Reviews for The Western Way: A Practical Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition The Native Tradition

The average rating for The Western Way: A Practical Guide to the Western Mystery Tradition The Native Tradition based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-17 00:00:00 Marc Koch Despite the fact that this books deals with racial memory, exploration of lands beyond our waking world, and the gods of our ancestral tribes, it is not an artsy-fartsy diatribe. Rather, it is a handbook, as much a nuts-and-bolts approach to western mysticism as an engineer's instructions on how to assemble a steam engine. The ability to sink into the ancestral landscape and enter the realms of the Otherworld is honed through a series of exercises involving meditation, visualization, imagination and psychology; interspersed throughout the exercises are essays on the western way, the old gods of Europe, the numinous landscape in which our ancestors trod ley-lines and erected megalithic centers. This book is aimed at the solitary seeker after self-wisdom who wants much more than is offered by eastern regimens of endless navel staring, middle eastern futility or native primitivism. This book will help those of European descent recapture much of what has been lost, to revitalize an ancestral history long neglected, and to once again perceive the faerie realms that were once so close to the material world.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-04-06 00:00:00 Brian Smoot An okay book that is a bit elementary. It's a good starting book for the curious Occultist, and it does mix a more western hermetic practice with a Pagan "shamanism" quite well. I've come to expect a bit more depth in the works of John and Caitlin Matthews, however being that this an early book of theirs I won't hold 'The Western Way' to the same standard of more recent works by the pair.