Becoming the Enchanter: A Journey to the Heart of the Celtic Mysteries

by Lyn Webster Wilde

A British television producer describes her odyssey into the pre-Christian spirituality of the British Isles, her discovery of a magical realm rooted in Celtic myth and tradition, and her initiation into the ancient Celtic sacred practices, old wisdom, and spiritual mysteries. 10,000 first printing.

Genres: Spirituality, Magic, Nonfiction, Autobiography

304 pages, Hardcover

First published October 14, 2002

Reviews

[Renee]

This is the third time I have read this book, and I still have no idea how to review it, or whether or not I should be giving it stars. It is a trip...either Wilde is giving us a rare glimpse into spiritual mysteries that have been in place for millenia, or she began a group of nuts who run around play-acting in fields (because this is a book, and one is not in person, it is hard to say). I personally hope that it is the former, if only because Wilde writes her narrative so well, but I am still indecisive about this one. Clearly, everyone experiences their own spiritual breakthroughs in their own way, and it may be hard to understand the revelations of others. I like to try to keep an open mind, but at times this one pushed me. Read it, but I think each person is going to have to decide for themselves what this means, and what has been accomplished.

[Joan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was…very strange. Not even sure what to say about it. I enjoyed it on some level, but I have to admit there were a few times throughout the text where I questioned the author’s sanity/sobriety haha. It kind of read like a novel which also made me wonder if it had been embellished. But who knows.
Also, the editing was bad. There were many, many typing errors throughout the book.

Here are some lines I liked:

“…[N]o one had given me permission to talk about these sacred - and presumably secret - things. But I remembered Cyril’s words again, ‘if you don’t pass it on, you lose it. It isn’t yours to withhold…’.” (Page 144)

“‘Never despise the ordinary, you who are so in love with interesting experiences.’” (Page 146)

“….What you did in one world had an effect in all the others, so that clear, clean physical space meant clear, clean psychic space.” (Page 162)

“‘It’s an impossible task, and yet we must attempt it, and in attempting it, we brush hands with something that wishes us to succeed. We acutely feel our own limitations, the chains of nature pulling us down…but we also feel the touch of the Creator’s breath on the back of our necks, and we have to believe that there is a way back, a way to remember.” (Page 183)

“Beginnings are important… ‘Everything is contained in the beginning, because as soon as you sound the note ‘do,’ the rest of the scale is present, in potential. A clumsy, misbegotten beginning soon aborts itself.’” (Page 258)

Lol I just realized almost all those quotes were delivered by Cyril. Maybe he should have written this book?

[Jayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

A wild spiritual journey. This story felt like an initiation and left me full of wonder and mystery.

[Joseph “Millennium Man” · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. Story mentions and has been compared to The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Author uses group dreaming and group meditation to go to the other world in order to solve a riddle as to salvage an ancient occult tradition.


My review could not do this book justice. I as one easily impressed.
I liked reading about an occult world that I would like to explore.

[Mel Walkom · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the first spiritual book I read that actually 'took' me in. I felt & seen everything that was written. I loved it. I still do.

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my happy deeply spiritual books.