The Pagan Clergy's Guide for Counseling, Crisis Intervention and Otherworld Transitions - Softcover

Gardner, Kevin

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9780982354919: The Pagan Clergy's Guide for Counseling, Crisis Intervention and Otherworld Transitions

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982354916 ISBN 13: 9780982354919

Publisher: Waning Moon Pubns, 2009

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This guide is indispensible for Pagan clergy, and will be referred to again and again for the wealth of counseling wisdom that is difficult to find anywhere else. From basic counseling skills through crisis intervention, marital and family counseling, grief and other transitional issues, Kevin is there to hold your hand, provide insights into behaviors and motivations, and guide you around the pitfalls and problems inherent in any counseling relationship. The unique aspects of counseling those with developing psychic or magickal abilities are handled with common sense and caution, helping the counselor to discriminate between psychic and psychotic, and to handle the effects of magickal workings. Long awaited and desperately needed, this little volume may well prove to be THE guide for Priests and Priestesses in any counseling role. -Rhiannon, Wiccan Priestess, Co-founder of "SerpentStone", Psychiatric Nurse, BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing), Master of Science in Counseling.

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From the Author:

I could not help but notice that used copies of this work were priced outrageously expensive. And yet there is still a demand for this work. Waning Moon stopped publishing the book, because the publishing company wasn't making enough money, off of paperbacks, though I feel that was because they didn't promote the books if any, hardly at all. I was under an agreement to not do a paperback version of this book until Waning Moon was able to sell the copies they had left. Although I never received any royalty monies since they stopped publication about 3 years ago, I have to assume that they have liquidated all inventory. and because there is a demand for this work, I have re-published it, with some minor changes. The book has had some excellent reviews from people in counseling professions as well as well known authors within the Pagan and Wiccan Community, not to mention the positive feedback I have received from readers of this work. I hope you enjoy it and find it in some way helpful in your own work.

From the Inside Flap:

'Every new religious movement reaches a point where it matures into a true spiritual path. Occasionally a book comes along which marks that evolution from such a movement being inward looking to looking outwards to understand it's true purpose. The Pagan Clergys Guide... is one of those books. It marks the transition of Wicca into a Priesthood of service to the community and the divine. We can't speak more highly of this book. It is well written, well sourced and has gems of wisdom that only come from experience. We would recommend it to any practicing wiccan priestess/priest as an essential book for their shelf'.

Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone RN. Authors: A Witches Bible, A Witches Goddess, Spells and How they Work, The Healing Craft and Progressive Witchcraft.

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