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Galdrbok ('spell-book') straddles the divide between the academic and the inspirational to provide arguably the most comprehensive and practical 'system' of Northwest European 'Heathen Shamanism' thus far in print. Nine years in preparation and painstakingly constructed by two practicing Heathen shamans, Galdrbok explores the magic of Migration Age Northwest Europe and outlines a complete self-study program of Heathen Runecraft. Galdrbok introduces the essential techniques of Scrying ('to descry'/'foresee'/crystal gaze), and Galdr (magical chants or sung spells), and other powerful techniques involving Runes (whispered secrets and magical letters) for inducing the 'altered states' necessary to enter and explore the nine magical worlds of 'Yggdrasill' - the Heathen World Tree. The book also includes an impressively thorough bibliography for sourcing essential reading on Heathenry, Paganisms and related occult subjects.

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This is a remarkably intelligent, thoughtful and well-informed practical guide to the magic and spirituality of the Old North, in a form accessible to the present. It helps to confirm the Northern Tradition as one of the most scholarly and sophisticated in modern Paganism Prof Ronald Hutton, Author of The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles and Triumph of the Moon A comprehensively researched, clear, and deeply thoughtful guide to the esoteric spirituality of the Northern tradition. Written in a direct and engaging style, it is also refreshingly practical, grounding the theory in ritual. It restores ancient magic to contemporary individual and community life. Prof Brian Bates, Author of The Way of Wyrd, Wisdom of the Wyrd and The Real Middle Earth Johnson and Wallis' engaging and challenging book is another significant step in the recovery of an indigenous European religious worldview and lifeway. Here, at last, is a European based 'shamanism' that (re-) introduces us to ways of celebrating the particular places where we live among a wonderfully diverse community of life. Without pretending to be more than one, ancestrally rooted, ever evolving tradition, this Heathen shamanism honours a remarkable range of ancient and contemporary teachers and exponents of ways of altering consciousness, communication and culture Dr Graham Harvey, Author of Listening People, Speaking Earth: Contemporary Paganism and Animism

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Nathan J. Johnson is a teacher and the author of ten books, including Barefoot Zen: The Shaolin Roots of Kung Fu and Karate (Red Wheel/Weiser 2000). Robert J. Wallis PhD lectures in art history, archaeology and religious studies, is the author of three books including Shamans/neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans (Routledge 2003), and Co-directs the Sacred Sites, Contested Rights/Rites Project (www.sacredsites.org.uk). Robert & Nathan are founders of the Ulfhednr Heathen group, Hampshire.

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