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A review by laurareads87
The Spirit Almanac: A Modern Guide to Ancient Self-Care by Emma Loewe, Lindsay Kellner
Did not finish book.
I'm going to use this as a reference for some ideas but didn't finish it.
There are some neat ideas but there is some seriously questionable advice in here -- ex. putting crystals in water to cleanse them. This book is clearly geared toward beginners, and beginners might not know that water can really damage some very common crystals (ex. selenite).
What also didn't work for me is nebulous references to 'our ancestors' (whose??) and to traditional practices that are really quite specific in their origins (ex. smudging with an abalone shell) but with these origins not precisely given - felt very culturally appropriative in a number of places and I didn't even get through the first section. There were even sentences like "in some native languages, [example]" with no specifics given at all as to which languages were being referenced.
There are some neat ideas but there is some seriously questionable advice in here -- ex. putting crystals in water to cleanse them. This book is clearly geared toward beginners, and beginners might not know that water can really damage some very common crystals (ex. selenite).
What also didn't work for me is nebulous references to 'our ancestors' (whose??) and to traditional practices that are really quite specific in their origins (ex. smudging with an abalone shell) but with these origins not precisely given - felt very culturally appropriative in a number of places and I didn't even get through the first section. There were even sentences like "in some native languages, [example]" with no specifics given at all as to which languages were being referenced.