Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment by Laurie Cabot, Tom Cowan Summary and Reviews
|
List Price: Our Price: $8.00 You Save: $7.00 (47%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $2.64 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment
Book Review: Ohhh la la!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is excellent for novice and advanced studies. It covers a wide range of topics, and many of the basics. The book not only helps you with excercises, rituals and spells, it also tells you why and why not you do certain things. Laurie has a captivating style of writing and includes many of her personal experiences, allowing the reader to relate more to the book's content. Wonderful for the scientific aspects to it, it broadens the mind and makes you want to learn more. Laurie provides us with some simple spells, rituals and psychic practices to go through, with a variety of topics. One downside is that many of the spells and potions require ingredients which are not readily available to most. All in all, an enjoyable read, and a must for anyone's library....Book Review: Witchcraft as a Science
Summary: 5 Stars
Laurie Cabot is one of the best Authors in the modern Craft. If you are looking at Witchcraft as an art or Science, or a bit skeptical about spells, I highly recomend this book.Book Review: Well written, entertaining, and mostly accurate...
Summary: 5 Stars
Laurie Cabot has written a very informed albeit highly condensed book on the topic of modern Witchcraft. Not the best--DRAWING DOWN THE MOON by Margot Adler is the best--but this is almost as good, and in many ways the two books complement each other. Like Adler, Cabot frequently appears on television and radio shows so her voice is attuned to the ear--clear, concise, informative, and articulate. And, she knows her subject.Cabot's history of witchcraft is reasonably accurate, and unlike some, not hysterical, just factual. As a result, she gets the story straight, and considering she wrote her history in the late 1980s, and tons of recent historical research was done in recent years (much of it refutes and/or recasts works which would have been available to her when she wrote the book), she is quite good. Of course Ms. Cabot has other means of "knowing" about the past than by digging through musty tomes.
I particularly enjoyed her section on the science of witchcraft. As it happens, my husband has a physics background so I could turn to him and say is this so, and is this so, and is this so...to which he replied yes, yes, and yes. I gained a great deal more insight into the workings of crystals and gems from Ms. Cabot and my husband. Take the clear quartz crystal. She says it emits energy. So I said to my husband, is this true to which he replied, sure, I once built a crystal radio. Quartz is a great conductor of energy (he works at the Patent and Trade Office today and patents computer related thingys, he used to work for AT&T and before that he was with the Army Signal Corps).
For years my husband has been reading about the wholistic universe and I figured it was some old scientific fiction junk, and lo and behold, here's Ms. Cabot saying witches knew this stuff all along and it seems science is corroborating it. And, she's on the record as saying so before science "discovered" it. I especially liked the part about the witches and the National Geographic spread. "Witches say Jupiter emits a blue light!"
I found a few mistakes--not all individuals have "x" and "y" chromosomes. At least that's not what I learned in biology. Ms. Cabot may be ahead of the times however, who knows. She is correct in saying all individuals have both estrogen and testosterone, however. I remember Dr. Estelle Ramey saying it was too bad men didn't have more estrogen in their systems.
Ms Cabot is quite funny in places. And, it is rather awesome how one can conceive and believe and achieve. The really neat thing about witchcraft is that it is open to all. It is our oldest form of religious expression. Why just the other day, they found another 10,000 year old cave painting in Italy. Of course it was a "horned" man. I thought of Laurie Cabot when I read the news.
Book Review: Easy read
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this book while going on a kick of learning about Wicca. It was the most informative and easy read of all the books that I got a hold of. Although I am not a practicing Wiccan, I kept this book for furture reference.This book goes into some history, the basis of witchcraft, and how to cast spells. Cabot explains how to use Wicca in every day life, which some I use: placing crystals to enhance energy, etc. She also touches upon enhancing your own psychic energy. It was truly a good read, even for those just wanting to learn more about the religion but not to practice. Would work well as a simple reference too.
Book Review: The science of witchcraft
Summary: 5 Stars
This book started me on my hunt to learning the science of witchcraft. If "surrounding yourself with white light" doesn't seem like a good protection spell or you want to know HOW magick works and why.. BUY THIS BOOK!