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Entering Hekate's Garden
Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magick, Medicine and Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft | Cyndi Brannen
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"Bringing pharmakeia (the practice of plant spirit witchcraft) into contemporary times, this book merges historical knowledge with modern techniques, featuring detailed monographs dedicated to 39 plants ranging from the esoteric (such as aconite, American mandrake, and damiana) to the accessible (including bay laurel, dandelion, fennel, garlic, juniper, and lavender)"--
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hissingpotatoes
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0/5⭐ I wanted to give the author another chance, but this book has almost all the problems I had with Keeping Her Keys, plus a few more. It cherry-picks & distorts both mythology & archaeology to present UPG (unverified personal gnosis) as fact. Then it uses that UPG (presented as fact) as the foundation for page after page of flowery reverence reminiscent of cult fervor (the modern definition of cult, not the Ancient Greek one). (cont'd)

hissingpotatoes The prologue, written as if by Medea, pits men against women, Hekate against "false" religions & "destructive" civilization, & bizarrely, witches (i.e. descendants of Hekate) against humans. (I guess Medea, the author, & other witches aren't human?!?!?!?!?!)

That's not even getting into questionable herbal information like that it's safe to ingest certain diluted essential oils or the recipes for burning or otherwise using incredibly toxic herbs.
3y
Andrea4 Eek! This makes me 😬😡 3y
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