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What are your favorite books on Wicca or Spirituality in general? I am always looking for a good read.

Blessings,
Amelia

I'll post some of the ones I posted before here... I put stars by the ones I think are must reads.

*When God Was A Woman by Merlin Stone
Mother God and Father God, both by Sylvia Browne
The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford
*The Science of the Craft by William Keith
The Field by Lynne McTaggart

Well I have a tarot card how to book that I found interesting I am not sure I would put it in with spiritual but pychologicaly it was a good book to make you think in a new way!! its called Tarot of the Spirit! and I like this World religion book by the Jehovah Witnesses that kind of tell you about world religions!! lol
The Holy Bible NIV and a lexicon with Greek and Hebrew words and where to find them in the bible and a KJV of the bible for balence!!! LOL

I also have a Candle magick book, and I am looking to a book on Symbolism for dreams and one for the symbols in the bible, and symolism in general!!!

Oh yeah I have the seven fold Journy that I really like and the new Chakra systems workbook!!!

I like to expand my knowledge base!!! lol

Anything by Joseph Campbell will be informative and interesting, on world religions and especially archetypes, which are very useful for personal growth.

Hi Alegra! Welcome to the forum. I am especially interested in world religions as I have some pretty deep discussions with my homeschooled children about them.

Well now I have to start a thread for homeschooling books. Thanks for the brain stimulation!

Amelia

I e-mailed this to the previous Wicca editor - but y'all might be interested, too:

I just got through reading a book that I thought you might enjoy: "Spellbinder" by Melanie Rawn.

It's a fiction book about a "witch", but it's also a kind of romance novel - a good combination of the two. But it really looks at the relationships and differences between Christian and Wicca, and Satanism and Wicca.

I don't know how realistic all of the spells and rituals are, but she seemed to have put a lot of thought into it.

Thought you might like to check it out. I enjoyed it just from a fiction standpoint in that it was a good read.

What a good question! I've given away so many books that I'll have to try to remember some good ones that are no longer with me ...

The Craft by Dorothy Morrison. Workbook with great visualization exercises.

Apprentice to Power by Timothy Roderick. A male Wiccan viewpoint! Memoir plus interesting explorations of Eastern religions and psychology.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca & Witchcraft by Denise Zimmerman. Comprehensive!

The Heart of Wicca by Ellen Cannon Reed. Controversial and well-written. Author levels valid criticisms of much that is superficial and sentimental about popular Wiccan culture.

The Circle Within by Dianne Sylvan. Interesting focus on day-to-day Wiccan spirituality.

Plus, I'm trying to develop a "Pagan-Themed Mystery" subgenre over on the Mystery Books site, and I've so far posted reviews of Rosemary Edghill's Bast trilogy. So I could recommend those if you're into mysteries.

Actually I could ask for help as well. The only other pagan-themed mystery that I've run across is M.R. Sellars's Rowan Gant series and I found the first book short on writing talent, and heavy on the violence so I've been reluctant to add it. But if anyone has heard of any other good pagan-themed mysteries, please list them here and I'll check back!

This may be a long shot, though! It seems that pagan-themed fiction tends to run towards the fantasy genre and not the mystery genre. I mean, when was the last time we ever saw a Wiccan police procedural?

Karm the book I mentioned is a little bit of a mystery as well (it seems to have a little bit of everything, LOL!)

I can copy my post over if you like.

LOL

This may be a long shot, though! It seems that pagan-themed fiction tends to run towards the fantasy genre and not the mystery genre. I mean, when was the last time we ever saw a Wiccan police procedural?
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I love it!!!

I thought Charmed, Ghost Whisperer, and Mediem were all shows based on Mystery books? I am not sure if you would concerter them Wiccan.... but its the closest I have seen!

Thanks, Michelle. No need to copy the post over. I'll go look up the Rawn book at the library, and give it a try!