258. Books for Advanced Witches 

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I do shamanic journeying and am a big fan of Sandra Ingerman (and Michael Harner) and Hank Wesselman. They are both highly respected and extremely responsible people who are not in the business of ripping off others. They are studied experts. And if they say it’s okay, I’m good with that. I’ll take their word over the word of Some Person On The Internet.

Jess! I just had to quickly comment to tell you how much I appreciated your thoughts on cultural appropriation. I found your approach to that tangled knot of issues so refreshing, sensible and, actually, really quite moving. Thank you for another wonderful video, full of book gems!

7:34 9:49craft of the wild witch By poppy palin 11:10the path to druidry 12:29The book of Celtic magic Kristopher 13:55 a druid herbal for the sacred earthy by ellen 16:10speaking to nature Awakening the deep

Excellent run-down summary of these more advanced magick/pegan titles! Thank you for that comment on shaminism; on how a lot of these teaching came from indigenous people of all over the world, sometimes it was wisdom that was shared to us, but sometimes it was forcefully taken out of their cultures. On a personal level, I feel like there is nothing wrong with seeking out and utilize whichever practices suite our needs and feels right to us as individuals. But also, on a higher more mindful-level, it is nessecery to acknowledge the historical context of whichever tribal/ethno-cultural tradition you're sourcing from. And if you didn't inheret it and/or are not related to that trib/culture, to at least be aware of the follies of appropriation and misappropriation.

Thanks for this. I've been lacking in reading books for this very reason. If you have time would you be able to make a list maybe? Also thank you for respecting the original people. You stated your beliefs eloquently,i think the main thing is showing respect and properly preforming rituals and having the correct knowledge.

I’ve been SEARCHING for content like this. All I can ever find is information for beginning witches and I know that is helpful for so many, but us seasoned witches are left out ): thank you!!

Im so glad your doing this! Years ago I lived for the beginning book videos. But after years of practice its about time someone did this video! Bravo!

I’m a closet witch. A southern baptist minister wife...so I can’t come out whatsoever. What book can I read for my closet craft

I completely agree with your points on Shamanism and the importance to learn well these teachings before sharing and doing so respectfully, giving credit to its origins mindfully. Thank you so much for sharing your extensive bibliophile knowledge with us.

Thank you for your discussion on Shamanistic practices. Well said! Great book choices as well. I can't believe this was 5 years ago!

Amazing! I've been looking for books for advanced witches - thank you for these suggestions

Ive just began this video and I already love your energy 🥰

this is awesome! Thank you for this. I totally agree there's so much information on beginner recommendations but not much for intermediate/advanced.

Brilliant recommendations thank you! I can't wait to read "the great work" in particular

So helpful and well presented, bravo!

I am so glad I found your video! Thank you for doing a book list for those of us that need to drive deeper. I can get excited about reading and studying again :)

Thank you so much for this! Lately there is more beginner books than advanced books out there which I have nothing against beginner books of course but be nice to find a book that is quite leveling up from the novice level.

Some great books! Norse shaman is awesome I have it and love it.Thanks for sharing

thank you for all the info! Just waiting on my stimulus to get some of those titles!!!

Thank you so much for doing this video! There really aren't enough recommendations out there for more advanced books like this. My list of books I want has doubled. That tarot and psychology one is at the top of that list!

Thank you for sharing ❤️

I love your videos and your videos on books

Hello Stellar, and greetings from merry olde England. I have just discovered your RU-vid channel, and I must say I am very impressed. For a person who is so young, and a practitioner of 'the craft'; you are wise and seasoned beyond your years. Thank you for your excellent book recommendations - I am making room on my shelves already. Also, you have the most striking and powerful altar: it is basic in design, but is so in alignment with the elements and the natural world - a great creative assemblage of sacred items. Blessed be, and good wishes from an English crone.

