The Back of Tuor's Head

…but I'm not. I'm downloading some John Valby, thinking ahead to OTR, and contemplating my grotto duties as treasure. (I'm staccato about it.)

I just bit the bullet, so to say, and joined ADF. It was about time. I was over at one of the SOTO member's rooms and came accross a book that started out with a good interview with the leader of ADF, and I thought it was about time I joined. If I say I'm a Druid, I ought to back that up with something.

What struck me in that book was his description of the difference between ADF and mainsteam Wicca. ADF was working toward large group gatherings. Wicca tends to concentrate itself with small groups.

He was talking about how Wicca tends to get into small group dynamics and split if it grows too far over about 5 people.

Last I looked, Pagans constituted about 0.3% of the US population, growing at the rate of nearly 200% a year while Christianity was declining 9% a year, and becoming predominately conservative fundy. (I use the term "fundy" with no apologies.)

One of our tasks has got to be figuring out how to organize and unite ourselves somehow. Wicca is certainly the largest segment right now, and is going to have to come up with a system of organization. Possibly coven moots?

However, the future looks bright for any organization that can work toward the large meeting. Momentum grows with mass, usually exponentially. (While total IQ seems to go logarithmically.)

If I can be so humble as to predict, before 2050, Christianity will drop to less then half of the US & Canadian population, and Wicca & Druid will continue to be the largetst growing movements, with 15%-20% of the US population. (After all, we are the most religious of people, 70% of us; ~20% in most of Europe.)

Marry Meet!