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Wicca 333: Advanced Topics in Wiccan Belief
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[Revised Edition] Divided into 12 hot topics, Wicca 333 tries to provide the level of insight and depth of material found in many “”101″” books without repeating the same tired introductory information that is irrelevant to today’s advanced student. Touchin… More >>
Wicca 333: Advanced Topics in Wiccan Belief
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about 5 months ago
I gave this book one star for two reasons. First it does not live up to its claim to present “advanced” material. Instead we find material that all of us thought about in the early days of our study and training (and then with maturity, we moved on).
The second reason I gave this book one star is that it is another example of Wicca as a “make it up as you go along” system. If that’s what Wicca is, then why are we looking to authors to inform us when what we can make it up ourselves just as well as they can!? It is easy to see why this book is a self published work instead of one that was accepted for publication by professionals who know this genre.
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about 5 months ago
If you like to read then this book is just as good as any other. I did not find any advanced teaching as this book promises. I have been initiated in the craft since 1971. Basically this book is about short stories which the author uses to expound her own threories or opinions. I think that this author is bashing the teachings of other authors that she doesn’t like which comes through when she says, “this is why”. The book is a dry read, very boring. Personally I would give it a O rating.
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about 5 months ago
While this book promises to reveal something beyond the basics of Wicca, it fails to deliver anything we’ve not seen time and time again in beginners books (and perhaps not even as much). Like the author’s first book “All One Wicca” this one appears to be a hodge-podge of personal musings and self-styled Wicca bearing little if any resemblance to something authentic. If the author knew any “advanced” techniques or information, she certainly kept it a secret from this book.
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about 5 months ago
This book promises much more than it delivers. The writing is dry and uninteresting, it almost makes Wicca sound dull! I was expecting advanced material but, alas I was disappointed. Ms. MacMorgan doesn’t even do half as good a job as the writers she criticizes. The search for truly advanced books on Wicca continues.
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about 5 months ago
There is a reason why you should take any words of Kaatryn MacMorgan with a grain of salt. Reason one, is that the author has some very good debate topics and has the research to show in each chapter, however, the author has a bad habit of either contraditing her words or she poorly explains them to the point of giving the reader a headache of mumbo jumbo that the average person cannot understand.
Another reason, why are we still debating the Wiccan Rede?…there are no “breaking down” as the author puts it. However, to me she fails to put some kind of “mumbo jumbo” out to the public that they “cracked the code” from the decoder ring the author got from a craker jack box…nobody cares!. Everybody knows who is a wiccan see it as a “poem” and only use it as a “guideline”…thats all!..there should be NO breaking down the Rede in order to “understand it”. The author also uses too much “scholar type” writing to bore her readers to death with.
On page 16 she truly misunderstood what Dion Fortune words of “All Gods are One God” ment. The author poorly explains this to only confuse the readers. She tells her readers on page 22 , “All paths lead to the same place is a good idea that fails in practice”…hold on!..she just told readers that not to long ago that “they were all different”…Is that a contradiction?.. because if we all ended up in the same place after death, that would pretty much explain all paths are equal. The author fails to explain this more. Then by adding fuel to the fire, she adds on page 23 “Believing all paths are one path can be seen as a sort of reaction to fundamentalism”…very, very untrue this is ONLY in her view.
However, even though the book gets a 3 from me, it isnt a bad book to be honest just poorly explained on the topics. However, there are some things she should rewrite on so other readers can understand it better. On page 59 the Tomas Timeline is very well done and very useful. However, the author’s “run around” with newbies on page 67 is very bad…and this person says she is a teacher?…thats very sad. However, she writes that “a smart question assumes nothing”…which is true, but, nobody should assume anything because that makes you an ass..which she fails to explain on what real “smart questions” truly is. Instead, the author plays “mind games” and not truly answer the questions from the e-mail that the person sent to her…again taking her “teaching” with a grain of salt.
The Celt part on page 72 was pretty good, however, the author has to understand that Wicca never claimed “Celtic tradition” as their own. Wicca however, uses the Gods and Goddesses they feel comfortable with and blend the “influences of Celt tradition”..that is all!..nothing more. Every wiccan knows by now that wicca is not Celtic..again she telling readers what we already know.
Anyways, I do agree on her chapters on Proselytizing, Facts about Satanism which was very well explained and Forming an Ethical code which was good too. Now, as i said i gave this a 3 because the author has a poor way of explaining things. Now as being advance..that is 50/50.
I would try to find something better than this book, in order to look for better advance books about wicca.
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