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This terrific book is a guide to the occult world, featuring 10
itineraries and maps of magical tours across the globe. Spanning
countries and continents in pursuit of occult themes, it is meant
to be pursued by the astral or armchair traveller rather than on
the ground, although we expect readers to be inspired to plan epic
trips of their own. It takes a fantastically fresh approach to the
occult, with a nod to the retro Shell Guides in the use of collage
artwork and humorous, on-point suggestions of places to stay and
eat. Expand your occult horizons by trying these tours – and many
more! Necromancy through the Ages Tour: Travel from Ancient Nineveh
to northern England, tracing sites of necromantic practice.Â
Crowley & Choronzon Desert Tour: Hike across the Algerian
desert in the footsteps of the magicians Aleister Crowley and
Victor Neuburg, invoking angels and meeting the terrifying demon
Choronzon. The Descent & Rise of Witchcraft Tour: Visit the
temples of Hekate and Circe in Turkey and Italy, the Spanish sites
of the Inquisition's witch-hunts, and the haunts of the Norse
sorceresses. Curse, Protect and Divine Tour: Travel across Europe
to the United States and Kenya unearthing buried curses and
counter-magic, from tiny frog coffins in Finnish churches to
sinister village hexes. After completing the journeys, the book
offers the unique Geonomicon – a simple divinatory and
meditational tool that invites the reader to develop their own
creative approach to magical practice.
From its inaugural Black Plaque in honour of Witchfinder General
director Michael Reeves, this unique collection follows a veridical
trajectory to the frontiers of belief. Reeves' film becomes a
conspiratorial cauldron drawing in a host of tragic players in the
end game of the Sixties. The Cornwall of Du Maurier's The Birds is
ploughed to reveal the hidden psychic codes of our Blitz spirit. In
a powerfully relevant occult rendering of a bruised Island, the
myth of Churchill is dissected and re-animalised. New maps of hell
are drawn by colliding the forensic vision of JG Ballard and
Lovecraftian magic. Actors, witches and psychopaths maraud across a
nightmare terrain of murderous henges and abandoned military bases;
conflating creative research into a surreal documentary, history as
hallucination. Geography becomes an alchemical alembic, a vale of
soul-making distilled by the lysergic psychobiology of Stanislav
Grof, the alcoholic lyricism of Malcolm Lowry, and the convulsive
travelogues of the Marquis de Sade. If history is revealed as
paranoid ritual, how do we escape its time traps to wild new
imaginative geographies? The English Heretic collection is a darkly
comical, urgently lyrical, mental escape hatch from the hells of
our own making.
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