#BookReview: @LlewellynBooks Complete Book of Meditation by @STubali

Synopsis: Free Your Awareness and Awaken Your Energies with 35 Worldwide Meditation Techniques Enjoy a healthier and happier life with reduced stress, decreased pain, improved sleep, lengthened attention span, and fewer age-related memory problems. The key to these and other benefits? Meditation. Appropriate for practitioners of all skill levels, this new addition to Llewellyn's Complete Book Series features thirty-five fundamental meditation techniques from traditions around the globe, including one unique method of author Shai Tubali's own creation. These • Zazen (Classical Zen Meditation) • Qigong Standing Meditation • Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Body Scan • Taoist Inner Smile • Osho’s Mystic Rose • Japanese Forest Bathing • Sufi Whirling • Gurdjieff ’s “I Am” Meditation • Christian Prayer of the Heart • Islamic Dhikr • Hindu Aum Meditation • Sikh Kirtan Kriya • Jewish Hitbodedut • Ramana Maharshi’s Self-Inquiry • Tantric Hindu Kriya Yoga • Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen Shai presents each technique with its historical background, cultural context, potential benefits, and clear instructions for practicing it at home in a non-appropriative way. You will explore the fifteen purposes of meditation and the role of chakras. You will also learn how to align your mind and body, open your heart to love and compassion, use the hidden powers of sound, and more. This comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide introduces the magic of meditation in a way that is experiential, practical, and deeply researched. Every page encourages you to take your journey into the world of meditation further than ever before.

They are back! GoodWitch vs. BadWitch @WnP_Official

Your favorite dueling advice columnists Good Witch/Bad Witch have returned!

Witchy pair were reader favorites in our previous newWitch magazine, and now the dynamic duo is back with a regular presence on the PaganSquare blogosphere. 

Look for the common sense advice you have come to expect from Good Witch as well as Bad Witch's tart, sassy sense of humor (with an extra serving of whoop-ass as necessary.)

10 Questions and Answers for #Witches #Pagans #Wiccans

Thank you for checking out my site!   I really hope that you have been enjoying the past posts from the site The Pagan Reader.  Here are 10 Questions that I've been asked over the years. 

Homemade Magick by Lon Milo Duquette

You've read about magickal rituals, and rites, but what is the life of a magician really like? Lon Milo DuQuette shares his forty years as a magician, it's ups and downs, ins and outs, revealing the truth about magick from one of the world's most respected mages, and how the foundation of his magick is his family and home. Along the way you'll discover how to choose your magickal motto, perform a self-initiation ritual, make a Pantacle and magickal sword, raise children in a magickal home, perform the Rite of Earth, and live life as a true mage. Written in Lon's famous humorous style that makes learning and discovery joyous and fun, you'll find yourself breaking into laughter between acknowledging new discoveries about magick and life

#Review of The Raven Faerie Store

Hello this post is going to be all about the store located here in Lakeland, FL.  I love doing reviews. If you love to read (normal not just pagan) books then you should check out my other site Http://www.CrossroadReviews.com I am trying to keep them separate just for the fact that well this is faith and that isn't. 

The Raven Faerie

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Ok so today I went over to this store and started looking around. They have a pretty good range of crystals to choose from. They have some books and tarot cards as well.  The set up is pretty nice. However I think they need more items in the back room that branches off.  It seems a little empty in the one section.  But all in all it is a beautiful store.  I really loved the sitting area as well as the tarot table. It was not completely secluded but had a really nice feel to it. The throne that sits in the store is also wonderfully magickal. 

They have some one of a kind items that I have never seen before from wood men statues to some really neat copper balls.  They have a small selection of jewelry and some really cute coffee mugs from around $3.00 and up.  

The only thing I didn't like about the store was that a lot of the crystals were very high priced.  They also had some leather bag that were around $30+ and I thought from my experience it was a little high.  

So this store gets 

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Merry Meet!

As you may know I am just now getting back in touch with my path.  I took a few years off to deal with other things.  And at the time I really didn't have a healthy connection with the deities. My path was turing out to be more of what I wanted vs. celebrating what the god and goddess gave me.  So now 4-5 long years later.  The path has found me again.  And I am more ready than ever to start over.

Just so you know these posts have been posted before on my other site.  Im just reposting them here. 

#MerryMeet

It has been around 5 years since I have done anything with my religion. And I have a hole in my spirit because of it.  This year has been one of the worst that we've had.  

This year I tried to rekindle my love of my religion and the deities and it just didn't work out.  Trying to run multi sites has been a real mess.  So after much thought I decided to just integrate it all into this site.  So I hope that this doesnt turn you away from my site.

Ive been pagan for over 20 years and I hope to share with you some of the things that I've learned in that time.  From crystals to herbs and more.  I also hope to start teaching classes and doing readings again.  So if that is something you would be interested in please let me know in the comments. 

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