Spiritual Mentoring: A Pagan Guide

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 265 pages
• Published by: Ecw Press October 1, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1550225197
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1550225198
• Book Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 8.8 ounces

Product Review
"This book is both an important resource and a delight to read." -- PanGaia

Product Description
The path towards enlightenment is best traveled with a guide. Spiritual mentoring is the process of assisting others in their quests to deepen and sustain contact with the holy, a complex practice in any religion. This guide focuses on spiritual teaching issues within the Pagan community and addresses topics such as good seeker-to-mentor matching, clear communication, religious maturity, and the role of community. Exercises for clarifying and enriching spiritual relationships are described and are accompanied by open-ended questions intended to help readers find their own spiritual answers.

Reader Reviews
This book is amazing. In my opinion, one of the best traits in a pagan author is willingness to draw from many sources, since the pagan community is so diverse. In this work Harrow draws on her own experiences, comments from other pagan teachers, and both secular and religious counseling models. The result is a pagan book unlike any that I've ever read. The non-pagan source material outweighs the pagan source material, but it is all put into a pagan framework, and you find yourself saying, "Yes, that makes sense, yes, that's exactly right!" Harrow gives no space to lesson plans, assigning students to levels, or how to convince pupils that your way is The Right Way. Instead, she focuses on qualities that mentors need to develop in order to teach, and gives suggestions about skillsets and understandings that students might need to learn to become functioning members of pagan community. Other jewels of the book include its chapter-specific bibliographies and excercises. Best of all, Harrow reminds the reader over and over again that the most important thing for any teacher or student is to listen to the Entheoi, the still small voice within us that is our link to the Gods. Highly recommended for teachers and students in the pagan tradition.