Magick Matters

“Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference” by Maria Pierri

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis traces the origins of key psychoanalytic ideas back to their roots in hypnosis and the occult. Maria Pierri follows Freud’s early interest in "thought-transmission," now known as telepathy. Freud’s private investigations led to discussions with other leading figures like Carl Jung and Sándor Ferenczi, with whom he held a "dialogue of the unconsciouses." Freud’s and Ferenczi’s work assessed how fortune tellers could read the past from a client, inspiring their investigations into countertransference, the analytic relationship, unconscious communication, and mother-infant relationality. Both Freud and Ferenczi tried in different ways to come close to understanding the infant’s occult link with the mother and their secret primal language: their research...>>

“Endarkenment: New Age Fake Enlightenment” by Jack Tanner

"Enlightenment" is a scam. You know it is. Meditation is useless. You know it is. Mindfulness is actually Mindlessness. You know it is. Here's the message that you definitely don't want to hear. Reason and logic explain reality. The Principle of Sufficient Reason and Occam's Razor are the instruments necessary to understand reality, not meditation, not mindfulness, not yoga, not perception, not empiricism. If you are opposed to the Principle of Sufficient Reason, you are thereby a defender of irrationalism. Irrational answers are not answers. Unreason is endarkenment. Reason is the enlightenment, the true enlightenment. The light of reason shows you the way to the Absolute Answer."...>>

“Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past, & Telling True Lies” by Aidan Wachter (Kindle ebook version)

"Weaving Fate presents tools to help restore our connection to the Field, the Others, and our own intrinsic natures. These practices can help us to re-imagine the possibilities available to us and to shift our lives into more beneficial forms. The Black Book is a journaled form of hypersigil, a long-form written approach to magic that allows us to write the life we desire into being. The Corridor is an imaginal tool used to visit other times and places. Through it we can shift unhelpful influences from past events in positive directions and connect with our future selves to help manifest the lives we desire. The Fever Stone is a magical process for releasing energy trapped in...>>

“Rise and Shine: An Astrological Guide to How You Show Up in the World” by Christopher Renstrom

"Unlock the secrets of who you are–as written in the stars. Astrology offers us a blueprint of our true selves, captured in the sky at the time we were born. Your rising sign is the face you show to others—not a mask, a persona, or a role that you play. Understanding your rising sign will help explain why you are sometimes misunderstood, and will help you direct the first impression you make on others in order to convey the real you. In Rise and Shine, veteran astrologer and columnist Christopher Renstrom unpacks all 144 Rising Sign/Sun sign combinations. This illuminating and engaging guide will help you navigate every relationship in your life—with a little help from...>>

“Naked Tarot: Sassy, Stripped-Down Advice” by Janet Boyer

"Spiritual adventurers are burning for truth, hungry for ways to affect and improve their destiny. Tarot can deliver, but most books offer impractical, confusing, irrelevant and regurgitated card interpretations, causing seekers to throw up their hands to say "I just don't get it!" The good news? No Golden Dawn snooze-fest or Crowley catatonia in the book you're holding. With raw simplicity and outrageous honesty, author Janet Boyer presents helpful, hilarious and relevant advice that will forever change how you see the cards, and finally equip you to understand, and read, the Tarot. No punches pulled. No sugarcoating. It's time to be forearmed, forewarned and foresighted. It's time to get...naked. Naked Tarot: Sassy, Stripped-Down Advice...>>