Magick Matters

“Spiritual Herbalism: The Magic and Medicine of the Plants” by Josh Williams

"Unlock the powerful, magical, and transformative gifts of the plant world and engage in a reciprocal relationship with our green allies and their bountiful medicine. Over many years of teaching, Josh Williams has watched students develop incredibly potent relationships with plants, creating change that is healing, visionary, awakening and restorative. Whether you are a trained or traditional herbalist, tea-drinker or tincture-maker, gardener or forager, wild wanderer or city-dweller, the blessings of the plants are available to you — as they have always been to your ancestors. The book offers many tools and insights along the path of this exploration, presenting new perspectives on the virtues of herbs and how we might relate to them...>>

“Ancient Wisdom for Westerners: A Short Introduction to Tibetan Medicine” by Marilyn Magazin

"A clear and concise introduction into the ancient and profound tradition of Tibetan Medicine The holistic system of Tibetan medicine has proven over centuries to be extremely effective and complementary to modern Western medicine, especially for chronic diseases. Ancient Wisdom for Westerners offers a clear and practical introduction to this ancient wisdom. One of the most striking differences between modern Western medicine and Tibetan medicine is how Tibetan medicine looks at health and disease from the energetic point of view, as well from an anatomic and physiological one. Tibetan medicine thus provides the answers to many questions about the human body and disease that can not be explained in terms of modern medical teachings. Ancient Wisdom for...>>

“The Existential Drinker” by Steven Earnshaw

"Drinking to excess has been a striking problem for industrial and post-industrial societies — who is responsible when an individual opts for a slow suicide? The causes of such drinking have often been blamed on genes, moral weakness, ‘disease’ (addiction), hedonism, and Romantic illusion. Yet there is another reason: the drinker may act with sincere philosophical intent, exploring the edges of self, consciousness, will, ethics, authenticity and finitude. Beginning with Jack London’s John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs the book goes on to cover novels such as Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, Charles Jackson’s The Lost Weekend and John O’Brien’s Leaving Las Vegas, and less familiar works such as Frederick Exley’s...>>

“Four Elements: Reflections on Nature” by John O’Donohue

"In The Four Elements, poet and philosopher John O'Donohue draws upon his Celtic heritage and the love of his native landscape, the west of Ireland, to weave together a tapestry of beautifully evoked images of nature. As John explores a range of themes relating to the way we live our lives today, he reveals how the energy and rhythm of the natural world — its innocence and creativity, its power and splendour — hold profound lessons for us all."...>>

“Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom” by John O’Donohue

"John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for "soul friend," the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the universal themes of friendship, solitude, love, and death as: Light is generous The human heart is never completely born Love as ancient recognition The body is the angel of the soul Solitude is luminous Beauty likes neglected places The passionate heart never ages To be natural is to be holy ...>>