You may think that I should have started talking about planning on the first page rather than towards the end of this small section, but my logic was to give you a quick overview of a number of areas, and try to clear up many of the misunderstandings first. We needed to do this so that you fully understand what we are talking about.

You will have recognized now that we are talking about areas of knowledge, skills, some parts of which we are able to explain, and many we can suggest experiments or practice that you can try. Some areas like skrying, physical spells, pendulums and dowsing, aromatherapy, the use of trances and many more are skills that many not connected with witchcraft have managed to make work. While other areas have perhaps more in common with the original idea of other religions as invented as opposed to the current commercial versions.

So how long is it going for you to learn it all the skills of witchcraft.

The simple answer to this is that you won't, our life styles we lead today just don't allow sufficient time, and we all want to do things now rather than in thirty years time. For ancient druids the leaning process lasted many years for a single stage, when that was complete they moved on to another stage and started again. Many of our witch ancestors grew up with plant remedies, could find, identify, and use hundreds if not thousands of plants, and could tell the time without a watch and did not have weather forecasts.

Being realistic you are not going to be able to do everything and are at some point going to need to become a specialist, in the same way that in all other forms of life we do, some are architects some accountants, some doctors, dentists, .....

So what you may ask is the point of this short course, or the two longer ones, if we cannot turn you into a super witch. What we can give you within these course is a good general grounding, an understanding of many areas, the principles that make it possible, explain what we can and suggest in some cases other areas you may look at.

Assuming you want to learn the craft

Lets suppose you do one of the larger courses, what do we expect of you, and how much time will it take.

So lets talk about the plan, what I want you to do is to commit a small amount of time regularly, and to try to stick to this, you will find you make far more progress spending 3 sessions a week of 30 minutes than you will rushing ahead for a day and then putting down for a month.

We are going to look at a book of shadows you are going to create, and this needs to be kept up to date as you proceed. You also need to find some quiet time to think about what you have leant, allow your mind to appreciate the knowledge and thinking of other examples and experiences that you can now understand.

To start most of what you will appear to be doing is reading, as we move on you will become more involved and when we get much further through you will be applying what you can then do.

In some ways, I find it disappointing, when I show people so much and they reach a point where they think they know all they need, and can stop learning. I on the other hand have found that I am dealing with a circle or sphere of knowledge and the more I know, the larger the sphere, but the larger the surface becomes connected to the areas that I have still to explore. I know that I will never understand everything, my magic skills will never reach a maximum and I am unlikely to ever achieve all the objectives that I set myself.

We are going to show you shortcuts, methods that allow you to make things happen without so much knowledge, so as to get you working faster, and as many things can be achieved in a whole collection of ways you will find you can achieve a great deal with only part of the knowledge or without specialist skills once you have the basics.

You have to accept that you will never be able to learn all knowledge, there is no one alive now that knows more than a small fraction of total human knowledge and the last person who claimed to have an understanding of all knowledge available was a scotch guy in the early 1800's, and it is likely that what he had was an overview of many areas, but disregarded many more.

Although you cannot learn everything, you can put in the time and effort, experiment, and gain a basic understating and then choose a specialist area. the great advantage of a coven is that you each have a different skill or area of expertise and by this means all play a useful part in the overall knowledge pool of the coven, helping each other and working together.

You also have to remember that in all things balance is important, don't allow yourself to become obsessed with any aspect, of either dumfounded or frightened by the power, or an experience. Just remember it is all under your control, you chose which skills and powers to use. If you don't control it, then there is no magic.

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