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The Way of Merlin: The Prophet, the Goddess and the Land
Book by Stewart, RJ
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First published July 28, 1997
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R.J. Stewart
65 books82 followersRobert John Stewart (Bob Stewart) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father came from a Gaelic speaking family originally from the Western Highlands. His mother was Welsh, from a Welsh speaking family from the Gower Peninsula in South Wales, with a tradition of singing and playing the Welsh triple-harp. He is known today as a composer, author, and teacher, with 40 books in publication, translated into many languages worldwide. He is widely experienced in theater, film, and television, and is a skilled performer and presenter.
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December 13, 2009
This book is transformative. Not something you can breeze through. Each step and each process takes you to a different level within yourself and enables you to take a journey within and communicate with your own and others magical abilities. Not a book for the quick fix, it is a process of growth and evolving and an accelerator.
September 20, 2014
I may read this again someday and give it a higher rating. At present, I don't like the narrow slant on a subject I am only beginning to explore. I know there is something to this intense interest I have in all things concerning Merlin and Arthur.
I've seen authors such as Steinbeck fall head over heels in love with the subject (Steinbeck spent 8 years pursuing the elusive spirit of the subject, and even relocated to the area to better understand his boyhood obsession with Mallory's Morte d'Arthur.)
I've seen the storyline bent this way and that by other authors equally in love with the "something" behind it all. I am not currently interested in any author who pins it all down too succinctly, such as R. J. Stewart tries to do in this book. His tone is a bit "my way of the highway" as he seeks to verify his own take on the matter while dismissing others who, according to him, haven't quite gotten it right.
No one knows.
Hence the thousands of books given over to the subject.
I don't know, either. But I sense it. Until I have a better understanding of the spirit behind all this, I don't seek to nail down the butterfly. I'll follow it, instead, keeping those brilliant colors in view as much as possible as it flits in and out of the greenery.
I've seen authors such as Steinbeck fall head over heels in love with the subject (Steinbeck spent 8 years pursuing the elusive spirit of the subject, and even relocated to the area to better understand his boyhood obsession with Mallory's Morte d'Arthur.)
I've seen the storyline bent this way and that by other authors equally in love with the "something" behind it all. I am not currently interested in any author who pins it all down too succinctly, such as R. J. Stewart tries to do in this book. His tone is a bit "my way of the highway" as he seeks to verify his own take on the matter while dismissing others who, according to him, haven't quite gotten it right.
No one knows.
Hence the thousands of books given over to the subject.
I don't know, either. But I sense it. Until I have a better understanding of the spirit behind all this, I don't seek to nail down the butterfly. I'll follow it, instead, keeping those brilliant colors in view as much as possible as it flits in and out of the greenery.
February 27, 2014
Interesting take on the Merlin tradition. Ned to review in light of reading some of his other work now.
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