Download or read book Creating Circles and Ceremonies written by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2006-07-07 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Circles and Ceremonies is the accumulation of decades of circles, ceremonies, rituals, Mystery plays, initiations, rites of passage, and other magickal workings co-created by the Zell-Ravenhearts, today's foremost Wizard/Witch couple. For more than 30 years, Oberon and Morning Glory have traveled widely throughout the worldwide magickal community--participating in gatherings, conducting workshops, and creating rituals for groups large and small. They have met and made Magick with the leaders of many traditions: Celtic Shamanism, British Dianic, Italian Strega, Welsh Witchcraft, Faerie Trad, Ceremonial Magick, Ozark Druidry, the New Reformed Order of the Golden Dawn (NROOGD), Hinduism, Native American tribes, Greek and Egyptian mythology, and the futuristic Church of All Worlds. Here, in one easy-to-read volume, is their collection of chants, invocations, circle-castings, quarter-callings, spells, and ceremonies. It is also a "kit" to use to assemble your own rituals, for any season or reason: Book I presents a basic ritual outline. Each element is followed by numerous examples which may be "plugged in" to customize your own ceremony. Book II gives numerous examples of actual ceremonies: Esbats (full Moons) and special occasions; Rites of Passage; Mysteries and Initiations; spells and consecrations. These can be adapted and modified as needed for any size group--from small family gatherings in your living room, to huge outdoor celebrations involving thousands of people. Book III provides an assortment of full rituals and ritual elements for celebrations of the eight great seasonal festivals called the Wheel of the Year. Versions of these have been commemorated for millennia in most traditional cultures of the Northern Hemisphere; and today are universal throughout the worldwide Pagan community.
Download or read book Companion for the Apprentice Wizard written by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Is the Book Merlin Could Have Given a Young Arthur...If Only It Had Existed. Oberon Zell-Ravenheart shares magickal practices in his new book Companion for the Apprentice Wizard. Unlike his first best-selling book, Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard, which focused on the lessons one must learn to become a Wizard, Oberon focuses on taking you to the next level by putting those lessons to use with hands-on magickal training. Chapters are based on the Departments of Oberon's Grey School of Wizardry: Alchemy Beast Mastery Ceremonial Magick Cosmology and Metaphysics Divination Healing Lifeways Lore Mathemagicks Metapsychics Nature Performance Magic Practice Sorcery Wizardry Wortcunning Inside you will find materials and exercises from the vaults of the Grey School, and instruction from the faculty. Step-by-step instructions are provided for: How to make a Wizard’s wand How to make your own runes How to make a pocket sundial How to make and use a firebow How to make the milky way galaxy How to make your own amulets and talismans Potions for all purposes How to conjure illusions and create special effects And many other amazing projects... Companion for the Apprentice Wizard also includes a number of hand-drawn, full-page diagrams of magickal objects to copy, cut out, and assemble, including: Spinners for psychokinesis A Planetary Hour Calculator The Mariner’s Astrolabe A winged dragon A model of the mystic pyramid A model of Leonardo da Vinci’s Ornithopter
Download or read book Merry Meet Again written by Deborah Lipp and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a third-degree Gardnerian High Priestess and a former wife of celebrated Druid Isaac Bonewits, Deborah Lipp’s life story is far from ordinary. But Merry Meet Again is more than just a memoir—it is a tribute to modern Paganism and a testament to one woman’s persistence and strength. With deep reverence for the past, Lipp explores her spiritual path and describes her unique relationships with family, teachers, lovers, and friends, including icons such as Scott Cunningham and Timothy Leary. She details the ups and downs of Pagan parenting, and delves into the politics and personalities, the joys and sorrows that are found in Pagan gatherings around the world. Simple instructions and quick tips for rituals, spells, and magic are included throughout.
Download or read book Standing and Not Falling written by Lee Morgan and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Otherworld is ready for you, but are you ready for the Otherworld? What would you tell your own less-experienced self about magic if you could go back in time and make a better start? That is the question this book seeks to address. What might you need to slough off, how far might you need to walk from the comfortable and familiar to truly embrace a magical life? Covering a period of thirteen moons, Standing and Not Falling is a workbook that allows the reader to clear the way before embarking, or to conduct a spiritual detox on themselves before stepping up their practice, or engaging a new beginning. Suitable for practitioners of any type of sorcerous activity from witchcraft to ceremonial magic and beyond. This book takes steady, direct aim at the main causes of disfunction and difficulty that arise for practitioners of the art magical, both individually and in relation to others, and at times also at the key maladies of our age.
Download or read book FutureSpeak written by Roberta Rogow and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This first-ever dictionary, with over one thousand entries, is a treasury of science fiction's most popular words, names, characters, terms, expressions, and phrases. Roberta Rogow demystifies the argot of SF convention goers and fanzines, explains terms from literature, physics, astronomy, and aerospace, and defines these terms within the realm of science fiction. She also profiles writers, filmmakers, television shows, movies, and publishers and explores the lingo behind today's popular fantasy games. FutureSpeak is for all those fans who SMOF (gossip) at cons (SF conventions), filk (sing SF folksongs), and dress up as BEMs (Bug-Eyed Monsters) - or for mundanes (anyone not yet a fan) intrigued by the freewheeling and inventive wordplay that has become integral to the world of science fiction. Whether you just want to brush up on the most current language or write or read SF with more insight, FutureSpeak belongs on your bookshelf. Handy appendixes round out this information-packed volume and include everything from addresses of SF publications, organizations, and conventions, to entry rules for the Hugo and Nebula awards"--Inside front flap.
