The Cauldron of Memory: Retrieving Ancestral Knowledge & Wisdom

by Raven Grimassi

Many of us long to walk in the footsteps of our ancestors and take part in the sacred traditions of past generations. As a vitally important lineage bearer of your ancestors, you have the ability to tap into a wealth of hereditary knowledge for spiritual health, personal transformation, and enlightenment. The Cauldron of Memory is a groundbreaking book that teaches you how to retrieve ancestral memory, based on the emerging science of morphogenesis and the theory that ancestral memory is stored within our DNA as energy. Raven Grimassi guides you through an effective and powerful system of creative visualization, magical techniques, meditations, and pathworkings for each of your three inner regeneration, abundance, and enlightenment. Reconstruct pagan rituals and works of magic, relive sacred rites, communicate with otherworldly beings, contact your spirit guides, and unearth long-buried mysteries. Reconstructionists, eclectics, and traditionalists alike will discover empowering techniques for calling forth a treasury of ancestral wisdom. Discover the living ancestral memory at the core of your own spiritual center and reclaim the hidden vessel of your ancestral lineage―the Cauldron of Memory.

Genres: Nonfiction

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Raven Grimassi was an American author of over 20 books, and a scholar of paganism with over 40 years of research and study in the genre of Wicca, Stregheria, witchcraft and neo-paganism.

Reviews

[Beverley · Rating 4 out of 5]

-light easy to open and hold and the text isn't too small to read.
-interesting book very much older way of doing things which is so nice to read
-lovely practical meditations though once again wish they were available online
-not enough information about ancestors considering the title says its about Ancestral knowledge
-ancestor work doesn't really start until chapter ten
-loved the imagery and history woven throughout the book

[Paola Dunbar · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an intresting read. I really enjoyed the history, pathworkings and excersices throughout the book. He does recommend doing the rituals in order as you will need some of the ritual items made in previous rituals to do later rituals which is pretty annoying if your not intrested in that ritual, but I do think you could adapt the rituals to suit you if you wanted to do them. Overall it was a good enjoyable read and learned something new.

[Jenn · Rating 2 out of 5]

There was nothing inherently wrong with the book; it was just a little heavy on the ceremonial for my tastes. I'm a Kitchen Witch and anything I use in my magic I already have. A skull representation big enough to affix a candle to? Nope don't have that. Cording in multiple colors? Nope the closest I got is embroidery floss. I also felt like the middle was one big pitch for you to buy his tarot card set so you could do the exercises. An interesting idea and read but not going to become one of my favorites any time soon.

[Greyer Jane · Rating 1 out of 5]

REally not a very good book. Several things pulled from several other books, that are casually mention, such as R. J. Stewart's cord work, and a tree structure idea very close to "The Tree of Enchantment" by Orion Foxwood. Add that to some besom drills that look like a cross between flag corps and rifle drills, no footnotes, and several pages filled with re-prints of his cards from "The Hidden Path" with descriptive pathworkings for them, not an especially informative book.

[Judith D. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Looking forward to getting into this even more.