PAGANS, how do you define yourselves, as just animists communing with nature, or Transcendentalists, who ...?

Depending on the nature of my "communing", of course. A weekends fishing tunes me right into the hunter mode, which is quite spiritual in itself, and most enjoyable, and relaxing. But spending a solitary Samhain, sat by a blazing beechwood fire, in the lee of a Longbarrow in an Autumn gale, with a head full of Flycap, and the voices of my ancestors whispering long forgotten secrets in my backbrain, and the vibration of cloven hoofs, carrying through the soft chalky soil like an ancient, primal drumbeat, .

. . Well, that's communing with nature as well, only on a much more potent and humbling level.

Spiritual? Definitely, but in a much more intense, and aweful way, and always the knowledge that there is a Sacrifice involved, ie: Big chunks of what you carried up in your head, more than likely won't be seeing the sun come up. And depending on the nature of what you leave behind, you get to take something "other" back down with you.

Which never fails to make me "come over all spiritual like" that's fo shizzle! Certainly makes you think about stuff differently. Like sanity.

Depends...it might make you come off all loonie like if you are randomly chatting with squirrels in the park.

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