Karan vir Oberoi, a real-estate magnate living in New York has recurrent dreams of someone that looks like an ancient warrior clad in golden armour adorning golden earrings.
An exploration of how magic can be found within all human activities*; Offers a ';magical-anthropological' tour from ancient Norse shamanism to the modern magick of occultists like Genesis P-Orridge*; Looks at how human beings are naturally attracted to magic and how this attraction can be corrupted by both religious organizations and occult societies*; Examines magic as it relates to psychedelics, Witchcraft, shamanism, pilgrimage, Jungian individuation, mortality, and the literary works of Beat icons like Burroughs and GysinSince the dawn of time, magic has been the node around which all human activities and culture revolve.
Los ovnis, aunque los medios y en particular las grandes editoriales sean reacios a publicar nada sobre ellos, siguen surcando los cielos del planeta, y sus "tripulantes" siguen conviviendo con nosotros aunque no los veamos, porque hace tiempo que aprendieron a bajarse de sus vehículos, a contactar con los seres humanos y a intervenir de manera muy solapada en nuestras vidas.
Esta obra propone desmitificar un tema de ayer, de hoy y de siempre, tan sugestivo, atrayente y lleno de misterio como ha sido y continúa siendo la brujería.
This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural, and spatial research.
Abbe Mouret's Transgression Emile Zola - "e;Abbe Mouret's Transgression"e; (La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret), written in 1874, is perhaps the most powerful and poetic of all Zola's tales; it is that in which fantasy bears the greatest part, and in which "e;naturalisme"e; for a while disappears.
Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus Mary Shelley - Die Handlung wird durch eine Mischung aus Briefroman und klassischer Ich-Erzählsituation vermittelt.
The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence - The Practice of the Presence of God is a book of collected teachings of Brother Lawrence (born Nicolas Herman), a 17th-century Carmelite friar, compiled by Father Joseph de Beaufort.
This edited book brings together leading scholars in the field of Indigenous religions working with Indigenous Peoples from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe to examine various Indigenous discourses, practices, and politics of movement, as they intersect with issues of religion and spirituality.
*; Explains the Dark Man phenomenon through centuries-old folklore and mythology, testimony from British witch trials, and modern accounts*; Challenges the simplistic concept of the Devil as ';evil,' explaining how encounters with this entity can reveal one's life purpose and how the Dark Man can be an initiator into witchcraft*; Presents interviews with those who have witnessed the Dark Man firsthand, offering insights into how he can serve as a guide to a more positive lifeFrom the fortean phantoms that terrorized Victorian England to the haunted crossroads of the Irish hinterlands, the Devilalso known as the Dark Manhas found countless novel ways to influence culture and bring us face to face with our fears.
Seit den Anfängen des Films hat der Teufel in verschiedenen Rollen seine Auftritte auf der Leinwand: nicht nur in klassischen Horrorfilmen, sondern auch in verschiedenen anderen Filmtypen, vom Porno bis zur Literaturverfilmung.
Seit den Anfängen des Films hat der Teufel in verschiedenen Rollen seine Auftritte auf der Leinwand: nicht nur in klassischen Horrorfilmen, sondern auch in verschiedenen anderen Filmtypen, vom Porno bis zur Literaturverfilmung.
Der Untergang der Kultur und der Religionen der alten Welt im Christentum vollzieht sich "in, mit und unter" Herausbildung des neuen allumfassenden und allesverschlingenden Mythos vom Christ, der als Sohn Gottes aus seiner himmlischen Vorexistenz in die Welt geboren wurde, um das Reich des "Fürsten dieser Welt", das Reich Satans oder des Teufels, das im Tode gipfelt, zu zerstören und die Menschheit durch die Aufrichtung des Reiches Gottes aus seinen Banden und vor dem nahenden Weltgericht zu erretten.
This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.
This book builds on the perspective that, for Indigenous peoples, relations to the land are familial, intimate, intergenerational, spiritual, instructive, and life nourishing, and it is these relations that Western societies sought to destroy as part of their colonial projects of territorial conquest and exploitation of resources.
Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo Gonz lez analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth.
This book builds on the perspective that, for Indigenous peoples, relations to the land are familial, intimate, intergenerational, spiritual, instructive, and life nourishing, and it is these relations that Western societies sought to destroy as part of their colonial projects of territorial conquest and exploitation of resources.
An exquisitely illustrated look at the stories of 50 ghosts from around the world, written by folklore and supernatural expert Icy Sedgwick, author of Rebel Folklore.
There are three apparently contradictory aspects that define the religious features of South America: traditionally strong Catholicism, Protestant and Pentecostal denominations that have gained strength since the 19th century, and religions of pre-Columbian origin that have survived and developed further.
There are three apparently contradictory aspects that define the religious features of South America: traditionally strong Catholicism, Protestant and Pentecostal denominations that have gained strength since the 19th century, and religions of pre-Columbian origin that have survived and developed further.
