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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > The Occult
A woman's journey to understanding how witchcraft can heal us,
reconnect us with nature, and keep us magical in an age of
disbelief. After Jennifer Lane reached breaking point in her
fast-paced office life and suffered stress-related illness, she set
out to rediscover the solace and purpose that witchcraft had given
her as a teenager. The Wheel is an immersive, engaging read -
exploring the life long draw of witchcraft and our vulnerability to
toxic working environments and digital demands. In her year long
journey Jennifer explores ancient festivals and rituals, and visits
fellow pagans and wild landscapes, in search of wisdom and peace.
For those who are sick at heart of noise, anger and disconnection,
The Wheel is full of wise words, crackling rituals and natural
beauty. This is a quest to discover how to live fully connected to
the natural world while firmly in the twenty-first century.
Shamanic perception has become your birthright.
In this companion book to "The Altar of the Initiate"
learn what modern shamanism is and how it is applied to attain
wholeness; discover how "seeing" is a natural by-product of raising
your frequency; learn surprising ways to connect with Spirit
through the power of prayer, ceremony, and true meditation; awaken
into your conscious awareness the dormant powers contained in The
Five Tools of the Shaman in order to enter, decode, and navigate
the rich and potent inner landscape from which the Shaman's work
becomes possible; discover the potential of reclaiming your
multidimensionality through astounding but true accounts of
encounters with Spirit beings in parallel worlds and what they have
to teach us; and learn how the true masterpiece of you as "The
Artisan of the New Earth" will be the crafting of the new paradigm
of God as the male and female energy aligned in the heart-The
Sacred Marriage.
This title includes text in English & Hebrew. "Leviticus", the
third book of the Bible, provides the key tenet of "Kabbalah": Love
thy neighbour as thyself. It also sets out rules about dietary
restrictions, sacrificial offerings, cleanliness, disease, certain
behaviours, and more. "Kabbalah" reveals the code behind these
regulations, explains what they really mean, and makes their
relevance to modern life both clear and compelling. For instance,
sacrifice is not about killing animals, but about facing and
overcoming obstacles. This new rendition of "Leviticus" is the
third book of the Kabbalistic Bible, which forms a bridge between
"the Zohar", the sacred text of Kabbalah, and the Torah or Bible.
Edited and annotated by noted scholar and teacher Yehuda Berg,
"Leviticus" features the writings of renowned Kabbalists Rav Yehuda
Ashlag, Rav Yehuda Brandwein, and Rav P. S. Berg. This book uses a
user-friendly format, with the Hebrew and English printed on facing
pages, and printed front-to-back.
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.
A beautifully illustrated guide from a Celtic Wiccan High Priestess
to celebrating the Wiccan way, from Halloween to handfastings, as
well as everyday rituals to enhance all areas of your life. The
Wiccan calendar is marked by significant festivals, called sabbats.
The most famous is Halloween, also known as Samhain, but you will
be familiar with others, too, such as the Summer and Winter
Solstices. Wiccans celebrate these sabbats with rituals, crafts,
and food and drink, and in this book, Silja reveals how you can
bring some of that magic into your life, even if working as a
solitary witch. She also details other special days throughout the
year, such as August 23, the Roman festival of Vulcanalia, which is
celebrated with bonfires. Discover, too, how Wiccans celebrate
personal rites of passage, such as the naming of a baby and a
couple committing to each other in a Wiccan wedding, known as a
handfasting. Finally, Silja explains how to write your own daily,
weekly, or monthly rituals to bring you peace and happiness.
Lavishly illustrated throughout, this is your essential guide to
all your Wiccan celebrations.
"One Soul's Journey, a Mystic's Way Home" shares Josie's
challenging life experiences and mystical revelations. Written with
a passionate intent to guide others on their journeys, her wisdom
flows from each experience, enabling her mystical journey to become
an inspired resource of higher knowledge to reach for as you make
your own way home to the divine.
This book offers tools with which to navigate through the dark
night into the transformative state of the cosmic heart, providing
a clear understanding of the journey the soul must take to
transcend into the active mystic. Learn the seven attributes of the
soul that provide the depth necessary for true healing and
forgiveness. www.essencehealinghome.com
Kim Krans's NEW YORK TIMES bestseller THE WILD UNKNOWN TAROT (375K
copies sold) launched a culture-shifting brand that redefined tarot
for the twenty-first century. Now comes Krans's next deck in her
bestselling series, THE WILD UNKNOWN ALCHEMY DECK AND GUIDEBOOK.
