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As the novel begins, Brida seeks out two teachers. The first is Magnus, who teaches her about the tradition of the sun, in addition to helping her conquer her fears. In Brida, Magnus sees his soul mate—essentially the other half of his own soul. The second teacher is Wicca, who instructs Brida in the knowledge and rituals of the tradition of the moon. While practicing these rituals, studying tarot cards, and dancing to the sound of the world, Brida begins to understand that she is a witch.
While the forward movement of the plot is somewhat slow—consisting mostly of conversations between Brida and the characters, the pace begins to quicken when Brida has a vision of a previous life where she is a woman preparing to die with the Cathars in the fortress of Monsegur in thirteenth-century France.
She is then awakened from her vision and proceeds with training in the rituals and training needed to become a witch. This is not your mysticism to explain so please stop trying.
Stick to your own brand of spirituality, k? And, you know? We already got the message, actually, in The Alchemist which, amazingly enough, shows up here, too! We plunge into the Dark Night with faith, we fulfill what the ancient alchemists used to call our personal legend and we surrender ourselves fully to each moment knowing there is always a hand to guide us… Wow.
In addition to all that nonsense, there's general silliness. People born with a gift have very small, attached earlobes. Because magic? Ireland is not tropical. Wet, maybe, but not tropical. I realize that perhaps a lot was lost in translation. He had to use smoke and mirrors to fill in for his gaps in knowledge and his gaps were wide and frequent.
While listening to this, I went into a trance and saw the author as a young boy, sitting with his aunts and mother, grandmothers and sisters, girl cousins and lady neighbors, listening to them talk about their powers, their divinities, their understanding of the mystical. Maybe he saw things he couldn't explain. He obviously loved and respected these women but knew that, as a male, he had to somehow find a way to be in charge of all they had, all this power that was beyond him, he had to control instead of understand this thing these women spoke of.
As he aged and gained experience, he carefully created a loose narrative to fit his own beliefs around theirs and he felt very good about himself afterward. But I just made that up. I don't know anything about this author beyond the little Goodreads bio. I can't say what he did or did not experience that lead him to write this book. All I know is that I deeply, instictively felt this story was never his to tell and yet tell it, he did, and he did a piss poor job because instead of sharing wonder, he stole it, trapped it, and framed it in a way to showcase his own path to enlightenment.
But whatever. I'm out. View all 30 comments. Aug 05, Kristin rated it it was amazing. It broke my heart into a jillion pieces. I feel like crying. Love is when you'll be able to understand that at some point, you were never meant to be together.
That, sometimes, even if you're just in time, it isn't still sufficient. It isn'r selfish. It allows you to grow and to go in search of your path, in search of your soul.
It does not hinder you to become the person you wanted to be. It doesn't require you to give up all the important things you have just because Of all the Paulo Coelho It broke my heart into a jillion pieces. Of all the Paulo Coelho books, I believe, this this the best book I've ever read. There's so much to learn and so much to understand in life. He wrote it in a way you'll learn. I waited a year to acquire this book, and waited for Christmas as well to have this as a present.
But the one who gave it made the best choice of picking it out on the book shelf. Life is so complex. Sometimes, it requires us to choose a difficult path. And even if its hard to chose the other choice and leave someone behind, broken, we have to.
View all 4 comments. Ok, so this book came recommended to me by a freind, so I was pretty excited to read it. Once I got started, however, I was a bit disappointed soory M.
First off, the main charachter was niave and a bit juvenille. Everything that she thought of and said was almost infintile. Secondly, She was supposed to be searching for a "Gift" and there was never really a solid confirmation as to what this gift was, even when she found it. Thirdly, who ever heard of witches being Jesus loving Christians? That really threw me off. Fourthly, everything in the book was based on this concept of the Tradion of the Sun, Tradion of the Moon, and the Dark Night, none of which were every fully explained either.
I was not a big fan of the book and the climax was some what disappointing. I really wanted more to happen or maybe something a little more dramtic to happen.
