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A Contemporary Western Book Of The Dead - An Anthology (Paperback, Large Type / Large Print Ed)
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A Contemporary Western Book Of The Dead - An Anthology (Paperback, Large Type / Large Print Ed)
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Within this book are rituals, stories, traditions and experiences
of magicians' scholars and artists who work with death. Some of the
contributors such as Nema, Mogg Morgan, Louis Martine and Nevill
Drury (to name but a few) have helped define contemporary
transformative spirituality. Others are less well known but just as
learned. As there should be in such a collection there is comedy,
anger, confrontation and practicality. This anthology is about who
we are, and where we come from. It is also about how we change. A
Contemporary Western Book of the Dead contains voices and visions
that acknowledge our past, feed our present and guide the direction
of our future. "I was musing on Singapore in all its affluent glory
still having shrines for the dead on every street corner during
'The Festival of the Hungry Ghosts'. Then I was musing on how the
socially mobile of modern western society eschew death rites and
grieving in the name of 'holding it together' and being
progressive. I thought of which civilisations are falling and which
are rising again, and wondered whether acknowledging death and the
ancestors is a vital part of maintaining personal identity and our
place in society. I remember how my grieving father mourned for all
the information he had relied on his deceased wife remembering;
information which was now lost. I recalled Michael Crichton's words
'If you don't know (your family's) history, then you don't know
anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.'
Then I thought maybe someone should write about the cults of the
ancestors and death, perhaps an anthology, perhaps cross relate
experiences of loss to personal spirituality and magick and
history. I know that years of working with the dead in the name of
art and spirituality, didn't prepare me for the death of my mother.
What helped me was the advice of someone from a long tradition of
working with the ancestors. I think that collecting the experiences
of spiritual practitioners in their working with grief and death is
part of a living and necessary tradition that will give respect to
the dead and strength, identity and support to our own personal
spirituality.' "
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