Magick Matters

“An Exploration of Trance Mediumship” by Chris Ratter

"When psychic surgeon Chris Ratter was starting out on his own path of unfolding trance mediumship, he found there was very little information available to clarify certain points or answer questions he had. His desire to ensure others did not feel the same isolation and confusion became his main motivation for writing An Exploration of Trance Mediumship. Chris takes the reader on a touching quest to find greater understanding of the bridge between our world and the world of spirit, explaining key aspects of trance mediumship as well as introducing the reader to his spirit team and providing insight as to how he came to know his individual guides. All mediumship is healing, and...>>

“The Little Book Of Life After Death” by Gustav Theodor Fechner (2005 Red Wheel/Weiser edition)

"A lost classic found, a guidebook for life's biggest adventure—death! Gustav Theodor Fechner was a 19thcentury physicist, psychologist, metaphysicist, and musician, who applied his considerable intellect to examining the question of life after death. Does it exist? If so, what form might it take? First written and published in a time when traditional understanding of God and nature were undergoing a huge transformation, Fechner's reasonable, accessible, and groundbreaking book became a manual for living well and dying as part of life. Fechner explains that death is another form of birth. That just as you cannot remember the time in the womb and the painful birthing process, so too will you not remember death when you have...>>

“The Laws of the Spirit World” by Khorshed Bhavnagri

"The Laws of the Spirit World by Khorshed Bhavnagri is a book that tells us about automatic writing, spirits and life after death. This book is based on the author’s own life. In 1980, Khorshed Bhavnagri and her husband lost their sons in a car accident. Their lives had come to a standstill after this tragedy until after a month of their death they started getting messages from their sons through mediators. This was something unimaginable. The author turned her personal misery into a spiritual story which is now admired by millions of people. The author claims about how the spirit of their sons contacted them and they successfully reunited. He also talks about...>>

“Singular Creatures: Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism” by Mark Kingwell

"Anxiety about non-human intelligent machines is a longstanding theme of cultural production and consumption. Examples range from tales of golems and Frankenstein's monster to the evil overlord scenarios of contemporary film and television franchises: Star Trek, the Alien series, and the Terminator sequence, as well as Her, Black Mirror, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and many other less mainstream cultural artifacts. The source of this anxiety is clear. Non-human conscious entities may turn out to be superior to any biological form of life, allowing a stride across human ambition in a moment dubbed "the Singularity" by AI insiders. This is the turning point when non-human entities advance and reproduce in a manner that surpasses and subjugates...>>