Articles
Just Plain Sitting
Sitting in meditation with awareness transcends into every aspect of your life. I know it has done mine. It’s so hard, and yet so simple – simply to sit for at least 15 mins to half an hour each day, in total awareness. At first it’s really hard not to fidget – trying to get
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Articles
Sitting in meditation with awareness transcends into every aspect of your life. I know it has done mine. It’s so hard, and yet so simple – simply to sit for at least 15 mins to half an hour each day, in total awareness. At first it’s really hard not to fidget – trying to get
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Recently I made a vow to give up at least one day of media in the form of television, radio, telephone and internet. It had to be a day when I was home alone, to force me to relearn how I spend my time. It has, literally, changed my life in just a few short
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Prayer – it’s a beautiful word. It looks pretty on the page; it comes softly from the lips. It’s not a word to be shouted. It is a word that is deeply connected to other words, like sacred, holiness and religion. For the pagan, as in other religions and spiritualities, it is about relationship, communion;
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Welcome to Moon Books’ revamped blog site! With so many wonderful new titles coming out every month, I hope that this little blog edition and subsequent columns can really add to the beautiful diversity that is modern Paganism. But what is Paganism today? The term, pagan, is from the Roman paganus, meaning one who lived
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To the wise they are the ambrosial hours, the still moments before dawn when you awaken and use the silence to direct your mind to the contemplation of God, truth, salvation. Quiet time, study time, life examined, cosmic me time, a one-to-one with the Creator as the shallowness of your transient reality gives way to
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Announcements
Praise for Pagan Portals Pete Jennings, best selling author and former President of the Pagan Federation recently offered these words of praise for our Pagan Portals series… There are a plethora of good beginners’ books in Paganism nowadays, and I guess that will always be the largest part of the market. However, full marks to the Pagan Portals series for providing
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What is Pagan Moon Fiction? Pagan Moon Fiction is a new publishing initiative from Moon Books designed to offer opportunities for fiction writers to publish with a mainstream publishing company So what’s the big idea? Most Pagan publishers won’t publish Pagan fiction. It’s easy to see why. Any type of fiction is a very hard
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The winners of the NGW competition were David Salisbury for his non-fiction submission, The Deep Heart of Witchcraft and Erci Scott for his novel, The Lives of the Apostates. Hope to see them in print soon!
Book News
Books for May Calling to the White Tribe; Rebirthing Indigenous, Earth-Saving Wisdom, Ed McGaa There are two kinds of people in this world. One seeks wisdom; the other, seeks gratification. One is angered by injustice; the other is unconcerned. One is loyal to all living brothers and sisters; the other is loyal to a nation. One rejects dogma
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The Deep Heart of Withcraft, David Salisbury The elements, the guardians, the spirits and gods; these are all things beginner Witches are taught about and trained to work with. We learn about correspondence and how to associate symbols with their mysteries. But what are the real mysteries behind the symbols? What lives at the very
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Shaman Pathways – Aubry’s Dog Power Animals In Traditional Witchcraft A practical and essential guide to using canine magical energies. Dogs and man became companions a long time ago, and the dog adopted as a power animal represents speed, agility, courage, protection, justice, nobility and loyalty. Aubry’s Dog: Power Animals Within Traditional Witchcraft guides your
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Book Reviews
Pagan Portals – Web of Life From its title, you might guess that this is a New Age self-help book telling you how you should be living your life. Actually, it’s nothing of the sort. Instead, what Yvonne Ryves has written is an experiential guide to creating a personalised web (inspired by the Shamanic concept of the Medicine Wheel) that allows
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This is certainly unusual – a self-help book that also aims to demystify Shamanism for a Western audience. The main influence on the author has been Alberto Villoldo, who teaches in the Qero Peruvian Shamanic tradition via his Four Winds Society, and the insights she gives into his training methods and into the Qero Peruvian
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Too often in life, there are long books that should be much shorter, containing too much extraneous detail and not enough substance. This book, on the other hand, contains no waffle, padding or filler, with more substance than many a book of double its length. ‘Black Horse, White Horse’ condenses into less than 100 pages
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