14.08.2020

“Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness” by Carl A. P. Ruck and Mark A. Hoffman

Magick Matters

" ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments - entheogens - in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most treatments of the subject focus on modern scientific research, psychotherapy, are auto-bibliographic accounts, or are agenda-driven or otherwise naive and myopic. A great mystery of altered states of consciousness and species development is expanding with new archeological and anthropological discoveries. Religious story telling (myth) is a timeless journey. Surprisingly it’s not about truth. It’s about finding one’s self in the midst of the discovery of the “Other.” It is the story of what is separate and unknown that creates self-consciousness. Our entire life consists ultimately...>>

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14.08.2020

“Working with the Spirits: A Model for Druidic Spirit Arte” by Ian Corrigan (wip draft)

Magick Matters

"Many Pagans have been rather ‘put off’ by the systems of spirit magic presented in the grimoire tradition. Written within the Christian mythology, the Landspirits, Ancestors and Daemons of the Pagan magician became pawns in the imagined war between good and evil. Magic based on contact with the ‘evil’ side of the spirits came to seem tainted and treacherous. Later grimoires often use an adversarial approach to the spirits that has made those systems seem unPagan and unpalatable. When restored to a less dualistic Pagan perspective, the methods prescribed in the grimoires are plainly an inheritance from the pre-Christian magic of the late classical world. We find plain parallels between the methods...>>

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14.08.2020

“The Book of Visions: Trance and Meditation for Celtic Paganism and Magic” by Ian Corrigan

Magick Matters

"The practice of magical arts requires a mind trained in the ability to produce altered states of awareness at will. Magical work is supported by the ability to calm the heart and mind, to work with the energies of the Inner World, and to see and journey among the spirits. The Book of Visions provides lessons in the skills of meditation and vision. The methods are presented in a series that can serve as progressive lessons, or stand alone. Presented within a Pagan Druidic framework, the methods are easily adaptable to other Pagan systems."...>>

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14.08.2020

“The Book of Summoning: Invocation, Conjuration and Alliance With Gods, the Dead and the Landspirits” by Ian Corrigan

Magick Matters

"A Pagan System of Evocation The Book of Summoning presents a practical system based in the forms and structures of the grimoires, empowered by the gods and spirits of Pagan ways. There are no 'angels' or 'demons', only the spirits, who are approached in a respectful and careful way, without coercion or threat. Based in the work of the Nine Moons system."...>>

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14.08.2020

“The Book of Nine Moons: Lessons in Celtic Sorcery” by Ian Corrigan

Magick Matters

" Nine Complete lessons in Pagan Sorcery, including divination, spellbinding and alliance with the spirits. Based on the Pagan Druidic ritual system of ADF, this course in magic draws on ancient European forms and modern occult methods to build a system that will illuminate and empower the student. The work includes: • The experience of the Sacred Cosmos, as a source of spiritual wisdom and strength. • The creation and consecration of a Shrine and personal tools, beyond common household worship. • The development of basic skill with a divinatory symbol system. • Skill in trance-vision, and the development of an Inner Grove from which journeying and other Inner Work is done. • A progressive approach to the Dead and...>>

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