Magick Matters

“Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy” by Ingo Swann

"In Penetration, Ingo Swann, renowned psi researcher, reveals long-held secrets about a covert U.S. government "remote viewing" agency, which later was made famous by the book and movie, The Men Who Stare At Goats. This agency was so secret that it had no paper trail, and hence no written secrecy agreements (only verbal ones). Once Swann's agreement expired, he was free to tell of meetings in underground bunkers near Washington, D.C., and of being taken to a remote location near the Arctic Circle, where he witnessed the arrival of a huge UFO over the surface of an Alaskan lake. This book discusses undeveloped human telepathy, and contrasts it with the probable existence of fully developed alien...>>

“Everybody’s Guide to Natural ESP: Unlocking the Extrasensory Power of Your Mind” by Ingo Swann

"In this milestone book, Ingo Swann guides the reader through revolutionary techniques he developed and tested in thousands of experiments, with startling results, for tapping ESP potential. His exciting new concepts of “mind mound,” “mind manifestation,” and the “ESP core” help readers demystify ESP and link this important inner reality to what is already known about dreams, memory, quantum physics, and human creativity. Swann shows how to become more receptive to the “deeper self” and make contact with the hidden reality in which ESP operates."...>>

“The Varieties of Magical Experience: Indigenous, Medieval, and Modern Magic” by Lynne L. Hume and Nevill Drury

"A rare combination of personal and academic, this book showcases the myriad avenues for transcending the boundaries of reality through direct sensory experience. The Varieties of Magical Experience: Indigenous, Medieval, and Modern Magic provides a comprehensive volume that examines magic in all its aspects. Through detailed case studies, verbatim accounts of personal experiences, and first-hand experience from the authors' own active participation in many alternative religious rituals and ceremonies, this unique book reveals how magic can be a universal phenomenon that crosses cultural, historical, and spatial boundaries. The work is organized in five sections that embrace several broad themes: indigenous magical and shamanic practices; medieval witchcraft; sorcery and hermetic magic; and contemporary Western magical practices, including...>>

“Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy: Natural Magic” by Cornelius Agrippa (Dover Books edition)

"Written by a legendary scholar of Renaissance esoterica, this is the single most important text in the history of Western occultism, Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) combined classical Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy with elements of the Jewish Kabbalah and Christianity to form a systematic exposition of occult knowledge. Agrippa's view of divine order was subsequently eclipsed by the materialism and atheism of the Enlightenment, but 500 years later, his influential work endures as a cornerstone of mystic literature. In serious, educated, and accessible terms, Agrippa defines occultism and magic as a natural means of attaining knowledge and power. His explanations of planetary rulerships, enchantments, sorceries, types of divination, and the interpretation of dreams offer an intriguing array...>>

“Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism” edited by Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr

"This volume is the first comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive iconoclasts. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was a study in contradictions. Born into a fundamentalist Christian family and educated at Cambridge, he was vilified as a traitor, drug addict, and debaucher, yet revered as perhaps the most influential thinker in contemporary esotericism. Moving beyond the influence of contemporary psychology and the modernist understanding of the occult, Crowley declared himself the revelator of a new age of individualism. Crowley's occult bricolage, Magick, was an eclectic combination of spiritual exercises drawn from Western European magical ceremonies and Indic sources for meditation and yoga. This journey of self-liberation culminated in harnessing sexual power as...>>