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Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > The Occult > General
Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and
are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency,
as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study
focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, through exploring social
conditions, conveys the experience of living that makes magic
logical. By following people's own interpretations of the work of
magic, the author succeeds in unraveling the logic of local
practice and local understanding of affliction, commonly used to
diagnose the experiences of illness and misfortune.
Follow the adventures of Rupert the rabbit as he learns that
intentions and imagination are two of the most important
ingredients in all things magickal. In "Tools of the Craft," Rupert
meets a family who has come to teach their children about tools
they use in crafting magick. "Rupert's Magickal Imagination" has
him watching children practicing using their intentions when one of
them wonders what happens if you don't believe in magick. With two
rhyming stories and 23 vibrant illustrations, this book offers an
enchanting way to help your child begin a journey to learn about
magick. For readers aged 5 to 8.
A Soul's Journey is indeed a personal story. The journey are
lessons that were given to me by my God Presence during the summer
of 2013 in answer to the prayer "God help me create the life I
desire." The Journey is recorded in four books containing twenty
four chapters. Most of the time I didn't know where this was going
and what I was to do with this information I was being given. The
only thing I did know was that the lessons were helping me feel
better and my life was changing to reflect more Love, more of God
in my life. The lessons in the books focus on reaffirming the Truth
about each of us and looking to our God Presence to help us make
the Truths our Truths which will lead to our living better more
satisfying lives. What are these Truths? That we are where we need
to be at this point in our life experience. All that has come
before was necessary to make us the person we are today. In other
words we are perfect just as we are; That we are children of a
Loving Infinitely Patient God Presence that is with us always and
will help us in all things if we ask; That we are worthy of all
that is good and pleasing in the entire Universe just because we
are sons and daughters of the Universe; That our beliefs serve to
shape our life experience and if we change our beliefs we can
change our world; and That we are never alone and we are always
surrounded by the Love of God. My greatest desire is that these
lessons help the readers also come to know God, their God Presence,
so that they can also come to know how they can create the life
they desire right here on planet Earth.
Originally, the Sirius System contained two large stars, blue-white
Sirius A (Isis), still the brightest star in our nighttime sky, and
red-giant Sirius B (Osiris). Both were visible from Earth. Circling
these stars was a large planet, the "offspring" of these two
stellar "deities": Horus, or Planet X Nibiru. This planet was
inhabited by "Saurians" who possessed an advanced technology,
including space travel. When red-giant Sirius B imploded and
collapsed into its presently invisible neutron-dwarf state,
shockwaves from this momentous occurrence catapulted Planet X
Nibiru from the Sirius System into our own nearby Solar System.
This cataclysm clearly happened within our recorded history, and it
is the primary purpose of this book to explore that event.
Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War,
two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join
forces. To stave off boredom, Jones makes a handmade Ouija board
and holds fake seances for fellow prisoners. One day, an Ottoman
official approaches him with a query: could Jones contact the
spirits to find a vast treasure rumoured to be buried nearby?
Jones, a lawyer, and Hill, a magician, use the Ouija board - and
their keen understanding of the psychology of deception-to build a
trap for their captors that will lead them to freedom. The
Confidence Men is a nonfiction thriller featuring strategy, mortal
danger and even high farce - and chronicles a profound but unlikely
friendship.
Suppose there is something going on in the universe which is to
ordinary, everyday reality as our unconcious is to our daily lives?
Softly, but unmistakably guiding it. Most of the time, we are
unaware of it. Yet, every now and then, on account of some fluke,
we are startled by the results of its presence. We realize we have
been part of something with neither consciousness nor consent. It
is so sweet and then it is gone. You say, But I don t believe in
God. And I ask, What makes you think it matters to God?" from
Lawrence Kushner, whose previous books have opened up new
spiritual possibilities, now tells us stories in a new literary
form.
Through his everyday encounters with family, friends, colleagues
and strangers, Kushner takes us deeply into our lives, finding
flashes of spiritual insight in the process. Such otherwise
ordinary moments as fighting with his children, shopping for
bargain basement clothes, or just watching a movie are revealed to
be touchstones for the sacred.
This is a book where literature meets spirituality, where the
sacred meets the ordinary, and, above all, where people of all
faiths, all backgrounds can meet one another and themselves.
Kushner ties together the stories of our lives into a roadmap
showing how everything ordinary is supercharged with meaning if we
can just see it.
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