Magick Matters

“The Cloisters: A Novel” by Katy Hays

"In this "sinister, jaw-dropping" (Sarah Penner, author of The Lost Apothecary) debut novel, a circle of researchers uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination. Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the researchers’ more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling. But what begins as academic curiosity...>>

“Talking to Spirit: How to Become a Medium & Connect with the Afterlife” by Emily Stroia

"Are you curious about Spirit Communication and mediumship? Do you want to know how to talk to spirit guides, angels and passed loved ones? In this book you will discover and understand mediums and spirit communication, making contact with the Spirit World and many ways to communicate successfully with a passed loved one! Packed with exercises and ways to communicate with the Spirit World, you will learn everything there is to know on how to become a medium and spirit communication. Spirit loved ones have many ways of communicating with us. In this book you will learn the common signals and signs when a Spirit loved one is trying to communicate with you and...>>

“Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture: Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches” by Miriam Wallraven

"Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden knowledge, while occult and esoteric subjects have become very visible in literature during the twentieth century. This study analyses literature by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisits texts with occult motifs by canonical authors such as Sylvia Townsend Warner, Leonora Carrington, and Angela Carter. This material, which has never been analysed in a literary context, covers influential movements such as Theosophy,...>>

“Borrowed Genius: Gateway to Self-Transformation” by Win Wenger and Harman Max Benda

"There is a story... that the borrowed-genius process dates back to the time when men and genies traded freedom for wishes. As was fairly common back then, a man found a magic lamp. The instructions said to rub it 3 times. On the third rub out popped a genie. "—For my freedom, you get four wishes." The man wished for money beyond his wildest dreams, the love of good people whom he also loved, and a palace to live in. The genie said something to the effect that "Your wishes are my command". In the blink of an eye, the man had more money than he could imagine. There were people who loved him and whom he...>>