Meditation & Protection: A Guide to Development of Individual Spirituality by Hermit.  AUM Publications, 1990.  Trade paperback, 204 pages.  ISBN: 0-9643827-0-9.  Four stars.

This book offers a wide range of techniques for those who seek to hone their metaphysical skills.  You can take the whole thing and practice it as a system, or you can pick and choose among the numerous exercises to find the ones that most appeal to you.  Much attention centers on meditation and concentration, skills which underlie the magical workings of many traditions.  There are discussions on such things as color, wands and their making, food and water, the Elements, the chakras, and the aura.  Deliberate breathing offers a way of controlling energy flow, and there are techniques listed for breath patterns associated with each of the Zodiac signs.  Stone magic also appears in several forms, accompanied by lists of the spiritual, physical, and emotional effects of various stones plus general comments on their properties.

Most useful to the intermediate practitioner who wants to brush up in these areas, Meditation & Protection also holds appeal for others interested in the exercises which form the heart of this book.  Not specific to any religion.

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