Magick Matters

02.05.2024

“How to Use a Pendulum: 50 Practical Rituals and Spiritual Activities for Clarity and Guidance” by Richard Webster

"How to Use a Pendulum: 50 Practical Rituals and Spiritual Activities for Clarity and Guidance" by Richard Webster

"Find All the Answers You Seek with Just One Pendulum From the bestselling author of How to Use a Crystal comes a straightforward guide to understanding pendulums and the many ways you can use them to improve your life. In his simple and clear style, Richard Webster introduces you to fifty practical and spiritual activities that can be performed with a single pendulum. How to Use a Pendulum guides you every step of the way, from choosing your pendulum to using it to find lost objects, ask and answer divinatory questions, and communicate with spirits. Pendulums can reveal information not found any other way, and this book features uses for them that you may have never...>>

01.05.2024

“Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History” by Owen Davies

"Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History" by Owen Davies

"Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community. They were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with everyday problems: how to find lost objects; how to escape from bad luck or a suspected spell; and how to attract a lover or keep the love of a husband or wife. While cunning-folk sometimes fell foul of the authorities, both church and state often turned a blind eye to their existence and practices, distinguishing what they did from the rare and sensational cases of malvolent witchcraft. In a world of uncertainty, before insurance and modern...>>

01.05.2024

“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values” by Robert M. Pirsig (50th anniversary edition)

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values" by Robert M. Pirsig (50th anniversary edition)

"With a new foreword by Matthew B. Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft The bestselling masterpiece about one man’s search for meaning on a motorcycle trip through the American West— an enduring examination of how we live and how to live better One of the most important and influential books of the past half century, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is Robert M. Pirsig’s classic exploration of human experience and endeavor. Pirsig’s narrative of a father and son on a summer motorcycle trip becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life’s fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and...>>

01.05.2024

“God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice” by Jay Michaelson

"God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice" by Jay Michaelson

"Your body is the place where heaven and earth meet. The greatest spiritual achievement is not transcending the body but joining body and spirit together. But to do this, you must break through assumptions that draw boundaries around the Infinite and wake up to the body as the site of holiness itself. This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive treatment of the body in Jewish spiritual practice and an essential guide to the sacred. With meditation practices, physical exercises, visualizations, and sacred text, you will learn how to experience the presence of the Divine in, and through, your body. And by cultivating an embodied spiritual practice, you will transform everyday activities—eating, walking, breathing, washing—into moments of...>>

30.04.2024

“The Penguin Book of Pirates” edited by Katherine Howe

"The Penguin Book of Pirates" edited by Katherine Howe

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Real-life accounts of the world’s most notorious pirates—both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond—compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the no-man’s-land of piracy that is rife with paradoxes and plot twists. Here, in a fascinating array of accounts that include trial transcripts,...>>