The Healing Craft: Healing Practices for Witches and Pagans

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 272 pages
• Published by: Phoenix Publish WA August 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0919345182
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0919345188
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Description
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.

About The Author
Janet and Stewart Farrar have authored eight books on witchcraft and have traveled globally giving workshops and seminars. Gavin Bone is a researcher who has been associated with the Farrars since 1993.

Reader Reviews
While implicitly touched upon in many works, few books are available that explicitly explore the world of health and healing in detail from a pagan or wiccan perspective. This unfortunate oversight has at long last been addressed. While it should come as no surprise that a medical ethnographer such as myself, who is looking at Craft healers and interested in ethnomedical systems, would find this book useful, I think the average reader with even a passing interest in healing from a Craft perspective would find the Farrar's and Bone's book a worthwhile introduction. The authors strike a good balance between the ardently materialist conceptions of modern medicine and nursing, and the additional understanding of the non-materialist dimensions of health from the vantage point of modern pagans, wiccans, and others. For example, the brief chapter on Jung is excellent. It is not a thorough or complete dissertation, by any means, but it gives the reader a clear and concise treatment of the topic and it's specifically occult connections. Although not a perfect book, this will nonetheless be a useful edition for anyone with an interest in health and healing and how this relates to the Craft at the dawn of the new millennium.