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"W.E. Butler, founder of The Servants of the Light School of Occult Sciences, was an occult teacher and this compilation brings together his first two works - "Magic: Its Ritual, Power and Purpose" and "The Magician: His Training and Work". The first book explains the ancient uses, ritual and true aims of magic showing how magic is based upon profound psychological laws. The second book conveys every aspect of magical training, including visualization, vestments, Tattvic tides, talismans, the Body of Light and the way to attainment as well as explaining the core of magical philosophy, the Hebrew Qabalah or "tree of life"...>>
"In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosisâand the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of textbooks and academia, allowing philosophers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madnessâKusters's preferred, non-medicalized termâcoexist, one mirroring the other.
Kusters draws on his own experience of madnessâtwo episodes of psychosis, twenty years apartâas well as other first-person narratives of psychosis. Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one...>>