Magick Matters

“The Junior Witch’s Handbook: A Kid’s Guide to White Magic, Spells, and Rituals” by Nikki Van De Car

"An empowering guide for young witches about the kinds of magic they can create for themselves every day. Intended for children between the ages of eight and twelve, who are curious about the possibility of "something more" in their lives, this handbook focuses on three major areas of the witch's life: friendship, personal fulfillment, and family. Each section includes spells, rituals, potions, and other useful information, such as tables about crystals, chakras, and herbs."...>>

“The Grand Contraption: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance” by David Park

"The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. No other book has provided as coherent, compelling, and learned a narrative on this subject of subjects. David Park takes us on an incredible journey that illuminates the multitude of elaborate "contraptions" by which humans in the Western world have imagined the earth they inhabit—and what lies beyond. Intertwining history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the physical sciences, this eminently readable book is, ultimately, about the "grand contraption" we've constructed through the ages in an effort to...>>

“True Tales of the Ouija Board: Terrifying, Wondrous, and Fascinating Experiences with the Mysterious Spirit Oracle” by Stephen Wagner

"True stories from those who experienced them about the most controversial "toy" in the world: the Ouija board. Ordinary people who dared experiment with the "mystifying oracle" tell their tales of strange and amazing messages, paranormal phenomena, dark spirits, contact with loved ones, incredible predictions and warnings, and the much-feared Zozo entity. These are true tales that you might not want to read alone... or in the dark. You'll be frightened, fascinated and caused to wonder — all at once. You might even be tempted to try the board yourself... or swear never to touch one ever again. Either way, you'll never forget these remarkable and often terrifying true tales of the Ouija board."...>>

“God and the Multiverse: Humanity’s Expanding View of the Cosmos” by Victor J. Stenger

"Cosmologists have reasons to believe that the vast universe in which we live is just one of an endless number of other universes within a multiverse-a mind-boggling array that may extend indefinitely in space and endlessly in both the past and the future. Victor Stenger reviews the key developments in the history of science that led to the current consensus view of astrophysicists, taking pains to explain essential concepts and discoveries in accessible terminology. The author shows that science's emerging understanding of the multiverse-consisting of trillions upon trillions of galaxies-is fully explicable in naturalistic terms with no need for supernatural forces to explain its origin or ongoing existence.How can conceptions of God, traditional or...>>

“Finding True Magic: Transpersonal Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy/NLP” by Jack Elias

"This book explores the possibilities for recognizing and freeing ourselves from a destructive process of perceiving, thinking, and acting that can be viewed as a pernicious worldwide epidemic. Unlike other diseases, which we strive to isolate and cure, this insidious fever has a characteristic that makes us blind to its presence: we come to identify its symptoms as our very own true self. We lovingly speak of this disease as our ego, our sense of limited separate selfhood. Jack Elias calls it "egoic-minding," because it is a process, not a thing. Egoic-minding is a fragmented, biased way of perceiving and thinking. It can be viewed as a sort of destructive hypnotic trance that causes us...>>