I've been meditating on the gods (specifically Tyr and his rune) with the aim of helping me improve my discipline. I have wanted to do this to help me stick to a training regime that will help my baguazhang classes and generally improve my health and fitness. In turn, I hope, that will help me be a better father as I grow older and increase my ability to protect my family. All good stuff, I'm sure whatever readers (if any) that this blog might enjoy would agree on that.
And, despite my lack of convicition regarding the existence of those same gods (or, at least, what form they take), I am finding that it works. I can rationalise this by accepting what I am doing as a form of self hypnosis - but what does it matter if I involve gods (imaginary or otherwise) in improving myself? Especially if the improvements themselves are considerable - as I hope to find they will be in this case.
Neopaganism has room for atheists, agnostics, animists and all kinds of others who differ from the traditional theist/polytheist demographic. If I later find that gods do actually exist, then I am sure they will forgive me being a touch skeptical in the beginning. If not, do I really want to associate with any being, no matter how powerful or influencial in my life, if all they want is for me to believe unquestioningly?
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