the way I have defined the difference is that a shaman, oracle, priest or priestess is here to take care of the earth and their particular communities--help them thrive. I don't see that in the pagan community too much. I see people using divine energies very selfishly to make their personal power central. Also as @esaia.mystic mentioned (I'm paraphrasing here) there was an ancestral lineage here that is connected to the earth that is being totally ignored and or used by people practicing magick that do not honor them or make sure they are taken care of. It is vampirism to me...
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