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Summary: WTG Silver!
Review: Hello there. I wouldn't be a Witch if it weren't for Silver's wonderful books. I proceeded through her "New Generation" books in order, and I completely agree with the author in that "Sacred Flame" has more difficult and complicated material. Those who don't think so, well, kudos to you for being so extremely advanced! (sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm.) No, wait, sorry about that. But please, look at this in perspective. The book does contain some more advanced magickal techniques, and should follow reading "Broomstick" and "Cauldron" by the same author. Love, love, love it!
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Summary: too commercial for a spirituality book
Review: i am disappointed with silver ravenwolf for many reasons (the "teen witch kit" to name a big one). this is one of three books in a series. if you are a very beginner and just learning the general ideas of witchcraft, this book is okay but i would not take it too seriously. there is not enough attention payed to important matters about the spirituality of witchcraft/wicca/paganism and far too much payed to making silly powders to win the lottery. come on now, if these "luck" powders really worked how come we are buying our books used and for the sale prices on amazon:) magick is serious and you need to have a firm foundation and know the basic moral principles before practicing. that is not what you get from this book at all. i bought mine because of the cover art and because i desperately wanted to give silver ravenwolf a chance. it is nothing against her as a person, she is nice for i have met her. i just think that the capitalism has gone to her head and that she is more concerned with making money than magick. it can happen to the best of us, but you do not want to buy a book about spirituality from someone who is "all about the money". i use it in my coven as a "what NOT to do" book.
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Summary: too commercial for a spirituality book
Review: i am disappointed with silver ravenwolf for many reasons (the "teen witch kit" to name a big one). this is one of three books in a series. if you are a very beginner and just learning the general ideas of witchcraft, this book is okay but i would not take it too seriously. there is not enough attention payed to important matters about the spirituality of witchcraft/wicca/paganism and far too much payed to making silly powders to win the lottery. come on now, if these "luck" powders really worked how come we are buying our books used and for the sale prices on amazon:) magick is serious and you need to have a firm foundation and know the basic moral principles before practicing. that is not what you get from this book at all. i bought mine because of the cover art and because i desperately wanted to give silver ravenwolf a chance. it is nothing against her as a person, she is nice for i have met her. i just think that the capitalism has gone to her head and that she is more concerned with making money than magick. it can happen to the best of us, but you do not want to buy a book about spirituality from someone who is "all about the money". i use it in my coven as a "what NOT to do" book.
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Summary: She should have stopped with the second book
Review: I don't want to come off as someone just out to bash Silver's books. I have read several of them (To Ride A Silver Broomstick, To Stir a Magic Cauldron, To Light a Sacred Flame, Teen Witch) and some of her books have reedeeming qualities. But the recent ones have some real problems.To Ride a Silver Broomstick is, in my opinion, an excellent book for strict beginners. Although I don't agree with everything she said, or how she said it, most of it was good stuff. I don't agree completely with any single author. Her information was fairly good, and her presentation style was friendly and easy going. It came across as if you were sitting having coffee with her discussing these topics. She had the air of someone who had learned a lot through trial and error, and wanted to share. But she still seemed to understand that she had a lot still to learn. The next book was still OK. Not as usefull, but it still had a lot of interesting exercieses and suggestions. The tone changed a bit, becoming a bit more formal. But I still did not find it off putting. Teenwitch was one of the worst pieces of writting I have ever read. I found it hard to believe that she actually has teenagers of her own. I don't know of any teenager who would not bristle if talked to the way she talked to her audiance in that book. Her audiance is supposed to be teenagers, but she talks to them as if they were 10 or under. Not to mention the manipulative nature of some of the spells in the book. If I worked in a school I know I would be hesitant about a book that instructs children to cast spells at teachers, students, and bus drivers in order to get their way. When I read To Light A Sacred Flame I had to wonder if Silver had gone over the deep end. She has found that she fits well in a coven setting. That is nice for her. But her constant reference to herself as a "linaged Witch" gets annoying. A linage is only important to people within the specific traditions. I don't care if she has initiation in to 100 covens and is Witch Queen of dozens of hived off covens. Titles are not impressive, but she comes off as being impressed with herself in this book. Her tone is almost as bad as in Teen Witch, even though in this book she supposedly realizes she is speaking to adults. Her whole Mama Silver attitude is grating. I know I already have one mother, and she does an excellent job on her own. I don't need some author who seems to have become so removed from her audiance that she seems to need to envision herself in a place of authority over them, speaking down to them. My real mother would not speak down to me that way, even when I really was a little child. The material itself in this book is very lacking. The one redeming quality of the first two books was that they presented useful information in a user friendly format. This book seemed like a streatch to come up with enough to include in order to come up with sufficient material to fill the book. In the first two books the material came across as tried and true. As if she was sharing her personal rituals and exercises that she had been using for years with sucess. In this book I got the feeling that she was making up new stuff just for this book. Overall I don't think that Siver is a bad author. I think she has a lot of good information to share. I just think she has forgotten how to speak to people to share her ideas. She has gone from being a friendly source of information with a unique perspective to share, and has become a "Public Pagan" who no longer talks to people, but lectures at them.
