Paganism: An Experience-based Guide to Modern Pagan Practice (A Modern Guide to Nature-based Spirituality, Pagan Rituals, and the Old Gods)

A comprehensive guide to a growing religious movement If you want to study paganism in more detail, this book is the place to start. Based on a course in paganism that the authors have taught for more than a decade, it is full of exercises, meditations, and discussion questions for group or individual study. This book presents the basic fundamentals of paganism. It explores what pagans are like; how the pagan sacred year is arranged; what pagans do in ritual; what magick is; and what pagans believe about god, worship, human nature, and ethics. You will learn: .Learn about basic folk magic, and get clear concepts about the subject to dispel any misconceptions .Find out which magic practices suit you best .Understand the history of various magic cultures and how they originated .Discover countless traditional practices and rituals of different magic .Explore numerous spells, herbs, and rituals .Master creating your own spell book That last question might seem odd, but it forms the very foundation of one of the richest and most fascinating religions that flourished in europe during the early middle ages. Very different from monotheistic religions and prominent in the scandinavian regions, norse paganism was a collection of customs, beliefs, and sagas that defined the viking way of life - full of magic, mysticism, and an ever-expanding mythos.