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.