I'm simply a fan of His work....

(Funny how it's Wiccans and not Christians who ask me this; must be the LHP stuff on my site.)

Anywho, new (well, old now) stuff is up:

Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils by Fred Gettings

The Whisperings of Woden: A Devotional by Galina Krasskova

The Dictionary of Sacred and Magical Plants by Christian Rätsch

Wicca Candle Magick by Gerina Dunwich

Yes, well, that's that then...

Cheers,

Semjaza

So, my little experiment continues at BookMyrk. I really like their blogging options, as well as how you can build pages. My knowledge of code hasn't really increased, but I didn't expect it to that much....

Anywho, reviews of Grimoire for the Green Witch by Ann Moura and The Horn of Evenwood by Robin Artisson are posted. I'm still tweaking the one of The Whisperings of Woden by Galina Krasskova; I think it may have turned into a bit of a rant. (The book's great, however.)

.....

I looked at the med school in NL... The tuition there is the same as what I pay for an undergrad degree here. Crazy stuff. I also checked into some Naturopathic schools: they want at least $20 000 a year for tuition alone. I guess only rich people get to become NDs. Probably for the best, as most people are still looking askance at them, and you do have to pay back those student loans.

In other news, I've condemned myself to a summer of pre-cal, and a year of calculus in September. I think I'll start praying, too.

Cheers

New Book Reviews on http://bookmyrk.wordpress.com !

North Star Road: Shamanism, Witchcraft & the Otherworld Journey by Kenneth Johnson

Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic by Emma Wilby

Damned: An Illustrated History of the Devil by Robert Muchembled

And more (as soon as I get done with my next set of exams).

Cheers

Well, I've added my own little bit of nonsense to the already swamped online world of occult and pagan book reviews. In my defense, I'm trying to focus on more obscure titles. There will probably end up being a slight focus on traditional witchcraft and hedge witchcraft books, but in the meantime it's a glorious free-for-all. I hope you enjoy. Posted so far are:

How Do Witches Fly? A Practical Approach to Nocturnal Flights by Alexander Kuklin

The Devil's Apocrypha by John A. De Vito

Generation Hex edited by Jason Louv

Nocturnicon by Konstantinos

These can be located at http://bookmyrk.wordpress.com

And yes, BookMyrk is a hedgewitch joke, not a typo... :)

Cheers...

. . . What have we given?

My friend, blood shaking my heart

The awful daring of a moment's surrender

Which an age of prudence can never retract

By this, and this only, we have existed

Which is not to be found in our obituaries

Or in memories draped by the beneficient spider

Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor

In our empty rooms. . .

T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land"

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These lines get me every time. I find it difficult to write about them. You either feel it and know it to be true, and poignant, and awful, or you simply consider these lines to be no better nor worse than the convoluted poem in which they appear. The moments of poignancy, the little scraps of your undoing (or making) that are your life, will never be read about by others skimming the daily newspaper with morbid fascination. They exist only in that second of surrender and then are gone. Only their consequences remain.

So here's to Eliot, may his words be read for many years to come...

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Ha! I'm finally updating this. School usually sends a guilt trip when I do something frivolous, such as tending a blog. Oh well. Astronomy is interesting; the prof is trying to teach it without the Physics, which means that after every class we stumble away with our brains broken. Some things just don't make sense in words, they need to be explained with numbers. Yuck. So far all that I've really absorbed from the class is various reasons why we can't do what they do in Star Trek. Hopefully I'll be able to find a use for the information some time in the future, perhaps if I'm attempting to seduce a geek.

Biology is okay. The exams are pretty easy, though I seem to have lost all of my dissecting ability. Trying to open up a preserved grasshopper with a dull scalpel just makes a squishy mess. Speaking (typing?) of which, we've watched a few rather, interesting, videos in my Hindu Studies course. Mostly of the "I didn't know you could do that with that" nature.

My Drugs and Behaviour course is freaking awesome. Sure it's Psych, but it's taught from a neuroscience perspective. The textbook is all pharmacology. I'm so in love. Perhaps that's my calling, although medicine does seem more interesting.

I got... Books in the mail!

Raven Kaldera's Wyrdwalkers: Techniques of Northern-Tradition Shamanism

Kveldulf Gundarsson's Elves, Wights, and Trolls: Studies Towards the Practice of Germanic Heathenry: vol. 1

Diane Paxson's Taking Up the Runes

Galina Krasskova's Whisperings of Woden: Nine Nights of Devotional Practice

I'm also now in love with Storm Constantine and all Wraeththu-related goodness. I've only found 2 of the books so far (the 3rd of the 1st series and the 2nd of the Histories) but androgynous beings in post-Apocalyptic occulty sci-fi are just too hard to pass up. And she's writing non-fiction chaos-magic-style grimoires that involve the Wraethtu mythos! *drools*

Cheers