I completely agree on the choices for Tarot and Psychology as well as The Great Work. I have those two and refer to them often. I also have the two goddess books re Tending Brigid's Flame and on the Morrigan, the Dark Goddess, though admittedly, I have not read those ones thoroughly. You always bring such interesting material to your channel.

Yes! Jail breaking the Goddess is a fav!

I'm so grateful to you for the wonderful wealth of experience and recommendation you give in your book reviews. I bought the Celtic Lore and spell craft the dark goodess and am loving it and learning about the morrigan. I Also brought dark goddess craft by the same order and am yet to read it. The great work is my next 'to buy' book. Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts. Hugely appreciated.

Hello, new subscriber here. I enjoy your book recommendations, I've started to add some to my wish list. I appreciate the positive energy you have given us through this technological witch space we all share. Thanks 🙏🏼🤲🏼

I really enjoy and appreciate this video. 🤍

I've started to get the books on your list... Thank you for you help. IF you do see some others you think are worth time please do another vid xxx

I am so glad you've made this video and very thankful, I was saying to my husband today there are tonnes of videos for beginners but nothing for more advanced witches, I'm looking to learn new things but struggling to find resources 💜 blessed be 💙

Lovely list of books, thank you I've been pausing between recommendations to download the book samples on Google Play and Kindle 😉 I also think you spoke very eloquently on the issue of shamanism

So wonderful. I also work with the Morrigan, or did for years until she handed me over to Brigid 💚

My favorite is Regardies 'Golden Dawn' It can be applied to just about anything.

Thank you. I have ‘The Book of Celtic Magic’ and ‘Speaking with Nature’ somewhere. Its time to have a look. Since the new moon I have been feeling drawn to Brigit so I will look out for Tending Brigid’s Flame. You have helped me to take my next step.

Thanks for all this! Very helpful :-)

I adore your channel 🤗🌷 xox

With the exception of maybe 1 all of these are for a mature practitioner. It is the main course of the practice, I do have 1 or two more that would even be more advanced. But those are for another day.

Great video, will get a few of them. I came from shamanism to witchcraft and i very much enjoyed your rant on the subject. Totally agree.

Just came across this video and you asked for suggestions for books for the advanced and intermediate practitioner. Now when I think of an advanced practitioner, I think they can pick up ANY book and glean wisdom from its pages, but at the same time, could also stand up to possible challenges in thought. So the first book I suggest is "The Heart of Meditation" by the Dalai Lama. The second book is also by the Dalai Lama and it is called "How to Practice The Way to a meaningful Life" 3rd book is more towards intermediate/beginner and the is Sacred Fire, Holy Well by Ian Corrigan. 4th is definitely for someone more mature in practice and that is The Dolmen Arch Vol 1 & 2. Last one is "Deep Ancestors" by Ceisiwr Serith. Here is the real heavy hitter though... is "The Kybalion" by Three Initiates.

Celtic magic seems interesting

Blessed be

very good list ! so you know some books about healing witchcraft and practice with Apollo?

are there different kind of tarrot card? do you have a video of different kind of tarrot cards and how to use them?

First video I clicked for some general witchcraft books and I also work with The Morrigan. Go figure ;)

So... If I'm a sort of beginner (off and on for awhile now) and I found bits from the Dark Goddess book interesting and puts things into perspective. What does that about me? I know that's very broad but I think that's what I'm struggling with.

Thank u for this! Im soooo sick of beginner books

Wow, that is a lot of information! It seems we’ve got the same books. I cannot recommend new books for you. ‘Tending Brigid’s Flame’ is very special to me and I will read in it again and again. The book about The Morrigan is one I received this week. The chapter about the Celtic mythology is hard to read for me because english is my second language. The other parts I can read easily. I want to learn more about Celtic history and I’m lucky that some years one of my sons bought a dvd documentairy about The Celts. I have seen it before but I wasn’t on my pagan path back then. I don’t have the book, but Holistic Tarot (the one that Lisa from Supportive Tarot uses) is one on my wishlist. I have the book The Norse Shaman and don’t work with it now, but I have read a bit in it and I didn’t expected it was for advanced witches. I do know a bit of Norse paganism but not enough. So, I think I’ll give this book a chance later when I’m ready for it. I think ‘The Great Work’ get a place on my wishlist.

