Magick Matters

“Dreamtimes and Thoughtforms: Cosmogenesis from the Big Bang to Octopus and Crow Intelligence to UFOs” by Richard Grossinger

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "From the origins of the cosmos to the microbiome, COVID-19 pandemic, UFOs, and the shapeshifting of octopuses and language of crows, Richard Grossinger traverses the mysteries and enigmas that define our universe and personal reality. Beginning his narrative with the Big Bang, origin of the Milky Way, and birth of our solar system, Grossinger offers a chronology of Earth’s geological, climatological, biological, and sociological evolution, leading to the current environmental and psycho­spiritual crisis. He explores the origin of cell life, RNA-DNA, and larger biomes, detailing in particular the remarkable intelligence of crows and octopuses. He uses the Australian Aborigine Dreamtime to understand landscapes as thoughtforms. He then offers reimaginings, from the perspective of “dreamings,”...>>

“Ritual as Remedy: Embodied Practices for Soul Care” by Mara Branscombe

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A step-by-step guide to potent self-care and soul-care rituals that awaken freedom, joy, intuition, self-love, and your inner mystic • Explains how ritual can serve as a way to ground yourself, invite in the new, let go of what needs to be shed, and tap into your own inner powers • Shares ancient and modern rituals, ceremonies, and practices to connect with the seasons, the lunar cycles, and the five elements, as well as open your heart, dance with your shadow self, grow your intuition, and connect with your body • Offers detailed instructions for each ritual, ceremony, and transformative healing practice Healing balm for psyche and soul, ritual invokes a unique magic that allows us to...>>

“Tarot for Pregnancy: A Companion for Radical Magical Birthing Folks” by Brittany Carmona-Holt

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Tarot for Pregnancy is the perfect gift for every magical parent-to-be in your life—guiding them through the history, mystery, and ritual that is both tarot and pregnancy. Tarot for Pregnancy: A Companion for Radical Magical Birthing Folks is for par­ents-to-be who want to tap into internal and ancestral wisdom on the journey to and through parent­hood. Brittany Carmona-Holt is an intuitive tarot reader as well as a full-spectrum doula, marrying her two passions to offer a rare un­derstanding of the birth journey and an esoteric guide to the life-altering experience of giving life. Filled with incredible artwork by Kimberly Rodriguez (IG: Poetagoddess), Tarot for Pregnancy is the perfect book for any soon-to-be (or already) parent—and a...>>

“The Power of Guided Meditation: Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing” by Jessica Crow

"The Power of Guided Meditation provides an accessible and easy entry point into starting a meditation practice, offering a range of practices and benefits so you can decide how to choose and integrate a program to suit your specific needs. First, explore meditation from the perspective of mindfulness. Why Mindfulness? Mindfulness is the practice of bringing the attention back to the present moment. Mindfulness is not only meditation and meditation is not only mindfulness. Mindfulness in its most complete sense, is a way of living, thinking, and being that is self-aware and deliberate. Most practices as we know them in the West are rooted in mindfulness. Discover mindfulness through: Body ...>>

“The Embodied Soul: Aristotelian Psychology and Physiology in Medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420” edited by Marek Gensler, Monika Mansfeld and Monika Michalowska

"This book contains a collection of papers devoted to the problems of body, mind and soul in medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420. Modern discussions of the mind-body relationship seldom look back into the past further than the psycho-somatic dualism of Descartes which started the mechanistic approach in biology and medicine. The authors of the volume go beyond that fault line to investigate the tradition of medieval natural philosophy and its ancient sources and analyze the issues forming a borderland between physiology and psychology. They also demonstrate that the medieval tradition was rich and diverse for it offered a wide variety of the discussed problems as well as the methodological approaches. This volume is...>>