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A Mystic Guide to Cleansing & Clearing
A Mystic Guide to Cleansing & Clearing takes a new approach to the practice of cleansing our lives. Using energetic methods from a variety of traditions and philosophies yet geared for the pagan mind, you will uncover energetic burdens and learn how to transform and clear them from your life. These teachings from the Western magickal traditions will arm you with the tools necessary to clear your space, cleanse your body, cast out negative entities, and clear the slate for a fresh start.
152 pages, Paperback
Published September 30, 2016
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March 7, 2018
I picked this up at the library because it was the best in terms of brevity, comprehensiveness, and down-to-the-point explanation. David Salisbury is good at balancing the spiritual and pragmatic in how he writes. Sections are easy to skip to for those seeking something specific. I highly recommend it for those wanting a comprehensive look at the basics.
August 29, 2017
Absolutetly loved this book. Heaps of simple recipes for today and not the middle ages. Very interesting helpful info regarding curses, crosses, ghost vs spirit and all the different "helpers". Recommend to anyone even vaguely interested or confused about the subject matter.
June 23, 2018
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Quando comprei esse livro eu já imaginava que ele não seria tão completo, mas confesso que esperava algo um pouco menos genérico.
Eu também esperava que ele fosse mais voltado para limpeza de espaços físicos, ao invés de se concentrar tanto em limpeza espiritual pessoal. Mas, nesse ponto foi uma surpresa até positiva, pois achei muito interessante o material voltado para esse fim.
Os maiores problemas do livro, na verdade, são o seu excesso de generalismo, uma mistura um tanto exagerada de linhas espirituais, e o fato imperdoável da leitura dar sono. Não, ele não dava sono só antes de dormir por falta de adrenalina causada pela leitura, deu sono em todas as horas do dia em que peguei o livro para ler.
Cheguei à conclusão de que é um livro muito mais voltado para consulta de receitas do que para ler de cabo a rabo como eu fiz. As receitas em si são até bastante interessantes, em especial as de limpeza espiritual pessoal (estou doida para testar os banhos sugeridos), e na sua maioria simples, o que facilita muito a vida.
Mas no geral deixou muito a desejar para mim. Recomendo para iniciantes apenas.
Quando comprei esse livro eu já imaginava que ele não seria tão completo, mas confesso que esperava algo um pouco menos genérico.
Eu também esperava que ele fosse mais voltado para limpeza de espaços físicos, ao invés de se concentrar tanto em limpeza espiritual pessoal. Mas, nesse ponto foi uma surpresa até positiva, pois achei muito interessante o material voltado para esse fim.
Os maiores problemas do livro, na verdade, são o seu excesso de generalismo, uma mistura um tanto exagerada de linhas espirituais, e o fato imperdoável da leitura dar sono. Não, ele não dava sono só antes de dormir por falta de adrenalina causada pela leitura, deu sono em todas as horas do dia em que peguei o livro para ler.
Cheguei à conclusão de que é um livro muito mais voltado para consulta de receitas do que para ler de cabo a rabo como eu fiz. As receitas em si são até bastante interessantes, em especial as de limpeza espiritual pessoal (estou doida para testar os banhos sugeridos), e na sua maioria simples, o que facilita muito a vida.
Mas no geral deixou muito a desejar para mim. Recomendo para iniciantes apenas.
June 2, 2017
Well-written and super informative! Had the pleasure of meeting the author in-person some months back and found him to be quite awesome as well.
February 13, 2018
I have got to get this book for my craft library. It is a must have for me.
February 24, 2019
very basic
March 25, 2019
One or two useful things in here, but largely not for someone who does not follow Wicca. There was too much woo-woo in here for me.
February 22, 2023
I don't know where to start, to be honest. They almost had me with the introduction, but utterly thrashed all hopes within the very first chapter.
Out the door, there's your usual appropriative nonsense. And while the author did state they were drawing from many traditions to synthesize new methods and ideas, that still doesn't excuse using words like "smudging" and "totem" in the year of our Lord 2015 / 2016, when this book was published; we'd already been having conversations about how decidedly not ok that language was- and had offered up plenty of alternatives, by then. There's no excuse. And the fact the author went on to write a book about "Witchcraft Activism" less than 3 years later is almost laughable given the repeat use of appropriative terminology- if not potential appropriation itself- within this book.
There's also just a sheer lack of knowing what they're even talking about to begin with- especially where it concerns literally the most basic, beginner level terminology found across several Pagan traditions. For one example: A Censer and a Cauldron, for instance, are two very different items- and anyone familiar with basic tools knows as much. So when you outright call a Cauldron a 'Censer' (specifically, quote: " My preferred type of censer is a cauldron") without prefacing it with any kind of discussion on additional receptacles that are Censer-like and can also be used to burn Incense in lieu of owning a Censer (or even wanting to, since they're rather specialized and difficult to learn to handle properly / safely), without being Censers... I'm not exactly inclined to think you know what you're doing- let alone have enough expertise to be out there writing books about it.
