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When two dolphin lovers, Zeeep and Eeeoo-vowing to be together
forever -lose their lives in a poacher's snare, they learn their
next lives will be on land: Eeeoo becomes Sabrina, a comatose
little girl in Montreal, Canada and Zeeep becomes Xico, a
flea-ridden dog in a tiny village in Brazil. It seems the two will
never be together but the magic of fate relies on a higher knowing.
This crossover novel leads the reader on adventures with Xico the
dog through mystical travels visiting Otherworldly dimensions,
learning the world of healing. The two lovers eventually reunite in
Brazil where a famous shaman and psychic surgeon lives. When they
meet again, Xico has learned to be a medium and is helping the
shaman. He lovingly helps to initiate the healing of Sabrina. When
Sabrina's desperate mother steals Xico and takes him to Canada to
be with her daughter, the Brazilian villagers rally together to get
their "healing dog" back so he can do his God-given job.
A scientific discovery of witches in fiction-Chilled Adventures of
Sabrina, Sleeping Beauty, Wicked and so many more! Kelly Florence
and Meg Hafdahl, authors of The Science of Women in Horror and
co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called "the best horror film
podcast out there" by Film Daddy, present a guide to the history of
witchcraft through the stories and characters we all know and love.
Reveal the spellbinding science behind the legends and lore
surrounding fiction's most iconic witches, answering such questions
as: What is the science behind divination and spellcraft? When did
witchcraft begin to show up in literature and media? Has science
made it possible to uncover the truth behind the powers of
necromancy and employing familiars? How has witchcraft been thought
of throughout the world? Through interviews, film and literary
analysis, and bone-chilling discoveries, join Kelly and Meg as they
learn about the complicated and rich science of witchcraft
throughout the centuries and discover why now is the season of the
witch!
There have been many grimoires attributed to St Cyprian of Antioch
due to his reputation as a consummate magician before his
conversion to Christianity, but perhaps none so intriguing as the
present manuscript. This unique manuscript (unlike the more rustic
examples attributed to St Cyprian called the Black Books of
Wittenburg, as found in Scandinavia, or the texts disseminated
under his name in Spain and Portugal) is directly in line with the
Solomonic tradition, and therefore relevant to our present series
of Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic. It is unique in that instead of
being weighed down with many prayers and conjurations it addresses
the summoning and use of both the four Archangels, Michael,
Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel as well as their opposite numbers, the
four Demon Kings, Paymon, Maimon, Egyn and Oriens. The later are
shown in their animal and human forms along with their sigils, a
resource unique amongst grimoires. The text is in a mixture of
three magical scripts, Greek, Hebrew, cipher, Latin, (and reversed
Latin) with many contractions and short forms, but expanded and
made plain by the editors. The title literally means 'The Key of
Hell with white and black magic as proven by Metatron'.
Bringing together twelve studies, this book provides an overview of
the key issues of on-going interest in the study of Scottish
witchcraft. The authors tackle various aspects of the question of
witches; considering how people came to be considered 'witches',
with new insights into the centrality of neighbourhood quarrels and
misfortune; and delving into folk belief and various acts of
witchcraft. It also examines the practice of witch-hunting, the
'urban geography' of witch-hunting, Scotland's international
witch-hunting connections and brings fresh insights to the
much-studied North Berwick witchcraft panic. Reconstructions of the
brutal and ceremonial punishments inflicted on 'witches' offers a
gruesome but compelling reminder of the importance of the subject.
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This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans
from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from
classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It
shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but
that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to
become fairy tales.
Ken Wilber is the "long-sought Einstein of consciousness research,"
having been generously regarded as such since the late 1970s. Ken
Wilber is "a genius of our times." Ken Wilber is "the world's most
intriguing and foremost philosopher." Ken Wilber's celebrated ideas
have influenced Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jeb Bush, Deepak Chopra,
Tony Robbins, and a host of other luminaries, spiritual and
otherwise. Writer Michael Crichton, leadership guru Warren Bennis,
playwright Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues),
alternative-therapist Larry Dossey, the Wachowski Brothers
(directors of The Matrix), and a handful of rock stars have all
lent their voices in support of the "integral" community. Yet Ken
Wilber, his seemingly valid theories of consciousness, and the
increasingly unquestioning community of "second-tier" spiritual
aspirants surrounding him and participating in his Integral
University, are not what they appear to be. "NORMAN EINSTEIN": THE
DIS-INTEGRATION OF KEN WILBER will show you why the community
around Wilber is being increasingly called a "cult," even by former
members who have seen it first-hand.
From the Middle Ages to the close of the 17th century, alchemy was
fundamental to Western culture, as scores of experimenters sought
to change lead into gold. Though its significance declined with the
rise of chemistry, alchemy continued to captivate the imagination
of writers and its images still appear in modern creative works.
This book examines the literary representation of alchemical theory
and the metaphor of alchemical regeneration in the works of Edward
Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller.
While Taylor used alchemical metaphors to illustrate the redeeming
grace of God upon the soul, these same metaphors were used by Poe,
Hawthorne, and Fuller to depict a broader concept of redemption.
These later writers used alchemical imagery to describe both the
regeneration of the individual and the possible transformation of
society. For Poe, alchemy became a metaphor for the transforming
power of imagination; for Hawthorne, it became a means of
representing the redeeming power of love; for Fuller, it figured
the reconciliation of gender opposites. Thus these four American
writers incorporated the idea of regeneration in their works, and
the tropes and metaphors of the medieval alchemists provided a
fascinating way of imagining the transformative process.
