Magick Matters

“Your Intuition Led You Here: Daily Rituals for Empowerment, Inner Knowing, and Magic” by Alex Naranjo and Marlene Vargas (2021 edition)

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Life can seem less than magical on a day-to-day basis. But look a little closer at the synchronicities and coincidences that pop up and you’ll catch a glimpse of greater powers at play. Alex Naranjo and Marlene Vargas, the owners of the biggest metaphysical shop on the West Coast, want to let you in on a secret: that power is you. And if you acknowledge and tap into your innate power, the possibilities are endless. Alex and Marlene are experts in using magic as a tool of self-care and empowerment. They have transformed their lives by tuning in to their intuition and intention—which is where all magic begins—and now they show you how to do...>>

“The Science of Channeling: Why You Should Trust Your Intuition and Embrace the Force That Connects Us All” by Helane Wahbeh

"From the director of research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)—a nonprofit parapsychological research institute cofounded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell—this groundbreaking guide explores the cutting-edge science behind channeling, and offers powerful tools to help you hone your own abilities. Do you have an event in your life that can’t be explained? Perhaps it presented itself as a feeling of intuition, an image, a sense of knowing, or even a full-blown premonition. You may have felt judged when you told someone about it, or even wondered, “did that really happen, or did I just imagine it?” Chock-full of cutting-edge research, this guide will show you just how common this type of phenomenon is—and how you...>>

“Haunted Europe: Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media” edited by Evert Jan Van Leeuwen and Michael Newton

"Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe. By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland."...>>

“Gothic Cinema” by Xavier Aldana Reyes

"Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim Burton. But what is Gothic cinema? Is the iconography of the Gothic film equivalent to that of the horror genre? Are the literary origins of the Gothic what solidified its aesthetics? And exactly what cultural roles does the Gothic continue to perform for us today? Gothic Cinema covers topics such as the chiaroscuro experiments of early German cinema, the monster cinema of the 1930s, the explained supernatural of the old dark house mystery films of...>>