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A groundbreaking addition to today’s popular literature on death and dying, in The Pagan Book of Living and Dying is the first comprehensive guide to Paganism’s beliefs and practices in facing death.
In response to her own mother’s death, Starhawk, the bestselling author of the classic Spiral Dance, along with other Pagan authors, created in inspiring collection of essays, original prayers, blessings, and meditations that present the Pagan way of dying. In the tradition of such bestsellers as How We Die and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, it offers a new understanding of death and the rituals that surround it, adding insight and depth to spirituality.
An inclusive, respectful, and deeply spiritual guidebook for those in the Pagan community and beyond, this powerful resource will help the dying make the transition between life and death, and their loved ones will find spiritual comfort and strength through the grieving process. It shows us that death can be a process of renewal and transformation.
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RITUALS AND RESOURCES FOR HONOURING DEATH IN THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
Birth,growth,death,and rebirth are a cycle that forms the underlying order of the universe. This is the core of Pagan belief – and the heart of this unique resource guide to death and the process of dying. Filled with encouragement, strength, and inspiration, 'The Pagan Book of Living and Dying' is an invaluable source of both invaluable source of both spiritual counsel and very practical tools and techniques for:
• honouring and caring for a dying person
• grieving a beloved relative, partner, or friend
• planning a funeral or memorial service
• distributing personal possessions and making room in the home for a loved one’s memory
• understanding and mourning specific types of death, including miscarriage and terminal illness
• providing final instructions for one’s own death
• and much more.
Bestselling author Starhawk and other pagan writers have combined practical rituals with prayers, chants, blessings, meditations, essays, and insightful personal stories to offer a new understanding of death and a powerful new approach to the various stages of dying and grieving.
A beautifully crafted and deeply spiritual guidebook, 'The Pagan Book of Living and Dying' teaches that death, like birth, is a doorway – another stage in the cycle of life. It will enhance the spiritual beliefs of readers of any faith and help each of us learn to welcome the change and renewal that awaits us on the other side of life.
Starhawk is a Witch,ecofeminist, peace activist, and the author of several books, including 'The Spiral Dance' and 'Truth or Dare'. She is cofounder of 'The Reclaiming Collective', a group of women and men working to unify spirit and politics in the San Francisco Bay Area. M. Macha Nightmare is a member of Reclaiming and coeditor and copublisher of 'WomanBlood'.
Go into a forest, a meadow, or a garden-anywhere plants grow and die and insects, birds, and animals forage. Read the first page
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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Don't be put off by the topic...,
By angelmystuk@aol.com (Yorkshire, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over: 15 (Paperback)
Not many people want to think about death, which is the topic this book deals with so eloquently and honestly. I often felt that as a pagan I should understand and comprehend the idea of death within my spirituality. Its a subject that I feel isn't well dealt with by pagan authors and so I'm forever thankful to Starhawk and the Reclaiming Collective (the book is not merely a Starhawk work but a collection of work by many members of her group, the Reclaiming Collective) for this book. I admit that the concept of death is frightening and the book recognises this; it deals with a delicate subject with grace and poetry. I am certain that it has equipped me with with a greater ability to accept and honour death and also to deal with other's passing. The book realises the importance of the grieving process and the importance of accepting death as a part of the cycles of life. Its important to make it clear this isn't a morbid book, instead I found it full of hope and light. As it says in the title, its a book about living too. When a friend of mine bought me this book a few weeks ago, it helped me to come to terms with a loss I suffered some years ago now and I'm ever grateful to the authors. The book is not only helpful to pagans, but many of ideas and suggestions can also be adapted to any religious path. Blessings and light.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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This book really helps,
By rassybeds "rassybeds" (Luton, Bedfordshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over: 15 (Paperback)
This book helped a close friend of mine when her father died and she recommended it to me. At first I wasn't sure I wanted to read a book about death - how depressing! However, as a pagan I wanted greater insight on to how to approach death from a spiritual perspective. This book not only achieved that, but also helped me re-examine what I'd like to happen with my passing, often a topic many people don't think about. All in all a really good read which was a really good support when I had a death in my family. As the title says its not just about death, but living as well. I can't recommend it enough!
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I bought this because I was planning a funeral. It was inspiring and wonderful. I used some of the contents in the funeral. But more than that I found reading it as I thought about the planning very healing. We had a woodland burial and many of the participants said how appropriate it was and how it was the best funeral they had ever been to.
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