This stunning oracle deck reveals insights into the ancient
mysteries of alchemy: the metaphorical process of turning lead
(unconsciousness) into gold (enlightenment). Alchemy is the doorway
to the imagination and self-discovery. You do not need to be an
expert in metals, symbols, astrology, or Latin to become an
alchemist. Whether a baker, mechanic, surgeon, seamstress, or
surfer-those who become masters of their materials are all
alchemists. The magic of Alchemy is available to anyone who is
willing to explore, observe, and invoke transformation. Paired with
a 224-page, hand-lettered, fully illustrated guidebook written and
designed by Kim Krans, THE WILD UNKNOWN ALCHEMY DECK includes 71
beautiful, easy-to-shuffle hexagon cards divided into six suits:
The Cosmic Forces, The Colors, The Seasons, The Materials, The
Mysteries, and The Operations. Illustrated in Krans's iconic style
of elegant line art and lush watercolor painting, each full-color
card offers a tool for self-study and exploration, expressed
through symbol, image, and language. The unique shape of the cards
allows edges to meet and images to meld and transform, with all-new
connecting spreads, including readings for revealing energetic and
emotional blockages, identifying what is serving and what is
draining, and much more. Through this profound experience of
observing image, color, and materials with an alchemical
perspective, new gifts and discoveries are revealed. This deck is a
journey to awakening and reuniting us with what may be dormant or
unseen as we begin to weave together the physical and mystical
aspects of our lives.
Sometime in 1912, Elsa Barker, an accomplished American Poetess,
was visiting in Paris, when one night she found herself automatic
writing, meaning that is someone other than her sub conscious was
writing using her hand. The entity inspiring the writing, claimed
to be Judge David Patterson Hatch. The judge explained that he had
recently passed over and that he wanted to document his experiences
on the other side in the form of letters that he would write
through Elsa's hand. Until Elsa was convinced of the Judge's
identity she referred to him as XA" Over the next three years over
130 letters were 'dictated' and published as a trilogy under the
banner Letters from a Living Dean Man. The letters are now
considered an essential guide to the afterlife; all are
fascinating, informative, and inspirational, and required reading
for anyone interested in life and death, the afterlife, and why we
are here. Here is a sample of her introduction. If anyone asks the
question, that do I myself think as to whether these letters are
genuine communications from the invisible world, I should answer
that I believe they are. In the personal and suppressed portions
reference was often made to past events and to possessions of which
I had no knowledge, and these references were verified. This leaves
untouched the favorite telepathic theory of the psychologists. But
if these letters were telepathed to me, by whom were they
telepathed? Not by my friend who was present at the writing of many
of them, for their contents were as much a surprise to her as to
me. I wish, however, to state that I make no scientific claims
about this book, for science demands tests and proofs. Save for the
first letter signed "X" before I knew that Mr.-- was dead, or knew
who "X" was, the book was not written under "test conditions," as
the psychologists understand the term. As evidence of a soul's
survival after bodily death, it must be accepted or rejected by
each individual according to his or her temperament, experience,
and inner conviction as to the truth of its contents. In the
absence of "X" and without some other entity on the invisible side
of Nature in whom I had a like degree of confidence, I could not
produce another document of this kind. Against indiscriminate
mediumship. I have still a strong and ineradicable prejudice, for I
recognise its dangers both of obsession and deception. But for my
faith in "X" and the faith of my Paris friend in me, this book
could never have been. Doubt of the invisible author or of the
visible medium would probably have paralysed both, for the purposes
of this writing. The effect of these letters on me personally has
been to remove entirely any fear of death which I may ever have
had, to strengthen my belief in immortality, to make the life
beyond the grave as real and vital as the life here in the
sunshine. If they can give even to one other person the sense of
exultant immortality which they have given to me, I shall feel
repaid for my labour. To those who may feel inclined to blame me
for publishing such a book I can only say that I have always tried
to give my best to the world, and perhaps these letters are one of
the best things that I have to give. ELSA BARKER.
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