Walking the Twilight Path: A Gothic Book of the Dead | 
 enlarge | Author: Michelle Belanger
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
Buy New: $10.57
You Save: $8.38 (44%)
New (37) Used (6) from $9.50
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 102512
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0738713236
Dewey Decimal Number: 130
EAN: 9780738713236
ASIN: 0738713236
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand new item. Over 3.5 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Order with confidence. Code: B20081130225628T
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
"Walking the Twilight Path" introduces a unique spiritual path of personal transformation and rebirth. But first, you must venture through the gates of death. This mystical journey is for pagans, witches, goths, and anyone attracted to the beauty and mystery of death - a necessary and natural transition. Drawing on the wisdom of shamans, Tibetan Buddhists, and ancient Egyptians, Michelle Belanger illuminates death as a beautiful gateway to change and regeneration. Meditating on gravestone sculptures, creating a Necromantic medicine bag, keeping a personal book of the dead, and other exercises will help you explore the vital, transformative forces of death. On this life-affirming journey, you will visit the 'Otherside', reach out to spirits, and master how to work with death energies for growth and personal empowerment.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Ges's Take October 4, 2008
Gesigewigus (Toronto)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Death is a subject hidden behind fear and ignorance, and our society at once strives to glorify death and shield use from its truth, but some believe death should be embraced. This book opens the way for readers to walk "The Twilight Path", a path accepting of the truth, nature and inevitability of death. Death is not an end, but a point of transformation, from the moment we are born, we are dying, and transforming, the most profound transformation occurring when you give yourself up to death and the otherside. This book leads you, gradually to begin the Twilight Path, something easily integrated into any spiritual tradition that does not deny life after death, through a sacrifice of yourself, creating Sacred Space for Death in your life, spirit work, and cemetery work, all of it culminating into an initiation death/rebirth ritual.
This book treats death respectfully without being a "Dark Book of Darketty Darkness", yet treats it natural and with gentle humour without denying its gravity. The book draws heavily on Michelle's personal experience with death and dying, and the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, as well as Egyptian, Greek and Shamanic traditions. The book contains a good selection of thoughtful journal questions to help you think through your connection with death, as well as a very detailed and visual description of what happens as your body decays (it took me a lot of reading to find that out a few years ago, this would have been much easier), and even interesting tidbits like interesting epitaphs of famous people. A thought provoking read, with a lot of good suggestions, rituals, journals and information, highly recommended to anyone who isn't going to shy away from a bit of corpse and death.
A key book on death and dying--a rare gem indeed. September 30, 2008
Raven Digitalis (Missoula, MT United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
My 'official blurb' below. And I mean every word of it. This book brought me to tears. It's one not to be without, methinks:
Death is a topic not to be avoided, and is one of utmost importance to the serious spiritual seeker. In this profoundly deep necromantic-shamanic tome, death is neither glamorized nor idealized, but looked at in a realistic, intelligent, and spiritual light. Michelle Belanger explores numerous aspects of death and dying, and readers are encouraged to enter the world beyond the veil--and learn from it--at their own pace. Indeed, the realm of death is immaculately intertwined with our own. I can say with certainty that Walking the Twilight Path is an indispensable book for those wishing to advance, actualize, and intensely deepen their spiritual practice.
|
|
|
