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Kittybear
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Wicca
#18985472 - 10/16/13 10:16 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anyone know where I can get some really good wiccan information? Or a good book to read?
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Wikki?
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Re: Wicca [Re: eve69]
#18997668 - 10/18/13 09:39 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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You could ask a wiccan
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When I was dabbling in Wicca a few years ago, the best book I came across was "Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" by Scott Cunningham. Its literally everything you need to learn and start your path to study and understand Wicca. Also something helpful about it is that it comes with the authors own Book of Shadows and updated appendices of periodicals and occult suppliers.
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Grateful Dead said: When I was dabbling in Wicca a few years ago, the best book I came across was "Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" by Scott Cunningham. Its literally everything you need to learn and start your path to study and understand Wicca. Also something helpful about it is that it comes with the authors own Book of Shadows and updated appendices of periodicals and occult suppliers.
Why handle all the symbols and ritual work whatsoever instead of using mantras meditation prayer etc, all so much simpler ways to do the same things.
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Kittybear said: Anyone know where I can get some really good wiccan information? Or a good book to read?
One of my favorite books from the occult revival of the early 1970s: http://www.amazon.com/What-Witches-Do-Modern-Revealed/dp/0709045565/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382504115&sr=1-1&keywords=what+witches+do ; The author points out that Wicca is NOT a "highbrow" path. Moreover, in Maxine Sander's book Firechild, she points out that magick, more often than not, does NOT result in a spiritual person. Just sayin'. http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Child-Magic-Maxine-Sanders/dp/1869928784/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382504262&sr=1-1&keywords=maxine+sanders
After that, there's Ray Buckland. I met him in 1972. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_8?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=ray+buckland&sprefix=ray+buck%2Caps%2C105 I swear that Practical Candleburning Rituals DID produce effects for me - even brought a fantasy female to my dorm room and I was so shaken, I did nothing about it.
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The library.
No, really.
Also I should mention that I'm just a Witch (traditional/old craft), not a Wiccan.
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kneesocks said: The library.
No, really.
Also I should mention that I'm just a Witch (traditional/old craft), not a Wiccan.
Please explain the difference...
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Re: Wicca [Re: Yogi1]
#19023143 - 10/24/13 01:04 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Grateful Dead said: the best book I came across was "Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" by Scott Cunningham.
It is a very good book, helpful for getting basics and such.
I am also a wiccan btw.
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What do you like/not like about being Wiccan?
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Re: Wicca [Re: Yogi1]
#19025388 - 10/24/13 12:27 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yogi1 said:
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kneesocks said: The library.
No, really.
Also I should mention that I'm just a Witch (traditional/old craft), not a Wiccan.
Please explain the difference...

Wicca is an organized religion that started in 1953 and includes the practice of witchcraft within Wiccan rituals. There's a lot of focus on deities, elements, seasons, gender and such in Wicca; deities are gendered; i.e. female Goddess, male God. Rituals and spellwork can change depending on the time of the year or season. There are also Wiccans who form exclusive groups with initiation requirements.
Witchcraft by itself is a much broader, looser set of practices and beliefs, but is mostly defined by the development and application of 'spellwork'. Spells are tools to focus and utilize the various forms of energy present throughout nature, for the purpose of changing ourselves and our surroundings. So the difference is that Wicca is a structured religion, whereas witchcraft is a system of practices and beliefs which can vary quite a bit from one Witch to another.
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Wicca is a religion
being a witch is a combo midwife (even if male) with herb lore, some enchantments, and enjoying kissing Satan's warty ass - the Western version of a shamaness..... For sexy religions I like the Bast worshippers in Los Vegas.
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Re: Wicca [Re: eve69]
#19025887 - 10/24/13 02:00 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wicca is an organized religion
Inaccurate. Your article cites Gardnerian witchcraft. There are other schools, and their traditions are transmitted orally for the most part. There may be commonalities, but there are also differences determined by geography, ethnicity, culture, aesthetics, and other factors. There are no doctrines, dogmas, holy writ (one makes one's own Book of Shadows). Some groups wear robes, others go sky clad. Wicca is not organized religion except in the loosest possible ways.
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You could try Wiki if you need a fast source of info.
It depends on what you enjoy reading most, some books give much more joy than others. I know there is this bookstore that sells extremely rare editions of outdated books no longer read by most of modern culture. As if they are so old that noone has any reason for reading majority of it.
If you are a historian wishing to discover a book which will inform you of Empires which have been dethroned by other more dominant Empires then perhaps I could bring up a book I recently read. I believe I was reading it in a library a month ago when I heard my brother enter inside and insist that I go to a tea party around here. At this party we would discuss books which we have recently engaged in scanning for the meaning of life. Some books can contain everything that has ever existed before you scanned it, and you find yourself wishing to learn of its grand truth which you have been closed off to.
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