Quotes from Timothy Roderick

The contemporary spiritual practice of Witchcraft is based on many of the old customs and folk wisdom of old Europe. Because of this, practitioners have reclaimed the word "Witch." Contemporary practitioners view the word as one of power and they reclaim it in an effort to be mindful of the cost of religious intolerance, to release negative associations and to forge a new future.

The earth is our birthplace, yet for millions of us, it feels strangely foreign.

Wiccans understand magic as a natural process. It is the ability to change one's consciousness—one's frame of mind.

Out of one's change of consciousness comes change in the world.

In contemporary practice, a pagan is someone who follows a polytheistic/pantheistic spiritual system.

many of us presume nature has no value beyond our ability to exploit it.

Wicca is a shamanic spiritual path.

One cannot learn the things that unmask wisdom at the speed to which we have become accustomed in contemporary living. There are no short cuts.

A year and a day of study and spiritual practice offers students the chance to move at this natural pace in their learning. It gives them the opportunity to learn, just as the ancients did, through personal experience, trial and error—which are all guided by the experienced hand of a trained elder.