I am pasting an introduction post from another group which unfortunately is not active.

I am Pagan, having been initiated into the Celt-Gael Tradition, an Irish Trad, in 1962 while serving with the British Army in Germany. Celt-Gael is a skyclad (nude) Trad brought about as a renewal of the old Irish traditions which later had, I think a Gardnerian influence grafted onto it which would explain the skyclad mode of worship/practice. My experience of late has been primarily with eclectic/Wiccan Pagans in Kingston and privately with my late wife and a few others in the Celt-Gael manner.
Pagan spirituality is extremely diverse primarily due to the vast amount of information, both historic and speculative available today. Most however, do consider a duality of God and Goddess in whatever form they manifest. The Celt-Gael is, being Irish, triplicity based but does include the God and Goddess figures.
My second post to that group was:
As mentioned in my introduction my Trad, Celt-Gael, is a skyclad tradition and I have thus practiced skyclad from 1962 to the present. I also work with eclectics and at that time I am clothed in deference to their customs. I have found that when I am skyclad everything seems to work better and on the admittedly rare occasions when eclectics have taken part in Celt-Gael ritual they have reported a feeling of unity and closeness to deity which is much stronger than what they normally experience.
It all boils down to what a group feels comfortable with and many just don't feel comfortable with nudity. By the way, though we work skyclad most Celt-Gael practitioners are not nudists

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