Magick Matters

13.10.2020

“Black Elk, Lakota Visionary: The Oglala Holy Man and Sioux Tradition” by Harry Oldmeadow

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"Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk Speaks is the most widely-read Native American testimony of the last century and a key work in our understanding of American Indian traditions. In Black Elk, Lakota Visionary, Harry Oldmeadow draws on recently discovered sources and in-depth research to provide a major re-assessment of Black Elk’s life and work. The author explores Black Elk’s mystical visions, his controversial engagement with Catholicism, and his previously unrecognized attempts to preserve and revive ancestral Sioux beliefs and practices. Oldmeadow’s lively and highly readable account also examines the controversies that have surrounded Black Elk and his collaborators, John...>>

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12.10.2020

“Practical Astrology the Easy Way” by Jonathan Dee

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"You don't need endless tables and mathematical formulas to create and interpret an astrological birth chart--not when an expert does your calculations for you. Simply add all the relevant information to fill-in-the-blank charts, which can be photocopied to use again and again. The hard work is already done here on circle degrees, angles between planets, decans of a star sign, and other complexities. Follow the three-step calculations for finding sun, moon, and rising signs. Look up each of the planets and add them to the appropriate places on each blank birth chart. When you're ready to take the next steps beyond reading your horoscope in the newspaper, the "Easy Way" is the place to...>>

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11.10.2020

“S.N.U.F.F.” by Victor Pelevin

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"Damilola Karpov is a pilot. Living in Byzantium, a huge sky city floating above the land of Urkaine, he makes his living as a drone pilot - capable of being a cameraman who records the events unfolding in Urkaine or, with the weapons aboard his drone, of making a newsworthy event happen for his employers: 'Big Byz Media'."...>>

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11.10.2020

“The Helmet Of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur” by Victor Pelevin

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"They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms which open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered a dialogue which they cannot escape - a discourse defined and destroyed by the Helmet of Horror. Its wearer is the dominant force they call Asterisk, a force for good and ill in which the Minotaur is forever present and Theseus is the great unknown. Victor Pelevin has created a mesmerising world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide. "The Helmet of Horror" is structured according to the internet exchanges of the twenty first century, radically reinventing the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur for an age where information...>>

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11.10.2020

“The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel” by Victor Pelevin

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"The world?s first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance?published to coincide with Halloween One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevin?s comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and Time has described him as a ?psychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.? In The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, a smash success in Russia and Pelevin?s first novel in six years, paranormal meets transcendental with a splash of satire as A Hu-Li, a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China meets her match in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf who?s the key figure in Russia?s Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious...>>

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