Magick Matters

“From Sanctity to Sorcery: An Author’s Guide to Building Belief Structures and Magic Systems” by A Trevena

"Want to create a magic system for your world, but don’t know where to start?Need help building religions and belief structures that feel real? From Sanctity to Sorcery breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will guide you from side-show trickster to all-powerful sorcerer. This workbook will help you to: * Create a magic system your readers can truly believe in * Build belief structures that feel ancient and organic * Use magic and religion to raise the stakes and increase tension * Create an immersive experience for your readers with powerful worldbuilding Work your way through prompts designed to fully integrate beliefs and magic into your worldbuilding. Learn how to...>>

“Generative Trance: The Experience of Creative Flow. Third Generation Trance Work” by Stephen Gilligan (full book)

"This book describes an entirely new way of conducting hypnotherapeutic interventions through the use of Stephen Gilligan's concept of generative trance. The first generation of trance work, that is, traditional hypnosis that still holds sway in most places, considers that both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind of the client are, to put it bluntly, idiots. So trance work involves first knocking out the conscious mind and then talking to the unconscious mind like a 2-year old that needs to be told how to behave. Milton Erickson created the second generation of trance work. He approached the unconscious as having creative wisdom and each person as extraordinarily unique. Thus, rather than trying to...>>

“Death and Religion: The Basics” by Candi K. Cann

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Death and Religion: The Basics provides a thorough and accessible introduction to dying, death, grief, and conceptions of the afterlife in world religions. It leads readers through considerations of how we understand meanings of death and after-death, and the theories and practices attached to these states of being, with recourse to various religious worldviews: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Chinese Religions, and Native American belief systems. This inter-religious approach provides a rich, dynamic survey of varying and evolving cultural attitudes to death. Topics covered include: Religious perspectives of "the good death" Grief, bereavement, and mourning Stages and definitions of death Burial,...>>

“The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God” by Robin Vose

"The first comprehensive history of the Catholic Church’s notorious Index, with resonance for ongoing debates over banned books, censorship, and free speech. For more than four hundred years, the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum struck terror into the hearts of authors, publishers, and booksellers around the world, while arousing ridicule and contempt from many others, especially those in Protestant and non-Christian circles. Biased, inconsistent, and frequently absurd in its attempt to ban objectionable texts of every conceivable description—with sometimes fatal consequences—the Index also reflected the deep learning and careful consideration of many hundreds of intellectual contributors over the long span of its storied evolution. This book constitutes the first full study of the Index...>>

“Spiritual Dimensions of Eye Floaters: A Seer’s View, Open Eye Meditation, Ecstasy, Carlos Castaneda, Near-Death Experiences” by Floco Tausin

"We all have them, most of us see them, but only a few people pay attention to them: the scattered, transparent and mobile dots and strands in our field of vision. In ophthalmology, they are called "eye floaters" and explained as vitreous opacities. But is this explanation correct? In this book, the author Floco Tausin follows the seers’ experience that eye floaters are not a cloudiness of the vitreous humour, but a shining structure and an expression of our state of consciousness. In this collection of previously published and revised texts, the author explores spiritual dimensions of eye floaters. The focus is on seer Nestor’s view that floaters are first appearances of the shining...>>