A Voice in the Forest: Spirit Conversations with Alex Sanders

by Jimahl Di Fiosa

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974174009
• ISBN13: 9780974174006
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Harvest Shadows Publications
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great read

While cleaning out a closet the other day, I found this book and started to leaf through it, trying to remember the story. I was so captivated by di Fiosa's writing that I eventually re-read the whole thing -- and never got the closet cleaned! Di Fiosa tells the true story of a spirit communication during a camping trip and recounts his anxiety and worry over whether he should make his story public. In his telling, he's gentle and descriptive, and never in your face. Great read!

A Great Read!

Although I'm not a practitioner of witchcraft, I was drawn to this book out of a sense of curiosity and an appreciation for its serious undertaking. I was not disappointed. "A Voice in the Forest" offers more than insight into witchcraft and spirituality - in many ways it's a window into the workings of life itself. Di Fiosa writes a convincing meditation on his experiences in communicating with Alex Sanders. He has a way of revealing foreign-seeming and complicated information in an understandable and tantalizing form, resulting in a book that is simultaneously documentary and literary, feels spare and elegant, and contains moments both hair-raising and peace-giving. I was particularly interested in the themes of mediation that di Fiosa raises - the issues he takes on concerning the channeling of spirits can also be read as a metaphor for the balance between one's spiritual and mundane lives - this is a complex book. I highly recommended it for anyone interested in matters of spirituality or even those just looking for a good read.

Simply Amazing!

This is one truly amazing book. As a Wiccan myself, this book is very inspirational as it shows how real both magick and spirit contact is and the people who live this as part of their lives. This is one of the most different and important books that you will find in the "Wicca" section today.

Amazing Journey - Riveting Reading

This book was not an easy read - at least for me. My emotions run very high when I even casually read a page or two. Please understand that this might be due to my past. I am of the Alexandrian Wicca and Alex was my teacher. We never met in person but his life, teachings, experiences, and the man he was influenced every aspect of my life since I first encountered the Wicca when I was 22 years old. I was accepted for training in the first Alexandrian coven in the United States...even though other witches at that time had a problem with my last name - HA! - just a coincidence the way it is spelt. Over the years since Alex died, I since retreated from teaching and even active participation with others of my kind, mainly due to a major move to my new home in San Francisco, or with other things I thought more important, like career or just living day by day. But I never forgot the man, his work, and his influence in making me the witch I am today, but in the passage of time, I strayed. This book however snapped me awake. Reading it became an eye opening, blow your socks off, rude wake up call for me. No longer was I able to give false excuses for not living fully who I am. This book is filled with stories, insights, myths and realities of not only the man named Alex Sanders, but of the passion I feel for Craft. This book restored my faith and love for the Craft and the Goddess and her children of which I am just one of them. Since reading the book, I am back to teaching and sharing with others what I feel for the Goddess and for the man most responsible for this - Alex Sanders. On a personal note, I also personally know the author (and can attest to his authenticity), and while at first was hesitant about anything channeled, the way the book reads makes you feel as though it is NOT a channeled session. When you read the book, you begin to actually feel the presence of this great leader, Alex, right next to you. The hair on the back of the neck begins to rise - it can feel almost spooky and even more so if you knew Alex personally, as the information is as if he is speaking directly to you.I would highly recommend that you read the book for a number of reasons, such as being of the Wicca, or of being an Alexandrian witch, but more importantly if you are one of those who on a moonlit night, feel the wind calling to you and seek the Goddess within, and wonder if its more than just your imagination. Read the book and awaken once again. Read the book and realize you are never alone.

An amazing account of a sustained spirit contact

My mother swore by the information that she had received through her (Ouija©) board, information about my soldier father fighting in WWII at Normandy and Ardennes -- and other place names of obscure European cities and towns that an American housewife couldn't begin to confabulate! So I believe that, while the board doesn't ALWAYS work, sometimes it DOES -- and Jimahl di Fiosa's experiences with it are another example of the times it DOES!I read A Voice in the Forest in a way waiting for the bunk that is often so inevitable when things like spirit contacts are written about. I was pleasantly surprized-- and, in fact, damned impressed by di Fiosa's ability to narrate the story while all the while questioning the validity of his own experiences -- often afraid to share them for fear of being labeled among the lunatic fringe. But the validation that he has received from people who knew Alex Sanders (the deceased founder of Alexandrian "wicca" and the spirit whom di Fiosa has contacted) intimately is all the proof that I need to believe the story.I was touched by the revelations that the once flambouyant Sanders may even be content to slip quietly into the shadows, if only his Craft and his Goddess will survive in the hearts of his followers. I did not read the first edition, but it seems that the sections of the book that are new to this edition add so much to the story. I applaud di Fiosa for putting it all "out there" for us to partake of its inspiration. There is an honesty here that is heartfelt. And a passing of the cup... to each of us.