She: Primal Meetings with the Dark Goddess

To look at the cover there would be those that do not know who would think: Oh yeah..Pesky Pagans wanting to flaunt Goddess naught bits with scary eyes and then run away in a huff..lol.....without seeing beauty or the mystery. I have been reading this book and it will surprise you. Even those of New-age or Pagan type paths are often not fully educated in the who, why, what and where's of the ancient world and how the forces of the female were looked upon. This book covers this from several angles giving a much better and deeper understanding of the Goddess and ourselves with compelling meditations and great art work. Well done! Storm Constantine and Andrew Collins.

Before you is a book the new age crowd will enjoy, but the dedicated, the pagan, the occult research will find little use or value in this work. Laying it bear the issue of this book is it is neither encyclopedic nor do the authors understand the subject matter they transcribe. To the authors, these beings are nothing more than the origination of myth. Tales passed down orally became twisted from their original nugget of truth until they became codified in the culture they originated from.There are no beings to worship. Instead, they are concepts that inspire and originate myth from the creative workings of the mind. Never mind one cannot trust chemicals in the brain to inform you that they are chemicals in the brain (IE if they can invent reality, you perceive you can never prove they exist because you are viewing a reality they create). There is an underlying post-modernist tone to the author's understanding.This is not supposition. The authors make their views on the matter clear in the opening chapters. Anyone familiar with paganism will balk at the statement that pagans are worshiping no actual beings. Be they primordial or egregorian.Indeed then the work has some academic merit? No. None of the entries are exhaustively detailed or present a concise profile of the entity in question. The authors admit they permit the addition of modernized myth into depictions of these beings. Creating a dangerous position for those utilizing this as a reference book to pick an entity to commune with.Each entry is a mini-essay providing a brief overview of each goddess. Sometimes mentioning research, but concluding with the authors' failure to do due diligence in following up to confirm whether some matters had historical validity or are the product of faulty interpretations by archeologists and scholars.The advertised meditation is a simple visualization technique—nothing profound or providing extensive enlightenment. On a positive note, it should cut down on people accidentally connecting with entities they are incapable of getting rid of.As I read the book I had to ask myself who it was for. Occultists and Pagans would desire a more exhaustive and concise work to draw inspiration or ideas from. The causal reader stands to gain nothing from a work that doesn't understand the ideological values that lie at the center of the subject. New Agers are likely this works target audience and to their credit, they will not care the book imparts little occult knowledge or enlightenment.Not all works need to be written by practitioners. Talented people can set aside their own ideological perspective to provide a valid transcription of ideas. Unfortunately with a lot of academics there is an intellectual snobbery when it comes to the metaphysical. Even as mounting evidence emerges from the scientific fields in the west (the east never denied this stuff) they regard it as nothing more than superstition by a primitive people. Rather than attempting to understand the ideology or even spending a week or two with a circle of witches, warlocks or occultists, they disregard any validity of the subject matter.I'll end this with an interesting tale. In Zimbabwe (I believe), a series of dams in the high lands needed maintenance as they were aging to the point they needed repair. They gathered together workers and sent them up to work on the levees and dams. A day or so later they came back down, making headlines refusing to work as local mermaids who had made the man-made lakes their homes did not take kindly to their trespass. As they attempted to work, they had strange sightings, and machinery that had no prior issues began as they claimed to have issues. The workers being superstitious, refused to stay less they incur the wrath of these creatures.Now their employers outright thought they were full of it and were creating these stories as a means to avoid having to work. Their solution was to send white (this is in their news and their statements) workers up there who were not as superstitious as their black counterparts. A day after this plan was sent into motion the less superstitious workers came back down to report everything their counterparts had said was true and began happening to them.Shamans were called to appease these entities while the workers worked, so they were able to repair the structures in question. Point of the story, we may not understand how these entities exist. Whether they are ultra-terrestrial, operate on a dimensional level that our understanding of physics hasn't reached yet, or are non-local consciousnesses. Regardless of your view or the reality of their existence they do exist. This story is not one in isolation. There are similar accounts from all over the planet. Iceland famously will not move boulders because Fae live in them. Owe they've tried and immediately experience high strangeness until the boulder was returned.Yes, some stories will be embellishments that catch the cultural attention and survive. There is no denying this. Yet if you are going to write a tome like this you should approach it with an open mind or at the very least ask a Pagan what is they do. Aleister Crowley was very forthcoming with his thoughts on the matter.

Mother Nature is more Jungle than Garden of Edendwelling within are dozens of dark Goddessessulky , sullen , fearsome , vengeful , lustful , deadly + dangerousfemale entities U knowand those U don'tlet them reveal themselves + their secretsbesides beguiling prose , beautiful drawings + illustrations will guide the waythe journey - an odyssey of desire perhapscoz She is Bewitching