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Download or read book Medieval Fantasy as Performance written by Michael A. Cramer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Michael Cramer views the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), an organization that studies and recreates the middle ages, as a case study for a growing fascination with medieval fantasy in popular culture. He explores the act of medieval re-creation as performance by focusing on the SCA, describing the group's activities, investigating its place in popular culture, and looking at the SCA not so much as a historical society but as an on-going work of performance art; a postmodern counter-culture riff on what it means to be "medieval." Cramer examines the group's activities, from persona and character development to theatrical performance and personal interaction; from the complex official ceremonies to full contact armored combat with mock broadswords. He explores the SCA in detail to discover how its members adapt and employ ideas about the Middle Ages in performance, ritual reenactment, living history, and re-creation, analyzing the performance of identity through ritual, sport, drama, and personal interaction, and he focuses on the reconstruction of the medieval "king game," a game in which a mock king is chosen to reign over a mock court. The book also studies various ideas about medievalism, including the contrast between reenactment and re-creation, and places these activities in the context of contemporary American society. With three appendixes, a bibliography, and a selection of photos, Cramer demonstrates how and why medieval fantasy is increasingly used in popular culture and analyzes the dissatisfaction with contemporary culture that leads people into these realms of fantasy.
Download or read book Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival written by Dennis Wilson Wise and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the answer is “yes.” Over the last ten decades, poets working in fantasy, science fiction, and horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative poetics akin to what once happened in the mid-fourteenth century. Altogether, this anthology collects for the first time over fifty speculative poets—several of whom are previously unpublished—from across North America and Europe. Alongside such established names as C. S. Lewis, Patrick Rothfuss, Edwin Morgan, Poul Anderson, Jo Walton, P. K. Page, and W. H. Auden, this anthology includes representative texts from cultural movements such as contemporary neo-Paganism and the Society for Creative Anachronism. A lengthy critical introduction by the editor—written accessibly for a general audience—explains and contextualizes the Modern Revival for critics and readers alike, and extensive footnotes offer aids to anyone new to medieval history or Norse mythology. Overall, this indispensable anthology—the first major academic book to focus on speculative poetry—establishes where the medieval meets the modern in the hitherto unrecognized Modern Alliterative Revival.
Download or read book A Host of Furious Fancies written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novels of elvish lore and modern noir. Beyond Worlds End: Eric Banyon, elvish knight and bard, moves back to the Big Apple to finish his interrupted education at Juilliard School of Music. Soon Eric discovers that unscrupulous researchers have created a drug to unlock magical powers in humans¾and something evil from Underhill plans to use those human powers to dominate World Above. But Eric is one bard who is going to let no such thing happen. Spirits White as Lightning: Eric Banyon has more to worry about than passing his courses at Juilliard. The evil elf lord Aerune, whose love was killed by mortal men, is determined to destroy the human race. Erics only hope of stopping Aerune is to trap him inside a magical maze¾but first he must journey to the heart of Aerunes realm and trick the elf lord into a deadly chase. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Download or read book The Bardic Book of Becoming written by Ivan McBeth and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bardic Book of Becoming is a warm, user-friendly, eclectic introduction to modern Druidry that invites you to take the first steps into the realms of magic and mystery. In this book you will be introduced to the various techniques and practices of a Druid in training. Written by Ivan McBeth, the cofounder of Vermont's Green Mountain School of Druidry, with Fearn Lickfield, the book incorporates lessons, visualizations, rituals, and magical stories. Many different activities and exercises are included that provide the reader with hands-on learning. Ivan also provides personal stories that demonstrate his own journey from spiritual seeker to Druid.
Download or read book The Way of Awen written by Kevan Manwaring and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awaken the bard within in this inspiring journey into your creative potential. Expanding upon the foundation of The Bardic Handbook, this volume explores the transformations the bardic initiate must go through to become a fully-fledged Bard. This originally took 12 years of study in the Bardic Colleges - but communities need bards right now, bringing healing and hope with their words and music and so the training process is accelerated over 12 months, echoing the 12 years of Taliesin's journey from Gwion Bach to the Shining Brow. Extracts from the author's notebooks and journals over 20 years illustrate his own journey - showing how this ancient wisdom has been gleaned and validated by powerful personal experience. The Way of Awen is a way of living creatively.
Download or read book Greyhaven written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by New York : Daw Books ; [Scarborough, Ont.] : New American Library of Canada. This book was released on 1983 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bardic Destinies written by Krishna R. Kanchith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of the “literary” in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of the reception of works that have had a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across time and cultures. The book grapples with three major concepts in the humanities—the literary, the philosophical/theological and the historical. It looks at Homer’s reception by Plato; Virgil’s reception by Christianity; the many responses that The Mahabharata has received over centuries and across cultures in India; and the reception of Kumaravyasa’s Kumaravyasabharata, among other works, and analyses the understanding of truth, time and history that influence the reading of these works in different times and cultural contexts. Part of the Critical Humanities across Cultures series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, history, comparative literature, cultural studies and post-colonial studies.
Download or read book Uncanny Magazine Issue 47 written by Marie Brennan and published by Uncanny Magazine. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The July/August 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Marie Brennan, AnaMaria Curtis, Juliet Kemp, K.S. Walker, John Chu, Radha Kai Zan, and Jordan Taylor. Reprint fiction by Tochi Onyebuchi. Essays by Keidra Chaney, Gay Haldeman, Jim C. Hines, and Jeannette Ng, poetry by Brandon O'Brien, Sarah Grey, Sonya Taaffe, and Millie Ho, interviews with AnaMaria Curtis and Jordan Taylor by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Kirbi Fagan, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Meg Elison. About Uncanny Magazine Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Meg Elison, and Chimedum Ohaegbu, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.
Download or read book Mythprint written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book She Of Many Colors written by Soltahr Tiv-Amanda and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She Of Many Colors
Download or read book The poetical works written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
