Totem Magic: Dance of the Shapeshifter by Yasmine Galenorn

By Yasmine Galenorn

"Inside of every people an animal lies in wait, able to be published and explored. As people we percentage the earth with many remarkable creatures, and during Pagan magic we will connect to the animal state and with our person animal spirits, or totems. In TOTEM MAGIC, writer Yasmine Galenorn-whose soul is a component panther, boa, and peacock-shows you the way to discover the animal spirits who consultant and protect you on your life'¬?s trip. Drawing on Pagan shamanism, she bargains directions, spellwork, and rituals for connecting along with your totems for power, security, and empowerment. during the historical mystical perform of totem magic, you could realize your animal inside of whereas exploring new, fascinating paths on your non secular improvement.

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Keraunia: Beitrage zu Mythos, Kult und Heiligtum in der by Oliver Pilz

By Oliver Pilz

Der vorliegende Sammelband bietet einen Überblick über neue archäologische Forschungen zum antiken Kultgeschehen. Der Band vereint unpubliziertes oder bislang vernachlässigtes fabric, stellt aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse vor und eröffnet den Blick auf weiterführende Fragestellungen. Verfasser der einzelnen Beiträge sind junge Nachwuchsforscher, aber auch renommierte Wissenschaftler mit Spezialisierung auf diesen Themenkomplex. Inhaltlich deckt der Band nahezu das gesamte Spektrum der Beschäftigung mit antikem Kult ab.

This number of essays presents an summary of contemporary archaeological learn into cults in Antiquity. It positive factors unpublished or formerly ignored fabric, offers present learn findings, and opens up a brand new standpoint that increases extra questions. The authors of the person essays will not be basically younger researchers but additionally well known students focusing on this complicated set of matters. The publication covers virtually the total spectrum of analysis into cults in Antiquity.

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The Greek gods in modern scholarship : interpretation and by Michael D. Konaris

By Michael D. Konaris

The 19th century is a key interval within the heritage of the translation of the Greek gods. The Greek Gods in glossy Scholarship examines how German and British students of the time drew on philology, archaeology, comparative mythology, anthropology, or sociology to improve appreciably diverse theories at the Greek gods and their origins. For a few, that they had been personifications of traditional components, for others, that they had all started as common gods just like the Christian god, but for others, they went again to totems or have been projections of workforce harmony. the quantity discusses the perspectives of either famous figures like ok. O. Muller (1797-1840), or Jane Harrison (1850-1928), and of forgotten, yet vital, students like F. G. Welcker (1784-1868). It explores the underlying assumptions and agendas of the rival theories within the gentle in their highbrow and cultural context, laying pressure on how they have been hooked up to broader modern debates over primary questions corresponding to the origins and nature of faith, or the relation among Western tradition and the 'Orient'. It additionally considers the influence of theories from this era on 20th- and twenty-first-century scholarship on Greek faith and attracts implications for the learn of the Greek gods today.

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Mind of Mahamudra (Advice from the Kagyu Masters) by Thupten Jinpa, Peter Alan Roberts

By Thupten Jinpa, Peter Alan Roberts

The brain of Mahamudra is the 3rd quantity within the Tibetan Classics sequence, which goals to make on hand available paperback variants of key Tibetan Buddhist works drawn from knowledge Publications' Library of Tibetan Classics.
Enjoy six key texts at the cornerstone meditation perform of the Kagyu institution of Tibetan Buddhism via a few of its so much celebrated forebearers.
The brain of Mahamudra highlights mahamudra, the principal meditation perform of the Kagyu tuition of Tibetan Buddhism. The six texts diversity in date from the 12th to the 17th century and comprise such celebrated authors as Lama Shang and the 3rd Karmapa. Mahamudra is basically an easy, direct technique for having a look past our techniques to the very nature of unsleeping event. Mahamudra actually capacity "the nice seal" and masters of this practice have defined it to intend that every thing is sealed with buddhahood, and there's no liberation to be attained except what's already current. Mahamudra, it truly is stated, isn't really attained no longer since it is simply too tough, yet since it is simply too effortless; no longer since it is simply too a ways, yet since it is simply too shut; and never since it is hidden yet since it is simply too obvious. due to its universality and directness, mahamudra meditation is very suited for the fashionable West. Eminent student Peter Alan Roberts attracts on his thirty-plus years of expertise of translating for Tibetan lamas to light up those benchmark translations.

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Llewellyn's 2016 Witches' Companion: An Almanac for by Llewellyn Publications

By Llewellyn Publications

Realize the most recent witchy tendencies, insightful practices, and thought-provoking discussions within the Wiccan and Pagan groups with Llewellyn's Witches' better half. This available consultant will convey you the trail to dwelling the previous methods in today's sleek world.

