Mysticism, magic and occult interests

Written by a legendary scholar of Renaissance esoterica, this is the single most important text in the history of Western occultism, Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) combined classical Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy with elements of the Jewish Kabbalah and Christianity to form a systematic exposition of occult knowledge.

Tabak ist mehr als eine Pflanze – er ist eine Kultur, die Jahrhunderte überdauert hat.

Manifest your dreams with easy-to-follow spells that align with the cycles of nature and the universe.

Discover your spirit animals and embrace the wisdom all around you Spirit animals provide guidance and wisdom, and can help you to lead a happier and more fulfilling life.

Jacob Bohme (1575-1624) has been recognized as one of the internationally most influential German authors of the Early Modern period.

Unlock your own innate psychic potential with this accessible tarot reference Thisis your step-by-step guideto learning to read and interpret this mystical deck of seventy-eight cards.

Spells to empower the modern woman to exact revenge and take chargeFor the modern woman who wants to unleash her inner bitch, this magical book offers simple spells and incantations to exact revenge on anyone who deserves it an evil ex, a coworker who stole her thunder, the stylist who ignored what 'just a trim' means, the rude idiot who won't stop talking through the movie the list sadly never ends.

A WORLD OF WONDER AND MIRACLES UNFURLS IN THIS TIMELESS COMING-OF-AGE FANTASY'That most rare and precious thing: a brand-new classic, both wholly original and wonderfully nostalgic.

Open your heart and mind to the divine magic of crystalsFor thousands of years, across cultures, civilisations and traditions, crystals have been cherished for their magical uses.

Connect to the magic of the world around you for healing, empowerment and self-careNature is filled with hidden, elusive energies: the growth spirals of sunflowers, the electromagnetic spectrum of rainbows, the bio-energy of trees and the sound waves of thunder.

Connect with the magic and mystique of the moon's powerThe Little Book of Moon Magic will show you how to maximise potent lunar energy at the most auspicious times, to make your life what you truly want it to be.

Discover what the cards hold with this clear, inspiring guide to tarot.

This enchanting little book is for the 'occult curious'.

Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves.

"Jenseits Nirwana" ist die Autobiografie eines hellsichtigen Energieheilers.

This book examines shamanism from evolutionary and biological perspectives to identify the origins of shamanic healing in rituals that enhance individual and group function.

Magic, science and second sight in 17c Scottish Higlands, with new edition of Kirk's Secret Commonwealth.

The story of our health is more in our control than we might think, according to clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and shamanic practitioner Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD.

Experience the Tumult of the Worlds Final EpochEchoing through the corridors of time are whispers that crescendo into an ear-piercing cry foretelling the Apocalypse Unveiled: The Last Three Days.

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) - mystic, writer, poet, astrologer, sexual revolutionary, painter, mountain climber and social critic - has a terrifying reputation.

A journey through the three pathways of time--present, past, and future--to open yourself to shamanic visions*; Presents shamanic tools to help you prepare to receive visions, release the burdens of the past, and bring clarity to your visions of the future*; Shares Earth Whispering practices to expand the senses, set intentions, and connect deeply with intuition and spirit helpers*; Offers advice on working with guides and soul protectors as well as the different realms a guide might emerge fromVisionaries dream the future into life, and throughout the ages shamans have served this role within their communities.

*; Details the rise and fall of this famous and infamous Order, including its penetration of Bavarian society and its destruction by the Bavarian government *; Explains the Bavarian Illuminati's grades, rituals, ceremonies, and fundamental philosophies and examines the leaders of the Order *; Contains the only surviving record of documents that were destroyed during the two World Wars The Bavarian Order of the Illuminati is the most celebrated secret society in the world.

*; Details how the author and her boyfriend developed a close friendship with Manly Hall and how Hall at first mistook her boyfriend as his heir apparent *; Explains how Hall adopted the author as his ';girl Friday' and personal weirdo screener, giving her access to the inner circles of occult Los Angeles *; Richly depicts the characters who worked and gathered at Hall's Philosophical Research Society, including Hall's wife, the famed ';Mad Marie' In the early 1980s, underground musicians Tamra Lucid and her boyfriend Ronnie Pontiac discovered the book The Secret Teachings of All Ages at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in Los Angeles.

*; Explains how creativity--or creative energy--is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life *; Explores how to use spirit journeying and ceremony alongside experiential shamanic exercises to release creativity-blocking patterns, reprogram the subconscious, engage the ';right brain,' boost imagination, and overcome anxiety and other destructive emotions *; Provides suggestions for when your creative energy is at a low tide In this step-by-step practical guide to enhancing creative energy, Evelyn Rysdyk explains, from the shamanic perspective, how creativity--or creative energy--is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life.

