Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #413778 in Books
• Published on: 1994-01-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

Basic information; Inspiration to Study MORE
I am always astounded when someone criticizes a Wiccan writer for being a Wiccan writer as a number of other reviewers here have done. Conway is trying here to introduce a subject that, as she points out herself, died out. Most of her audience is going to be Wiccan or someone who believes the Rede whether they know it or not. Why? because the Rede is a restating of basic Christian principals (or as ET once said "beeee goood....") She is not promoting Wicca in this book; it does happen to be a point of origin for the writer -- just as those reviewers who criticize her for being Wiccan are writing from some non-Wiccan point.

Conway is trying to revive a practice from the dim dark past that doesn't have a written history. When she says things like "similar to Native American" she is making a comparison that allows the reader to access something that does have a written history. Anthropologists have been studying shamanic practices in many cultures that still have an active shamanic practice for over a century. They have found that many of the practices are similar. When Conway says "similar" she is not making it up because she doesn't know anything, she is basing the "similarity" on previously researched shamanic practices that can be used for extrapolation in to a shamanic practice that has no or little written about it.

Conway is rebuilding a path with this book NOT reporting history.

TERRIBLE
He just took his own cosmic world view and called it Celtic Shamanism. This is based on his own imaginary BS. Don't be misled, find a real book on shamanism like Singing the Soul Back Home and Celtic Heritage. Then let it happen naturally. His detailed dogma hopefully does not fit anyone else's; the Otherworlds need to be creatively mined for our own gems.

A Rather Interesting Book about Modern Celtic Shamanism
This is one of D.J.Conway's books that i rather enjoyed reading.It's been several years since i read this one however.It's quite imaginative and compelling reading about today's celtic shaman beliefs.She is often linked as the female alter-ego of Douglas Monroe.In other words,a fantasy writer making historical claims that can't be validated.Nevertheless,not all the histories of the celts and the druids are known and can only be speculative.So,if the reader keeps this in mind,then you will enjoy reading this interesting book.This book is a synergy of english-irish celtic-wiccan paganism of the British Isles,that may not be to everybody's liking and cup of tea.I can only say that i enjoyed reading this book,early on in my wiccan-seax-celtic research.