Out of the Broom Closet by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Author:Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2009-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

CONNECTED

by Blade

I guess I should start by saying I was not one of those people who always felt something was missing. I wasn’t good with animals, and I definitely wasn’t in tune with nature from the beginning. If anything, I was just the opposite. The first Earth Day I can recall was spent scrapping an acre to make way for the new house. My second not-so-in-touch-with-nature story involves the day my brother and I really did find the end of a rainbow. It landed right at the foot of a small maple sapling whose leaves had all turned a gold color. They were promptly stripped and used as currency in whatever game we were playing that afternoon. Maybe it’s guilty memories like this that moved me toward a more nature-based faith system.

I first became aware of the notion of witchcraft as something people seriously followed while I was in high school. It wasn’t actually the fluff films of that period that caught my attention, but some piece I happened to catch on Unsolved Mysteries. I poked around in the family encyclopedia set after seeing that segment but couldn’t find anything that matched up and promptly forgot about the whole thing for a year or so until stumbling upon Laurie Cabot’s Power of the Witch at the public library. I read through it and somehow came to the conclusion that my math teacher was a witch. I stuck around after class one day and asked her point blank if she could teach me what she knew about all sorts of topics that I can now hardly recall, although I do know magic was in that rapid-fire list. This is where I consider my journey down a Neo-Pagan path to have begun.

I didn’t learn anything about magic as I viewed it at the time from that great lady. Nor did she have anything to offer pertaining to the Craft. She had promised her late father never to study witchcraft, and never broke her word. But she knew that what I was looking for was not the same craft her father had warned her against. What she did teach me was probably far more important then I could possibly understand at the time. She always seemed to know exactly which book would serve me best at the time. The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman was the first thing she had me read, followed by its sequel. The Tao of Pooh was read somewhere in that year, too, along with so many others I’ve long forgotten the titles of. While most of the material she provided me was of a philosophical nature, there were some oddballs in the lot. Shibumi is one of the latter works that immediately comes to mind. Apart from giving me books that made me re-examine my perecption of the world around me, she also started what became a semi-private Tai-Chi and meditation club. I call it semi-private because it was only me and one of the librarians who always went.

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