Archives: 2007 March

By Gita Mehta
Perhaps the most popular god in the Hindu pantheon, the elephant-headed Ganesha is known by many names: the Pitcher of Prosperity, the Remover of Obstacles, the Grantor of Boons, the Guarantor of Success, and the Lord of Beginnings. It is hard not to recognize Ganesha, with his head of an elephant, protuberant […]

by Mary K. Greer
21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card is a boon to every tarot reader who has ever sought more information on how to interpret any one of the 72 cards which constitute a standard deck. An amateur reader could not ask for a better introduction; a veteran reader still has plenty to […]

by Galina Krasskova
When Galina Krasskova decided to become Heathen in 1996, she found that “warm and fuzzy” were not typical words to describe this community of about 40,000 that adhere to the modern reconstruction of the ancient religion of the Germanic and Scandinavian peoples. Her book, […]

by Tom Kenyon, MA
9 CD set, $99.00
Sounds True, 2006
I’ve been giving my brain quite a work-out since discovering the concept of “psychoacoustic immersion” with Tom Kenyon’s The Ultimate Brain, a 9 CD series that — at $99 — isn’t an inexpensive purchase, but is a whole […]

by Phyllida Anam-Aire
Anan-Áire is a Gaelic term meaning “carer of the soul.” Through the past several years, the author explains in A Celtic Book of Dying, she has helped innumerable souls cross over in what is a final journey to the Summerlands. The author, who describes herself as a Celtic Christian, has many […]

by Brendan Cathbad Myers, Ph.D.
What do Paleopagan Irish Druids really believe in? If I am to understand Brendan Cathbad Myers, Ph.D. — the author of The Mysteries of Druids — right, it seems to be the wonders of the natural world. As well as the supernatural world!
“The core of Celtic Druidry […]

by Sandra Ingerman
Sounds True, 2004
80 pp. plus CD, $19.95
Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide is an attractively packaged hardcover book that comes with a CD that includes drumming. The practice of shamanic journeying, Ingerman writes, involves parting “the veils between the seen and unseen worlds and […]

By C. Pierce Salguero
Findhorn Press, 2006
143 pp., $19.95
Thailand, in relation to health, has been in the news recently as part of the phenomenon of medical tourism: patients from the west traveling there to obtain treatments at a fraction of the price that one would pay, say, in the United States. However, […]

By Michele Germain, LCSW
When I first received The Jill Principle from Llewellyn Publications to review, I thought it was a change from the usual material they published. After all, this was in the “self-help/relationships” genre, and Llewellyn specializes in the New Age market. However, just a little way into reading the book, I […]

by Diane Saarinen
Late in October, I learned that there would be a Goddess art exhibit opening that would be held on October 28 at the New York Open Center with artist Kris Waldherr. I immediately made plans to attend, particularly after reading the following from the artist’s statement: “I believe that the […]

by Linda Drake
It was the first full week of September when my friend, Marione, passed away — and through a meaningful coincidence, I received this book for review. One look at the title, Reaching Through the Veil to Heal, was that was all I needed to drop my previous plans and immerse myself in […]

By Robin Rose Bennett
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 2004
192 pp., $12.95
When reading Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook, you should know two things: Bennett’s definitions for “green witch” and “guidebook.” Green witches, she writes, “have a special love for the plants and trees of […]