All One Wicca: A Study in The Universal Eclectic Tradition of Wicca (Revised and Expanded) [Paperback]

Kaatryn MacMorgan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 17, 2001

All One Wicca is a rational introduction to the religion of Wicca, and the tradition of Universal Eclectic Wicca. It contains everything the new or advanced student needs to engage in study of the faith including an extensive dictionary and example rituals.

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About the Author

Kaatryn MacMorgan is a Priestess of Universal Eclectic Wicca, and webmistress of the traditions website. Born in Syracuse, NY, Kat lives in Southern Pennsylvania with her family and long time companion.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse; Rev Exp edition (October 17, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059520273X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595202737
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,298,030 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent "underground" resource., June 3, 2003

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Wintergreen Candy (Downingtown, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All One Wicca: A Study in The Universal Eclectic Tradition of Wicca (Revised and Expanded) (Paperback)

I ordered this book on March 24th, at the request of my priestess, we each picked a single book geared toward eclectics, and I picked this one, and boy did I get lucky.
The author described Wicca in no nonsense terms, the exercises are excellent, and even though she stated that she was not writing about magick, the elemental visualizations are incredibly helpful to that end. The earth visualization alone is worth it to every theurgist who has ever just found it impossible to teach someone how to ground..the visualizations are all like that...sneaking magick technique in by the back door.
The dictionary of terms used in Paganism was awesome, as was the extensive collection of data on the gods. (and ALL this book said about 'Watchtowers' is that they are Enochian and that she didn't think people unfamilar with Enochian Magick should invoke them (RIGHT ON! Down with Dabblers!) seriously, though, I looked and looked for anything else about watchtowers and could not find it, anywhere... )
That actually sums the whole thing up, really, the author regularly draws a line, she says this thing is Wicca, this thing is not Wicca, and here is how I think this thing got into Wicca. For someone like me, this was important. I mean, I'm coming into Wicca from a die-hard Jewish family and CM, so being told, oh, Lilith is a sweet Semetic goddess with an undeserved bad reputation doesn't do it for me-When she talked about the things I know about, she got them right. I assume she got the other stuff right, too, which is more than I can say for other authors.
I cannot begin to fathom how many books I've read that I felt were insulting to my intelligence, heritage or culture, or said that people believed things that I know they don't. She just didn't go there, at all, she stuck to Wicca, and the few times she wandered a little she said so.
When our circle got together to review books I was the only one who wasn't complaining, so clearly, this book's a cut above a lot out there.
I think what got into my head the most was the underground nature of this book. Here is is, from a person clearly used to working in groups, in real life, and it seems, well, grittier and realer than everything else I've read. I mean, she described the law of return with a story of a friend getting mugged. This is not barbie doll Wicca, but for me, barbie-doll Wicca's the LAST thing I need.
For me, this has been an excellent book for transistioning from Ceremonial Magick to Wicca. It laid it down plain and straight, no wrapping paper, no fluffy unicorns and none of that "real Wiccans have clean houses/don't eat meat/obey their parents/don't drive cars at all times" stuff.
It's marketed as a sort of 101 book, but I disagree. It's definately a level up, and if I was a neophyte, it probably would've thrown me for a loop. I'd recommend it especially to those people who are shopping for traditions of Wicca, and have enough knowledge to tell types apart. She was careful to say where something was from her tradition or Wicca in general, but if you want, oh, Alexandrian Wicca, this is NOT it. In fact, I suspect most of the Hard Gard crowd would HATE this book, which I think shows that eclectics are just as good as noneclectics when it comes to skill, brains and know how.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not What You Think, January 3, 2004

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Kalista M. Priddy "caitriona" (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All One Wicca: A Study in The Universal Eclectic Tradition of Wicca (Revised and Expanded) (Paperback)

I've read through the reviews of this book, and it appears that many people have missed something crucial to understanding how and why this book was written.

This book was published to go hand in hand with the studies of the Coven Of The Far Flung Net (the tradition of Universal Eclectic Wicca, taught online). It was not published to stand alone.

If you're interested in starting study with UEW, then this will help you along the way.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good, solid, traditional beginner's book..., June 6, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: All One Wicca: A Study in The Universal Eclectic Tradition of Wicca (Revised and Expanded) (Paperback)

If you don't mind your wicca being taught in a tradition, this book is for you.
It is a bit wordy, and the author seems to wander a bit, and it's not as good as her other book, which I'm reading now, but this book seems unique because Kaatryn MacMorgan is teaching as a teacher of a specific gorup, not just wicca in general.
This makes the book, to me, more practical, because its the only one I can think of where the author is teaching a specific branch of wicca instead of wicca in general.

off course, I read this book as part of a teaching circle I'm in that is not Universalist Eclectic Wicca, so it can be used to learn wicca in general, but that's not what its designed for.
I would like to see other traditions invest in having textbooks, though. In mine, we read things like Cunningham and Ravenwolf and then are told to ignore certain parts or where they are wrong. I would like it better if my tradition had a book like this one, and maybe all the traditions should- I mean, if we could compare the first degree of each tradition in a textbook form, we'd be able to make better decisions, wouldn't we?