Product Description

The ability to move from the ordinary into an altered state of consciousness is one of the most valuable skills in both magic and religion. From the ceremonial magician to the shaman, using trance work to explore inner realms is essential to the magical process of healing, transcendence, and wisdom desired throughout diverse occult and spiritual traditions. Trance-Portation offers a comprehensive and multi-spirited way to enter the inner realm.

Blending the modern world with the ancient arts, Trance-Portation's 1st three chapters, Travel Planning, Crossing the Threshold, and Getting Started, offer preparatory suggestions including meditations and relaxations, breathing, warding, shifting gears, and returning. Drawing on examples from varied traditions, from Western Mystery to Native American, Ancient Celtic to Eastern Mysticism, and peppered with folk lore and tales from popular science fiction stories, Trance-Portation explores spiritual journey work extensively, offering readers the chance to find their own ways into the inner realm, encounter their own guides and fellow travelers, and create divine relationships with the deities and gods and goddesses that they meet.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84604 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-01
• Released on: 2008-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781578634057
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
“Trance-Portation belongs on every Pagan and occultist's bookshelf; it’s destined to become a classic of the field. Diana Paxson's down-to-earth style speaks directly to real people with real problems—racing thoughts, distractibility, over-sensitivity—and lets them know that they, too, can achieve trance states that will enrich their spiritual lives.” —Deborah Lipp, author of The Study of Witchcraft and The Way of Four

"In Trance-Portation, Diana Paxson has written a travel guide for trance and out of body experiences that will be a great help to anyone seeking to navigate the complex worlds that lie both within and beyond our internal landscapes." —Michelle Belanger, author of Psychic Vampire Codex and Psychic Dreamwalking

“Diana Paxson has penned another great work. If you were a newborn to the world of the spirits, you can take her hand and she will teach you how to walk the paths of other realms. You will feel totally taken care of, all mishaps have been exposed and diminished, and only the safest ways to trance travel are in this book. She is a virtuoso of the practical yet totally blended into the mystical. A rare, rare find.” —Zsuzsanna Budapest, founder of Dianic Wicca and author of Holy Book of Women's Mysteries

“This book is beautifully written and filled with both wisdom and practical advice. It should interest all practitioners of the Craft and help anyone who is having difficulty with things such as astral projection or trance magick.” —Eileen Holland, author of The Wicca Handbook

About the Author
Diana L. Paxson has been teaching classes and leading rituals on trance work for more than twenty years. She is the co-author, along with Marion Zimmer Bradley, of Priestess of Avalon and has continued the immensely popular Mists of Avalon series on her own. Visit her at greyhaven.net.

Customer Reviews

Inspiring!
Once again, Ms. Paxson has created a tome filled with information! In her own unique style she sets down a systematic manner of approaching tranceworking.

If one is seeking a purely scholarly study of the subject, this will not be the best choice. But if one is seeking a through and easily read manual on tranceworking in its many forms, you will not be disapointed.

I would recommend this book for any beginner or just the curious, regarding this spiritual practice.

Ms. Paxson is a dedicated and knowledgeable tranceworker.

For a more complex and historical exploration of Seidhr ~
"Voluspa: Seidhr as Wyrd Consciousness" by Yngona Desmond
is still my choice.

Great overview of Trance work
Recently I was thinking that I wanted to get back into working with Trance and meditation to deepen my spiritual practice. How very fortuitious that this book was featured on Amazon. I found the book to be well written, thoughtful and very useful, regardless of whether you are an experienced tranceworker or just a beginner. I found the writing style to be easy to read and the information practical. I highly recommend this book and intend to use it for quite awhile.

First-Rate Training Material
Diana Paxson seems to be working her way from being a writer of enjoyable historic and mythic fantasy to being a teacher of core skills in Pagan magic and spirituality.
Trance-Portations is a textbook for personal or group training in meditation, trance and vision. The exercises and sequence were developed by Paxson over some years of teaching, and this practical background shows clearly in the book. The methods given are only barely related to any specific spiritual path, but rather could be applied by nearly anyone. The book starts at the beginning, assuming the student does too, and explains concepts right alongside of immediate exercises and basic practices, moving from there toward the highest and strangest of trance experiences. She regularly nods to the various faiths her students might bring, but whenever Paxson gives specific examples, she draws on the Pagan, Heathen and magical community. Her own cosmology and mythic context is plainly the polytheism of modern Heathenry; this makes her book very comfortable for a variety of reconstructionist and Traditional Pagan systems.
Trance-Portations is an introduction, and most of the topics get a fairly quick survey discussion, though all with solid base and depth. Plainly Paxson has chosen to focus on the practical, and the exercises given are well-designed and well-scripted. A student who actually worked their way through its program would be very well-equipped for further trance-magic and spiritual work in almost any Pagan system. Very well done!