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Author: Ramsey Dukes
Publisher:
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780904311334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA seminal text of the chaos magic and New Age movements. In straightforward language it describes magical thinking and its relevance to today's society and changing attitudes to spirit and the paranormal. It is the sort of magic book one might trust to skeptical friends. Some people also find it witty.
Author: Liz Angerford
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780904311228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThundersqueak has become legendary as one of the seminal texts of the Chaos magick current. Described as: Self-help, but New Age fluffy it is NOT: It tears your self to bits and chucks out the crap.
Author: Federico Campagna
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1350044040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe take for granted that only certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do, think and imagine. Our contemporary age has embraced a troubling and painful form of reality: Technic. Under Technic, the foundations of reality begin to crumble, shrinking the field of the possible and freezing our lives in an anguished state of paralysis. Technic and Magic shows that the way out of the present deadlock lies much deeper than debates on politics or economics. By drawing from an array of Northern and Southern sources – spanning from Heidegger, Junger and Stirner's philosophies, through Pessoa's poetry, to Advaita Vedanta, Bhartrhari, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra's theosophies – Magic is presented as an alternative system of reality to Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the world through an 'absolute language', Magic centres its reconstruction of the world around the notion of the 'ineffable' that lies at the heart of existence. Technic and Magic is an original philosophical work, and a timely cultural intervention. It disturbs our understanding of the structure of reality, while restoring it in a new form. This is possibly the most radical act: if we wish to change our world, first we have to change the idea of 'reality' that defines it.
Author: Victoria Nelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-05-08
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0674065409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo explain the millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century Gothic masters H.P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in the eighteenth century and the original Gothic--the late medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his successors drew their inspiration. Fictions such as the Twilight and Left Behind series do more than follow the conventions of the classic Gothic novel. They are radically reviving and reinventing the transcendental worldview that informed the West's premodern era. As Jesus becomes mortal in The Da Vinci Code and the child Ofelia becomes a goddess in Pan's Labyrinth, Nelson argues that this unprecedented mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.
Author: Ramsey Dukes
Publisher: Aeon Books
Published: 2010-12-31
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781904658375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how to master pendulums, tarot, auras and nature spirits. Taking the form of a six-week course, Dukes' exercises lead the reader on an exploration of magic as the art of adding meaning to our lives.
Author: J.H. Tobin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-12-16
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1942574096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNOT YOUR WIKIPEDIA LISTINGS, NOR IS THIS FOR A GAME! This will be the very same book listed in GHOSTBUSTERS 3! Since its first publication over 100 years ago, Tobin's Spirit Guide has remained the authoritative source of information about the Denizens of the etheric plane. Earlier editions of this guide were used by Paranormal Researchers to even save New York City in the great "Gozer the Gozarian" Invasion of 1984, and Vigo the Carpathian's attempt at world domination in 1989. This new version features of 50 new entries, and 200 updates to existing entries, making it the most complete guide for paranormal researchers ever brought before in print. This wonderful 4th updated edition of Tobin's original spirit catalog. With a Forward By R. Stantz, Ph.D. & Dr. E. Spengler, Ph.D. and Afterward By P. Venkman Ph.D.
Author: Ramsey Dukes
Publisher: Aeon Books
Published: 2018-11-19
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1911597191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage is a 15th-century grimoire, or book of magic, that includes instructions on how an individual can make contact with their Holy Guardian Angel. Few occultists have dared to follow the instructions, known as the "operation," hidden within the text. Fewer yet have been successful. Even the famous Aleister Crowley failed to complete it. Over a six-month period in 1977, Ramsey Dukes attempted the Abramelin operation. The Abramelin Diaries is his account of what transpired when he attempted to contact his Holy Guardian Angel. It provides a retrospective commentary on what the operation did for Dukes, along with its value and significance. It also includes a brief history of The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage and its magical tradition. This is a book for serious occultists only.
Author: Lionel Snell
Publisher: Mouse That Spins
Published: 2018-12
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780904311297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMagical thinking is on the rise. In a post-truth world it is vital to understand why - and what it means. Alan Moore: ..".the most lucid, coherent and insightful intellect to emerge from British occultism for some several decades... his most considered and powerfully reasoned work to date... Highly recommended."
Author: Duncan Barford
Publisher: Aeon Books Limited
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781904658368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing occultism to understand the paranormal sounds like diluting water or burying earth, but in this thoughtful and unusual book Duncan Barford draws on a deep familiarity with modern magick to provide a valuable toolbox of concepts for exploring the relationship between consciousness and the paranormal. Writing in an accessible and humorous style, Barford examines intriguing first-hand accounts of poltergeists, telepathy, communication with the dead, religious phenomena and astral projection. The essence of his unique exploration is that the paranormal does not happen only to special people and on rare occasions. In fact, to experience the paranormal we need simply turn our attention to the nature of our consciousness itself.
Author: J.F. Martel
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2015-02-10
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1583945784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present. Received opinion holds that art is culturally-determined and relative. We are told that whether a picture, a movement, a text, or sound qualifies as a "work of art" largely depends on social attitudes and convention. Drawing on examples ranging from Paleolithic cave paintings to modern pop music and building on the ideas of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Gilles Deleuze, Carl Jung, and others, J.F. Martel argues that art is an inborn human phenomenon that precedes the formation of culture and even society. Art is free of politics and ideology. Paradoxically, that is what makes it a force of liberation wherever it breaks through the trance of humdrum existence. Like the act of dreaming, artistic creation is fundamentally mysterious. It is a gift from beyond the field of the human, and it connects us with realities that, though normally unseen, are crucial components of a living world. While holding this to be true of authentic art, the author acknowledges the presence—overwhelming in our media-saturated age—of a false art that seeks not to liberate but to manipulate and control. Against this anti-artistic aesthetic force, which finds some of its most virulent manifestations in modern advertising, propaganda, and pornography, true art represents an effective line of defense. Martel argues that preserving artistic expression in the face of our contemporary hyper-aestheticism is essential to our own survival. Art is more than mere ornament or entertainment; it is a way, one leading to what is most profound in us. Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice places art alongside languages and the biosphere as a thing endangered by the onslaught of predatory capitalism, spectacle culture, and myopic technological progress. The book is essential reading for visual artists, musicians, writers, actors, dancers, filmmakers, and poets. It will also interest anyone who has ever been deeply moved by a work of art, and for all who seek a way out of the web of deception and vampiric diversion that the current world order has woven around us.
