Anyone ever heard of this online Wiccan College?

http://mysticwicks.com/archive/index.php/t-58045.html
http://www.wildhunt.org/2008/03/interview-with-janet-farrar-and-gavin.html (scroll to the middle of the interview)
http://www.juvenall.com/2006/01/08/unscrupulous-pagans/

No personal experience with them, but it throws me off a little bit when someone claims to give you knowledge that can't possibly be gained from anywhere else. As is the fact that they do not specify how many monthly payments you will have to make to complete the course, but you are supposed to give them your PayPal addy or credit card info nonetheless.

And it doesn't say anything about the quality of tuition, but their suggestion to e-mail your credit card info to them is one huge red flag with "IGNORANT PEOPLE AT WORK" written all over it. If you enroll with this place, for goodness sake don't do that. E-mail is not secure, they violate credit cards TOS by collecting sensitive information via e-mail (not your headache of course until this information becomes compromised).

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Originally posted by CoffeeOwl:
http://mysticwicks.com/archive/index.php/t-58045.html
http://www.wildhunt.org/2008/03/interview-with-janet-farrar-and-gavin.html (scroll to the middle of the interview)
http://www.juvenall.com/2006/01/08/unscrupulous-pagans/

No personal experience with them, but it throws me off a little bit when someone claims to give you knowledge that can't possibly be gained from anywhere else. As is the fact that they do not specify how many monthly payments you will have to make to complete the course, but you are supposed to give them your PayPal addy or credit card info nonetheless.

And it doesn't say anything about the quality of tuition, but their suggestion to e-mail your credit card info to them is one huge red flag with "IGNORANT PEOPLE AT WORK" written all over it. If you enroll with this place, for goodness sake don't do that. E-mail is not secure, they violate credit cards TOS by collecting sensitive information via e-mail (not your headache of course until this information becomes compromised).

This is a sad truth, many people unfortunately buy into it and learn only what they can find on there own.

One can find enlightenment in ones own time not by a school, but by thinking:
What do I believe?
What don't I believe?
What is important to me? What do I value?
and other questions, and no school can give you that. In fact no school can teach you enlightenment, at most it can give you a push in a direction.

I feel troubled when I hear of a school designed to teach "how to be" a part of any religion, as it simply gives any one or group of people too much power and influence and it just reminds me of things that happen in Iraq, Afghanistan, medieval europe, the FLDS(a sect of mormonmism that has members marrying childern to old men, yet not all do this I know), or anything of the like.

Yet I don't mean to judge, to me this seems like a red flag, yet I could be wrong.

Like any other form of education, a religious on-line college can only give you a helpful kick in the (hopefully) right direction, save you time if you don't know where to start or can't afford to wonder through varying books and opinions. An official degree or other credentials might be helpful if one wants to teach in the feature or have a healing practice... But that's about all sensible benefits I can think of There are places that issue enlightenment certificates though, one of them is a Zen monastery in Poland which name escapes my mind. Must make the holders feel really good about themselves

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Originally posted by CoffeeOwl:
Like any other form of education, a religious on-line college can only give you a helpful kick in the (hopefully) right direction, save you time if you don't know where to start or can't afford to wonder through varying books and opinions. An official degree or other credentials might be helpful if one wants to teach in the feature or have a healing practice... But that's about all sensible benefits I can think of There are places that issue enlightenment certificates though, one of them is a Zen monastery in Poland which name escapes my mind. Must make the holders feel really good about themselves

Very true. I never had a chance to go for help to find enlightenment, so I had to find it for myself.