Josephine McCarthy
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Josephine Dunne
- Andere Namen
- Josephine McCarthy
- Geburtstag
- 1962
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Devon, England, UK
- Berufe
- Writer
- Beziehungen
- Stuart Littlejohn
- Organisationen
- Quareia
- Kurzbiographie
- I have been teaching and writing on occult/ Western Mystery themes in the USA and UK for the last twenty five years, and involved as a practitioner in magic/occultism for 35 years. I have authored over 27 books on the subject of Esoteric/Western Mysteries, and provide a free online long term magical training course that takes the aspiring magician from apprentice to adept: Quareia.
I was birthed out of the magical city of Bradford, in West Yorkshire UK in 1962, a place complete with its ritual lodges, Theosophical Society, Golden Dawn Temple, and the then thriving multi cultural community of artists, musicians, writers and thinkers.
I moved to the USA in 1997 and began writing on magical themes in 1999. I spent eleven years teaching and lecturing on western esoteric subject matter in various locations around the USA, and returned back to the UK in 2008.
In 2011 I crossed paths with Frater Acher, the German adept and magical writer, and in 2014 we started a joint project of developing a free online magical training course. I began writing the training modules, which became the Quareia Magical Training School.
I now live back in the UK with my husband, magical artist Stuart Littlejohn, in the Dartmoor National Park in Devon, and spend my time mentoring students, and developing resources for Quareia.
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- 4.4
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As the cover art and the Introduction make clear, the "scabbard" in the book is a woman (more than one actually), in which a magical sword is sheathed. That in itself is a grim concept, but one I was willing to take on trust.
My comments below explain why I didn't like the book, which is impossible to do without some spoilers.
The first problem is that the passivity implied in being a sheath is demonstrated by the three female protagonists. Each of them has a great deal of power locked away inside herself that she is unaware of until a knowledgable and skilled male practitioner helps her to connect with it. Each of the three spends a great deal of time being confused and distressed, and then doing what she's been told to by a male. Unfortunately, coming into her power doesn't actually give her meaningful agency. Even worse, from the perspective of the plot, it doesn't advance the story at all.
The second, even larger problem is that the book sets up a huge struggle between good and evil, with lives and nations at stake, but the resolution is all done via hypnotic regression, during which the evil remains held at bay. Our third passive heroine revisits multiple past lives, very little of which shed light on the conflict, until she finally emerges into the. . . . Presence of Deity? She makes a choice, and the centuries of conflict are over. Poof!
Even the final scene of sheathing the magic sword somewhere besides a woman's body has no emotional impact because we don't get to see any of the results. Even worse, I can't remember how she comes into possession of the lost magical relics. We also don't get to see what happens to the many representatives of the enemy.
On the plus side: even though the plot ultimately fails to be satisfying, McCarthy's writing of individual scenes is vivid, and her descriptions of magical workings (particularly in the first section), are fascinating.… (mehr)