Book Thoughts #26

 Discerning Christian Witchcraft

By Emyle D. Prata and Sara Raztresen

    This book thoughts/book review will be a little different. Partly becomes of time, partly the contents. 

    In the beginning of this book, it is made clear that this particular read will take a lot more work than their previous work (Discovering Christian Witchcraft, which you can check out my review for by clicking on that title). It's been a while since I've told you that I read that work fully (which I realized I was only three chapters in when I wrote that review) and it's opened my eyes to the community and the label for the journey I've been on for the last six-ish years, give or take a year. That book gave me the starting point to dig into some of the practices that I would take to some extent and use them. 

    Lately, my practice has been sporadic, to put it nicely. I don't work with my stuff as much as I did. But a lot of that has to do with other things going on around me that seemed to have taken priority. To return to my practices and give me something to think on as I go, I picked up this book. And I'm glad I did. 

    I will be giving this review in stages. Mainly because -as I mentioned earlier- the contents of this book is claimed to be more of a soul journey and a questioning than the previous book. I will definitely make sure to list the dates and chapters I go through as I work through them, so make sure to check in on this off and on for a little while. 

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11 July 2026 - Introduction

    As I start, I love the ides of blending fiction with research and study. I have a bias toward it as someone who blends my real life moments with fictional elements from my older characters and stories. That said, I am curious about how much of this is going to be questioning things and how much is going to be aha moments. I feel like I'm deep enough into this sporadic practice of mine that the only further down I would be going is committing to actual spellwork. I refuse to do physical spellwork on the principle of allowing freewill to take its course and not forcing my desires onto it, which is what I feel spells/spell jars/candle work/etc tends to do in the hands of the majority. But we will see. 

    I also love that they address the whole Christian Adversary thing. It's been addressed multiple times, but it's good that they brought that up as well in this book so that it doesn't become more or less than what this particular divine entity is.

(More later!)