Moon.
I'm not heavily into teachers either! Although I mentor & have run workshops & my coven; shared knowledge, essentially I see myself as someone who open doors. I believe knowledge is a priviledge & we have a responsibility to share it. But to do so without setting ourselves up as somehow superior, which I fear happens a great deal in the Craft. And is my personal bete noir.
And since Anderson 'created' the Feri tradition with initiation as a big part of the path, surely that constitutes a hierarchy? Initiation, by definition, suggests a hierarchy. Goddess spirituality states that women are priestesses (or Witches) by virtue of their sex. Unless one actively seeks it, there's no 'training' or initiation involved other than one's personal commitment to the Divine Mother.
Yes, Goddess is One in my world although She may manifest through archetypes & I 'work' sometimes with diffrent aspects & faces. Since my practice is private, I tend not to talk about specifics.
Just as a point of interest, feminist spirituality doesn't dismiss the Male Principle (nature proves the foolishness of such a stance) but I agree with Starhawk who wrote that the Goddess contains the male.
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I'm not heavily into teachers either! Although I mentor & have run workshops & my coven; shared knowledge, essentially I see myself as someone who open doors. I believe knowledge is a priviledge & we have a responsibility to share it. But to do so without setting ourselves up as somehow superior, which I fear happens a great deal in the Craft. And is my personal bete noir.
And since Anderson 'created' the Feri tradition with initiation as a big part of the path, surely that constitutes a hierarchy? Initiation, by definition, suggests a hierarchy. Goddess spirituality states that women are priestesses (or Witches) by virtue of their sex. Unless one actively seeks it, there's no 'training' or initiation involved other than one's personal commitment to the Divine Mother.
Yes, Goddess is One in my world although She may manifest through archetypes & I 'work' sometimes with diffrent aspects & faces. Since my practice is private, I tend not to talk about specifics.
Just as a point of interest, feminist spirituality doesn't dismiss the Male Principle (nature proves the foolishness of such a stance) but I agree with Starhawk who wrote that the Goddess contains the male.
Edited for typos...