Magick Matters

23.06.2021

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

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"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."...>>
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23.06.2021

“Androgyny: Toward a New Theory of Sexuality” by June Singer (1976 edition)

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"Androgyny: Toward a New Theory of Sexuality" by June Singer (1976 edition)
"Scientists and mystics throughout history have realized that every human being is the carrier of complementary life energies. Given a variety of names— yin and yang, poetic and rational, left-handed and right-handed, emotional and intellectual, feminine and masculine—these energies interact in everyone, regardless of sex. Androgyny involves recognizing the eternal flux of these opposing energies within us. On a journey that takes us through Tao, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Alchemy, Astrology, Tibetan Tantra, Kundalini Yoga, and the works of Plato, Freud and Jung, June Singer shows how crucial has been the awareness of the androgynous soul to those who would inquire into the mysteries of human nature. In modern science, too, from molecular biology to astrophysics, we...>>
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23.06.2021

“The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography” by Virginia Burrus

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"The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography" by Virginia Burrus
"Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of interpretation, arguing that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not antierotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "countereroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition. Without reducing the erotics of ancient hagiography to a single formula, The Sex Lives of Saints frames the broad historical, theological, and theoretical issues at stake in such a revisionist interpretation of ascetic eroticism, with particular reference...>>
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23.06.2021

“The Astral Codex: Using Dreams and Out-of-Body Experiences on a Spiritual Journey” by Belsebuub (ebook version)

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"The Astral Codex: Using Dreams and Out-of-Body Experiences on a Spiritual Journey" by Belsebuub (ebook version)
"Throughout history, seekers of spiritual wisdom have traveled beyond the body into other dimensions to explore a wider reality. Their experiences formed the basis of otherworldly accounts found in many of the world's sacred teachings. Drawing on decades of out-of-body experiences, Belsebuub explains how someone can use astral travel to seek out spiritual knowledge today. The Astral Codex is an effective, practical, and comprehensive guide to what out-of-body experiences are, what to see and do in the astral plane, how it fits into the structure of life, and how to use it for spiritual development. The Astral Codex is based on the popular "A Course in Astral Travel and Dreams" by Belsebuub-a course created in 2001...>>
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