Magick Matters

“Journey of the White Bear: Path to the Center of Your Shaman’s Heart” by Robin Tekwelus Youngblood and Sandy D’Entremont

"Connect with the White Bear and Develop a Heart of Service Featuring powerful combinations of indigenous teachings and modern, earth-based practices, this book empowers you to live more fully and passionately. Robin Tekwelus Youngblood and Sandy D'Entremont present their system, based on the Medicine Wheel, that calls on the spirit of White Bear to guide your personal growth. With their help, you'll transform your habits, dissolve blocks, and share your gifts with the world. Journey of the White Bear shows you how to reach spiritual maturity, bring forth your personal medicine, and discover your Shaman's heart―a heart that holds unconditional love and respect. You'll explore the Seven Sacred Directions and engage with them on four levels:...>>

“Press Here! Ayurvedic Head Massage for Beginners: A Practice for Overall Health and Wellness” by Hillary Arrieta

"Press Here! Ayurvedic Head Massage for Beginners gives simple step-by-step guidance on how to incorporate Indian head massage into you and your family's everyday routines to enhance overall well-being and beauty. The techniques illustrated and explained offer many health benefits, including: Easing sleep disturbances Reducing stress Easing muscular tension, headaches, and eye strain Promoting increased blood circulation to the head and cephalic region Enhancing scalp health Practitioners can also achieve psychological and spiritual benefits, including: Increasing a sense of human connection between giver and receiver Creating a meditative mood that encourages deep sleep ...>>

“Yoga Mythology: 64 Asanas and Their Stories” by Devdutt Pattanaik

"Deepen Your Yoga Experience with the Origin Stories of 64 Common Asanas Explore the stories from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology that nurtured the idea of yoga and shaped the development of its most iconic asanas. Learn how svana-asana (dog pose) is connected to Shiva, bhujanga-asana (cobra pose) was inspired by shape-shifting beings who live below the earth, and much more. Many practitioners are unaware of yoga's underlying philosophy, symbols, and rituals because modern teachers often emphasize the physical over the mental and spiritual components. Yoga Mythology brings this overlooked wisdom to light by recounting the lore behind more than sixty asanas, drawing attention to an Indic worldview based on the concepts of eternity, rebirth, liberation,...>>

“Chaldean Magic: Its Origin and Development” by Francois Lenormant

"This Weiser classic reprint of the 1877 publication of Lenormant's La Magie Chez les Chaldeens is a scholarly exposition of the magical practices, religious systems and mythology of the Chaldeans of ancient Assyria. It explores the translation of a large table from the library of the royal palace at Nineveh, containing 28 formulas of deprecatory incantations against evil spirits, the effects of sorcery, disease, and the principal misfortunes that attack people in the course of daily life."...>>

“On Writing and Worldbuilding” by Timothy Hickson (both volumes)

"Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. With over 35,000 copies sold, On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume I discusses specific and applicable ideas for your writing, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to how communication, commerce, and control play into the fall of an empire. Following the immense success of the first book, On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume II brings a host of new topics to table in even more detail and depth. Writing advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. Aimed at specific, applicable, and...>>