Psychic Shield: The Personal Handbook of Psychic Protection [Paperback]

Caitlin Matthews (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 9, 2006

BECOME PSYCHICALLY STREETWISE IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE
In today’s hectic and uncaring society, you need skills that help you guard the boundaries of your soul. Psychic Shield shows how to defend against these damaging external forces with practical and commonsense strategies that protect your inner peace and keep you safe from harm.

Psychic Shield is packed with checklists, danger-point indicators and reality checks that allow you to identify soul disturbances caused by everything from the jealousies of friends and the competitiveness of coworkers to the horrors of war and terrorism.

With simple practices, meditations and rituals, Psychic Shield offers spiritual housekeeping routines you can use every day to:

•Strengthen your psychic health
•Overcome negative relationships
•Free yourself from fear and self-doubt
•Deal confidently with difficult people
•Become attuned to spiritual guidance
•Live in harmony with others
•Maintain boundaries that keep you safe

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About the Author

Caitlin Matthews is the author of several books and has a shamanic practice which is dedicated to spiritual, ancestral and vocational healing. She lives in Oxford, UK.

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Ulysses Press (May 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569755353
• ISBN-13: 978-1569755358
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #92 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Earth-Based Religions > Wicca
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More About the Author

Hello! I'm Caitlin Matthews. I live in Oxford, England with my partner, John Matthews and two warring white cats who, despite our best efforts, can't abide each other and live on different floors of our small house.

I'm primarily known for being the author of many books including Singing the Soul Back Home, Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain, Psychic Shield, and Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom. I write in the fields of metaphysical non-fiction, poetry, fiction, folkstory and myth, as well as writing books for children. I'm known for my research into the Celtic and ancestral traditions, and the ways in which I provoke exploration of the creative metaphysical field, and how we can apply it to our spiritual path.

With John Matthews, I've written the Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom, the Arthurian Tarot and Walkers Between the Worlds. Our latest collaboration is the StoryWorld series of cards and books for storytellers of all ages, which started coming out in 2009 - many more titles to come in 2010.

Although I'm the author of over sixty books, most of my work is oral rather than written. As a teacher of ancestral, shamanic and metaphysical traditions, I go all over the world, working with communities and spiritual institutions. With John Matthews, and my dear colleague Felicity Wombwell, I co-founded The Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies, which is dedicated to the mythic, oracular and sacred arts. Our FiOS shamanic training programme teaches students the ancestral wisdom and healing arts as living sacred traditions in which we still engage.

As a singer, I play Celtic & medieval harps, sruti and psaltery. My CDs include Deep Well in the Wild Wood: Songs from the Place Beyond and the latest, Earth's Own Heart: Songs from the Faery Hills appears in 2010. I was the Pictish language originator and song-writer of Song of the Exile for the 2004 Jerry Bruckheimer film King Arthur and I appear frequently on international radio and television.

For the last 20 years, I've had a shamanic practice in Oxford dedicated to healing soul sickness and ancestral fragmentation. I use my voice to help open the way between the worlds, to sing the soul's essential nature, tracking it through the client's story and bringing it homeward, with the help of spirit allies who have chosen to work with me.

I'm currently working on Rekindling Ancestral Hearths: a book to help us come into good relationship with our ancestors. I believe that being in commuinion with our ancestors and gifting spirits is essential for the wellbeing of our world, and lies at the root of war and peace.

If you want to know more about my courses, events and forthcoming books, you are cordially invited to visit www.hallowquest.org.uk.

For new readers of my work, there is no 'one book' that conveys all that I teach, but the following practical books may be a helpful guide for you to begin somewhere:

Walkers Between Worlds - for a grounding in where our spiritual traditions arose.
Singing the Soul Back Home - for a guide on how we come into come relationship with our gifting spirits
Celtic Devotional - for a post-denominational way of spiritually acknowledging each day and season
Psychic Shield - for those who need a friendly guide to how the universe and ourselves rub off each other and how we can do it more harmoniously

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96 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Easier Way, September 2, 2006

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Izzybessie (Tempe, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Psychic Shield: The Personal Handbook of Psychic Protection (Paperback)

I am one who walks a hard path - things are flung at me so that I have to figure out what they are and how to deal with them, and then once I have it figured out by wading through all kinds of new age crap and fluff and relying heavily on trial and error, upsetting the people around me (in both realms), with a lot of whining and sniveling thrown in for good measure, I find a book that could have explained it properly in the first place. This is one such book.

Much of what is written as guidelines very closely matches my own experience. The author's methods are much more graceful than the things I have come up with on my own, and so her book has helped me to polish the rough edges of my experience without jarring against my common sense or world view. I am very grateful for that.

The meditations to meet and heal the ancestral line are amazing. My experience with using them was very powerful indeed, and I am very grateful to have had such clear and effective instructions to use as a guideline for my own family. There is something quite awesome about calling on your ancestors and feeling the connection to your spirit family. It gets even more awesome when something that has been festering in the collective family memory is released and healed.

There is a wealth of knowledge buried in some of the most simple statements in this book - the psychic protection of crossing yourself, as an example, if you've ever wondered what the Real reason is for genuflection. It is clear to me as the reader that the author has not only personal experience with her topic, but also formal learning in place to back up her experience. In this way the book has helped me close gaps that I have been aware of but unable to understand. There is no substitute for genuine knowledge.

That should be very reassuring to anybody who has ever been taken in by less than genuine practices, or unknowingly tried an incomplete method and been hurt as much as healed because of it. Healing is bound to be a little easier to do with a book such as this one in your hand. In my subjective opinion.

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational Yet Practical, November 7, 2008

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Brian Covert - See all my reviews

This review is from: Psychic Shield: The Personal Handbook of Psychic Protection (Paperback)

This book both inspired me with the possibilities of greater spiritual self-growth and spurred me into action with its practical exercises and "blueprints" for handling psychic disturbance in daily life.

Caitlin Matthews walks the reader through the various explanations and experimentations with the power of Spirit that lies within each of us. The reader is encouraged to "become psychically streetwise" in a material world that, Matthews appropriately notes, often leads us to become spiritually lazy and sloppy.

The parts of this book that resonated with me personally were, among others, about how to "stop the tape-loop" of trauma that we may have suffered, dealing with the "power thieves" among those around us, and restoring family honor. The book seems to be designed for those who are just getting their feet wet spiritually, but at the same time the author does not look down upon those who may be encountering these ideas for the first time in their lives. The author is warmly encouraging and down to earth in her guidance.

I can say with confidence that this book and Caitlin Matthews' book on shamanism, "Singing the Soul Back Home," are the two most valuable books in my entire personal library. Psychic Shield is highly recommended as both a source of inspiration and a practical "how-to" guide on matters of the Soul.

43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Personal Protection, January 11, 2007

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Edward T. Hamilton (Chicago, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Psychic Shield: The Personal Handbook of Psychic Protection (Paperback)

This book really helped me. I've always felt like I was being oppressed, and the procedures outlined in Psychic Shield helped me find some peace.