

Seidr
The Gate is Open: Working with Trance Prophecy, the High Seat and Norse Witchcraft
Author: Katie Gerrard
Narrator: Leslie Howard
Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 02/09/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Paganism & Neo-paganism, Body, Mind, & Spirit
Synopsis
Combining more than a decade of research and experimentation, this book is characterized by both its scholarship and its accessibility. Katie Gerrard shares her own experiences on the path of the seer, and also draws inspiration from original sources in the old texts of the Sagas and the Eddas, as well as contemporary researchers and groups working with seidr in Scandinavia, Europe, and America. Techniques for achieving trance, levels of trance possession, coming out of trance, the vardlokkurs (chants), necessary equipment, and the requirements for the roles of the different participants are all discussed clearly and concisely, as is the relevance of contacting the ancestors, the dead, and appropriate gods, including the goddesses Freyja and Hel and the Allfather god Odin.