mad witch

Imagine you have a 20 UKP (Amazon accepted)book voucher to spend and
nothing on your wishlist. Which Pagan orientated book would you buy at the
moment, and why?

X
MW

trin

Mad Witch articulated:

It'd have to be:

http://tinyurl.com/kwx6

and

http://tinyurl.com/kwxb

I think I'd find them both interesting.

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nanny

Hmm interesting, yes, but not sure I'd class them as 'Pagan oriented'....

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Nanny
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thenie

"The Shadow Hunter" by Pat Murphy
A small novel, I've just read it again after having packed it away for some
15 years or more. I remember it being good, but I'd forgotten *how* good.
I remember now why it was at the top of the preferred reading list I gave my
pagan students. Very good at expressing a "here and now" pov; excellent at
communicating "living life as a spiritually-aware sacred act". I can't
recommend it enough.

-'Thenie

spyder

In article <bi71gh$5r3dp$4@ID-58128.news.uni-berlin.de>, Nanny quietly
whispered...


"Cyberia: Life in the Trenches..." certainly is, IMO, in that it covers,
amongst other things, the spiritual concepts that some experience within
rave culture. Reading that one put my head into a whole new headspace
that it took me days to get out of. A literary high, you might say
--
Spyder
There are three kinds of people
One will say "This glass is half empty"
One will say "This glass is half full"
And one will say "What? There's mead left?"

francis

In message <3f4f8ec1.2138425@news.clara.net>, * Mike Hubbard
<mhubbardNOSPAM@yahoo.co.uk> writes

Some of his basic history seemed to belong to a past age. Back in the
1930s, boys in London were taught that the Renaissance effectively began
in 1453 when Constantinople was captured by the Turks. The Greek
scholars then tucked their precious manuscripts under the arms and moved
themselves to Italy. It's a misleading half-truth. The Italian
Renaissance is already visible as early as 1300 with Giotto. And, to
some extent, the Classical world had never departed from Italy.

He also mentioned the taking of Toledo by the Christians as one of the
routes for the sciences to move into Europe. He appeared to be unaware
that Toledo was one of the great centres of learning and translation in
the Middle Ages. It was a home for Jewish, Christian and Moslem scholars
who assisted one another in the translation of texts from the
Hellenistic world.

IOW for too much of the time he seemed to be speaking from a biassed RC
point of view. You could sum up his thesis with : the Egyptians and the
Greeks had all these stories about gods in the sky. Then along came the
Christians and put astronomy on a proper scientific basis.

As I said :: a great disappointment.
--
Francis

danspam

But I thought that was precisely what he was saying. That scholarship in
the Moslem lands got spread to the Christian lands as a result of the
conquest (and, presumably, related movement of scholars).
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francis

In message <1g0d5xx.lujolv1youxyuN%danspam@f2s.com>, Daniel Cohen
<danspam@f2s.com> writes


You may well be right, but it came across differently to me. My overall
impression is that he underlined the effects of the 1453 conquest of
Constantinople to the detriment of the earlier transmissions. IOW he
gave 15th century Greeks more precedence than they really deserved. And
even then he spoke as though the Church was responsible when the primary
sources of encouragement were actually from rich families such as the
Medici.
--
Francis

trin

Nanny articulated:


S'pose that really depends how you define "Pagan" really dunnit? <g>

Cyberia (as Spyd mentioned) is definitely one for the more geeky types
I'd think, but I enjoyed reading it as far as I got (not sure where
we've buried it now mind *sigh*), and the Cybergypsies strikes me as
being along similar lines as Cyberia, but different.

HTH.

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will

| > "Trin" <trinity.nospam@btinternet.com> wrote |
| > > http://tinyurl.com/kwx6
| > > http://tinyurl.com/kwxb
| > > I think I'd find them both interesting.
| >
| > Hmm interesting, yes, but not sure I'd class them as 'Pagan
| > oriented'.... |
| S'pose that really depends how you define "Pagan" really dunnit? <g>

Oh god don't start that thread
again....plEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASSE!!!!! 8-(