So you can be a homestead and LARP as a Puritan or you can attend a TLM in a Cathedral and pretend for two hours it's still the 1930s, but you're going to be the only one doing it. There is no consciousness shared by you and your co-religionists. You're just an eccentric outlier. All this talk of, "based," young pastors is a Nothingburger. These guys are almost done with their education now and I know many of them; they're all either not being ordained, getting shoved in a corner somewhere to talk to a wall or just not being taken seriously.

So what's the spiritual path forward? I don't know. I'm not gonna tell you what it is or isn't. What struck me a lot tho when I started to learn about old religions is that they didn't proselytize for members. You were chosen to be part of the cult or born into it. You had to be, "worthy," to know these theological or spiritual secrets. You didn't try to force people into something that they didn't already want to be a part of. There was no reason a Roman colonist in Britain should take up Druidism. You had cults with wider appeal like Mithras or Isis, but you didn't have fucking Persian Magi in the Ancient World going up to your door and saying, "Do you have a moment to learn about the Lord of Light?" It's ridiculous; we all know it's ridiculous, but we've been operating under it forever.

If anyone's got a suggestion by all means but from where I'm sitting anachronistic and eccentric religious practice that is historionic is not the answer. We need something revolutionary that really matters to and reaches people today, something practical, not play-pretend.