The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature (Plus)

by Starhawk
The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature (Plus)  
published October 1st 2005 by HarperSanFrancisco
binding Paperback
isbn 0060000937   (isbn13: 9780060000936)
pages 256
description

America's most renowned witch and eco–feminist offers a sequel to her bestselling classic The Spiral Dance, weaving together the latest findings in environmental science with magical spells, chants, meditations and group exercises to create the ultimate primer on our relationship to the earth.

From the earliest times, respecting our interdependent relationship with nature has been the first step toward spirituality. Earth, air, fire and water are the four elements worshiped in many indigenous cultures and celebrated in earth–based spiritualities such as Wicca. In The Earth Path, America's best–known witch offers readers a primer on how to open our eyes to the world around us, respect nature's delicate balance, and draw upon its tremendous powers.

Filled with inspiring meditations, chants, and blessings, it offers healing for the spirit in a stressed world and helps readers find their own sources of strength and renewal.

Will appeal to Starhawk's traditional Pagan, New Age, and feminist readership.

Young women newly interested in magic and witchcraft.

A new and growing generation of those involved in ecology

&...more

date added
02-09-07



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Stacy
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03/03/08

Read in February, 2008
recommended to Stacy by: turbo
recommends it for: pagans
I didn't finish reading this. I really have liked many of starhawk's books, but i'm not so into the paganism. What i especially liked about this book was how it addresses the idea that the world would be better off without humans, which really is marginalizing to the native peoples of the earth's past and present. Gary Nabhan's book "Cultures of Habitat" also addresses this with more stats and such. They argue that we can live in on the earth without destroying living beings everyd...more
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Eileen
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11/03/07

Read in October, 2007
I never considered how the witch-hunts in the 1600's killed off a whole culture of earth-based spirituality, and earth-based medicine and plant knowledge, to replace it with patriarchal 'expert'-based medicine and religion. Very interesting book, though I skimmed through some parts, Starhawk is an amazing woman with a lot of valuable things to say. Her association with paganism (pre-christian religion) and earth-based spirituality, and the word 'witch' should not scare people away from reading ...more
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Kristen
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04/27/08

bookshelves: 2008-read, nonfiction, spirituality
Read in April, 2008
recommends it for: environmentalists, pagans or pagan-friendly folks.
I really enjoyed this book, and got a lot out of it. Starhawk does have a tendency to assume her reader self-identifies as a witch or Wiccan. Not every witch/Wiccan is necessarily going to hold the same views as Starhawk, and not everyone who agrees with her would necessarily call themselves a witch. I found the book useful enough that after seeing it a few times, I was able to tune out the phrases "as witches, we blah blah blah". No...more
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Kelda
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02/16/08

bookshelves: currently-reading
Read in January, 2007
Okay, so I've been reading this book for a long time. Starhawk goes through the elements with all these awesome awareness practices, etc. It combines permaculture, wilderness awareness, and paganism in a super-nummy way. Just read the 'soil visualization' and you'll be in love!
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Rozz
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12/23/07

Read in March, 2007
What I have to keep remembering it to connect, connect, connect. By listening, paying attention to the wind, the land, the animals and plants, noticing patterns. This is where we live, right on earth, and each place has its own spirit, that it would be wise to pay attention too.
It is full of exercises and meditations.
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MotherMagic
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04/18/08

bookshelves: earth-spirituality, ecofeminism
Read in January, 2005
How often I've lamented that too many Pagans and Earth Spiritualists don't seem to care or know much about actual Earth ecology, about nature, Herself. So, of course, my favorite ES author would offer this remedy, an excellent Pagan primer on nature ecology, spirituality and science. Bless her!
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Gayle
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08/19/08

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I used Starhawk as one of my theorists when I did my theory orals for graduate school. I constantly use some of her "tools" in my own work, including grounding oneself in the natural world.
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K
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08/03/08

One of those books that profoundly altered my religions beliefs and probably one of the only books I've ever read on Paganism that helps me take the religion seriously.
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carl
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04/20/07

bookshelves: politics, spirituality, theology
the best moment in this book is when she asks how many earth loving neopagans can actually name the trees in their neighborhood, let alone their local park.
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Dani
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08/19/08

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recommends it for: everyone, pagans, enviromentalists
I absolutely love this book so far. It's insightful. I'm giving it 5 stars foreeeever. The stuff I learned about ecology are things I'll use forever.
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Heather
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07/30/08

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An interesting book so far. It has print so small I feel old. I need a magnifying glass, even with my brand new glasses.
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Jennifer
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08/06/08

Read in January, 2005
Can I say it again- I love everything she writes!
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clare
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06/22/07

Read in July, 2005
fruity fruity fruity <3
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The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature (Hardcover)
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