Magick Matters

“Good Morning Intentions: Sacred Rituals to Raise Your Vibration, Find Your Bliss, and Stay Energized All Day” by Britt Deanda and Tara Schulenberg

"What can you do each morning to raise your vibration and jumpstart your bliss? Spoiler alert: The answer isn’t coffee. If you want to feel more grounded, energized, and connected to your goals, you should try what famous and highly successful people—from Benjamin Franklin and Jane Austen to Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey—have been doing throughout history: adopt a morning ritual, and stick to it! But where do you start? In Good Morning Intentions, two yoga and meditation teachers and entrepreneurs reveal 21 rituals to help you make each morning really matter, setting you up for daily success. In this easy-to-use and accessible guide, you’ll find a powerful blend of energy-boosting exercises, breathwork, simple meditations, and...>>

“Knowledge of the Heart: Gnostic Secrets of Inner Wisdom” by June Singer”

"Knowledge of the Heart is based on one of the most exciting religious literary discoveries of our time — the finding in 1945 of 52 ancient books containing the Gnostic Gospels at nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945. The Gnostics were an early Christian sect who believed that God can be accessed only through gnosis, the kind of knowledge or inner wisdom which streams from a wellspring within each individual. Best-selling author, scholar and psychologist, June Singer, gives and illuminating introduction to the Gnostic tradition, and presents exerpts from the Gospels, offering them as a focus for meditation or worship. These extracts are arranged in sections attuned to the eight monastic periods (or hours)...>>

“A Gnostic Book of Hours : Keys to Inner Wisdom” by June Singer (1988 edition)

"Preserved in great earthen jars, buried in the Egyptian desert, and fabled to be discovered only when they could be properly understood, the banned gospels of the second-century Gnostics speak to the personal, social, and environmental concerns of contemporary seekers in the timeless “soul’s language”—the rich and enigmatic language of dreams, art, and literature. Emphasizing inner wisdom over external authority, gnostic texts discuss the direct relationship between the individual and the divine, spirituality in a materialistic world, the need for masculine and feminine balance in all things, and our ability to confront evil and chaos by acknowledging connection and interrelatedness. The book of hours divides the day into eight periods of guided meditation designed to remind...>>

“Love’s Energies” by June Singer (1990 edition)

"Exploring themes raised by her ground-breaking work Androgyny, June Singer offers a psychological history of intimate relationships at both the personal and transpersonal levels, drawing on the works of anthropologists, sociobiologists, artists, and psychologists which have studied the impact of gender relations on our culture and others throughout history. As in her earlier works, Dr. Singer brings her extensive erudition and vigorous, clear-headed analytic style to bear on this fundamentally important problem (and blessing) of human behavior."...>>