Testimonials
"Another book from my high stack. And what a book! This book was the topic of discussion in a Rune Group and the discussion got so curious and I ordered it. And I don't regret that at all.
There are some of those books that make you think, this is one of them. Not a book with the umpteenth explanation, but a book that offers a way to self-reflection and leveling.
The book offers us five questions that we should keep asking ourselves if we are at the center of our own universe:
Who am I?
Where am I?
What time is it?
What do I need?
Where does the wind come from?
The author, Ingrid Kincaid writes in a poetic way, as if she's talking to you like in a long meditation that visually passes the words . It doesn't mess with facts and dogmatic. It's freely written as a loose mind . As a pre-order . It opens as a poem and then goes on this way and exchanges prose with poetry .
The good thing about this book is that it runs over 200 pages, without really talking about running . This book plants an emotion, an atmosphere, a state of mind, a vibration that lets you feel the spirituality and mysticism of the runes . She describes a circle with five regions, center, east, south, west, north and narrates in a poetic way what these areas are about . She makes you think about darkness and light, about sowing, waiting, harvest and offering. About birth, life and death and the time between death and birth. About the safety of light and the dark. There's also a deep pagan idea in this book, the monotheistic thinking is being unleashed strongly. Light is as important in this book as darkness and it also makes clear that when we die we will NOT go to the light, but that darkness is as safe as the light. When we focus too much on the light, we miss everything that lives in the dark and what the darkness has to offer.
And in this pagan beautiful and deep thoughts about dying. About releasing the body and returning in the dark. Disappearing in the west where the sun goes down.
Only after page 208, the Runes are available each by one . The Elder Futhark and an extra Aett, the Jotnar Aett . Together there are 33 runes, or the Anglo-Saxon or the Anglo-Frisian runes . She's going into these runes as poetic as in the rest of the book, so I ordered her other book the Runes Revealed, hoping that she'll go deeper into the Jotnar Aett .
The only thing I wonder if someone who doesn't have any knowledge of Runes or German mythology will enjoy this book as much as I . In addition, if you don't have that knowledge, you won't be hindered by the way the writer handles this knowledge. Especially the role of Ratatoskr the squirrel might be a bit debatable .
This book is for those who are looking for a floor in the running. Not for witches looking for quick spells or want to predict the future. The five questions are offered several times in each chapter and precisely because of that repetition there is peace in the text. Like reading a song."
George Mensink
The Netherlands
www.georgemensink.nl
January 2022
There are some of those books that make you think, this is one of them. Not a book with the umpteenth explanation, but a book that offers a way to self-reflection and leveling.
The book offers us five questions that we should keep asking ourselves if we are at the center of our own universe:
Who am I?
Where am I?
What time is it?
What do I need?
Where does the wind come from?
The author, Ingrid Kincaid writes in a poetic way, as if she's talking to you like in a long meditation that visually passes the words . It doesn't mess with facts and dogmatic. It's freely written as a loose mind . As a pre-order . It opens as a poem and then goes on this way and exchanges prose with poetry .
The good thing about this book is that it runs over 200 pages, without really talking about running . This book plants an emotion, an atmosphere, a state of mind, a vibration that lets you feel the spirituality and mysticism of the runes . She describes a circle with five regions, center, east, south, west, north and narrates in a poetic way what these areas are about . She makes you think about darkness and light, about sowing, waiting, harvest and offering. About birth, life and death and the time between death and birth. About the safety of light and the dark. There's also a deep pagan idea in this book, the monotheistic thinking is being unleashed strongly. Light is as important in this book as darkness and it also makes clear that when we die we will NOT go to the light, but that darkness is as safe as the light. When we focus too much on the light, we miss everything that lives in the dark and what the darkness has to offer.
And in this pagan beautiful and deep thoughts about dying. About releasing the body and returning in the dark. Disappearing in the west where the sun goes down.
Only after page 208, the Runes are available each by one . The Elder Futhark and an extra Aett, the Jotnar Aett . Together there are 33 runes, or the Anglo-Saxon or the Anglo-Frisian runes . She's going into these runes as poetic as in the rest of the book, so I ordered her other book the Runes Revealed, hoping that she'll go deeper into the Jotnar Aett .
The only thing I wonder if someone who doesn't have any knowledge of Runes or German mythology will enjoy this book as much as I . In addition, if you don't have that knowledge, you won't be hindered by the way the writer handles this knowledge. Especially the role of Ratatoskr the squirrel might be a bit debatable .
This book is for those who are looking for a floor in the running. Not for witches looking for quick spells or want to predict the future. The five questions are offered several times in each chapter and precisely because of that repetition there is peace in the text. Like reading a song."
George Mensink
The Netherlands
www.georgemensink.nl
January 2022