Magick Matters

“Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise” by Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Silence isn’t just the absence of noise. It’s a presence that brings us energy, clarity, and deeper connection. Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz take us on an unlikely journey—from the West Wing of the White House to San Quentin’s death row; from Ivy League brain research laboratories to underground psychedelic circles; from the temperate rainforests of Olympic National Park to the main stage at a heavy metal festival—to explore the meaning of silence and the art of finding it in any situation. Golden reveals how to go beyond the ordinary rules and tools of mindfulness. It’s a field guide for navigating the noise of the modern world—not just the noise in our ears but also...>>

“Empowering Practices for the Highly Sensitive: An Experiential Guide to Working with Subtle Energies” by Bertold Keinar

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Sensitivity is a gift if you discover how to embrace your unique nature fully. In Empowering Practices for the Highly Sensitive, empath Bertold Keinar presents easy solutions for the everyday challenges of the highly sensitive, whether at work, at home, with friends, or out in the world, and helps you master your emotions and thoughts. He explains the levels of our subtle energy bodies—the etheric, the emotional, and the mental—showing how they are impacted in our daily activities and environment and how we can support ourselves in consciously working with them. Exploring the nature of the sensitive, he emphasizes how important it is for empathic people to understand and experience their own core...>>

“Science And Psychical Phenomena” by G.N.M. Tyrrell (1938 edition)

"First published in 1938, Science and Psychical Phenomena presents a comprehensive overview of diverse field of phenomena which is included under the heading of psychical research. Psychical research does not deal in Spiritualism or ‘Spooks’. It is the scientific investigation of the hidden faculties of Man, and it constitutes the main pathway to the understanding of the Human Individual. Since second half of nineteenth century, unknown to the general public, careful work with new methods has been going on, and the results when properly understood, are as startling as they are important. The present volume summarizes the work and discusses the far-reaching conclusion to which it points. This book is an important historical document...>>

“The Cult of Alien Gods: H.P. Lovecraft And Extraterrestrial Pop Culture” by Jason Colavito

"Many Americans believe that so-called ancient astronauts (visitors from outer space) were responsible for historical wonders like the pyramids. This entertaining and informative book traces the origins of such beliefs to the work of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). The author takes the reader through fifty years of pop culture and pseudoscience highlighting such influential figures and developments as Erich von Däniken (Chariots of the Gods), Graham Hancock (Fingerprints of the Gods), Zecharia Sitchin (Twelfth Planet), and the Raёlian Revolution. The astounding and improbable connections among these various characters are revealed, along with the disturbing consequences of Lovecraft's "little joke" for modern science and public knowledge."...>>

“Death, Ritual and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites” by Douglas Davies (3rd edition)

"Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rites but also in memorials, graves, and in ideas of ancestors, souls, gods, reincarnation and resurrection, whether in the great religious traditions of the world or in more local customs. He also examines bereavement and grief, experiences of the presence of dead, near-death experiences, pet-death and the symbolic death played out in...>>