In the first chapters of this book we simultaneously follow two
threads. While considering the lives of Richard Wagner, Friedrich
Nietzsche, and King Ludwig II of Bavaria in their
nineteenth-century incarnations and in earlier incarnations, we
examine the planetary configurations accompanying not only their
conception, birth, and death, but also various significant events
in their lives. In this way we experience how these two
perspectives-the biographical and the astrological-weave together
and are intimately interconnected. As illuminating as this is, the
author also indicates however that astrological calculation alone
can never suffice for the truly deep biographical research into
karma and reincarnation demonstrated in this work. The author shows
that although it is clear that an individual's destiny is connected
with the positions of the celestial bodies-that certain regular
occurrences are evident-nonetheless no strict regularities exist.
He maintains moreover that a certain level of clairvoyance is
requisite for any serious astrological study of destiny; even
more-that real astrology requires initiation. Such astrological
research, when successfully carried out as it is here, relating
salient celestial configurations to the life-drama of well-known
historical personalities, reads like fine literature. On a
practical level this work illustrates several important new tools
for the astrologer: how to calculate hermetic charts, how to cast
horoscopes not only of birth and death but also of conception
(including the astrological significance of the embryonic period
between conception and birth), and then also how to apply these
various horoscopes in describing the spiral of life that unfolds in
seven-year periods during the course of a person's earthly
existence. All this reveals profound and fascinating
regularities-among them the discovery that stellar configurations
during the embryonic period are reflected again and again in the
subsequent periods of life. Quite new for most readers will be the
author's treatment of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, indicating that
the names given these planets are deeply meaningful in the light of
spiritual science. To make his case he extends Rudolf Steiner's
description of cosmic evolution by drawing upon Greek mythology,
particularly Orphic cosmology. This book by Robert Powell is of the
greatest possible interest. Professor Konrad Rudni_ki Astronomical
Observatory Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland
This book contains a unique perspective: that of a scientifically
and philosophically educated agnostic who thinks there is
impressive-if maddeningly hidden-evidence for the existence of God.
Science and philosophy may have revealed the poverty of the
familiar sources of evidence, but they generate their own partial
defense of theism. Bryan Frances, a philosopher with a graduate
degree in physics, judges the standard evidence for God's existence
to be awful. And yet, like many others with similar scientific and
philosophical backgrounds, he argues that the usual reasons for
atheism, such as the existence of suffering and success of science,
are weak. In this book you will learn why so many people with
scientific and philosophical credentials are agnostics (rather than
atheists) despite judging all the usual evidence for theism to be
fatally flawed.
With mental health increasingly in the spotlight, this book offers
a new perspective on anxiety. The focus of this book is on the
application of psychological alchemical practice to address,
explore and examine the nature and cause of anxiety in order to
tackle and overcome it. It has never been more relevant to
illustrate the reality that scientific, artistic and spiritual
understanding, together with practical application, has the
capacity to eliminate anxiety and gain personal control, liberation
and fulfilment. The first half of the book identifies the issues to
be considered and the second half explains and illustrates the
alchemical practices with which to approach them. While the book
puts a slight emphasis on musical performance, it is made clear at
the outset that performance concerns everyone and the contents,
therefore, apply universally. Music is simply a very clear example.
The book is designed as a personal development book rather than a
scholarly work and, although it is relevant to all ages (depending
on timing), it was written with 18 - 30 year olds being the main
inspiration through apparent and ever increasing necessity. It is a
source book that can be dipped into anywhere or launch further
investigation into any of the various disciplines and practices
covered. Alchemy has the capacity to bind it all together and the
alchemy of performance can become a way of life for anyone.
This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and
militant anti-religion. It looks at how episodes such as the
Witch-hunt, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust are mythologized to
present religion as inescapably prone to violence and
discrimination, whilst the darker side of atheist history, such as
its involvement in Stalinism, is denied. At the same time, another
constructed history-that of a perpetual and one-sided conflict
between religion and science/rationalism-is commonly used by
militant atheists to suggest the innate superiority of the
non-religious mind. In a number of detailed case studies, the book
traces how these myths have long been overturned by historians, and
argues that the New Atheism's cavalier use of history is indicative
of a troubling approach to the humanities in general. Nathan
Johnstone engages directly with the God debate at an academic level
and contributes to the emerging study of non-religion as a culture
and an identity.
When two "grave and serious" spirits began speaking to a French
academic through two young mediums and "completely revolutionized
his] ideas and convictions," Allan Kardec decided to set down these
spiritualistic revelations. The result electrified the high society
of the mid 19th century, which was already fascinated by "spirit
tapping" and other paranormalities, and earned Kardec-a pseudonym
his spirits commanded him to use-a place in this history of the
paranormal as the father of spiritism. Kardec "interviews" the
spirits, asking more than 1000 questions about morality, the nature
of the soul, the history of humanity, and more, including: . "Is
the soul reincarnated immediately after its separation from the
body?" . "Does the spirit remember his corporeal existence?" .
"Could two beings, who have already known and loved each other,
meet again and recognise one another, in another corporeal
existence?" . "What is to be thought of the signification
attributed to dreams?" . "Are good and evil absolute for all men?"
. "What is the aim of God in visiting mankind with destructive
calamities?" . "Is it possible for man to enjoy perfect happiness
upon the earth?" Promising nothing less than the secret of the
destiny of the human race, this extraordinary book, first published
in 1856, is as curious today as it was a century and a half ago.
French scholar HIPPOLYTE LEON DENIZARD RIVAIL (1804-1869), aka
Allan Kardec, was a longtime teacher of mathematics, astronomy, and
other scientific disciplines before turning to the paranormal.
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