Magick Matters

“Embodying the Goddess: How to Awaken Curiosity and Reverence on the Spiritual Path” by Cynthia Abulafia

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Discover your own inner goddess. Cynthia Abulafia introduces a map of the complete spiritual process rooted in history, spiritual traditions, and modern science, by recalling the radically inclusive divine feminine principles of curiosity and reverence. Spiritual traditions and religions often ask seekers to transcend something: the body, the mind, the human experience? Spirituality has for centuries, if not millennia, focused on moving beyond the human body and life. But embodiment matters, and is crucial. Many spiritual seekers have been offered an incomplete map of the spiritual process with a goal from "salvation" to "samadhi". Abulafia calls this the transcendence bias: when a tradition teaches us to go up and out but forgets to tell us...>>

“Palmistry for Love: A Guide to the Vedic Science of Compatibility” by Ghanshyam Singh Birla

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "How to interpret the lines of the hands to cultivate and deepen relationships • Explores how the ancient Indian art of palmistry can help you understand your relationship patterns and make changes to improve success in love • Explains the meanings of the major and minor lines, signs, and mounts of the hands as they relate to love and relationships, including an in-depth study of the heart line • Includes hundreds of examples of actual palm prints for comparison More than 5,000 years ago, the sages of India discovered that the lines and signs on our hands represent not only a preview of our potential destiny but also a map of...>>

“Bring Me Love: Finding and Keeping Love Using Divination and Folk Magic” by Icy Sedgwick

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Find your soulmate and keep them forever using the authentic folklore practices in this lovely giftable hardback with 100 two-colour illustrations. From moonlit wishes to candlelit charms, love begins with a little magic. Packed with folkloric rituals, historical love spells and romantic divinations, this magical guide reveals the weird, wonderful and time-tested ways people have tried to attract love throughout history. Perfect for anyone longing to add a little magic to their romantic life. Discover: ✦ Love spells – Blow on a dandelion to make a wish or spin an iynx (spinner) to stir up passion. ✦ Plant-based power – Wear thyme to become irresistible or turn a bluebell inside out to test...>>

“Déjà Rêvé and Love at Second Sight: The Experience of Meeting in Dreams before Meeting in Life” by Daniel Bourke

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Dreams of destiny across cultures and history • Explores visions and dreams that foretell love encounters, highlighting the way these experiences draw people together • Presents hundreds of romantic and other precognitive dreams from legendary, historical, and modern sources, compiled for the first time in one place • Documents numerous dream-related folklore practices from different cultures, including charms and spells to induce prophetic dreams of a future lover Déjà rêvé, meaning "already dreamed", is a widespread phenomenon related to, though distinct from, the more popularly known déjà vu. More than just a familiar sense, moments of déjà rêvé are tied directly to specific dreams, often inspiring profound life changes for the...>>

“Purging the Devil: Exorcism and Possession After the Death of God” by Grafton Tanner

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A radical cultural and political history of exorcism and possession from the 1950s to the present day. Once considered an outdated embarrassment, demands for exorcism have increased since the mid-twentieth century, becoming a popular product in our therapeutic marketplace and a weapon against groups that resist state, corporate, and ecclesiastical powers. Are the 'possessed' suffering from mental health problems? Is the world falling victim to the devil and demons? Charting the history of exorcism in an allegedly secular age — from the brainwashing panic of the postwar period to the cult deprogramming of the 1970s, and from the massive influence of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist to the harmful practice of conversion "therapy" — Purging...>>