Magick Matters

“Warrior Magic: Justice Spirituality and Culture from Around the World” by Tomas Prower

"Fight for a Better World with Inspiration from the Past and Present Written with a mix of reverence and passion, Warrior Magic is the first multicultural journey into understanding the role of magic in resistance and warfare around the world. Tomás Prower invites you to journey throughout history and see how people have allied with spirits and the divine to defy their oppressors. This book also features empowering anecdotes and hands-on activities shared by contributors from spiritual traditions and cultures across the globe. Warrior Magic is designed to help you apply lessons from the past to modern problems. Use spells, meditations, and prayers to overcome your personal struggles. Learn self-defense magic and how to fight societal...>>

“How to Develop Advanced Psychic Abilities: Obtain Information about the Past, Present and Future Through Clairvoyance” by Sophia DiGregorio

"Many people are a little bit psychic. But imagine what you could do with highly tuned psychic abilities! When your psychic abilities function at a high level, they enable you to achieve that which seems extraordinary. Great artists, composers, and inventors know this secret. Advanced psychic abilities are a complex faculty involving the use of the whole mind on different planes or frequencies to receive explicit information through clairvoyance, clairaudience, and claircognizance. How to Develop Advanced Psychic Abilities describes the benefits of developing advanced psychic abilities. It looks at catalysts for spontaneous development of this faculty, as well as methods of stimulating your abilities through diet and detoxification. It discusses meditation, tools, and methods for rapidly...>>

“The Runes: A Grounding in Northern Magic” by James Flowerdew

"What are the Runes, and are they actually good for magic? In The Runes: A Grounding in Northern Magic author, illustrator and artist James Flowerdew brings together a lifetime of learning and experiences with the Runes. Complete with a unique set of illustrations, The Runes is a great beginner’s guide to this writing system, which was also and can still be used for magical purposes. Full of direct references to genuine ancient texts — as well as ripping yarns, poignant anecdotes and a good dose of humour — this book attempts to demonstrate not just the surface of Rune magic, but the underlying principles and culture that inform them alongside some general magical practice. The Runes...>>

“Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy” by Martin Paul Eve

"When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media — music, videos, games, and software — before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly research book about this underground subculture, which began life in the pre-internet era Bulletin Board Systems and moved to internet File Transfer Protocol servers (“topsites”) in the mid- to late-1990s. The “Scene,” as it is known, is highly illegal in almost every aspect of its...>>

“Descending with Angels: Islamic Exorcism and Psychiatry. A Film Monograph” by Christian Suhr

"This book and film provide an account of the invisible dynamics of possession and psychosis, and of how the bodies and souls of Muslim patients are shaped by the conflicting demands of Islam and the psychiatric institutions of European nation-states. Over several years, Christian Suhr followed Muslim patients being treated in a Danish mosque and in a psychiatric hospital. His analysis reveals how both psychiatric and Islamic healing work not only to produce relief from pain, but also entail an ethical transformation of the patient and the cultivation of religious and secular values through the experience of pain. Creatively exploring the analytic possibilities provided by the use of a camera, both the book and...>>