Magick Matters

“The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters” by Simon Buxton

"Reveals for the first time the ancient tradition of bee shamanism and its secret practices and teachings • Examines the healing and ceremonial powers of the honeybee and the hive • Reveals bee shamanism’s system of acupuncture, which predates the Chinese systems • Imparts teachings from the female tradition and explores the transformative powers of the magico-sexual elixirs they produce Bee shamanism may well be the most ancient and enigmatic branch of shamanism. It exists throughout the world—wherever in fact the honeybee exists. Its medicinal tools—such as honey, pollen, propolis, and royal jelly—are now in common usage, and even the origins of Chinese acupuncture can be traced back to the ancient practice of applying bee stings to the...>>

“The Timothy Leary Project: Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment” by Jennifer Ulrich

"The life of Timothy Leary is examined through papers and correspondence preserved in his archive. The first collection of Timothy Leary’s (1920–1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out", Leary cultivated interests that ranged across experimentation with hallucinogens, social change and legal reform, and mysticism and spirituality, with a passion to determine what lies beyond our consciousness. Through Leary’s papers, the reader meets such key figures as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Marshall McLuhan, Aldous Huxley, John Lennon and Yoko Ono,...>>

“Kabbalistic Tarot: Hebraic Wisdom in the Major and Minor Arcana” by Dovid Krafchow

"An introduction to the ancient kabbalistic origins and meanings of the tarot • Reveals the intimate relationship of the tarot to the esoteric teachings of the Torah and the Kabbalah • Provides kabbalistic interpretations for all 78 traditional tarot cards • Includes a detailed kabbalistic reading and interpretation of the Tree of Life spread When the Greeks invaded Israel and forbade study of the Torah, the Jewish people began a secret method of Toranic study that appeared to be merely a simple way to fill time: playing cards. These first tarot decks enabled study of the Torah without detection. Once the Maccabees expelled the Greeks from Israel and Israel once again became a Jewish kingdom, tarot cards dropped...>>

“The Vertical Plane” by Ken Webster (alternate rip)

"A unique supernatural detective story. For a period of two years, Ken Webster found himself in the extraordinary position of corresponding directly with an individual who had lived on the site of his own cottage four centuries earlier. The correspondence began with messages left on his home computer on the kitchen table, and ended with communications scrawled directly onto paper. Fully prepared for some form of elaborate hoax, Webster found to his consternation that the language of the messages tallied precisely with 16th century English usage. The Vertical Plane is a riveting personal experience of an inexplicable fault in the fabric of time – and a moving account of a relationship mediated across four hundred...>>

“Immortality” by Draja Mickaharic

"A retelling of several interesting stories I have heard about the very long lived, or supposed immortals. They have been told to me over the last sixty years working as a consultant in the field of the occult arts. I have added my own comments about these methods, as well as other methods that I have heard of for extending human life. There is also some information concerning medical research in the area of life extension."...>>