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Magical Healing: A Health Survival Guide for Magicians and Healers by Josephine McCarthy
Paperback workbook edition with extra wide margins for notetaking. Written by one of the world's leading adepts, Magical Healing is a 'must have' survival guide for magicians, witches, occultists, healers, tarot readers, and anyone else who delves into the strange and challenging world of magic, beings, energies, and power. Such adventures bring with them impacts that can directly affect the health and wellbeing of the mind and body--a heavily overlooked aspect of the world of magic and divination. Magical Healing guides the reader through the complexities of how to maintain a healthy mind and body while exploring the depths of magic, divination and healing. It explains how energies can affect our health and what to do about it, and how to use divination as a method of keeping a check on your own energetic health. Magical techniques of visionary healing are included, along with approaches to self-healing and maintenance, plus alternative therapies, and how to stay clean and protected. Magical Healing is presented in a large workbook format which gives space for margin note taking.
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First published January 1, 2014
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Josephine McCarthy
47 books102 followersJosephine McCarthy is an internationally renowned author, practitioner and teacher of western magic with forty years' experience as a practitioner and adept, and over twenty-five years of experience as a teacher in Europe and the USA. She has authored twenty-eight books on magic and is the creator and director of the Quareia magical school.
She has produced many original articles and essays on technical, historical and practical aspects of magical subject matter, and is known for her ground-breaking innovation in magical training and thought.
Today she spends her time assisting the students of Quareia, and producing articles and books for the Quareia school website, where they are made available to the public, free of charge.
www.quareia.com
She has produced many original articles and essays on technical, historical and practical aspects of magical subject matter, and is known for her ground-breaking innovation in magical training and thought.
Today she spends her time assisting the students of Quareia, and producing articles and books for the Quareia school website, where they are made available to the public, free of charge.
www.quareia.com
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July 20, 2018
Glad I read this book
There is a lot of material here that seems like it could be very useful. I am not saying that I buy into all of it entirely but a good bit of it makes some sense to me. I recommend for any open-minded person who even dabbles a little bit with magic, spirituality, prayer and so on.
There is a lot of material here that seems like it could be very useful. I am not saying that I buy into all of it entirely but a good bit of it makes some sense to me. I recommend for any open-minded person who even dabbles a little bit with magic, spirituality, prayer and so on.
November 8, 2022
Like many spiritual books, this has clearly been published with very little editorial oversight and struggles to consistently focus on a single topic in a sustained way. Add to this that the more interesting ideas are constantly mentioned as being in another book (which is the only text actually referenced within here — no bibliography makes me highly suspicious of pretty much everything mentioned within!!) makes this text actually seem highly reliant on a very specific set of spiritual practices. The use of Kabbalistic terms in such a decontextualised way makes me very suspicious, and I have some concerns about the preoccupation with the concept of purity, particularly when the author describes certain people (such as Indians) as being 'spiritually dirty'. This is a very clear ethical concern with the tone taken in this text.
This is not to mention how McCarthy continually contradicts herself with respect to her attitude to morals. On the one hand she claims that all bodies are different and it's not a moral question, but then proceeds to spent full chapters discussing how grains are spiritually impure and goes on to moralise about how genetically modified foods are going to kill us all. But McCarthy also endorses homeopathy by endowing it with far more respectability that its own history deserves. This is to say that she relies upon a kind of folk spiritualism that speaks down to what it doesn't understand.
Generally the tone taken in this text indicates that McCarthy feels the need to continually assert her own authority and experience without ever explaining this experience and continually talking down to the reader. But, given the lack of detail, it is very difficult to take her seriously as a teacher of any kind. Perhaps her other work is better, but I am unlikely to make time to read it given the quality of this.
If you want to use tarot to try and diagnose your physical ailments then perhaps this will be useful for you. But otherwise, this book is only really useful for hearing McCarthy's thoughts on things she does not seem interested in explaining. But, as she continually reminds us, she such an experienced magician. One might have thought that some of this experience would have been able to produce a better book.
This is not to mention how McCarthy continually contradicts herself with respect to her attitude to morals. On the one hand she claims that all bodies are different and it's not a moral question, but then proceeds to spent full chapters discussing how grains are spiritually impure and goes on to moralise about how genetically modified foods are going to kill us all. But McCarthy also endorses homeopathy by endowing it with far more respectability that its own history deserves. This is to say that she relies upon a kind of folk spiritualism that speaks down to what it doesn't understand.
Generally the tone taken in this text indicates that McCarthy feels the need to continually assert her own authority and experience without ever explaining this experience and continually talking down to the reader. But, given the lack of detail, it is very difficult to take her seriously as a teacher of any kind. Perhaps her other work is better, but I am unlikely to make time to read it given the quality of this.
If you want to use tarot to try and diagnose your physical ailments then perhaps this will be useful for you. But otherwise, this book is only really useful for hearing McCarthy's thoughts on things she does not seem interested in explaining. But, as she continually reminds us, she such an experienced magician. One might have thought that some of this experience would have been able to produce a better book.
April 19, 2019
The health tarot reading how-to is a game changer. I will be referencing this for wellness readings.
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