Month: June 2014

Shapeshifting & The Fetch –

Shapeshifting & The Fetch –

achangingaltar:

walkingthehedge:

achangingaltar:

Ok guys….I need some recs!

I have one year to bone up on the idea of shapeshifting and the Fetch in traditional witchcraft (or other paths, as well, but focusing on TW).

The meeting point is the idea that soul travel can take on animal forms, and the Fetch is the mobile part of the soul that…

http://afwcraft.blogspot.ca/2011/08/fetch-and-flight.html
http://www.davidscauldron.com/2012/03/fetch.html
http://mojobanjo.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/the-fetch-thought-forms-and-secondary-personalities/
http://coffeexandxmagick.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/f-is-for-fetch/
http://www.feritradition.org/grimoire/practices/practices_threesouls.htm
http://swainwodening.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/anglo-saxon-witchcraft/
http://annua-mycraftandsullenart.blogspot.ca/2013/02/witch-to-fetch-mate-dialogue.html
http://www.englatheod.org/soul.htm
http://www.friggasweb.org/soulmaki.html
http://sarahannelawless.com/2010/04/14/shapeshifting/
http://witchesofthecraft.com/2013/05/29/life-as-the-witch-shapeshifting/
http://ladyofspiders.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/shapeshifting-witches/
http://thewitchdrisin.blogspot.ca/2007/01/shapeshifting-and-genderbending.html
http://newworldwitchery.com/2010/11/22/podcast-20-magical-animals/

Books:

Witchcraft: Theory and Practice by Ly De Angeles

Hedge-Rider: Witches and the Underworld by Eric De Vries

Evolutionary Witchcraft by T. Thorn Coyle

Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History by Owen Davies

Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic… by Emma Wilby
The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture by Paul C. Bauschatz

The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland by Emma Wilby

Witchcraft, Sorcery, Ghosts And Fetches Of The Irish Celts by Patrick Kennedy

The Red Church or the Art of Pennsylvania German Braucherei by C. R. Bilardi

The Power of Ecstatic Trance: Practices for Healing, Spiritual Growth, and Accessing the Universal Mind by Nicholas E. Brink Ph.D.

Neolithic Shamanism: Spirit Work in the Norse Tradition by Raven Kaldera and Galina Krasskova

Wyrdwalkers: Techniques of Northern-Tradition Shamanism by Raven Kaldera

Drawing Down the Spirits: The Traditions and Techniques of Spirit Possession by Kenaz Filan and Raven Kaldera

Trance-Portation: Learning to Navigate the Inner World by Diana L. Paxson

Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic: Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism by Jenny Blain

Tree of Enchantment: Ancient Wisdom and Magic Practices of the Faery Tradition by Orion Foxwood

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series) by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask and Wendy Doniger

Plant Spirit Shamanism: Traditional Techniques for Healing the Soul by Ross Heaven, Howard G. Charing and Pablo Amaringo

The Hollow Bone: A Field Guide to Shamanism by Colleen Deatsman and Sandra Ingerman

The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Bollingen) by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask and Jonathan Z. Smith

Treading the Mill: Practical Craft Working in Modern Traditional Witchcraft by Nigel G. Pearson

Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone: A Primal Guide to Animal Magic by Lupa

Skin Spirits by Lupa

Walkers Between the Worlds: The Western Mysteries from Shaman to Magus by Caitlín Matthews and John Matthews

The Roebuck in the Thicket: An Anthology of the Robert Cochrane Witchcraft Tradition by Evan John Jones, Robert Cochrane and Michael Howard

… and I’m just going to stop here.

 

I feel like my teacher just handed me a cheat-sheet.

THANK YOU JUNI!!!!

pankurios-templeovarts:

Works by Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) – painter, poet, occultist, visionary. If u r interested in magical works I recommend u to read his The Book Of Pleasure. It explains a lot of Spare’s ideas, especially the use of sigils in magical works. As it is difficult to get/find pics on the net of him I hope I did not use a wrong one in this set – as far as I know (in all conscience), those pics in the set are made by the maestro himself.

On this very link u find the free library/site of the Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn – many free pdfs of magical writings, including the formentioned Book Of Pleasure.

afractalparticle:

wildcat2030:

Human consciousness is simply a state of matter, like a solid or liquid – but quantum
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Thanks to the work of a small group neuroscientists and theoretical physicists over the last few years, we may finally have found a way of analyzing the mysterious, metaphysical realm of consciousness in a scientific manner. The latest breakthrough in this new field, published by Max Tegmark of MIT, postulates that consciousness is actually a state of matter. “Just as there are many types of liquids, there are many types of consciousness,” he says. With this new model, Tegmark says that consciousness can be described in terms of quantum mechanics and information theory, allowing us to scientifically tackle murky topics such as self awareness, and why we perceive the world in classical three-dimensional terms, rather than the infinite number of objective realities offered up by the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. (via Human consciousness is simply a state of matter, like a solid or liquid – but quantum | ExtremeTech)

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