Magick Matters

“Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art, and Tarot” by Vicki Noble

"For several decades, Motherpeace has been an inspiration and oracle for women all over the world. Motherpeace recovers the positive, nurturing peace-oriented values of prepatriarchal times, and brilliantly combines art, history, mythology, folklore, philosophy, and comparative religion with an informed spiritual and feminist perspective. Vicki Noble challenges us to celebrate our ancient peaceful heritage and to reclaim our right as a people to a life without war. The book is a vision of hope and transformation, made even more powerful by the vibrant pictorial images of the seventy-eight Motherpeace tarot cards. Motherpeace shows how traditional myths and symbols can provide ideas and images for understanding the meaning and power of the Goddess for women and men...>>

“A Witch for Every Season: Spells, Rituals, Festivals & Magic” by Rachel Patterson

"Enjoy a Month-By-Month Journey of Seasonal Magic Create your own year of celebrations, inspired by the seasons and a wide variety of festivities. Learn how to honour the energies of each month with spells, rituals, meditations, recipes, moon magic, altar decorating, and other activities. Going beyond traditional sabbats, this book introduces you to more than eighty events throughout the year, including those with Pagan, Christian, national, and local roots. Build a large bonfire for Beltane, cast a shell into the ocean on Tynwald Day, carve a beet for Punkie Night, and cook pancakes for Shrove Tuesday. Featuring celebrations like St. David's Day, Walpurgis Night, Summer Solstice, World Goddess Day, All Soul's Eve, and Saturnalia, this...>>

“Angels of the Zodiac: Divine Guidance Through Your Sun Sign” by Patricia Papps

"Open yourself to the love and wisdom of the angels of your sun sign, who reveal your life's purpose and show you how to live harmoniously each day. Angels of the Zodiac organizes the angels by the sun sign they're associated with, allowing you to easily determine which ones to connect with throughout the year. Tuning in to zodiac angels when their sign is strongest makes them more powerful, and they can use that boost to send miracles into your life. You can even connect to angels outside your sun sign at strategic times to benefit from their different energies. This book provides a meditation for connecting with each angel, guiding you through the process...>>

“Critical Thinking: Pseudoscience and the Paranormal” by Jonathan C. Smith (revised 2nd edition)

"Comprehensive and engaging, this extensively revised edition of a student and instructor favorite introduces the basics of critical thinking using the claims of pseudoscience and the paranormal. * Guides readers through the critical thinking process by considering different types of support (sources, logic, and scientific observation) and ruling out alternative explanations * Allows students to practice and apply their new critical thinking skills on claims of extraordinary cures including energy treatments, complementary/alternative medicine and faith healing as well as four paranormal claims of consequence: astrology, spiritualism and the afterlife, parapsychology, and creationism. * Couples a conversational, nontechnical narrative with student-friendly pedagogical tools, including critical thinking questions and a...>>

“The Unintelligent Designer: Refuting the Intelligent Design Hoax” by Rosa Rubicondior

"Intelligent Design is not a problem for science; rather science is a problem for Intelligent Design. This book shows why. It exposes the fallacy of Intelligent Design by showing that, when examined in detail, biological systems are anything but intelligently designed. They show no signs of a plan and are quite ludicrously complex for whatever can be described as a purpose. The Intelligent Design movement relies on almost total ignorance of biological science and seemingly limitless credulity in its target marks. Its only real appeal appears to be to those who find science too difficult or too much trouble to learn yet want their opinions to be regarded as at least as important as those of...>>