Advanced Wicca: Exploring Deeper Levels of Spiritual Skills and Masterful Magick [Paperback]

Patricia Telesco (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Citadel (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806521376
• ISBN-13: 978-0806521374
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,118,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Patricia Telesco aka Marian Singer is the mother of three, wife, chief human to 5 pets, and a full-time professional author with over 60 books on the market, each of which represents a different area of spiritual interest for her and her readers.
Trish travels minimally twice a month to give lectures and workshops around the country. She (or her writing) has appeared on several television segments including Sightings on muli-cultural divination systems and National Geographic Today ' Solstice Celebrations. Besides this, Trish maintains a strong, visible presence in the metaphysical community including having given over 300 radio interviews from coast to coast, writings on the internet through popular sites like: www.witchvox.com, her yahoo club: www.groups.yahoo.com/groups/folkmagicwithtrishtelesco, and various appearances on internet chats and bbs boards.
Trish considers herself a down-to-earth Kitchen & folk magician whose love of folklore and worldwide customs flavor every word she writes. Her strongest ethical guidelines are honor, respect, and gratitude in all things.

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73 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leads readers beyond Wicca 101, deeper towards self-mastery., December 5, 2000

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Barbara A. Bolek - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Wicca: Exploring Deeper Levels of Spiritual Skills and Masterful Magick (Paperback)

There are just so many "right" ways you can learn to cast a circle, invoke the elements, quarters and deities, create a proper altar/sacred space, etc. And the correspondence tables...do you have enough of them already??? This book is what many on the Wiccan path have been pleading for...a book that goes beyond the basic teachings of the Wiccan way.

Finally Pat Telesco moves the practicing Wiccan further down the path towards self-enlightenment. This is not a simple spell or recipe book. It's a resource on how to live a magickal life, to live, breathe, and sleep magick.

Telesco defines what it means to be an adept in the Wiccan community. She covers such things as trancework, group dreamworking, creating amulets, talismans, mazes and labyrinths, working with elementals, and group pathworking. She also provides a number of spells, meditations, visualizations and other exercises or activities. Her community ritual, which involves putting together the pieces of a puzzle, has wonderful depth and meaning.

She discusses the role for the Wiccan in the Wiccan community, and the greater community at large, whether it be as a teacher, counselor, healer, study group organizer, coven builder, or public spokesperson for the Craft. Telesco also offers wonderful guidelines for self-regulation and how to deal with difficult issues in the Craft such as the internal squabbling known as "Witch wars".

Like so many of her other books (Spinning Spells and Weaving Wonders; Wicca 2000, etc.), this one is very well written and organized. It is a highly recommended addition to the experienced Wiccan's magickal library.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book with Serious Aims..., August 3, 2001

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"berwynne" (Freeport, Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Wicca: Exploring Deeper Levels of Spiritual Skills and Masterful Magick (Paperback)

Compared to Patricia Telesco's other books, this book takes on a decidedly more serious tone, and one which is more innately spiritual rather than practical. I sense an earthiness in Telesco's material, and I have always loved her common-sense observations on life and spirituality; this book is clearly a departure from the practical Wise Woman Telesco, and is a journey inward to ascertain the seriousness of the soul. Wicca is, first and foremost, a religion and a spiritual path, and far too much attention is given to the outward "trappings" of the craft, rather than on the committment of mind, heart, and soul which must take place in order to really and truly embrace Wicca's spiritual dimensions. I appreciate Telesco's honesty and her commitment, and I found myself realizing that what has been important to me all along is what should be important to me: the state of my inner being, rather than any outward appearance -- to share one's faith, the heart and soul must be in the right place; ritual is only "cake frosting" if the spiritual side does not enter into it: and Telesco makes us keenly aware of that. This is a completely beautiful book -- I highly recommend it.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally - some MEAT, October 11, 2000

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This review is from: Advanced Wicca: Exploring Deeper Levels of Spiritual Skills and Masterful Magick (Paperback)

Oh, thank you! I have been waiting for this book to come out as a much needed adjunct to all the 101 materials out there. The best part about this title is that it stresses "Advanced" doesn't necessarily mean more powerful, but more responsible and better controlled magick. It also talks about the roles and responsibilities of the adepts, teachers, and elders in our community. Beyond this, it gives instructions into magick best suited for a more experienced student of the craft like making elementaries, group dream work, and astral temples. This is definitely 2nd generation Wicca.