She meets and interviews all different kinds of people with various believe systems throughout the book and the only time that she's ever slightly judgemental at all is when she can tell someone is full of shit and moreso using "ritual" as a power grab and not for spiritual enlightenment. As she learns more, she gets drawn in and it changes her life by the end.
However, this book also reads as a memoir because she starts out really looking at this from a detached, non-believer academic standpoint but then begins participating in rituals (to various both positive and negative results). Margot Adler took an academic/historical approach to researching various areas of Paganism, Witchcraft, Wicca, Druidism, etc. A friend had highly recommended it to me but I work in a publishing company so people are always HIGHLY recommending books to me LOL.
I read a lot of "witchy books" and didn't have any preconceived notions about this book when I read it.
Fascinating historic and personal analysis She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1982. Her grandfather, Alfred Adler, was a noted Austrian Jewish psychotherapist, collaborator with Sigmund Freud and the founder of the school of individual psychology.Īdler received a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1970. Adler died in 2014 Margot Adler was an American author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess and radio journalist and New York correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR).īorn in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1946, Adler grew up mostly in New York City. Adler received a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1970. Her grandfather, Alfred Adler, was a noted Austrian Jewish psychotherapist, collaborator with Sigmund Freud and the founder of the school of individual psychology. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1946, Adler grew up mostly in New York City. Margot Adler was an American author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess and radio journalist and New York correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR).
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