Magick Matters

“The Synesthesia Experience: Tasting Words, Seeing Music, and Hearing Color” by Maureen Seaberg

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A violinist sees a scarlet form when he plays a certain note; a rock star sees waves of blue and green as he composes a ballad; an actress tastes cake when she utters the word "table." Described by some as a superpower this mingling of the senses is called "synesthesia", and the people who possess this amazing gift are called "synesthetes". What happens when a journalist turns her lens on a mystery happening in her own life? Maureen Seaberg did just that and lived for a year exploring her synesthesia. The wondrous brain trait is often described as blended senses, but for Maureen, synesthesia is not an idle "brain tick" that can be...>>

“Soul-Tech: Exploring the Intersection of Technology and Spirituality” by Tommy W. George

"The best-selling book Soul-Tech, which explores the moral and spiritual ramifications of advanced technologies in various future societies, will take you on an exhilarating voyage into a world where technology and spirituality collide. Explore the complex interplay between humanity, technology, and faith as you read these thought-provoking stories, which also deal with topics like mind control, uploading consciousness into a digital afterlife, memory modification, genetic engineering, virtual reality, and more. Readers are lured into compelling stories that explore the complexity of technology's impact on our lives through the eyes of varied characters. Each story is based on a biblical allusion and offers insight and direction for overcoming the difficulties of modern life. The well-known author and...>>

“Japanese Demon Lore: Oni from Ancient Times to the Present” by Noriko T. Reider

"Oni, ubiquitous supernatural figures in Japanese literature, lore, art, and religion, usually appear as demons or ogres. Characteristically threatening, monstrous creatures with ugly features and fearful habits, including cannibalism, they also can be harbingers of prosperity, beautiful and sexual, and especially in modern contexts, even cute and lovable. There has been much ambiguity in their character and identity over their long history. Usually male, their female manifestations convey distinctively gendered social and cultural meanings. Oni appear frequently in various arts and media, from Noh theater and picture scrolls to modern fiction and political propaganda, They remain common figures in popular Japanese anime, manga, and film and are becoming embedded in American and international popular culture...>>

“Chinese Black Magic: An Expose” by Ong Hean-Tatt

"Chinese Black Magic: An Expose is a new and broad collation of the known Chinese traditions about black magic. Black magic practices include "curse" spells, the "Five Poisonous Animals", "wu" magic and the ill-understood, fearsome Mao Shan magic. The book illustrates how the ancient Chinese encountered these magic. "Black", not because the magic is evil but because the source of the magic line one of the Four Cardinal Directions, viz. North which is the position of the Black Serpent. The Chinese Mao Shan magic was not originally Serpent magic, but represented an ancient corruption of the West White Tiger magic by the Serpent cult. Asian and Middle East legends tend to associate the dark forces...>>

“Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction” by Toni Reed

"The hero of the story is a demonic lover―dark, handsome, mysterious, and dangerously seductive. The heroine―beautiful, and innocent―willingly becomes his victim and is destroyed by him. This story of demon-lover and victim, always charged with passion, has been told over and over, from Greek mythology through contemporary fiction and films. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction is the first historical and structural exploration of the demon-lover motif, with emphasis on major works of British fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; it will interest those concerned with gender role conflicts in literature and with the mutual influence of oral and written texts of folklore and formal literature."...>>