"Pagans view the earth as sacred and alive. Our world view is one of interconnectedness of all things, so there isn't that separation that one often sees in the book religions. Sometimes it's called animism -- where everything has a spirit, a soul, an energy -- whether it's a weed or an eagle."

"At one point, if you said you were Pagan or into witchcraft, people would go, 'Oooh, horrors.' Then it became kind of a popular thing and people thought it was silly, which was an improvement, perhaps. But now we've got to a point where we're no longer amusing; we're almost getting boring."

"If you start a new religion this afternoon and you convert me tonight, you've increased 100 per cent," says [John Stackhouse], former professor of Modern Christianity at the University of Manitoba. "If you add up all the non-Christian religions in Canada, and New Agers and Pagans, that's only about 10 per cent of the population."