I am very pleased to announce the publication of my first book! It took three years to write,
and three years to find a publisher, and I am very proud of it. ;-)
About the book:
"Dangerous Religion" is a thought-opera of spiritual contemplations on Pagan and
environmental themes, and simultaneously a manual for environmental activists and
other participants in the anti-globalization movement.
It describes a planetary Will to Life expressed by everything in nature from
animals and plants to the material elements, here called "Global Animism", and
how it requires radical transformations in our total lives, from the level of
personal belief all the way to political and economic organization.
Three main sections distinguish particular themes: the first, called "In the
beginning was the Mother" is concerned with environmental and religious matters,
particularly in the Celtic tradition; the second, called "Separating Reality from
Illusion" examines social and political matters, especially how the global market
is a manifestation of the Will to Life in pathological disorder; and the third,
"The Great Silence", brings the previous themes into a personal and more purely
spiritual unity, and suggests some ways how the disordered Will to Life may be rectified.
Some Endorsements
"In Dangerous Religions, the subject of Neo-paganism final grows up and faces the world of
politics and environmentalism with maturity. Intellectually stimulating and challenging,
this book weaves the worlds of nature religion, philosophy, spirituality, ecology and
protest into one work, showing that the Neo-Pagan Movement must now take its place in
shaping the future of the world we live in. Myers' work is a must for those who question
the purpose of the pagan movement in a modern world."
Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone
Authors of The Pagan Path, The Healing Craft, and Progressive Witchcraft
"Brendan "Cathbad" Myers is a dangerous man. Not only can he think clearly and creatively
about some of the most important issues of our time, but he argues passionately and
poetically about the need to challenge the dominant paradigms that rule our
world-religious tyranny, corporate plundering, and financial mismanagement of our
dwindling resources...
"Dangerous Religions" are ones that make you question authority, think for yourself,
feel for other creatures, and demand justice. Earth Religions Press is proud to present
a spiritual work that belongs on the bookshelves of every Neopagan on earth. Read it
and apply its lessons-before it's too late."
From the Introduction by Isaac Bonewitz
Founder of ADF, author of Real Magic, Witchcraft: A Concise Guide, and
Rites of Worship
Early drafts of some chapters are available to be sampled here, where they appeared as "Ex Nemeton Letters" while I was writing them.
Also, you can hear
the interview on Wicked Podcast
Episode 10 in which I
talk aobut this book and the ideas and experiences which inspired it.
