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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:32 am
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:33 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:21 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:53 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:04 pm
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Sanguina Cruenta There are several problems I have with this book. Problem the first: the history is beyond the most terrible Ravenwolf history. Why is this? because she specifies. She'll give a detailed description of something people apparently did 3000 years ago to worship the goddess but not bother to say where this occurred or who the people were or where she found her information. Problem the second: no content. She pisses on about the air and so forth but there's nothing there. She'll give you an exercise like "cast a circle every day for a week" but doesn't actually tell you how to cast a circle. I mean, if a person picked up this book hoping to learn something, they are s**t outta luck. The one small effort to explaining this she made was to suggest you walk around in a circle rhyming. No actual instructions re: casting a circle were given - unless she thinks rhyming will cast a circle. Which is crazy. Problem the third: She assumes you'll feel the same way as her about everything. She'll describe a way she feels at a particular time of year, and you are expected to feel the exact same way. It's weird. Problem the fourth: constant discussions about the "witches of olde". She'll tell you on the one hand to do stuff exactly as they did, and on the other to recommend all this crap that old-school witches would never even have thought about. I think the part that annoyed me most was that it was recommended by so many people as an excellent book to work through and, history issues and fluffiness aside, there's no actual substance to those exercises. It's not actually possible to work through it because she doesn't tell you how to do anything.
It looks to me like the problem is that she inherited some bad information from the "All witchcraft survives from the old days and is part of this one witchcraft religion" era of paganism. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:05 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:56 pm
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Sanguina Cruenta Esiris It looks to me like the problem is that she inherited some bad information from the "All witchcraft survives from the old days and is part of this one witchcraft religion" era of paganism. sweatdrop Certainly part of it, but not the only thing. I mean Valiente inherited the same bad information but I always recommend her, because she's practical and intelligent and has some good information also. Green essentially just has feel-good nonsense. I mean she can make you want to go out and do things, but because she doesn't give you any practical guidance or instruction, at all, there's no real point in reading it. No reason to be inspired when you can't do anything with it; you'll just end up frustrated and annoyed. I guess it wouldn't be bad if it was used along side a specific tradition or by someone who already has a path to work with.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 6:15 pm
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