The following is an incomplete reading list.  I put this together randomly over the last two hours.  There is no particular order to it, and it is missing the authors currently.  Additionally, to make it a complete list, I would want to provide a summary of each book, my opinion of them, and a link either to a place it is available to read online ( Read more... )

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Yesterday, I bought three new books from Night Heron, the local used bookstore, and ordered three from Amazon, which will be here in a couple weeks.


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The Priest and Priestess have been coming up a lot in my conversations with people and in my mind and Fetch.  I've talked off and on about this role, but haven't really put it all together.  In this post, I'll use Priestess generically, though I mean both Priest and Priestess.  (On a side note, Priestess was originally Priestress, which I like.)


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Karasjok Kommune - Engelsk -- Pre-Christian Religion:The original religion of the Sami held a great variety of Gods serving their particular purposes. It was based on nature and a strong belief in holy powers and spirits. As such the shaman was central, and every social unit consisting of 40 - 100 people had a shaman or a noaidi ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I listened T. Thorn Coyle's Elemental Castings podcast interview with Ellen Francik of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn.  Part of the discussion included the process of elemental purification.  You spend a month on each element.  She described it as taking yourself apart and putting yourself back together.  She described the ( Read more... )

One common aspect of Shamanism is the Initiation.  This is a near-death experience or a vision of experiencing death.  The belief is that a Shaman is born and found by another Shaman who trains them, but the initiation must occur before the Shaman can function as a Shaman ( Read more... )