A detailed step-by-step program for building a magical practice*; Offers a full 12 months of activities, rituals, spells, and exercises to help you acquire magical skills and knowledge and achieve your goals*; Details the practice of Egyptian Soul Craft, including how to work with the KA and the BA and how to perform magical workings with Egyptian deities*; Shares spells for specific purposes, from manifesting wealth to summoning lost things to healing ailments, as well as providing templates to create your own rituals and custom spellsIn this practical training guide, Don Webb lays out a detailed step-by-step program for building and sustaining a magical practice.

*; Details hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals paired with personal stories from the author's decades of magical practice *; Presents teachings on working with each element in different ways--such as divination, communication, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment *; Explores elemental altars, scrying and reading the bones, undines and fairies, working with runes and crystals, ancestral healing, weather sensing, fire gazing, candle magic, sex magic, and communicating with the Otherworld A Book of Shadows is a witch's sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells.

*; Explains how to work with baneful herbs through rituals and spells, as plant spirit familiars, as potent medicines, and as visionary substances *; Details the spiritual, alchemical, astrological, and symbolic associations of each plant, its active alkaloids, how to safely cultivate and harvest it, and rituals and spells suited to its individual nature and powers *; Shares plant alchemy methods, magical techniques, and recipes featuring the plants, including a modern witches' flying ointment Part grimoire and part herbal formulary, this guide to the Poison Path of occult herbalism shares history, lore, and information regarding the use of poisonous, consciousness-altering, and magical plants.

*; Explains how the 12 nights after the winter solstice offer the ideal opportunity for inner focusing, seeing signs, and laying the foundation for the year to come *; Shares reflective themes and exercises for each night (and the day to follow) and guided meditations to deepen the experience The season of Yuletide--the 12 nights following the winter solstice--offers the ideal opportunity for inner focusing, for seeing signs, and for planting seeds for the future.

*; 2023 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award*; Provides detailed instructions for making single-flower essences and magickal and therapeutic essence blends *; Shares new magickal uses for flower essences, from creating sacred space to dressing candles to preparing incense, as well as how to use essences in meditation, potions, spells, spagyrics, and ritual *; Includes a detailed directory of 100 flower and plant essences, complete with astrological, elemental, and magickal correspondences In this practical guide to using flower essences in witchcraft, alchemy, and healing, Nicholas Pearson provides detailed instructions for making and using flower essences based on traditional Western magick practices.

*; Shows how the astrological cycle around the signs of the zodiac represents the alchemical transformation of consciousness and chakra awakening *; Expands the meaning of each astrological sign based on its association with the chakras and the alchemical transmutation cycle from lead to gold *; Offers sample chart analyses to show how you can discover your spiritual challenges and opportunities Demonstrating the connections between astrology, alchemy, and yoga, Frederick Baker reveals how he discovered their correspondences by rotating the natural order of the zodiac, placing Aquarius and Capricorn at the bottom and Cancer and Leo at the top, to reflect the alchemical order of metals from lead to gold.

*; Emphasizes how shadow work, integrating past wounds, and healing our ancestry allows us to facilitate the ecstatic transition into the next life *; Offers exercises and visualizations to help us integrate emotions like anger and grief, which impact the soul's readiness to leave the body when the time comes *; Discusses what happens to our cells when we die with regard to the human energy field and explores the soul's journey through the ates or bardos In the Celtic tradition dying is considered an act of birthing, of our consciousness passing from this life to the next.

*; Includes a dictionary of nearly 300 magical plants with descriptions of each plant's scientific name, common names, elemental qualities, ruling planets, and zodiacal signatures, with commentary on medico-magical properties and uses *; Explores methods of phytotherapy and plant magic, including the Paracelsian ';transplantation of diseases,' ritual pacts with trees, the secret ingredients of witches' ointments, and the composition of magical philters *; Explains the occult secrets of phytogenesis, plant physiology, and plant physiognomy (classification of plants according to the doctrine of signatures) Merging the scientific discipline of botany with ancient, medieval, and Renaissance traditions of occult herbalism, this seminal guide was first published in French in 1902 as a textbook for students of Papus's cole hermtique and sparked a revival in the study of magical herbalism in early twentieth-century France.

*; Details the magical war that took place behind the scenes of the 2016 election *; Examines in detail the failed magical actions of Trump's opponents, with insights on political magic from Dion Fortune's war letters *; Reveals the influence of a number of occult forces from Julius Evola to chaos magick to show how the political and magical landscape of American society has permanently changed since the 2016 election Magic and politics seem like unlikely bedfellows, but in The King in Orange, author John Michael Greer goes beyond superficial memes and extreme partisanship to reveal the unmentionable realities that spawned the unexpected presidential victory of an elderly real-estate mogul turned reality-TV star and which continue to drive the deepening divide that is now the defining characteristic of American society.

