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Amazon listing page: http://www.amazon.com/Oak-Ash-Thorn-Shamanism-Llewellyns/dp/156718166X#reader_156718166X
I won't often be posting commercial listing on this blog, but this particular book resonates with me. I am still in the process of reading it, but it has given me wonderful guidance for the beginning of my journey.
I'll say here that I am not located in the UK, nor am I a UK citizen. I was born in Southern Wisconsin in the USA, and I currently reside less than 100 miles from where I was born. Still, I have a lot of English and Irish heritage, and Danish as well. The mystery of Celtic culture fascinates me, and the love of nature and reverence for trees I find in everything I read touches me right in my spirit and bones.
This book gives a wonderful overview of the modern neo-Celtic revival and shamanism as viewed from that path. It touches lightly on what little is known of historic Celtic culture and legends, and goes into tree lore and the Oagham alphabet. It is also a good basic primer on shamanic journeying principles, initiation ceremonies, and the three-worlds cosmology. The book is rich with everything that calls to me, and I've only read half of it as yet.
I can't say if the book is for you, the Reader, or not. Only your own inner guidance can tell you what path calls to you. This one calls to me, however, and quite strongly.
Another wonderful source that gives in-depth articles and stories across multiple shamanic traditions from all over the world is Sacred Hoop Magazine.
Sacred Hoop is wonderful. It's published in the UK, and the articles in it are not broken up with advertisements like American magazines. There are plenty of ads in the magazine, but they are around the articles, not splitting them up.
I've been reading Sacred Hoop for about three years now, and this year I finally got a subscription, as the magazine is not easy to find in US bookstores. I've bought every issue since the first I found, and read them cover-to-cover. After nearly three years, I might as well subscribe, because I'm not willing to miss an issue.
Much of my thinking on Shamanism has been shaped by these two sources, and they color my vision of the Shamanic Arts powerfully.
Later posts will cover shaminic experiences i've had, but I thought it best to let you know where my roots grow from first.
Thank you as always for reading.
Dan
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