I really, really want to like Ms Wicker, her writing and the people she writes about. But I just can't.

Ms Wicker has more psychic phenomena, spiritual lessons, and amazing, possibly life altering, magical experiences and manages to 'rationalize' them all. If she would only 'let go and let God' she could answer all the questions she asks.

This is the second book of hers I've read, and they both have the same flaws. Ms Wicker manages to find some of the most bizarre personalities to define a lifestyle, and then with smarmy, mean descriptions, she managed to demean people in a very disillusioned way.

To get to the point....if a psychic experience hit her over the head she would dismiss it, and for those who may also experience it, they are nuts. I'm done with her and her books.

What a wonderful, soul expanding work. She proves you never can tell about people. Who would've thought a woman raised as a Southern Baptist could end up as curious and open-minded as Ms. Wicker? I, a member of the magical tribe, was nearly guilty of being as close-minded as some Christians I critcize, and thought of not reading this book. That would've been my loss! I hope many neo-Pagans, Wiccans as well as Baptists and Pentecostals read this -- there is something here for everyone to learn -- and one of the things she modeled for me in this book, was the kindness of her approach to all.
Lastly, I am grateful to her for helping me with a definition of myself that has remained blurred for the 35 or so years of my own spiritual quest, and that lies in chapter 12, when she delineates the four bridges that connect the magical world to the mundane. Two of the four were a custom fit.
She works out the maps to this mysterious inner geography in a new and very original way. I found it among so many other things, a positively refreshing read.
Dawn Killen-Courtney, author of
The Trollton Chronicles series