- Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
- Verlag: Citadel; Auflage: illustrated edition (1. April 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0806523522
- ISBN-13: 978-0806523521
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,6 x 14 x 1,6 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.310.106 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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With over 20,000 ordained members and thousands more practitioners in England alone, Wicca is fast becoming the most popular alternative religion in the world. Citadel now provides a much-needed line of second-level Wicca literature for the more experienced witch. Many Witches are now second or even third generation practitioners and crave more advanced concepts beyond the basics of casting a circle and calling the quarters. Here is the guide that will teach readers the more unfamiliar and abstract concepts of magic and Witchcraft, including: - The Veil between the worlds and how it works - Direct contact with the Divine and how to handle it - Ecstatic worship techniques and shamanism - Fae magic techniques, including the use of glamourie - Explorations into the illusory nature of reality - Group dynamics and working with different kinds of energy flows - Scientific proof that magic works, backed up with case-by-case evidence - Intuitive magic: Allowing yourself to sense and believe The only book of its kind, this is an essential book for the serious seeker and for all readers committed to finding their way.
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A great book, but I wish it went further
22. Dezember 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
There is a sad dearth of books for advanced pagan audiences. This is the first book that I've heard of that addresses the topic of magick from a pagan perspective beyond the 101 level. I thought it was very well done. The theory of how magick works that Polson presents was interesting and believable, but the great strength of the book, in my opinion, lies in the step-by-step guides to exploring different advanced magical techniques.
I say advanced, but this is more of a 202 book than a seminar level work. I am very glad that it was published, and think it's a great first step (or next step?) but I wished that it went further. I am not a serious magician, and I did get some new ideas from the book, but I would've liked it to have been twice as long and covered two or three times as many topics. Sweat lodges, astral portals, and god-hosting are great, and they're definitely not beginner topics. Polson covers them in depth. But what about interacting with non-deity spirits, healing, and creating magickal objects? Most of those topics were mentioned in passing but could easily have gotten their own chapters, and these are just examples. An additional second-to-last chapter talking about further boundaries for the experienced and enterprising magician to push and expand would have been very welcome, at the least.
Nonetheless, this book is an important contribution to the body of accessible neo-pagan material, and I'm awfully glad to have read it. Thanks, Ms. Polson!
I say advanced, but this is more of a 202 book than a seminar level work. I am very glad that it was published, and think it's a great first step (or next step?) but I wished that it went further. I am not a serious magician, and I did get some new ideas from the book, but I would've liked it to have been twice as long and covered two or three times as many topics. Sweat lodges, astral portals, and god-hosting are great, and they're definitely not beginner topics. Polson covers them in depth. But what about interacting with non-deity spirits, healing, and creating magickal objects? Most of those topics were mentioned in passing but could easily have gotten their own chapters, and these are just examples. An additional second-to-last chapter talking about further boundaries for the experienced and enterprising magician to push and expand would have been very welcome, at the least.
Nonetheless, this book is an important contribution to the body of accessible neo-pagan material, and I'm awfully glad to have read it. Thanks, Ms. Polson!
15 von 16 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
An interesting book for intermediate to advanced Wiccans
14. Dezember 2004
Format:Taschenbuch
I read "The Veil's Edge" by Willow Polson recently.
The book is very interesting but it is not one I'd recommend to beginners. You really need to have a solid grounding already in working magick to get much out of the book. Intermediate to advanced Wiccans in particular will likely find the book of interest as it goes into topics that are barely touched on in most other books.
The book is not difficult to understand; Willow does a really good job of explaining what could be a very complicated topic. Anyone who wants to use the information in the book needs to have a solid understanding of magick before they start reading this book as it doesn't rehash all the 101 info that readers should know.
The book is basically about other planes of existence, whether they are described as the astral realm, the world of spirit, the land of faery, or something similar. It's about the possibility of there being other dimensions of existence that are invisible to us normally in this physical realm. The book is about how these other realms might be explained, and how people who use magick might interact with those realms.
The book starts by trying to explain the possibility of these invisible realms by drawing on the ideas of quantum physics. It was very interesting to read (and admittedly these theories are presented in other books in a similar way) but the skeptical side of me wonders whether real-life quantum physicists would say their theories are being misrepresented. There were a number of ideas, like the concept of observer-influence on things observed, which I suspect might be misinterpreted and made into something they aren't really in order to validate paranormal claims.
