The Healing Craft: Healing Practices for Witches and Pagans

by Janet Farrar, Stewart Farrar, Gavin Bone

The Healing Craft is the first work of it's kind aimed toward the Pagan market. Although directed at those seeking to use the healing arts from a purely Pagan perspective, it will be useful to any who are interested in complementary therapies. Written with this in mind, The Healing Craft is both academic and practical, combining chapters on the necessary information required to be a healer (e.g. chapters on the physical and spiritual body) with several chapters designed to increase the reader's skills in several different healing techniques. All the chapters bring together both the orthodox medical viewpoint with that of the complementary therapist.Included within the book are chapters on Spiritual Healing, Massage and Aromatherapy, Shamanistic and Magical Practices, Counselling (with Tarot and Past Life Regression) plus a chapter on Last Rites. Obviously it is impossible to do justice to many of these subjects in a single chapter, so they have been written to!guide the reader to what they will need to learno heal others effectively, while offering basic practical skills. This makes The Healing Craft an invaluable guide to those seeking to practice healing from a holistic pagan viewpoint.

Genres: Wicca, Witchcraft, Spirituality, Paganism

269 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Janet Farrar, along with Stewart, is author of many books on witchcraft, and a well known witch who has appeared frequently in the media. She currently lives in Ireland and regularly tours the U.S.A. giving lectures and workshops.

Reviews

[Anni · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book combines a lot of theories and spiritual practices into one. There's some Jungian psychology in there, as well as a lot of talk about mythology and deities. The rituals presented in this book are very Wicca-based. There's also some discussion on auras, chakras, herbalism, massages and Tarot. I just felt like the book was just all over the place.

There are some rituals and information that could really come in handy, but I felt like this book just wasn't for me. It's definitely a spiritual book and I personally would've liked a more scientific approach.

There are a lot of good ideas in this book but don't rely on it.

[Melissa]

This book can be read straight through or by cherry picking the chapters. :)