“Crystal Clear: Reflections on Extraordinary Talismans for Everyday Life” by Jaya Saxena

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Highly prized for their beauty, crystals can take the shape of jewelry, household objects, and an array of self-care products. But it’s the ideas they stand for that draw people to their raw forms. Like astrology, tarot, and modern witchcraft, crystals help practitioners understand themselves and the wider world around them. In this collection of sharply observed essays, Jaya Saxena reflects on—and challenges—the ideas associated with eleven popular stones, including unconditional love (rose quartz), happiness and success (citrine), balance (amethyst), self-care (black tourmaline), purity (pearl), imposter syndrome (pyrite), toxic positivity (carnelian), change (opals), traditional concepts of marriage (diamonds), presentation versus identity (obsidian), and death (amber). The result is a deeply personal book with ...>>

“Theosophy across Boundaries: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement” edited by Hans Martin Kramer and Julian Strube

"Theosophy across Boundaries brings a global history approach to the study of esotericism, highlighting the important role of Theosophy in the general histories of religion, science, philosophy, art, and politics. The first half of the book consists of seven perspectives on the activities of the Theosophical Society in very different regional contexts, ranging from India, Vietnam, China, and Japan to Victorian Britain and Israel, shedding new light on the entanglement of “Western” and “Oriental” ideas around 1900. The second half explores specific cultural influences that Theosophy exerted in the spheres of literature, art, and politics, using case studies from Sri Lanka, Burma, India, Japan, Ireland, Germany, and Russia. The examples clearly show that Theosophy ...>>

“Magickal Formulary Spellbook: Book I” by Herman Slater et al

"Fellow Sorcerers. Magicians, and Witches; this Grimoure was collected to help all the sincere practitioners out there. There are fragments in print of many of these formulae, but nowhere are they all listed until this book. A collection of Occult/Wicca formulae and spells - in print since 1981 - but unavailable until now. Some of the spells and rituals includes: Health Rituals...Good Luck Spells...Love Rituals...Lover Spells (more than 15)...Success Spells...Gamblers' Rituals...Money Drawing Rituals...Separation Rituals...Protection Rituals...Legal Aid Spells...Wandering Lover Spells... Gay Female Love Spells...Gay Male Love Spells...Uncrossing Rituals...Black Arts Spell (with Karmic Disclaimer)...Come To Me (Warning - use with care)...Commanding...Dreams of Delight...Incense Attraction...Health Oil..Money Oil... VOODOO Night Perfume Oil...Satyre Oil...More than 15 LOVE FORMULARIES...and MANY, many ...>>

“Witchcraft Fact Book” by Edmund M. Buczinsky

"Ed Buczynski - craft leader in the early 1970's, father of northeast United States Welsh tradition, founder of independent Gardnerian tradition where male and female were co-equal, active in Church of Eternal Source (revival of ancient Egyptian religion), founder of Minoan Brotherhood and Sisterhood. Ed is currently involved in anthropology. He has gone underground as far as his involvement in Earth religions. This book is comprised of his lecture notes to schools, libraries, etc. It is intended to be a primary statement to cowans (non-witches) who want to know where the wicked witches are! - Herman Sister (from back cover)"...>>

“Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict” by Tsultrim Allione

"Allione -- one of only a few female Buddhist leaders in this country and comparable in American religious life to Pema Chodron -- bridges this ancient Eastern practice with today's Western psyche. She explains that if we fight our demons, they only grow stronger. But if we feed them, nurture them, we can free ourselves from the battle. Through the clearly articulated practice outlined in Feeding Your Demons, we can learn to overcome any obstacle and achieve freedom and inner peace."...>>