Cassandra Eason
Author of A Complete Guide to Faeries & Magical Beings: Explore the Mystical Realm of the Little People
About the Author
Cassandra Eason is the international bestselling author of more than sixty books. She lectures, broadcasts, and gives workshops around the world on all aspects of spirituality and magic. Cassandra also served as an honorary research fellow at the Alister Hardy Research Centre in Oxford. She lives show more on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Visit her online at www.CassandraEason.com. show less
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Works by Cassandra Eason
A Complete Guide to Faeries & Magical Beings: Explore the Mystical Realm of the Little People (2001) 143 copies
The Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals: A Comprehensive Guide to 150 Crystals and Gemstones (2003) 71 copies
A Complete Guide to Magic and Ritual: How to Use Natural Energies to Heal Your Life (1999) 69 copies
The Complete Guide to Psychic Development: 100 Ways to Tap into Your Psychic Potential (1997) 49 copies
Giant Book of Magic: Everyday Practical Magic from Around the World: Gypsy Love Cards, the I Ching, Native American… (2006) 37 copies
The Complete Guide to Labyrinths: Tapping the Sacred Spiral for Power, Protection, Transformation, and Healing (2004) 29 copies
The Complete Guide to Divination: How to Foretell the Future Using the Most Popular Methods of Prediction (1999) 26 copies
The Art Of The Pendulum: Simple techniques to help you make decisions, find lost objects, and channel healing energies (2005) 26 copies
Cassandra Eason's Healing Crystals: An Illustrated Guide to 150 Crystals and Gemstones (2015) 13 copies
Pendulum Dowsing: A simple technique to help you make decisions, find lost objects and channel healing energies… (2000) 11 copies
Fragrant Magic: Modern Spells and Rituals to Evoke the Protective Powers of Perfume Magic (2004) 9 copies
Tarots Talks to the Woman Within: Teach Yourself to Rely on Her Support (Talk to the Woman Within) (2000) 6 copies
Candle Power 4 copies
A Magical Guide to Love and Sex: How to Use Rituals, Spells and Nature's Energies to Bring Love into Your Life (2001) 3 copies
Ontwikkel uw paranormaal vermogen 3 copies
Pendelen praktisch toepassen 3 copies
Ontwikkel uw paranormale krachten: Leer gebuikmaken van uw bovennatuurlijke talenten in 10 stappen (2021) 2 copies
Op zoek naar uw Vorige Levens 2 copies
Magia egipcia 1 copy
Alla ricerca dell antica magia: profezie, miti e leggende dai Celti all'antico Egitto, dagli Indiani d'America… (1998) 1 copy
Sacred Earth Power: An Illustrated Guide to Secret Energy, Ancient Magic and Divination (2003) 1 copy
Spirituele raadgever - Runen 1 copy
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Chapter Two—Creating the Magic Circle in Wicca, basically just impressed upon me the realization that I won’t be able to cast the circle in my room/house, which is small and shared (and kinda “unormal”—as they call it in Danish—[abnormal-]phobic~yes my new thing is stupid, random languages, not practical languages that people will insult you for learning imperfectly, like French: that Gypsy word-book I read was written very poorly, but it was a good idea…. After my Danish book, I think I’ll try Navajo), I’ll have be alone in a park or something to do proper magic….
Chapter Three—Wicca and the Magical Elements, I’ve already forgotten reading, although it is kinda a reference-y book, really. Although I have done some thinking about the elements. I suppose that “water is in the west” not only in England or whatever, but because the west is where the sun dies and water is associated with things like death and changes in consciousness, right…. But personally I live in New Jersey, and I can’t picture water being in the west; I made my own associations, lol. Water in the east; fire in the south—equator; earth in the west—North America; air in the north—air just kinda sounds “cold” to me, I don’t know….
And yeah, Chapter Four—Creating and Casting Your Own Spells was like about basic, practical, get-results magic; and Chapter Five—Creating Rituals was basically about complicated/medieval/angel/meaning of life magic—went right over my head.
Chapter Six—The Goddess in Wicca, Chapter Seven—The God in Wicca, Chapter Eight—The Wheel of the Year in Wicca, and Chapter Nine—Forming or Joining a Coven or Working Solo, all seemed like pretty familiar theory, although some details were useful and sometimes even 101 books remind me that I don’t know as much about this stuff as sometimes I think I do. (There was a long period of my life when I was a witchy person who didn’t know the first thing about anything, really, but I guess I was familiar with a LITTLE basic ~theory, right.)
But yeah, I didn’t think I was going to say anything about this book: what I decided to say initially was this. I’ve written about this before, but basically sometimes reading about Wicca is how much of a mis-match it is for the great majority of the population. It’s not like general new age/meditation things, which sometimes paint themselves as society’s future, the next or emerging orthodoxy or societal paradigm—and obviously the ‘emerging church’ paints itself that way, too. Although ironically that’s what scares many normal people, as well as scientists/historians/rationalists— people who are almost normal, but not quite, who are going to burst into their living room and levitate their dog Spot with their mind and freak him out. To be honest, that has a lot to do with their dissatisfaction with ~normal~ society as well—thus the need of many people to paint everything anyone does, normal or not, as a money scam…. So I mean, fear is practiced, right. “You have to be happy to dream happy dreams.” Victoria Holt. It’s also not terribly fair to the average new ager, but it’s Even Less true of Wiccans, you know. Wiccans are further from what the average scientist is interested in or what the average normie doesn’t freak out about than Buddhism, and it’s hard not be aware of that, right….
