Magick Matters

16.02.2021

“The Witch of Eye” by Kathryn Nuernberger

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"The Witch of Eye" by Kathryn Nuernberger
🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called “witches” of the past. The Witch of Eye unearths salves, potions, and spells meant to heal, yet interpreted by inquisitors as evidence of evil. The author describes torture and forced confessions alongside accounts of gentleness of legendary midwives. In one essay about a trial, we learn through folklore that Jesus’s mother was a midwife who cured her own son’s rheumatism. In other essays there are subtle parallels to contemporary discourse around abortion and environmental destruction. Nuernberger weaves in her own experiences too. There’s an ironic look at her own wedding, an uncomfortable visit to the Prague Museum of Torture, and an...>>
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16.02.2021

“Spectral Spaces and Hauntings: The Affects of Absence” edited by Christina Lee

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"Spectral Spaces and Hauntings: The Affects of Absence" edited by Christina Lee
"This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of haunting. It considers how the ‘appearance’ of absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something that once was, and still is, (t)here. At its core, the book asks: how and why do certain places haunt us? Drawing from a diversity of mediums, forms and disciplinary approaches, the contributors to Spectral Spaces and Hauntings illustrate the complicated ways absent presences can manifest and be registered. The case studies range from the memory sites of a terrorist attack, the lost home, a vanished mining town and abandoned airports, to the post-apocalyptic wastelands in literary fiction, the photographic and filmic surfaces where spectres materialise,...>>
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16.02.2021

“Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras: Vowels, Consonants, and Syllables for Spiritual Transformation” by James D’Angelo

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"Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras: Vowels, Consonants, and Syllables for Spiritual Transformation" by James D'Angelo
"Using the Sacred Alphabet--the universal sounds of all languages--sound-healing teacher James D’Angelo explores the intimate connections between vowel, consonant, and syllable combinations, each of the 7 chakras, and their corresponding psychological traits. He explains, for example, how the vowel sound “uh” connects to the root chakra and is found in such words as “support” and “trust,” words deeply linked to the emotional character of this chakra. Revealing the voice as the master instrument for transformation--attested by the spiritual traditions that use chanting as an aid to enlightenment--he provides an extensive selection of vocal exercises to re-tune and purify each chakra and dissipate any related negative states as well as exercises that incorporate multiple chakras...>>
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16.02.2021

“The Healing Power of the Human Voice: Mantras, Chants, and Seed Sounds for Health and Harmony” by James D’Angelo

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"The Healing Power of the Human Voice: Mantras, Chants, and Seed Sounds for Health and Harmony" by James D'Angelo
"As infants and children we use our vocalizations to express our needs and emotions. As we grow older these vocalizations become confined to language. The suppression of emotional sounds because they may be considered childish or undignified is quite commonplace in Western cultures. Yet when done with vigor, the sounds made by laughing, groaning, humming, keening, and sighing hold within them great power for healing. In The Healing Power of the Human Voice James D'Angelo introduces the concepts behind sound healing and provides simple, practical exercises for beginners. He explains in detail the meanings and healing attributes of the whole range of human vocal expression, from vowels and consonants to the natural sounds of laughter...>>
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