This is an old posting but I think you hit a major point with regards to Shamanic practices. It's not really a belief system but a practice. The Shaman / Medicine Person / etc functions within the social / cultural functions of a society and uses their allies to aid the society and the religious functions of that society. Many reside on the fringes of their society and are seen as being touched by the spirit world either through death or destruction of their lives. Unfortunately it seems most books seem to paint the shaman / medicine person as a spiritual person, frequently as a healer. In my experience that is used to focus upon the idea of Core Shamanism in pointing out the similarity between culture's while ignoring the actual cultural / social influence of each culture. Which seem's to be left out of so many neo-shaman / neo-pagan type books. I was told to be a Medicine Person / Shaman was to be alone in a room full of people and it meant we were chosen never were the choosers our selves. My first step upon this path was to die. The religious aspect seems to be we get pushed to be the talking stick and hollow bone under which ever religion is required at the time in my humble opinion. I do like your channel though from what I've seen.

Thank you! I have a question. I cannot find the book The healing heart by Jette. Does anyone have suggestions?

Hum. Only recommendation i would give is a book you are likely allready familear with. Pagan portals Brigid, meeting the celtic goddess of poetry forge and healing well, by Morgan Daimler.

Jess I'm your new subscriber. Please suggest me some witch books that is good for beginners cause I need them. Please suggest me!!!

Great list of recommendations, popped a couple on my wishlist thank you! I already had the one by Sandra Ingerman on there...and just got out my copy of the Great work to begin working with it once winter is here (Autumn now in the southern hemisphere, and I wanted to start it at the beginning). I have recently bought Singing the soul back home by Caitlin Matthews (it looks promising, but have yet to read it), and Women who run with wolves is always on my list of favs. Also looking forward to a new book coming out by Sharon Blackie called Foxfire Wolfskin, and other stories of shapeshifting women - her other books are amazing 💖💖💖

Can you get that book in jamaica

are all those books available online for purchase or in amazon?

You should check out “Unlocking the Secrets of Sorcery.” It’s advanced and will give you an entirely new perspective on magick.

I haven't read Billington, but from what I could find on Amazon it seems to be pure OBOD. OBOD is a perfectly valid path, but if you want to know about what the ancient druids were up to it's not a good place to start. Regarding Hughes, I'm always a bit suspicious of books published by Llewellyn. They're not noted for their scholarly nature. For books on ancient Celtic Paganism, I have a few videos on my own channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PMq0a3wr4eM.html for Celtic in general, and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uLU5iFW5rwE.html for Romano-Celtic, Welsh, and Arthurian.Regarding the Tarot, I recommend reading about the Cabbalah and Ceremonial Magic. Crowley's books are a good start. His _Book of Thoth_ is on the Tarot, and I would also recommend _Magick in Theory and Practice_ for general advanced reading. Most Wiccans don't know just how much of their religion comes from Ceremonial Magic rather than from ancient Paganism.

His name is pronounced 'yoong'. Its Swiss German. Sorry. Not trying to be rude. Love your content. 😉

Please dont get down on "white and western" so quickly and carelessly. I was married to a muslim from uzbekistan and had to escape due to the severity of the abuse. Since I was young when we met I didn't know the extent to which female degradation is ingrained in his society. They are primitive, not west and are not white, yet definitely NOT more spiritual or wise. Honestly we have a lot of hidden treasures here in the west that are homegrown, and a spiritual depth that many cultures including non western ones just do not have. And some of the things that seem to be lost or disconnected are actually very real and palpable, if you find yourself in a situation like me where you face the fact that you might not ever return to the west again.