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[quote=Anonymous]That's fine, you don't have to believe, it's something that I think pagans would try to insist on because we know it's weird! I'm not going to go into a long explanation of the supernatural and science, because plenty of mystics have probed that contradiction better than I can within the confines of a message board post.

All I will say is that modern mystics are some of the most skeptical people you will ever meet. We are our own biggest critics. We are aware of the difference between delusion and true shamanic experiences, because we test ourselves all the time, and we have confirmations of these deities in our lives that we can't explain away by coincidence or hallucination as hard as we try to. Most of us were educated in the same school systems and colleges that everyone else was, not homeschooled in a Wiccan commune. We enter this path as skeptics.

For the record, I personally haven't had direct experience of the gods. I've had other intensely mystical experiences which I won't get into here, but I know people who have gone into trance and received visits from Hecate and Loki and Odin and so on.

Loki is...interesting. I'm not a Norse polytheist so anyone who worships in that tradition can chime in here. Loki certainly divides the Norse polytheist community. A large faction hate him and consider him the Norse Satan, and a growing faction (possibly swelled in ranks by the Marvel fandom to be honest) devotedly loves him. He's considered a misunderstood agent of chaos, a trickster deity who does what the world needs but doesn't want, who does what the other gods can't or won't do. In pop culture terms, a dark knight.

Like I said, I personally don't worship in the Norse tradition, but this is the impression I get from friends of mine who are Loki devotees.
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