Dreaming the Dark, by Starhawk (Review)

[wakingwater]

Author's note: I'm not a professional reviewer. Some may even question if I'm ever professional.

Dreaming the Dark by Starhawk, or more specifically, the 15th anniversary edition printed in 1998, goes through a wild variety of ups and downs, highs and lows, detailing throughout the book various movements in both an hierarchal society as well as

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[lucy_chronicles]

nice review.

Starhawk is HIGHLY contentious territory for any SERIOUS, academic, studied practicioner.

Tread lightly. get what you will out of it and move on to the Gardner writings, most things NON-Llewelyn fluffy bunny or feminist writings.

[wakingwater]

I can see where she can be regarded as contentious, especially since several of the aspects within feel.. slightly incomplete. Although her writing level is up there on par with various academic standards, at times the exercises are not put through and through; more often, I felt I was reading a story of her experience at Diablo Canyon than the exploratory nature of shadow work within the frame of Wicca / Paganism / Native American.

Earth Path, from what I've read, does a much better job at outlining exercises, examples, and various meditations that are useful more in day to day.

The book was published by Beacon. I have only one or two books published by Lleweyn - Occult Tibet, which gets flakey here and there, but the exercises within are helpful, and... I think it's by a woman named Kate Frost. I think Phyllis Curott's Withcrafting was also published by Lleweyn, but I've met a few who know Curott personally and vouch for her.

yet to read most of it anyways...