- Paperback: 196 pages
- Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp. (Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0806521376
- ISBN-13: 978-0806521374
- Product Dimensions: 2.1 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 395,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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72 of 74 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book offered good information to the reader, and indeed most of the techniques are that of somewhat an advanced level. But the author does phrase the book in a very easy-to-read style, that allows you to brush over each subject. But i'm sure like any good book you'll read it again.
The tecniques found in this book are wonderful ones, some the oldest forms of magick. It's great to see that an author has written and has published these techniques. Such as aura changing and advanced dreamwork and many other techniques.(Its nice to find them all in one book!)
As i'm sure you are all aware on the mulitude of ''getting started'' books on the market. Once you pass that stage i believe a lot comes from what you have learnt and how you personally adapt that.
But still it's nice to have such books for reference, different methods and techniques.
Though the excersises in the book are detailed in what they are. There isn't too much information on ''How to'' do them, (unlike some books that have pages and pages on how to, its nice to find and develope your own methods).Though i found this very appropriate, if you find yourself reading the book and feel you need the ''how to'' perhaps this is a good way of knowing that maybe you need a little longer on the basics.
Not only does this book have techniques as the title suggests. But it also includes a lot of information on healing, serving the communtity, animal totems, invoking and many others.
The author also asks you to ask yourself questions at different stages in the book, before the relevent chapter to see if you feel you are ready for the next tecniques. (Very well worked out.) for example: 'Do you know how to use and combine physical movement, sound, sensual input and visulization to build an direct power and mental focus?'
One of my Fav. parts of the book has to be the quotes the author has kindly included in every chapter!
Overall this book is a good read, good value and would make an excellent selection. to go in anyones collection, for reference.
Hard to say four or five stars!?!??! No less than 4 from me. 4 and a third. Oh maybe 5. Its so hard to decide...lol.....Ok i give in the book was good and as i'm the only review so far lets start it off! 5*'s
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73 of 75 people found the following review helpful
Leads readers beyond Wicca 101, deeper towards self-mastery.
6 Dec 2000
Format:Paperback
There are just so many "right" ways you can learn to cast a circle, invoke the elements, quarters and deities, create a proper altar/sacred space, etc. And the correspondence tables...do you have enough of them already??? This book is what many on the Wiccan path have been pleading for...a book that goes beyond the basic teachings of the Wiccan way.
Finally Pat Telesco moves the practicing Wiccan further down the path towards self-enlightenment. This is not a simple spell or recipe book. It's a resource on how to live a magickal life, to live, breathe, and sleep magick.
Telesco defines what it means to be an adept in the Wiccan community. She covers such things as trancework, group dreamworking, creating amulets, talismans, mazes and labyrinths, working with elementals, and group pathworking. She also provides a number of spells, meditations, visualizations and other exercises or activities. Her community ritual, which involves putting together the pieces of a puzzle, has wonderful depth and meaning.
She discusses the role for the Wiccan in the Wiccan community, and the greater community at large, whether it be as a teacher, counselor, healer, study group organizer, coven builder, or public spokesperson for the Craft. Telesco also offers wonderful guidelines for self-regulation and how to deal with difficult issues in the Craft such as the internal squabbling known as "Witch wars".
Like so many of her other books (Spinning Spells and Weaving Wonders; Wicca 2000, etc.), this one is very well written and organized. It is a highly recommended addition to the experienced Wiccan's magickal library.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
A Book with Serious Aims...
3 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
Compared to Patricia Telesco's other books, this book takes on a decidedly more serious tone, and one which is more innately spiritual rather than practical. I sense an earthiness in Telesco's material, and I have always loved her common-sense observations on life and spirituality; this book is clearly a departure from the practical Wise Woman Telesco, and is a journey inward to ascertain the seriousness of the soul. Wicca is, first and foremost, a religion and a spiritual path, and far too much attention is given to the outward "trappings" of the craft, rather than on the committment of mind, heart, and soul which must take place in order to really and truly embrace Wicca's spiritual dimensions. I appreciate Telesco's honesty and her commitment, and I found myself realizing that what has been important to me all along is what should be important to me: the state of my inner being, rather than any outward appearance -- to share one's faith, the heart and soul must be in the right place; ritual is only "cake frosting" if the spiritual side does not enter into it: and Telesco makes us keenly aware of that. This is a completely beautiful book -- I highly recommend it.
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Finally - some MEAT
11 Oct 2000
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Oh, thank you! I have been waiting for this book to come out as a much needed adjunct to all the 101 materials out there. The best part about this title is that it stresses "Advanced" doesn't necessarily mean more powerful, but more responsible and better controlled magick. It also talks about the roles and responsibilities of the adepts, teachers, and elders in our community. Beyond this, it gives instructions into magick best suited for a more experienced student of the craft like making elementaries, group dream work, and astral temples. This is definitely 2nd generation Wicca.
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