North Sea Water in my Veins
The Pre-Christian Spirituality of The Low Countries
Imelda Almqvist
Published by Moon Books, 2022
North Sea Water in My Veins is a quest for the reconstruction of an
indigenous or native spirituality of the Low Countries and covers
pre-Christian material from the Netherlands, Belgium and the region
just across the German border. Seeking out and documenting ancient
gods and goddesses, practices and traditions, this book asks the
question: is there enough material for such a reconstruction?
The conclusion is a resounding yes!
"Imelda Almqvist's new book is like a treasure chest of ancestral
jewels. So much of our literature today is revisionist history,
written by the victors of wars or lost on the dusty shelves of
time. In this book, Imelda brings the past alive and discovers
resources for reconnecting with our ancestors, their ancient
wisdom teachings, and our own soal. With this scholary
exploration you can retrieve the frozen parts of our North-Western
European ancestry, some dredged up from the depths of the North Sea!"
- Michael Stone, author, mentor, teacher, radio host and producer of
The Shift Network's Global Shamanism Summits
Imelda Almqvist is a shamanic teacher and painter. She teaches
courses in shamanism and sacred art internationally and her paintings
appear in art collections all over the world. She is the author of
Natural Born Shamans, Sacred Art - A Hollow Bone for Spirit
and Medicine of the Imagination: Dwelling in Possibility.
(The text above comes from the back of the book)
Review
Disappointing. The title of the book and the text on the back really appealed to me.
Unfortunately, I was very disappointed with the book. For example, information was
uncritically taken from vague new age books and that information was presented as factual.
Imelda has not checked her sources but has adopted them uncritically. The book also provides
a lot of good information, quoted from books by Luit van der Tuuk, Gunivortus Goos (GardenStone)
and Abe (the narrator) van der Veen. It is much better to read their books instead of this book by Imelda Almqvist.
- Martin Roek