Neo-Paganism is on the rise.

There has been a modern revival of various pre-Christian spiritual traditions,

often drawing inspiration from ancient pagan religions.

The resurgence encompasses a diverse array of beliefs and practices,

including Wicca, Druidry, heathenry, and various forms of nature spirituality.

This growing movement is intentionally decentralized with practitioners,

often forming small groups or covens.

But virtually every expression of this phenomenon is marked by the worship of nature,

a fascination with astrology, the belief in multiple deities, or a pantheon of gods and goddesses, rituals involving magic or spellwork,

all within the supreme focus on the actualization of the self.

Join us as we unveil the dark and sinister roots of neo-paganism.

All right, here we are.

Neopaganism.

This is episode five for the viewer.

And we've kind of been talking about neo-paganism for the last four episodes.

So it's not like we haven't discussed it at all.

A lot of the different episodes that we're doing in this

10-part series all have their root in each other and neo-paganism being one of those roots.

Bernie Man has roots in neo-paganism and a lot of stuff, the grays, we'll talk about that.

You know, at all kind of the occult, you know, all these kinds of things kind of play into one another.

But maybe from the outset, Andrew, could you just, what is neo paganism?

You know, just these old pagan gods, but neo paganism.

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