Returning to the Sacred Wild: An Initiation into Paganism
by Emmanuel Noah is a luminous guide and love letter to the living world—part field notebook, part prayer, part practical companion for building a soulful, modern Pagan life. With a voice that is intimate, wise, and beautifully lyrical, Noah braids myth and memory, kitchen-table devotions and wildland reverence, household rites and community ethics into a seamless path you can actually walk.
This is not a book of spectacle; it's a book of continuity. You'll learn how a small bowl of water and a humble candle can anchor a day; how to greet thresholds, tend herbs, and listen to the creek until it teaches you patience; how to craft rituals that are safe, consent-centered, and trauma-aware; how to decolonize devotion with integrity and turn land acknowledgments into living relationships; how to make magic out of errands, kindness, and the steady courage of showing up.
Noah offers an initiatory journey that feels both ancient and utterly present—spinning stories that glow, then handing you tools that work. From the Wheel of the Year to the art of divination, from ancestral healing to the ethics of power and the fierce tenderness of community, these pages invite you to belong—deeply, locally, honestly.
An elegant Epilogue and a generous Appendix of practical resources make this a volume you'll return to in every season. If you're longing for a spirituality rooted in the earth, grounded in care, and alive in the everyday—if you want your practice to change your home, your street, and your watershed—this book will show you how. Open the window. Light the small candle. Fill the bowl. Return, and be held.