Across families

Spiritual But Not Religious and Wicca

Different families with 10 axes in close agreement — the sort of pairing a quiz weighting only the divine axes would never surface. Mean distance across all seventeen axes: 0.13 (0 would be identical).

Spiritual But Not ReligiousUnaffiliated

Something more than the material, approached personally and eclectically, with institutions declined on principle. This is a described population rather than a doctrine, which is why its dispersions are the widest in the matrix after Unitarian Universalism.

WiccaContemporary Pagan

A Goddess and a God immanent in the turning year, honoured in ritual that participants write themselves, with no scripture and no central authority. The most affirmative position on the body anywhere in the matrix.

Where they agree

C3 The human condition
Both sit at ignorant but fundamentally sound — a gap of 0.00.
B2 Reading of sacred text
Both sit at metaphorical, or no text at all — a gap of 0.02.
E1 Exclusivity
Both sit at many valid paths — a gap of 0.03.
E2 Origin of the cosmos
Both sit at between an intentional act and beginningless or natural — a gap of 0.03.
B1 Source of truth
Both sit at reason and direct experience — a gap of 0.04.
E3 Locus of belonging
Both sit at an individual choice — a gap of 0.07.
D1 Mechanism of the ultimate good
Both sit at leaning achieved by effort or insight — a gap of 0.08.
C1 Survival of the self
Both sit at leaning continues in some form — a gap of 0.10.
D3 The body
Both sit at leaning to be celebrated and to be celebrated respectively — a gap of 0.10.
A4 Locus
Both sit at leaning fully present within it and fully present within it respectively — a gap of 0.10.

Where they part company

D2 Centrality of ritual
Spiritual But Not Religious: leaning optional or absent. Wicca: leaning essential and prescribed. A gap of 0.50 on an axis running from “essential and prescribed” to “optional or absent”.

All seventeen axes

Axis	Spiritual But Not Religious	Wicca	Gap
A1 Divine reality	leaning a divine reality certainly exists	a divine reality certainly exists	0.18
A2 Personhood	between impersonal principle or order and a personal being one can address	between impersonal principle or order and a personal being one can address	0.20
A3 Plurality	between strictly one and many powers and spirits	leaning many powers and spirits	0.30
A4 Locus	leaning fully present within it	fully present within it	0.10
B1 Source of truth	reason and direct experience	reason and direct experience	0.04
B2 Reading of sacred text	metaphorical, or no text at all	metaphorical, or no text at all	0.02
B3 Institutional authority	individual conscience decides	leaning individual conscience decides	0.13
C1 Survival of the self	leaning continues in some form	leaning continues in some form	0.10
C2 Shape of time	between one life, then judgment and cyclical return	leaning cyclical return	0.20
C3 The human condition	ignorant but fundamentally sound	ignorant but fundamentally sound	0.00
D1 Mechanism of the ultimate good	leaning achieved by effort or insight	leaning achieved by effort or insight	0.08
D2 Centrality of ritual	leaning optional or absent	leaning essential and prescribed	0.50
D3 The body	leaning to be celebrated	to be celebrated	0.10
E1 Exclusivity	many valid paths	many valid paths	0.03
E2 Origin of the cosmos	between an intentional act and beginningless or natural	between an intentional act and beginningless or natural	0.03
E3 Locus of belonging	an individual choice	an individual choice	0.07
E4 Standing of nature	leaning animate and itself sacred	animate and itself sacred	0.13

Positions for Spiritual But Not Religious rest principally on Survey scholarship on the spiritual-but-not-religious (Pew, Fuller, Mercadante); for Wicca, on Gardner, Witchcraft Today (1954); Valiente’s Charge of the Goddess. Per-cell sources are listed on each tradition’s own page.

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