What Is A Wight Doctor?

A Wight Doctor is the spiritual technologist of The Way of Spirits. They are people who work with Wights in the Otherlands in order to accomplish various tasks on behalf of their clients and communities. There are a lot of names for similar folks in other traditions: sorcerer or sorceress, shaman, cunning man or woman, witch, medicine person, healer, and many many others in various lands and cultures.

Some of these tasks include:

• spirit, energy, and magical healing; soul retrieval and repair
  
• communication with Wights, including the Mighty Dead
  
• find information, resolve problems, and create new situations
  
• aiding people in understanding their Wight-House, the spirits that surround them
• removing elf shot and spiritual intrusions that cause disease and disorder
• teaching traditional lore, both magical and medical, and magical skills
• providing divination and seership for individuals and groups
• exorcising homes, land, and individuals toublesome spirits
• performing magical work to cure and curse, attract and drive away
  
• leading ceremony to celebrate life transitions
• maintaining relationships between People and Wights
• actively aiding Wights of all kinds to accomplish their goals
• facilitates and teaches others how to do all of these

The Wight Doctor is the first person to take up that mantle on behalf of the Way of Spirits community.

What's the Way of Spirits?

A.K.A. Embodied Animism / the Wightway / Way of Wights / Wihtweg / Weg Wihta

The Way of Spirits (or any of the many other names it has) is a modern Animist tradition. It is based on the Wight Doctor's life experiences, the instructions and teachings revealed to him by the Wights he works with, and a smattering of Druidry and other indigenous traditions. In particular, it builds on the basic idea of Embodied Animism, that reality is aware, and that all the beings in it are fractal in nature. Some of the other features unique to the Way of Spirits are:

• The Three Forces: a fundamental understanding of energy as relatively Trinary, a complex interplay and constant transformation
  
• Nine Elements: not the classical four elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, but Nine, with very different associations derived ultimate from the 3 Forces
  
• The Eye of the Moon: a complex symbol embodying spiritual necessities and how they relate to one another, to guide your journey
  
• The TreeHeart: a tool for understanding correspondences and their relationships in the Way, as well as a template for how to accomplish goals
  
• The Wight-House: a unique understanding of the spiritual court, spirit allies, totems, spiritual mentors, guardians, intermediaries,, and the like
  
• A commitment to the Individual Journey, through ritual, spirit communication, practical and daily practices, along with community support and assistance
  

What's a Wight?

wiht (Strong noun) wight, person, creature, being, whit, thing, something, anything

Simply put, a Wight is a being. The Wightway recognizes all beings as Persons; some distinctions made in standard English do not apply very well or at all.  The word "spirits" comes with an enormous amount of baggage and expectation as well. We use Wight, the modern English word derived from the Old English word wiht, to avoid that baggage and to allow for a new understanding of the People around us.

Inter Numinis Copulae Verae? What's that mean?

This is the motto of the Way of Wights, found in the footer of this website. It's Latin, and means "In Relation to One Another, True Relationships", which is a description of the basic goal of the Way. Between yourself and all the other Wights out there, you are focused on forging relationships founded on truth, relationships that are true in all senses. True as accurate, as honest, as steady, as faithful, and ultimately as true to the needs of the relationship, which you and your Wights determine for yourselves, not according to what others demand.