In general, the information is paltry and leads a lot to be desired; at best it's not even surface level. It's barely glancing. Enough to give you such a vague and highly generalized idea that it's nearly worthless and virtually incorrect- if not blatantly incorrect in some instances. And while I understand that it's a chapter on tools, and the subject of tools has been beaten to deal at this point and there's not much more to be said about it ... At least a little ingenuity or creativity would have been nice at bare minimum. Or, at least, not over-generalizing an hyper-simplifying things so bad you essentially botch them and make me lose all faith in your abilities (especially your ability to teach).
What took the cake in the first chapter, however, was this jolly little paragraph:
All I could think, reading this horridly moronic paragraph, was legitimately just "what White People nonsense is this?" ; granted, there is a ‘right’ way and a ‘wrong’ way to kill animals for ritual use- the rules of which vary per culture and tradition, and the various multitude of intersection thereof ... But good lords ... This is such a white Pagan mindset. It actively hurts.
Despite the 3- maybe 4- decent quotes I got out of it, I ultimately had to DNF the book before getting through the first chapter or risk losing my eyes in the back of my head (or chucking my Kinde). I have no idea if I will be able to convince myself to pick it back up, but I can very safely say already that there are much better books on the market that synthesize traditions on the topic of Cleansing. I wouldn't recommend wasting your money on this one. Whether it's a book that's meant for beginners or not, it's just sad.
Out the door, there's your usual appropriative nonsense. And while the author did state they were drawing from many traditions to synthesize new methods and ideas, that still doesn't excuse using words like "smudging" and "totem" in the year of our Lord 2015 / 2016, when this book was published; we'd already been having conversations about how decidedly not ok that language was- and had offered up plenty of alternatives, by then. There's no excuse. And the fact the author went on to write a book about "Witchcraft Activism" less than 3 years later is almost laughable given the repeat use of appropriative terminology- if not potential appropriation itself- within this book.
There's also just a sheer lack of knowing what they're even talking about to begin with- especially where it concerns literally the most basic, beginner level terminology found across several Pagan traditions. For one example: A Censer and a Cauldron, for instance, are two very different items- and anyone familiar with basic tools knows as much. So when you outright call a Cauldron a 'Censer' (specifically, quote: " My preferred type of censer is a cauldron") without prefacing it with any kind of discussion on additional receptacles that are Censer-like and can also be used to burn Incense in lieu of owning a Censer (or even wanting to, since they're rather specialized and difficult to learn to handle properly / safely), without being Censers... I'm not exactly inclined to think you know what you're doing- let alone have enough expertise to be out there writing books about it.
In general, the information is paltry and leads a lot to be desired; at best it's not even surface level. It's barely glancing. Enough to give you such a vague and highly generalized idea that it's nearly worthless and virtually incorrect- if not blatantly incorrect in some instances. And while I understand that it's a chapter on tools, and the subject of tools has been beaten to deal at this point and there's not much more to be said about it ... At least a little ingenuity or creativity would have been nice at bare minimum. Or, at least, not over-generalizing an hyper-simplifying things so bad you essentially botch them and make me lose all faith in your abilities (especially your ability to teach).
What took the cake in the first chapter, however, was this jolly little paragraph:
The discarded remnants of animals resonate with the natural powers of that animal’s [Spirit]. I say ‘discarded’ because we should always look for animal tools that were given freely through shedding, or the natural death process. An animal should never be killed with the intention of using his or her body as a tool because that tool will then be desecrated with the memory of a needless killing at human hands.
All I could think, reading this horridly moronic paragraph, was legitimately just "what White People nonsense is this?" ; granted, there is a ‘right’ way and a ‘wrong’ way to kill animals for ritual use- the rules of which vary per culture and tradition, and the various multitude of intersection thereof ... But good lords ... This is such a white Pagan mindset. It actively hurts.
Despite the 3- maybe 4- decent quotes I got out of it, I ultimately had to DNF the book before getting through the first chapter or risk losing my eyes in the back of my head (or chucking my Kinde). I have no idea if I will be able to convince myself to pick it back up, but I can very safely say already that there are much better books on the market that synthesize traditions on the topic of Cleansing. I wouldn't recommend wasting your money on this one. Whether it's a book that's meant for beginners or not, it's just sad.
January 24, 2023
Aimed at beginners, but a solid intro
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