It's been done

[jinxed]

I've been searching through the threads and I decided even though it's probably been done I needed to be more specific about me.

I've been reading for 6 years now.. I have a few books, well actually I have tons and tons of books, but I have a handful on wicca (Including Scott Cuninghams Solitary Practictioners <33) but I find it's all too general.

I'm the type of person that needs guidance at the beginning, motivation occasionaly, but mostly Im stubborn and independant.
I want to incorporate old traditions of witchcraft into my modern life to help make me a better, healthier person, but Im not exactly religious. Spiritual yes, religious no.
Anyways, I suppose what I'm asking of all of you is this..

1) How did you start out?

2) Does anyone have any favorite sites they could put links to? (im horrible at searching stuff on the net)

3) Would anyone be willing to help guide me the first few steps down my path?

I live in British Columbia, Canada, and Im not aware of anything out here, except a few shops.
Sorry for blabbering. If anyone could help me out at all... I just have too much I want to say, that I've been keeping inside for too long because I had no one to ask.
That's why I've only been reading for 6 years, I'm so scared of taking the first steps without a hand to guide me.
I want to have so much knowledge to pass onto younger generations by the time I'm 40, but the only way to gain this knowledge is so start living it, but I don't know how to start.
Crap this is long.
Sorry
and thanks.

[swtpagan]

I can say i have a handful of readings about arabian witchcraft, which is not similar to what you have read. So i'm not sure I may be able to help you directly. However, we may exchange knowledge and experience, and I hope this will open new horizons for both of us

[WolfWitch]

I started my path because for 20 years, I searched through Religon after religon for one that best fit my personal observations and answered the questions that I had about life and how it wored and what lies beyond it. I went through Catholosism, Babtist and Methodist as well as Jehovah's witness and Mormon. I even looked into Judaism and a little of the budist philosophies. I searxhed and honestly listened to what they said and what they preached. I even thought about becoming a priest and devoting my life to the pursuit of these answers. But, no matter what I looked at and where I searched, their was always questions that I could not answer and in most cases, questions that some would not even acknowlage as existing. I can't stand people who refuse to see what's before them because they don't want to shake their comfortable little lives. I may have a hectic life sometimes because I question things when I feel the need, but my foundations are built on ground I know will never buckle.

I watched my best friend in the whole world convert to Wican in the mid 90's. I saw how happy and fufilled he was so I sought out him and listened as he told me what he had found. I searched for the books he recomended and I found that it mirrored a lot of what i had discovered through my life that i could not answer. Scott Cuningham's book "Solitary Practitioner" was open and hionest in at least, acknowlaging the questions that I had and pointing me in a direction. I think what I liked most about it was that Wicca didn't tell me "This is what is and this is what you WILL belive" like several of my other searches yeilded. Instead, it allowed me to search and find my own answers and shape and word them to what best made sence tfor me. The truth is out there. It's up to each of us to find it and interpret it to our own lives as best we can.

This won me over better than any orator or Proselatizer ever could. I had finally found a belief that mirrored my own discoveries. It was one of the greatest moments of my adult life the moment that it all fell into place and the light came on. I wasn't confused anymore. It was blisfull. I second it Only to the day I held my child for the first time.

I hope this has helped you. If you need any further help, feel free to pm me and I will be glad to help you as best i can.

GB.

WW.