This Title Doesn't Start With "R"
Oh, my aching feet. I've been running all day, packing chairs, grilling hot dogs and organizing labour crews. The BBQ went great though. Everyone seemed to have a good time, and everyone got fed. Every so often, it's interesting to work with a team to accomplish something. It's even better when I can work by myself after and hide in my cubical.So, I mentioned I was reading Buckland's big blue book. Raymond Buckland, a student of Gardner and seemingly fellow eclectic, laid out the book to be a "textbook" of sorts. He mentions in the introduction that the book is to be read through, from start to end, as each section is actually a lesson, complete with essay questions and an exam. I finished the first lesson last night, dealing mostly with history of withcraft, myths and christian supression of pagan beliefs. His ideas seem fairly consistant with what I know about european history (one of the thousand courses I took in 3-1/2 years as a general studies student in college), although he tends to be a little one sided.
I'll continue to update this as I progress through the book, if it continues to be fruitful to do so.
11 Comments:
tell me more about the book!
Buckland claims it to be all you need to gain the equivalent of "third level whatever" for Gardnerian covens and stuff. I bought the book a long time ago, but skipped over the intro and stuff to check out the spells, but lost interest.
yeah. and what'choo think so far?
and why are you avoiding the Elements of Ritual?
LOL I'm not avoiding it, it isn't here yet! As soon as it gets here, I PROMISE, it will be the first and last thing I read every night.
Buckland's book is full of stuff. I'm not too far into it, and he quotes himself a lot, but I like the way he splits up the info and then prompts the reader to actually think about what you've just read.
The book speaks in the general sense of witchcraft, denominationally, and seems to boil down the generalities of the different wiccan beliefs, but seems to point out differences between them. I'll tell you more about is as I go.
I have his book wicca for one..hmm.
oh because he's the "godfather" of american wicca?
That's right. He'd mentioned that Gardner was the first to stand up for witches in Europe, and he was the first american witch to come out.
I'm filteriring out alot of the "I'm great" stuff he's stuffed in there.
Who's Brad that commented on your blog?
brad? I dunno!
remember we discussed the purity of Garderian wicca? I agree with the author that said tradition is good but some tradition has to be thrown out. scourging..yeah etc.
I say take the bones and then build from there. unapologetically eclectic in some instances :)
Oh, I plan to. :) Like I said, the layout is great, and it offers a pretty good basis for building.
I should send you a copy...
Done. Buckland's big blue book is on the way to you :)
wha?! bu..jeez. thank you! guess that should motivate me to send you your SW action figure :P
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