Magick Matters

“A Visionary Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Methods for Working with the Deep Dream State” by Lee Adams

"Dreams offer a gateway into our psyche. Through lucid dreaming--when you have conscious awareness during sleep—you can access and interact with the subconscious mind for greater self-awareness, personal development, and transformation. In this step-by-step guide to dreamwork, Lee Adams provides tools and techniques for encouraging, remembering, and using lucid dreams for personal growth as well as how to have big dreams that leave a lasting impact. Beginning with an overview of the history of lucid dreaming, he shares tried-and-true foundational practices to get you started—practices for before sleep, during sleep, and after dreaming. Drawing upon Jungian depth psychology, recent research in neuroscience, and years of personal dream practice, Adams then offers an extensive inventory of intermediate...>>

“7 Day Chakras: Daily Energy Work to Balance Your Life” by Shai Tubali

"This innovative book presents an easy-to-use, step-by-step chakra method that helps you integrate energy work into your daily lifestyle. Assigning one chakra to each day of the week, 7 Day Chakras makes it simple to focus your intentions, awaken your energy centers, and reach your goals. Join Shai Tubali on a rich, multicolored journey into the wisdom of the chakras. He shares meditations, affirmations, exercises, journal prompts, and visualizations, all of them specially designed to help you fully awaken your body and mind. Explore the chakras individually as well as how they work together. Discover what your chakra personality type is and what practices empower your days. This enlightening book teaches how to heal yourself...>>

“Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging” by Greg Critser

"Mix the latest and most rigorous scientific research, irrepressible old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and the ancient human desire to live forever (or at least a lot longer) and the result is today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. Its achievements are so far mostly marginal, but its promises flow with all the allure of a twenty-first-century fountain of youth. In Eternity Soup, acclaimed science writer Greg Critser takes us to every outpost of the antiaging landscape, home to zealots and skeptics, charlatans, and ingenious clinicians and academics. We visit a conference of the Caloric Restriction Society, whose members—inspired by certain laboratory findings involving mice—live their lives in a state just above starvation. (“It’s only the first five years that...>>

“Aliens, Robots & Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson” by John L. Steadman

"H. P. Lovecraft's aliens are extra-terrestrial, terrestrial & trans-dimensional entities, totally unlike any other aliens in science fiction literature. In contrast, Isaac Asimov's and William Gibson's aliens are human-created positronic robots and virtual reality constructs, or 'idols'. Lovecraft's great theme is alien indifferentism, tinged with a malevolence that escalates into an existential, apocalyptic threat against humankind, while for Asimov and Gibson, alien inclusionism is the norm. The robots and the VR idols integrate into society and their influence appears to be beneficial. But this is only on the surface. In this book, John L. Steadman demonstrates that there is ultimately little difference between alien indifferentism and alien inclusionism in the fictional works of these...>>

“The Awakened Dreamer: How to Remember & Interpret Your Dreams ” by Kala Ambrose

"Your dreams can be an important part of your decision-making, relationships, and problem-solving―if you properly apply them. This easy-to-use book shows how to strengthen the connection between your conscious and unconscious self, helping you achieve your goals and discover valuable insight. You'll explore dreams and sleep phenomena of all kinds, including: Recurring Prophetic Teaching Visitation Lucid Nightmare Daydream Sleep Walking Sleep Talking The Awakened Dreamer provides approachable exercises, guided meditations, example dreams, and instructions for creating your own symbol guide. You'll also learn how to combine daydreams with...>>