View all 11 comments. Aug 26, Saadia B. The story itself was sluggish and tedious to be exact. Brida wanted to learn magic and goes all the way to the forest from Dublin. There she met a Magus who knew the Tradition of the Moon. But he left her alone in the forest in order to test her endurance.
She passed the test but decided to go back to Dublin. She went to a bookstore regularly but never bought anything then one day the bookstore owner gave her a number. She called and 1. She called and went for a meet up with Wicca who told her that she is a gifted witch. Magus was her soul mate yet he left her for another man at the Witches Sabbath. In every other paragraph Coelho introduces the readers to a Universal Truth. Some of these were legitimate life lessons such as everyone has a Gift but only a few are able to discover and utilise it while others are silly like God allowed Adam and Eve to fall from Grace because He needed the Universe to set in motion.
There are too many distractions and truths in this book which at first are overwhelmingly, then confusing and contradictory and eventually annoying because they made no sense with the story. However, I think people are looking for a bit too much out of this book. Not every book is a wirlwind, instead a book can be a bit like looking out over a still lake with time to think. Other topics that surface to reflect upon are, finding one's soul mate, finding the right path on a spiritual journey, and the existance of past lives are to name a few.
One of the quotes from this book I enjoyed was, "There was a time when people accepted magical expereiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult p. View all 5 comments. Can somebody please tell me what this book was about?!
I consider myself a pretty savvy reader, but I didn't get this at all. I loved the Alchemist and this has much of the same philosophical insights and phrases you want to savor. But I couldn't tell you what the meaning of this book was. Girl is on spiritual path to find her Gift.
Meets the Magus in the forest who is her soul mate but they don't end up together. Meets a Witch in the city and wants to become one. Get naked and drunk at the witches' initiation party. There's something significant about a field, and there's alot of talk about the Tradition of the Sun and the Tradition of the Moon, although I never figured out what that was. I kept plugging through the book, hoping for some AHA! View all 9 comments.
The special case between me and Poulo Coelho books is that they come in my life exactly when I'm in a need of them. Brida tells us a story about finding soulmates. Well, if you look at it in that way. How one must look for the right things in his life and why it's important.
The tradition of the sun and moon were good to know. The title is very attractive and fits with the story. Couldn't have been a better title. Cover is enchanting. Reading Poulo Coelho is always a great experience in itself. Umm, I failed to understand the point of this story?
Again one of the books that I don't understand is it about love? I don't know and I really don't care but the atmosphere of the book was great and magical sometimes it was like a meditation for me by the way, I don't like the author Again one of the books that I don't understand is it about love?
I don't know and I really don't care but the atmosphere of the book was great and magical sometimes it was like a meditation for me by the way, I don't like the author View 1 comment.
This is a sweet little story. In some ways, it reminds me of the kinds of stories one finds in the Bible and the Zohar. Such stories aren't stories in terms of the classic ideas of plots, but serve to illustrate spiritual points. I see Brida in that way. The plot is a very thin scaffold on which to hang a series of philosophical and spiritual ideas.
From the point of view of fiction, this is less than satisfactory. From the point of view of philosophy, the style is certainly one that's tried and This is a sweet little story. From the point of view of philosophy, the style is certainly one that's tried and true. I read the book more as a spiritual essay than as a novel. View 2 comments. Blank toilet paper is more gripping to read, with a better plot.
This "book" was so bad that I joined Goodreads just to get it out of my system. I had a pretty good idea that this was bilge from the cover, but I picked it up and skimmed thru it anyway. It exceeded my worst expectations, and mine were pretty low to begin with. Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to fiction, fantasy lovers.
Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Home Downloads Free Downloads Brida pdf. When you set out in search of knowledge, you are always going to meet many people who will teach you certain things you will never forget. Brida, on her quest to search for knowledge, also meets a lot of teachers and spiritual guides who opened her to the secrets of the spiritual world and how those secrets are related to men themselves.
There are many lessons for Brida to learn and the most important of them is to know the goodness that exists in the world and believe in it no matter what happens. Also, there are many lessons in her quests about how she can overcome her fears. Brida is like a self-help book in which a narrative is explained. Preceded by the Alchemist, Brida received positive reviews from the readers and critics and ended up scoring 3.
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