Magick Matters

“Writing Through Fear: A Story Arcana Guide” by Caroline Donahue

"Has your critic convinced you that you're the only one who feels fear when writing? Every writer faces fear. Over the past ten years, Caroline Donahue, MA, has observed the patterns of fear in hundreds of students and clients. Through her teaching and coaching, Caroline has developed a catalogue of the archetypes of fear. Learn the four categories, and the ten types of fear within each category. These fears each correspond to a card in the minor arcana of the tarot, allowing a tarot deck to serve as a journaling companion. Transform your relationship to fear so it no longer stops you from writing and instead becomes a valuable source of insight. This guide walks you...>>

“The Author’s Journey: A Story Arcana Guide” by Caroline Donahue

"When you sit down to write, does your story sometimes get stuck? Do you wish there was another way? Sometimes, despite all our dreaming, outlining, and drive to write, the story grinds to a halt. Thankfully, there is another way to beat the critic and get back to writing progress in no time. Humans are meaning-making magicians. By working with the tarot as the key to your unconscious, this guide will help you to break through to the deeper levels of your story. This book includes interpretations for the Major Arcana for writers that will allow the reader to gain insight into their writing process as well as the project itself."...>>

“The Mystery of Life Energy: Biofield Healing, Phantom Limbs, Group Energetics, and Gaia Consciousness” by Eric Leskowitz

"Explores the wealth of evidence for the reality of the biofield • Describes how energy therapies are now gaining acceptance due to irrefutable proof of their effectiveness for clinical conditions from PTSD to phantom limb pain • Examines the power of group energetics and team chemistry in sports and in society • Explains how megalithic sacred sites are aligned with Earth’s subtle energies and explores the energetics of crop circles and global consciousness Examining the wealth of evidence supporting the reality of the human biofield, Eric Leskowitz, M.D., explores the role of life energy in healing therapies and outlines its many manifestations at the individual, group, and global levels. He shows how energy therapies have been taboo in...>>

“Allies For Awakening: Guidelines for Productive and Safe Experiences with Entheogens” by Ralph Metzner

"Entheogenesis means the growing realization that we human beings and the world around us are much more than simply material organisms living and evolving on a material planetary body. We are multi-dimensional spiritual, cosmic, noetic, psychic and physical beings. The central insight that emerges from entheogenic states and is confirmed by the perennial spiritual traditions of East and West, is that at every level, from macro-cosmic to micro-cosmic, from atoms and animals, to trees and planets and stars, Spirit dwells within created forms and expresses through them. This monograph is based on 50 years of experience as a participant-observer in the international underground sub-culture involved with entheogenic, consciousness-expanding substances. The author discusses the uses...>>

“The Jhanas: A Practical Guide to Deep Meditative States” by Shaila Catherine

"Experience new levels of joy, calm, and clarity with this revised and enhanced edition of the bestselling Focused and Fearless. The Pali word jhana literally means "to meditate". It also refers to a traditional series of states of absorption, each deeper than the last, in which the mind is undistracted by sensation, thoughts, or moods. Shaila Catherine’s friendly, wise approach, blended with contemporary examples and pragmatic "how to" instructions that anyone can try, will show meditators (and non-meditators) how to attain these extraordinary states with relative ease. But jhana practice is about much more than just meditation or concentration; it offers a complete path toward bliss, fearlessness, and true awakening. From the introduction: Jhanas are states of...>>