In this handbook on altars, Peg Streep shows readers how to use specific materials, colours, symbols, imagery, scents, crystals, music, and more to create their own personal altars. Streep covers the history, symbolism, and different types of the altar and provides detailed and illustrated guidance for anyone to create and enjoy sacred space.
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The art of creating sacred space . . .
The first complete book on altars and altar building. Altars Made Easy explores the creation of sacred-in the home, in the office, in the garden, even in temporary surroundings-as a powerful tool of transformation and spiritual development. What is sacred space? It is a place where, as Joseph Campbell put it, wonder can be revealed.
In a single volume, the rich background of history, humanity's first altars, sacred places, and most ancient mythologies illuminates contemporary altar building. Learn, step by step, how to create altars that focus energy and reflect the spirit, including:
Understanding the language of sacred space
Creating altars for special needs
Choosing materials, colors, and statuary
Empowering your altar with signs and symbols
Energizing sacred space with light, smoke, and scent
Using gemstones and minerals
Drawing on the power of totems and guardians
Building outdoor altars, and much, much more.
Altar building is a creative process that frees us to make use of the affirming and empowering aspects of change. Beautifully illustrated, this volume contains a full resource section and is filled with examples to help you create sacred space. Altars Made Easy offers a full understanding of the power that symbols, objects, colors, and your own unique personality can bring to the altar you can create and re-create for meditation, reflection, prayer, and relaxation.
About the Author
Peg Streep is a writer and editor who has researched sacred places, altars, and ancient mythology for nearly a decade. She is the author of many books on spirituality, including Sanctuaries of the Goddess and Mary : Queen and Heaven, as well as the editor of Spiritual Illuminations.
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If you're sufficiently interested in having your own altar that you're perusing books on the subject, you probably already know 'way more about the subject than you're going to get out of this book.
There's little real information or insight about altars, per se. It's mostly the same filler on what gem, what animal, what deity, what color candle, etc., symbolizes what, as you'd find in every other "spiritual practices" book on your shelves at home. Altars are beautiful almost by requirement and some decent photos would have been great. Instead you get a couple of unengaging drawings on what appears to be the sort of paper formerly reserved for Big Chief notepads. Don't bother.
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Disappointing. In my opinion the title is misleading, it's more compendium of objects you might use on your altar than a "complete guide." Illustrations are only line drawings, paper is very cheap. I don't get the sense of quality that the subject deserves. Some helpful information.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Lots of Potential,
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I would have loved to see (and would be more than happy to pay for) a book with the kind of georgous pictures that was on the cover of this book. There is so much potential for altars as an art form, and while this book included simple line drawings, glossy, full-colored photos would have been a delight. As far as the book content goes, it was informative and interesting. Provides start-up ideas for the beginner and inspiration for the experienced altar builder.
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