Trance-Portation

by Diana L. Paxson

Author	: Diana L. Paxson
Publisher	: Weiser Books
Total Pages	: 297
Release	: 2008-11-01
Genre	: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN	: 1609255089

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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 first 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.

The Essential Guide to Possession, Depossession, and Divine Relationships

by Paxson, Diana L.

Author	: Paxson, Diana L.
Publisher	: Weiser Books
Total Pages	: 290
Release	: 2015-03-01
Genre	: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN	: 1578635527

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Bestselling author of several fantasy novels including Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ancestors of Avalon, Diana L. Paxson now turns her attention to Trance Possession. Specifically, how to safely and effectively enter and to exit possessory trance. In possessory trance, one voluntarily offers one’s body as a vehicle for spirit work. This differs from other forms of trance in that one’s “normal” personality is replaced by a personality that is identified by oneself and one’s community as a spirit or a god. Here Paxson explores all aspects of trance possession, including: how to prepare for possessory trance how to enter and exit trance possession safely, and what to do if things get too heavy connecting with Saints and Spirits, including those found in Afro-Diasporic religions A practical book of particular interest to witches and pagans, each chapter includes two to five exercises that will assist you in your personal experiences with possession.

Trance-Portation

by Diana L Paxson

Author	: Diana L Paxson
Publisher	: Weiser Books
Total Pages	: 297
Release	: 2008-11-01
Genre	: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN	: 1578634059

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'Trance-Portation' offers a comprehensive and multi-spirited way to enter the inner realm.

Essential Asatru

by Diana L. Paxson

Author	: Diana L. Paxson
Publisher	: Citadel Press
Total Pages	: 208
Release	: 2021-02-23
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 080654113X

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In Essential Asatru, renowned author and priestess Diana Paxson demystifies an ancient, rich, and often misunderstood religion, and offers a practical guide for its modern followers. A Journey to Fulfillment and Renewal Filled with clear, concise instructions on living Asatru every day, this truly accessible guide takes you on a journey from Asatru’s origins in Scandinavian and German paganism to its recognition as an official religion in the 1970s and its widespread acceptance today. Essential Asatru also includes: · A complete history of Asatru gods and goddesses, including Odin, Thor, and Ostara · The life values, such as honor, truth, fidelity, and hospitality, that shape Asatru’s tenets · Indispensable information on rituals, rune casting, ethics, and divination Essential Asatru is an elegant and splendid introduction to a centuries-old religion that continues to enrich and fascinate its followers today. Praise for Essential Asatru “This mainstreamed book on Asatru offers a thorough grounding in both history and the present and shows how those values—the true heart of any religion—are expressed in the lives of its faithful. This book is recommended for personal education, library shelves, and world religion classes.” —Facing North “A solid and thorough yet concise introduction to the religion, its history, the gods and goddesses, and the basics of modern practice.” —Idunna

Pagan Portals - Fairy Witchcraft

by Morgan Daimler

Author	: Morgan Daimler
Publisher	: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages	: 98
Release	: 2014-04-25
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1782793445

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Many neopagans today are drawn to honor the fairies but find that the modern-day path to Fairy is hidden in mist and shadow. Yet the path is still there, waiting for those who are ready to seek it out. This is a guidebook for those seeking a path that combines modern neopagan witchcraft with the older Celtic Fairy Faith. Topics include basic beliefs and practices, holidays, tools, altar set up, and theology, with the intent of giving the seeker a solid grounding in the basics of modern Fairy Witchcraft. ,

Witchcraft Activism

by David Salisbury

Author	: David Salisbury
Publisher	: Weiser Books
Total Pages	: 194
Release	: 2019
Genre	: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN	: 1578636574

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"There is a movement to bring the worlds of social justice and political activism together with the practice of witchcraft. This guidebook shows readers how to learn spells for self-protection and body-shielding, as well as methods of developing enhanced psychic intuition and situational awareness. Written clearly and simply, so that even someone with absolutely no previous experience in spell-casting can immediately feel empowered"--

Performing Dream Homes

by Emily Klein

Author	: Emily Klein
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 241
Release	: 2019-01-22
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 3030015815

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This anthology explores how theatre and performance use home as the prism through which we reconcile shifts in national, cultural, and personal identity. Whether examining parlor dramas and kitchen sink realism, site-specific theatre, travelling tent shows, domestic labor, border performances, fences, or front yards, these essays demonstrate how dreams of home are enmeshed with notions of neighborhood, community, politics, and memory. Recognizing the family home as a symbolic space that extends far beyond its walls, the nine contributors to this collection study diverse English-language performances from the US, Ireland, and Canada. These scholars of theatre history, dramaturgy, performance, cultural studies, feminist and gender studies, and critical race studies also consider the value of home at a time increasingly defined by crises of homelessness — a moment when major cities face affordable housing shortages, when debates about homeland and citizenship have dominated international elections, and when conflicts and natural disasters have displaced millions. Global struggles over immigration, sanctuary, refugee status and migrant labor make the stakes of home and homelessness ever more urgent and visible, as this timely collection reveals.

Taking Up the Runes

by Diana L. Paxson

Author	: Diana L. Paxson
Publisher	: Weiser Books
Total Pages	: 452
Release	: 2021-12-01
Genre	: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN	: 1633412032

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An accessible, in-depth exploration of the runes as a living spiritual tradition. Diana Paxson has distilled her many years of experience working with the runes into this essential source book. Readers will learn the historical meaning of each individual rune and its use and meaning now, in contemporary culture. But, Paxson reveals, the real power of the runes comes from internalizing them and using their symbols as sources of wisdom and power. At the end of each chapter are rituals and spells for all levels of ability that aim to help internalize the attributions, meanings, symbolism, and use of the runes. Everything regarding runes is covered in this definitive workbook, from the history of runes and how to make your own rune sets, to how to work with them on a psychic, spiritual, and magical level.

Oodles of Riddles

by Lori Miller Fox

Author	: Lori Miller Fox
Publisher	: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages	: 100
Release	: 2003-08
Genre	: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN	: 9781402708244

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A collection of riddles on such topics as TV, monsters, aliens, and shopping.