Jashn-e-Sadeh - Long separated, Indian and Iranian Zartoshtis celebrate together - in Poona, India.

[Nilgiri]

There are many shades between the two extremes of conservative orthodox birthers and liberal flower child neo-zoroastrians.

The clergy is very very orthodox. Within it are some liberal mavericks. Who go forth and do Navjotes if those of mixed blood based on pressure, affluence, personal requests, etc. Think the sagas of the Tatas, the Wadias, the Petits. These are a tiny minority. Both the renegade priests and controversial Navjotes.

Next, Azeris. They are as Zoroastrian as us. Or the Kurds. Azerbaijan is the Land of Fire!

Left to the high priests, no non birthers can be a Zoroastrian.

But the rest of us, even those leaning more to conservative than liberal, like me, recognize that we will go extinct on that path.

I have always believed that Iranian Persians can be reverted no question. Over the past decade, and increasingly over the past 5 years, we have expanded that and started allowing back people who come from traditionally Zoroastrian populations. What started in pockets of the Central Asian states, soon grew into a flood with the Yazidis and the Kurds with the ISIS.

A large part of world Zoroastrians would be comfortable accepting into the faith kids born of one birthers and one traditional Zoroastrian non-birther. These would be by individual vcase by case Navjotes.

But in the end, the final decision at a large population scale doctrinal shift will have to come from Bombay and Udvada.

Who even the Iranian priests come under.

Essentially, our Vatican.

Cheers, Doc

OK so persians, kurds and Azeris then?

Thanks for claryfying all of this about the doctrine as is applies to conservative-liberal spectrum among the zoros.

Tell me about this Vatican for the Zoros. Have they made any statement on where they stand on this currently? Is it influenced by the zoro laypeople impressions on the issue (i.e some semblance of democratic opinion filtering through that can down the road give a diktat/final decision to the high priests who are under them)....or is it very rigid and much like the zoro high priests? Or is this what zoros will have to test and find out over time? Any examples of things where the Zoro Vatican (what is it called if it has a name btw?) has overruled high priests before and got them to change on any things of note?

Its very interesting...thanks for being patient with me (and feel free to only answer whatever you feel like). I am very ignorant about Zoro affairs at this level/scope.