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Magick Matters
"It’s not about surviving, it’s about thriving. It’s not about muddling along, it’s about undergoing an alchemical transmutation, a glorious transformation, a metamorphosis from a grub into a wondrous, iridescent butterfly ("psyche", to use the ancient Greek term). It’s about going through a phase change, altering from a humdrum human into a world-historic shaper of destiny.
It’s time to enact the Quality Agenda, to pursue excellence to its uttermost extent. It’s time for the glory of Meritocracy, the system that will change everything.
Don’t you want the best of all possible worlds – an optimized State, composed of optimized citizens? What could be superior to that?
Reboot the world. Revalue all values. Thus spoke Zarathustra."...>>
"This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region hitherto rarely taken into consideration in witchcraft research. Special attention is given to healers, midwives, and cunning folk, including archaic sorcerer figures such as the táltos; whose ambivalent role is analysed in social, legal, medical and religious contexts. This volume examines how waves of persecution emerged and declined, and how witchcraft was decriminalised. Fascinating case-studies on vindictive witch-hunters, quarrelling neighbours, rivalling midwives, cunning shepherds, weather magician impostors, and exorcist Franciscan friars provide...>>