The fact that it wouldn’t be satisfactory to the average person is very obvious. It’s more detail-oriented, and full of things to remember or decide or interpret and figure out—pretty much all of which you’re doing by yourself, without, probs in the majority of cases, at the very least, IN PERSON, individual feedback—right; and just the average person goes online and complains aimlessly about their job or goes online and complains about the internet…. These witchcraft things with all their details to think about, you know. And really especially the patience needed for effective witchcraft, IMO, is lacking in the average person, who has a lot of bad habits, although this obvs interferes with mundane skill sets, too. (The average person is also very dissatisfied with the mundane world.) And of course, there’s the superstitious Christian and the gullible movie-watcher who thinks that Wiccans, aliens, demons, and the Dalleks are all either not real or bad, or both, right…. The less said about that, right.
[lol—(Hermes) Hi. I’m Hermes
(cop) Oh. So you’re God.
(Hermes) (nods) (happy) Yeah. I’m God. I’m it.
(cop) I don’t believe in you.
(Hermes) Oh, well, that’s fine: you don’t have to believe on my name, right.
(cop) But you don’t exist.
(Hermes) I don’t? I don’t exist? No, I do. I exist.
(cop) Before you can do anything here, you have to fill out this form, and prove you exist.
(Hermes) (irritated) No, I am done with this Descartes crap—I don’t listen to that fucker anymore! I exist! You just have to ground and center, and then—
(cop) Those are the rules, man. (walks away)
(Hermes) (to his back) This doesn’t make me feel seen!]
And obviously the average rationalist isn’t very flexible or secure in their beliefs; the last thing they want or, yes, even need, is witchcraft. For most rationalists chess or philology or whatever is the truth of life, and they are deeply insecure about how unpopular that sort of thing is. For them, Wicca would seem at best, just childish, right: if not downright irritating, at the very least, by its sheer emotive core. (The fact that you do have to regulate your emotive core to SOME extent at least to get good results in Wicca wouldn’t mean much to them.) So yeah, that kinda impressed itself on me flipping through this: how childish it would seem to a robot. Coming from a cool Christian background in my personal history, sometimes it’s easy to expect people online (people in real life, Must Not Know, naturally; I mean, NATURALLY, fucking prudence, right—the survival instinct), to not just wantonly insult and rub shit on the face of All Religion, “because all religion is Christianity”, right—and I just feel like I’ve done a lot of work, not to be associated with the very worst Christians, just because someone else is intellectually lazy, right….
(shrugs) But yeah—too much expecting people not to be raving loonies, that. People ARE raving loonies…. And if they knew something about what I believe, they’d think I was childish at best; psychotic in the middle scenario; and a TV villain at worst. And even the “cool kids” aren’t lining us up as the Next Stage, you know; and anyway, Wicca isn’t “all one thing”, and never will be, no matter how big it gets, a thousand years from now. (shrugs) But yeah, it’s important to keep in mind: This is who I am; it’s not how the world is, you know. 😛
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INTRO FOR PART TWO: Quite anomalously, I drafted the seed of a review, and then forgot about it: here, then, is the seed:
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In a sense, like many witchy books it’s like a very very brief reference book, and a book of practicalities, and I’ll let you know (maybe) if I make some great spell and it’s a great story, but for right now I want to talk about a philosophical point I got from one of the lists.
Unlike in Christianity, where sex is basically seen as something best avoided, even in marriage, realistically—at least if you can swing that—and in post-Christian secularism, (in a weird sort of way, almost Christian pornography, or pornographic Christianity—it’s the shame of sex that many of those people are swimming in, and they certainly don’t usually think independently, although that’s a different story), where sex is like the greatest thing or whatever (I hesitate to try to come up with some joke or mockery, but y’all know what sex is considered in general popular culture, right), sex in witchcraft can be sacred, but is not really the highest, most important mystery. Perhaps the most dramatic, it’s true, but the highest mystery probably can’t be defined, and certainly not as something that implies it’s not just things in general, life itself—‘gold’ itself, if you like alchemy, and not just gold as a means, right. Life isn’t just a means, or a goal. It exists, and it exists because it’s good. It’s good to exist.
So yeah, what I mean is, I came across this list in Fire for the Elemental chapter, and it says that Fire is useful for sacred sex, but this information is buried in the middle, so to speak—9 of 15, by my count. (It starts with ambition and ends with negating pollution from burning fuel). When I first encountered Wicca as a very once-born type of person, aged about 1.7 years old, lol, (or, no—2.0…. Yeah!), I took things like that as shyness and assumed that the baby (me) knew better. Ironically, now I know a little better, lol. Marriage with the goddess might make a king, but ultimately being the king is about other people, and service to other people, and life itself—including politics, obviously, but it’s a sort of sacral politics, including the computer-and-gun crap, but also, just bringing the meaning of religion, of the knowledge of life, into what people do everywhere through the example of leadership, basically. (shrugs)
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OUTRO FOR PART TWO:
—And yes, I realize that that makes me sound foolish.
(psychoanalyst) (obnoxiously gleeful) Yes, Hermes: yes….
—(points) I know my mind very well, thanks. I know my mind—so much. SO much. People come up to me on the street, and they say, “Hermes, you know your mind so well!”
(psychoanalyst) (shakes head) (obnoxiously gleeful) No, no…. It is all in the subconscious….
(Tears for Fears: “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” comes on)
You see: it is the voice of the subconscious.
—😩😤… (more)