*; Restores the feminine essence of the Tao Te Ching as well as the simplicity and poetic undertones of the chapters *; Offers commentary for each of the 81 chapters and key Chinese characters to reveal their profound wisdom *; Translated from ancient silk and bamboo slip manuscripts, the oldest known copies of the Tao Te Ching *; Paper with French flaps In this book, Rosemarie Anderson shares her discoveries of the Divine Feminine Tao alongside her original translation of the Tao Te Ching.

*; Examines how ayahuasca affects the brain from a neuroscientific perspective and how its effects on consciousness relate to ancient esoteric texts *; Shares interviews with people who have experienced ayahuasca's powerful ';spirit doctor' effects and the author's own ayahuasca journey from suicidal depression to a soul at peace *; Investigates how ayahuasca is interwoven with the ancient practices of Amazonian shamanism Brewed from a combination of two plants--the leaves of Psychotria viridis and the vine stalks of Banisteriopsis caapi--ayahuasca has been used for millennia by indigenous tribes throughout the Upper Amazon for healing and spiritual exploration.

*; Explains how Kimbanda's presiding deity Eshu embodies both masculine and feminine principles, both god and devil, and thus represents human nature itself with all its vices and virtues *; Discusses Kimbanda's magical practices, initiation rites, sacred knives, and sacrificial offerings *; Details the seven realms and the entities that inhabit and govern each of them Although it has been demonized as a form of Satanic cult, Kimbanda--the tradition of Afro-Brazilian black magic--is a spiritual practice that embraces both the light and dark aspects of life through worship of the entities known as Eshu and Pombajira.

*; Looks at the age-old spiritual principles, folklore, and esoteric traditions behind the creation of magical objects as well as the use of numbers, colors, sigils, geometric emblems, knots, crosses, pentagrams, and other symbols *; Explores hundreds of artifacts, such as hagstones, Norse directional amulets, car hood mascots, objects made from bones and teeth, those connected with plants and animals, charms associated with gambling, and religious relics *; Includes photos of artifacts from the author's extensive collection Offering an illustrated exploration of the origins and history of amulets, lucky charms, talismans, and mascots, including photos of unique and original artifacts from his extensive collection, Nigel Pennick examines these objects from a magical perspective, from ancient Egypt to the present.

*; Shows how to relate to and receive help from the elements, reconnect with nature to access abundance and joy, connect with plants, animals, water, air, and fire *; Explores don Alberto's upbringing in a family of yachaks, his initiation, and his personal work to fulfill the Andean prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor *; Includes reflections and essays from several of don Alberto's students and others who have worked with him, including Itzhak Beery and John Perkins Recognized as a master yachak, don Alberto Taxo was a celebrated spiritual elder, shaman, and healer of the pre-Inca Atik (Kichwa) people from the Andes Mountains of Ecuador.

*; Shares vivid, experiential descriptions of the author's sessions with master Lalita Devi wherein she imparted the essential principles of the Mahamudra to him physically, verbally, and energetically *; Presents new translations of the most significant sacred books, including the Shiva Sutras, the Pratybhijna Hrdayam Sutra, and the Spandakarika, each presented in language that preserves their spontaneous mystic flow *; Pairs the author's intellectual study of the sacred texts with direct transmissions from his teacher, with each perspective shedding light on the other In 1975, in an isolated Himalayan forest, Daniel Odier met Lalita Devi, a tantric yogini who took him on a mystical journey beyond the limits of sexual experience to transcend the ego, recognize the true self, and rediscover the Divine nature of absolute love.

*; Explores the five periods of runic revival: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic period, the early 20th century, and the late 20th century *; Examines the use of runes by the foremost magicians and scholars of each era, including mystic and scholar Johannes Bureus, who developed his own integrated system of runology known as Adalruna *; Reveals how the Nazi misguided use of the runes showed a lack of comprehension of what was being discovered by scientific rune scholars of the day In this exploration of the history of the runes from 1500 CE to the present day, Stephen Edred Flowers examines the five periods of runic revival: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic period, the early 20th century, and the late 20th century.

*; Offers commentary for each story, revealing its historical context, cultural and esoteric associations, and hidden pagan beliefs *; Explores how the tales transformed over the ages and their origins in Classical Antiquity, the Middle East, and India *; Includes stories never-before-translated from their original Latin and many purposely left in obscurity due to scandalous depictions of popes and other notables The Middle Ages witnessed the blossoming of oral traditions whose echoes can still be found in many legends, fables, and tales today.