We had a newcomer come to our Samhain ritual the other week. He was polite and respectful during the ceremony and in the open conversation that usually buzzes around the attendees afterwards someone asked him what he thought. He said He didnt know know because not having any experience of this sort of thing. He was reserving judgment. I said to him that I thought that this was a healthy response.
It got me thinking about how one goes about checking that a group/teaching is actually authentic. And what authetic actually means.
Visiting different groups of a similar nature and going to