06.01.2023

“Tactical Magic: A Fieldbook fo the Professional Mage” by Aaron M. McKagantry

Magick Matters

"Written for the professional mage, Tactical Magic gives techniques and tricks for dealing with the real mage's worst enemy—untrained ignorant dabblers. These gnats of the magical world, civilians, like to make ridiculous demands on genuine mages, making life difficult and making operating beneath the radar of the nonmagical public impossible. Ouija Boards, Possession and other sources of civilian hysteria are carefully deconstructed herein, with a no-nonsense fieldbook approach to dealing with typical nonmagical panic about things magical-identifying the source of the panic and neutralizing it in the most effective manner possible. Since magic is not as flashy or as exciting as civilians expect, tips for giving them the glitter they want while doing the...>>

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06.01.2023

“Dreaming on the Page: Tap Into Your Midnight Mind to Supercharge Your Writing” by Tzivia Gover

Magick Matters

"Pick up a pen and dream. Dreaming on the Page is for writers of all genres, from casual journal-keepers to experienced authors — and anyone who aspires to write. Accessible to people who don’t remember their dreams as well as for people who do, this book will empower writers to pick up a pen and befriend all aspects of who they are. Dreams and writing offer approachable ways to live richer, more soulful lives both on and off the page. Within these pages, discover how to: Turn your dreams into poems and stories Supercharge your poetry and prose Blast through writer's block Use brain science...>>

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06.01.2023

“An Experiment with Time” by J.W. Dunne (2023 edition)

Magick Matters

"J.W> Dunne, a British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher describes in this work his experiment with precognitive dreams and builds on them a theory of time which he later called Serialism. First published in March 1927, the book was widely read and influenced the imaginative literature of the day. An Experiment with Time divides into two main topics. The first half of the book describes a number of precognitive dreams, most of which Dunne himself had experienced. His key conclusion was that such precognitive visions foresee future personal experiences by the dreamer and not more general events. The second half develops a theory to try and explain the dreams. Dunne's starting...>>

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06.01.2023

“The Devil’s Art: Divination and Discipline in Early Modern Germany” by Jason Philip Coy

Magick Matters

"In early modern Germany, soothsayers known as wise women and men roamed the countryside. Fixtures of village life, they identified thieves and witches, read palms, and cast horoscopes. German villagers regularly consulted these fortune-tellers and practiced divination in their everyday lives. Jason Phillip Coy brings their enchanted world to life by examining theological discourse alongside archival records of prosecution for popular divination in Thuringia, a diverse region in central Germany divided into a patchwork of princely territories, imperial cities, small towns, and rural villages. Popular divination faced centuries of elite condemnation, as the Lutheran clergy attempted to suppress these practices in the wake of the Reformation and learned elites sought to eradicate them during...>>

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06.01.2023

“The Art of Fate Calculation: Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng” by Stephanie Homola

Magick Matters

"From housewives to students and high-ranking officials, people from all social backgrounds in China and Taiwan visit fate calculation masters to learn about their destiny. How do clients assess the diviner’s skills? How does one become a fortune-teller? How is a person’s fate calculated? The Art of Fate Calculation explores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of "superstition" but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning."...>>

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