Edain McCoy - Advanced Witchcraft: Go Deeper, Reach Further, Fly Higher

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Advanced Witchcraft: Go Deeper, Reach Further, Fly Higher 2004 by Edain McCoy.

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Seventh Printing, 2011

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Contents

: The Beginning...

The Air Chapters: Where Our Thoughts Are Born

The Advanced Witch and the Craft

The Process of Living As an Advanced Witch

The Terror of the Threshold

New Initiations, New Invocations

The Fire Chapters: Where Our Transformations Blaze

The Three Worlds... or Four, or More?

How Many Selves Have I?

Advanced Warding and Psychic Self-Defense

Wiccan Shamanism

The Animals and the Shapeshifters

The Water Chapters: Where Our Mysteries Wait

Dark Witchery

The Labyrinth and the Maze

Advanced Tree Spirituality

Augury and Advanced Divination

The Earth Chapters: Where Our Powers Live

Advanced-Intermediate Magick

Magick and Ritual Using the Fine Arts

Advanced Magick: The Art of Wishcraft

The Healing Arts

The Spirit Chapters: Where Our Web Is Woven

The Faeries and the Power in a Name

If You Think Your House Is Haunted... and Even if You Dont

The Dark Night of the Soul

Resources & References: Where Our Work Continues

:... and the Ending

: Resources

: A Request to Other Advanced Practitioners

Acknowledgments

There is no way I could hope to thank every individual who contributed to my thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and practices of Witchcraft over the past twenty-plus years. However, for their belief in this project and their invaluable input, I must offer a sincere couldnt-have-done-it-without-you thank you to some very special people.

Along with my deepest thanks to each of you for just being who and what you are, I wish you all the blessings of love, success, joy, health, and magick in this life and all those yet to come.

Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

Nancy Mostad

Rebecca Zins

Natalie Harter

Llewellyns creative staff

Susan

Timothy Roderick

Michele Walker

Sue Wizzo Wegman

Dagonet Dewr

Don & Billie Taylor

Lady Cheetah

Rev. Breanna WinDancer

Liban

Jack Sullivan

K. C. Valera

Joanie Neff

Mara Cervantes

Dorothy Morrison

Nimue

Mollie Sobhan Malone

Avigail MacPhee

Lupita

Kerr Cuhulain

Gail Wood

Zelena Winters

Maggie Shayne

Charlotte Brisbon

Diane Holmes

Barbara

... and to all my other cherished sisters at Witchesinprint who awe and inspire me with their beauty, talent, and strength

A Special Thank You

I would be remiss not to acknowledge the contribution of one very special man. He was the first to answer my query, What does advanced Witchcraft mean to you? His simple, honest answer raised the bar to a level that set the tone for all the responses that followed, and he changed forever many of my own ideas about advanced practice.

In many ways his response stirred within me memories of my fathers sense of duty and giving to the community he served. My father, a left-wing Protestant minister, allowed me to explore my interest in the Craft when I was a teenager. He was secure enough in his beliefs that he did not have to force others to accept them in order to feel his path was the right path for him.

Therefore, I must send a special thank you to Dagonet Dewr, Chief of Thalia Clan, membership director of the Pagan Project, founder and activist of the Indianapolis Metro Pagan Allied Coalition. In the recent past he held a leadership role and was an active participant in the Indiana chapter of Witches Against Religious Discrimination (WARD).

Thank you, Dagonet. May your unselfish dedication to giving of yourself to others return those blessings to you three times three. Your words and actions set a high standard for anyone wishing to call themselves an advanced practitioner, one that the rest of us should strive to achieve.

Preface

The beginning...

Several years ago, when it was first suggested that I write a book on advanced Witchcraft, I refused to even consider such an overwhelming task. First of all, I had no idea how one would define advanced within a mystery religion, especially one with so many diverse arts under its umbrella. If that wasnt enough to put me off, I also doubted there was a large enough market for an advanced Craft text. In the third place, I felt a book covering so broad a topic would either be too massive to be manageable or too small to be of any use.