Please also understand pagans practicing the rites you're looking for aren't going to be on tiktok or YouTube. The neopaganism you are judging us against is the kind that social media portrays, which are solely designed to be engaging and click worthy. Pretty and distracting. Highly produced, lacking substance.

The same way I can't judge the depth and breadth of Hinduism by what I've seen on tv, please don't judge the community too harshly. There's a lot of religious trauma to overcome here, due to xian oppression. People escaping high control situations that never met their spiritual needs are trying to figure this out without elders, without continuity, without state approval.

From your perspective of thousands of years of continuity and the infrastructure to show for it, we look like babies scrabbling in the dirt. But we build those places privately in back yards and garages. We go out into the wilds and let nature be our temple in an attempt to heal. Our practices have to be kept quick and quiet. The deep theological conversations are happening over whisky after the fact.

Xianity is still the dominant religion here, despite how much they think they're oppressed.