Seminary Program

This is where we post the essays from many of our Universal Life Church Seminary students. When students finish a ULC course, they write a comprehensive essay about their experiences with the course, what they learned, didn't learn, were inspired by, etc. Here are their essays.

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Friday, March 05, 2010

Wiccan Studies

MASTER OF WICCAN STUDIES

REVEREND KURT FONDRIEST

      In this class I was enabled to reconnect to my ideas of "Earthen
Spirituality". I see magic or spells in the same light I recognize
affirmations.  I don't believe one can cast a spell on me. I do believe
though one can send energy . This energy affects me if I allow it to.
This I thought was very well defined in the course.  The various ways
one can understand "magic".

      I also thought that the step by step personalizing ones altar was
very informative. I carry my altar in many ways. I can see it as a
symbolic reference point and also as actual physical structure. With my
holy place I incorporate all aspects of my life. I have daily objects
amongst ones I see sacred.  I feel this allows an overlap of the
different aspects of my life. My house keys next to my crystals brings
everything on the same awareness.

      This is what I see living a wiccan life as.  There are many many dimensions to my spiritual side, just as there is to my mental and physical parts.  The class energized my relationship to nature. It made me look at this part of my life that needed some spiritual glue.

       As an Artist I feel the act of creating could be considered casting a spell.  In my work I reflect on my visions and dreams. It a symbolic crystal ball. My poetry is a form of  a symbolic tarot card reading. I feel the overall class reflected this way of seeing or living 'magic' into one daily life.

Reverend Kurt Fondriest


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