What Would You Want...

[The Hammer]

Out of a brick and mortar Pagan Temple?

Ritual?

Community?

Other?

 

[☆Dreamwind☆]

A little bit of each, I should think. Also, call me snobbish but I'd like for it to have a little more flair and mystery to it as well, instead of being a boring building with pews and a pulpit that I grew up seeing.

I suspect that reconstructionists would have a better chance of making dedicated temples.

It would probably be open to various sorts of devotees, but most likely have specific rituals and initiations and the like for members. I'm not entirely sure how people do group rituals tbh so, maybe I'm wrong in that regard?

Do we actually have any dedicated places in the world?

ETA: I looked, and we've got some.

 

[Tamino]

Both, obviously. Since any form of public ritual is made to build community. With each other, with the gods, with the land. Ritual and Community are kind of the same thing, aren't they?

I'd love to have a temple for the sacred space and ritual it provides. I don't like being my own priest, I'd love to have someone who's doing the daily rites and organizing festivals, so I could just come and watch the procession.

 

[☆Dreamwind☆]

If we're doing wishful thinking, an outdoor space would be lovely too. Even if it's just something as simple as grass, birdbath, a tree, and flowers.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

If we're doing wishful thinking, an outdoor space would be lovely too. Even if it's just something as simple as grass, birdbath, a tree, and flowers.

I like the idea of an open outdoor space for folks to use (responsibility). Not everyone has access to safe open-air spaces so I think that would be an important part of a Pagan Temple.

 

[☆Dreamwind☆]

What about you @The Hammer and @Guitar's Cry ? What would you guys like to see?

 

[rocala]

I no longer have any contact with people on my spiritual wavelength, so it is the thought of community that greatly appeals to me. Spending time with kindred spirits is something hard to beat.

 

[☆Dreamwind☆]

I like the idea of an open outdoor space for folks to use (responsibility). Not everyone has access to safe open-air spaces so I think that would be an important part of a Pagan Temple.

I agree very much.

@rocala Would be nice sometimes.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

What about you @The Hammer and @Guitar's Cry ? What would you guys like to see?

I think a public space for meditation, prayer, offerings, and a ritual space would be great, with maybe some private spaces, especially outside, where some folks may want to go it skyclad. I think it would be a good idea to have some expectations around cleansing the space physically and spiritually.

 

[☆Dreamwind☆]

I think it would probably be best to make them for regional pantheons in general, as opposed to just one temple for one deity at a time, at least to begin with. That would likely bring more people, both eclectic and reconstructionist in because it's accessible, and more likely to give them a place to gather and worship and do rituals.

There'd likely be special days to devote to the temple deities such as holy days and festivals. On other days people could come and do their thing too.