tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357027421761048480.post7233386276279255360..comments2024-03-19T02:19:27.547-07:00Comments on Gavin and Yvonne The Dancing Wiccans: Spirituality 2Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11014273051108392141noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357027421761048480.post-77518768664941466442010-03-22T14:04:29.845-07:002010-03-22T14:04:29.845-07:00Thank you very much for your blog and the work you...Thank you very much for your blog and the work you have done in the Craft community over the years. I was brought into the Alexandrian and Gardnerian lines - but have found the training and information in your published materials to be pure gold. Once more - thank you for the work you have done over the decades.<br /><br />Concerning spirit possession and spirit possession in circles - I think that many are very poorly trained in how to discern the kind of spiritual entities they might be encountering, as well as having little experience in dealing with possession - whether partial or full. I was fortunate in that my initiator was trained in spirit possession early in the 1970s, along with her Craft initiations - though I think this sort of training is/was rare.<br /><br />I was involved with a local ecclectic magical group years ago where the members regularly underwent spirit possession by various "gods". However - the advice seldom seemed useful to them, or the directions their lives took towards greater growth. <br /><br />I came to the conclusion that they were "being led around by the nose" by a group of spirits playing at being "gods". I recommended your "The Magic Power of Witchcraft" book and the chapter on spirit possession and testing what the spirits say and, when necessary, not following their advice. You posited a common sense approach with safeguards (the circle casting, discipline with time of meditation, etc.) that I think many "spirit speakers" in the New Age circles do not use. <br /><br />Once more - thank you for the work you have done, the integrity you have maintained over the years despite opposition, and the practical and workable advice in your published writings over the years.Ayn Soph Aurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01060137890007548332noreply@blogger.com