Best of
Paganism

1989

Magical Aromatherapy: The Power of Scent


Scott Cunningham - 1989
    The current knowledge of the physiological and psychological effects of natural fragrances are combined with the ancient art of magical perfumery. Learn how to use these tools to enhance psychic perception, help finances, attract love, and more.Over 200,000 copies sold.

The Witches' God


Janet Farrar - 1989
    Part I covers the many concepts of the God examined, including: His faces throughout history; The Son/Lover God; The Vegetation God; The War God; The Anti-God; and more Part II gives a close look at 12 individual gods of history with an appropriate invoking ritual for each. Part III presents a comprehensive dictionary of over 1000 gods from many world cultures, past and present. The Farrars are among the best-known authors on the Craft, and in The Witches' God have written what is likely to become the standard work on the masculine god aspect. Over 30,000 sold!

The Once and Future Goddess


Elinor W. Gadon - 1989
    In this beautifully illustrated and far-reaching history. Elinor Gadon vividly weaves words and images to demonstrate the powerful connections between ancient and contemporary art, between the Goddess of the Ice Age and the Goddess of today.This panoramic view of Goddess imagery extends from the prehistoric Goddess representations of Catal Huyuk, Malta, Avebury, and Crete, tot he more patriarchal images of the Sumerians, Greeks, and Christians, to the wide range of contemporary artists inspired by the Goddess, including Frida Kahlo, Mayumi Oda, and Judy Chicago.

The Craneskin Bag: Celtic Stories And Poems


Robin Williamson - 1989
    He is a warm, articulate, witty and engaging storyteller in live performance, and here he`s collected some of his own retellings of tales ancient, old, and not so old. The illustrations are evocative too, complementing the text beautifully. Robin has his own offbeat way with a tale or an anecdote, or a bit of shaggy dog whimsy, and some of these tales and poems have an open-ended quality - like life,like the man himself.my pleasure is to know him. This is a lovely book to own and to dip into, and I can`t help hearing Robin`s idiosyncratic Scottish burr in my mind as I read these pieces. I think, that not only his ebullience and madcap wit, but the fact that you can easily hear every word he speaks or sings. You can almost hear it in this book of wonders too. Listen,and listen closely for the tales and poems lose nothing in printing them but better still see Robin in live performance-joy that adds no sorrow with it.

Teachings Around the Sacred Wheel: Finding the Soul of the Dreamtime


Lynn V. Andrews - 1989
    Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others. Join her as she is initiated into the Sisterhood and creates her own shield, which will show her the nature of her spiritual path (Spirit Woman). Follow her to the Yucatan, where the medicine wheel leads her, and she is faced with the terrifying reality of the butterfly tree (Jaguar Woman). Enter the Dreamtime with her, where she emerges in medieval England as Catherine, and encounters the Grandmother, who offers to show Andrews how to make her life one of goodness, power, adventure, and love (The Woman of Wyrrd). Not all these stories describe the author's own spiritual experiences. Meet Sin Coraz?n, an initiate into the Sisterhood, whose husband abandons her. She nearly succumbs to her inner dark power and unleashes her rage on men and the Sisterhood (Dark Sister). Andrews also writes about the elder women of the Sisterhood: their loves, their lives, their losses (Tree of Dreams). Andrews shows us how to channel our own spiritual and intellectual energy and balance the need for love with the desire for power (Love and Power). She takes the reader on numerous spiritual journeys that inevitably uplift.

Walk in Balance: The Path to Healthy, Happy, Harmonious Living


Sun Bear - 1989
    The authors offer personal instruction for attaining the path of inner and outer harmony and living in balance with oneself.