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Summary: Good
Review: I like this book. Once you have learned the basics, her exercises help to really examine the "building blocks" of what you're doing. I'm not Wiccan, but I still found a lot of the information thought provoking. I haven't read To Ride or To Stir, but it's certainly better than Teen Witch. I'm not sure I know why everyone says it stems from capitalism, but oh well. I find her writing a lot less dogmatic than some other writers, and I like that. If you can get past the odd cover art, I think the book is worth it.
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Summary: Commercial [junk]!
Review: I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. It is completely useless. There are only exersises in this book and Ravenwolf isn't bothering about any safety methods. Some of the exersises are fine, but you would find them in other books too.
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Summary: could've been better...
Review: It just seemed to me that Silver was just coming up with things to write about because of the contract she had to write 3 books in a series. Some of the stuff was interesting but alot of it was repetitive of To Ride and To Stir.
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Summary: 3rd in a series of very helpful books
Review: Ok, I've read the reviews where people talk about the covers but we're talking about the actual book! Not what's on the outside but all of the useful information on the inside. Ms. RavenWolf has presented material that is very valuable to the intermediate Wiccan/Witch (whatever you call yourself!) The whole book is about personal power and how *you* can make things happen for yourself. This book equally focuses on the magicakal part as well as the religious side of Wicca. The reason I couldn't give 5 stars is because Ms. RavenWolf can be a little condescending. I understand that she wants you to do the excerices but if I don't want to then, I shouldn't have to read "tsk, tsk, tsk"! She's not my mom! Other than that, the book is great. If you're a beginner, pick up the other two in the "To..." series first. I wonder if there will be anymore?
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Summary: This is not Advanced Work
Review: Some people consider $ilver Ravenwolf a good author for advanced work. They are wrong. If you are strictly a beginner, you might think "wow, third in a series" and consider this book to be an achievement. It is a rehash of the same Wicca 101 that was written in Broomstick and Cauldron (which at least was the best written of the three), but this time is just the few scraps she forgot to invent in the other two. No, there are better authors out there. If you've already read one of her books, you don't need to read this. I recommend Buckland for just above beginner, and Gardner for the serious student of the Craft. I wish she would stop insulting all true witches who have spent years learning and studying with her trite fluff. If she is a witch, what coven did she come from that tried to pass that off as real Witchcraft? Does she even bother to try to explain the difference between the two overlapping spheres of Wicca and Witchcraft? Does she care that some people want Wicca and Witchcraft to be taken seriously, and have to fight her every step of the way? No, she writes for her money, and doesn't care about how she hurts others in doing so.
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Summary: Not Very Usefull
Review: This book is not very usefull, but it still has some good information. It's a great book about ritual work, mind magick (i.e. hypnoses), and for the making of a magickal home. The worst chapter was called "Turning Your Enviorment Into Harmony" because I am only 14 years old and I am a male Wiccan Witch, and I don't have timeto even meditate when school comes. I liked the two first books better, "To Ride a Silver Broomstick", and "To Stir a Magick Cauldron".
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