Regardless whether the scientific claims made are valid or not, the book does provide some useful ways of thinking about working at least some types of magick. And even if the scientific claims are not 100% accurate, it's good to have books like this which will challenge us to reconsider what we think we know about the nature of reality -- the truth is often much stranger than what we can imagine. It would be nice if we'd see more books like this, ones which present new ideas or even old ideas presented with new understandings, instead of the many books that come out which are nothing more than old material rehashed and presented again for the hundredth time.
Wiccans and those who practice magick who already have some solid experience who are looking for some fresh ideas for their magickal practice would find this book refreshing. People new to Wicca or magick should probably wait until they're more experienced before picking up this book and checking it out.
The book is very interesting but it is not one I'd recommend to beginners. You really need to have a solid grounding already in working magick to get much out of the book. Intermediate to advanced Wiccans in particular will likely find the book of interest as it goes into topics that are barely touched on in most other books.
The book is not difficult to understand; Willow does a really good job of explaining what could be a very complicated topic. Anyone who wants to use the information in the book needs to have a solid understanding of magick before they start reading this book as it doesn't rehash all the 101 info that readers should know.
The book is basically about other planes of existence, whether they are described as the astral realm, the world of spirit, the land of faery, or something similar. It's about the possibility of there being other dimensions of existence that are invisible to us normally in this physical realm. The book is about how these other realms might be explained, and how people who use magick might interact with those realms.
The book starts by trying to explain the possibility of these invisible realms by drawing on the ideas of quantum physics. It was very interesting to read (and admittedly these theories are presented in other books in a similar way) but the skeptical side of me wonders whether real-life quantum physicists would say their theories are being misrepresented. There were a number of ideas, like the concept of observer-influence on things observed, which I suspect might be misinterpreted and made into something they aren't really in order to validate paranormal claims.
Regardless whether the scientific claims made are valid or not, the book does provide some useful ways of thinking about working at least some types of magick. And even if the scientific claims are not 100% accurate, it's good to have books like this which will challenge us to reconsider what we think we know about the nature of reality -- the truth is often much stranger than what we can imagine. It would be nice if we'd see more books like this, ones which present new ideas or even old ideas presented with new understandings, instead of the many books that come out which are nothing more than old material rehashed and presented again for the hundredth time.
Wiccans and those who practice magick who already have some solid experience who are looking for some fresh ideas for their magickal practice would find this book refreshing. People new to Wicca or magick should probably wait until they're more experienced before picking up this book and checking it out.
4 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Great Material to Fuel Exploration for Beginners
21. Juni 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
It's like reading a written out lecture. It's a very easy read and there are very few actual examples of work. It's a topic based `talk' in written form that walks through some of the basic areas where `veil work' is performed. It is a very broad discussion ranging from scientific `proof' of magic through topics like posession.
A great amount of general information and opinion is presented on each subject. To that end, it was very disappointing to see that on some topics, on which volumes could be written, it was summed up with only a few statements or pages. In a book that basic, I was also rather suprised to note that one of the subject in which the most instruction was given was posession.
I have ~12 years of magical experience ranging from tree huggin' Pagan to ceremonial paths. Nothing in this book was anything new to me. That said, it was a refreshing lecture that put several subjects in context with one another and added some tidbits of examples here and there that I had not heard before.
If you are fairly new to witchcraft (about or less than 5 years exp), and have ever wondered exactly WHAT `the veil' is or what some of these more advanced practices are, this is a great book. it would be an excellent launching pad for further exploration. If you are an advanced practitioner, you are not likely to get much out of it - except, as I mentioned earlier, a refreshing one sided conversation about topics you are probably already familiar with.
A great amount of general information and opinion is presented on each subject. To that end, it was very disappointing to see that on some topics, on which volumes could be written, it was summed up with only a few statements or pages. In a book that basic, I was also rather suprised to note that one of the subject in which the most instruction was given was posession.
I have ~12 years of magical experience ranging from tree huggin' Pagan to ceremonial paths. Nothing in this book was anything new to me. That said, it was a refreshing lecture that put several subjects in context with one another and added some tidbits of examples here and there that I had not heard before.
If you are fairly new to witchcraft (about or less than 5 years exp), and have ever wondered exactly WHAT `the veil' is or what some of these more advanced practices are, this is a great book. it would be an excellent launching pad for further exploration. If you are an advanced practitioner, you are not likely to get much out of it - except, as I mentioned earlier, a refreshing one sided conversation about topics you are probably already familiar with.
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