This year's version is full of attention-grabbing and informative essays on a number of themes, from altars on the cheap to making plans a Wiccan marriage ceremony. each is prepared by means of subject: group discussion board, witchy residing, Witchcraft necessities, and magical transformations.

city Druids
Magical Visualization
Prosperity Magick and the Goddess Abundantia
the moral Use of resource Material
Embracing the darkish Goddess
...and a lot more!

Also search for our Witches' Calendar and Witches' Datebook, the appropriate enhances to Llewellyn's Witches' Companion.

Included is a sixteen-month calendar and lunar details to gasoline your spellwork and rituals.

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Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe by A. Rowlands

By A. Rowlands

Males and masculinities are nonetheless inadequately included into the historiography of early sleek witch trials, although 20-25% of all accused ‘witches’ have been male. This publication redresses this imbalance through making males the point of interest of the gender research and in addition covers the difficulty of local version within the gendering of witch persecution.

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Talking to the Spirits: Personal Gnosis in Pagan Religion by Kenaz Filan, Raven Kaldera

By Kenaz Filan, Raven Kaldera

A advisor to direct communique with the spirits and the Gods

• bargains practices for seekers and teams to benefit to listen to and reply to the spirits and the Gods in addition to what to do (and now not do) when you obtain a message

• Explains the way to authenticate non secular messages with divination

• Discusses easy methods to stay away from theological conflicts while someone’s own gnosis differs from that in their Pagan staff

For our ancestors the complete global was once alive with spirits. The Gods bubbled forth from rivers and is derived and whispered within the breezes that rustled via towns and farms. the floor underfoot, the stones, the hearth that cooked the nutrition and drove off the darkness, those all had spirits--not simply spirits in another size, yet spirits in them who will be spoken to and allied with. In today’s international we're resulted in think that the spirits some time past went silent and that religious knowledge can basically be won via proven non secular doctrine.

Providing a advisor for commencing two-way dialog with the spirits of lifestyle in addition to direct conversation with the Gods, Kenaz Filan and Raven Kaldera discover tips on how to enhance your religious course with own gnosis--asking your publications for tips or teachings and receiving a reaction. They clarify the right way to boost your sensitivity to the voices of the Divine, figure real non secular messages from the projection of inner psychodrama, and what to do (and now not do) with the messages you obtain. Confirming their very own own gnosis with Northern culture Pagan ideals and Greco-Roman, Celtic, Egyptian, and indigenous hunter-gatherer lore, the authors talk about tips to steer clear of theological conflicts while someone’s own gnosis differs from that in their Pagan team in addition to find out how to authenticate messages with person and team divination. delivering practices and ideas for seekers and teams, they display that the spirits by no means went silent, we easily forgot find out how to listen them.

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Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side by James Van Praagh

By James Van Praagh

Every person loves a very good ghost tale. probably the human fascination with the supernatural stems from the truth that such a lot people, sooner or later in our lives, have skilled whatever we could not fairly clarify. From a truly younger age James Van Praagh was once conscious of a measurement that almost all people can't see, and he has committed his lifestyles to explaining it to the remainder of us. Ghosts between Us takes us on an important trip into the spirit international that brings to gentle certainly one of our best mysteries—what occurs to us when we die? Van Praagh, the hot York instances bestselling writer and co-executive manufacturer of the CBS sequence The Ghost Whisperer, stocks his wisdom and lifestyles event approximately ghosts, an issue which may appear to many folks either weird and wonderful and terrifying. but if the realm past is defined totally via an skilled consultant, dismissal and apprehension should be became wisdom and thought. With remarkable real ghost tales and marvelous information about how ghosts actively perform our lives, Van Praagh demanding situations us to query our perceptions and exhibits us how we will dwell extra totally via realizing the area of spirits. together with eerily actual readings, the author's improvement as a medium, and unique how-to info, Ghosts between Us is an all-encompassing advisor to the supernatural.

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead by Ernest Wallis Budge

By Ernest Wallis Budge

In line with the most recent archaelogical findings, the Egyptian booklet of the useless was once written and painted approximately 3500 years in the past. it truly is essentially a set of spells or chapters that have been put with the lifeless humans to aid their spirits to go through the hazards of the underworld in historic Egypt. The publication used to be initially referred to as The ebook of the arriving Forth via Day, which means the liberty received through spirits in coming and stepping into the afterlife.

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La Madre di Psiche by Federico Divino

By Federico Divino

Una ricerca che intreccia psicologia e metafisica dell'Anima in step with risalire alle origini stesse della coscienza. Dal Buddhismo alla Psicanalisi, dall'Animismo alla psicologia teorica. Un saggio ambizioso che tenta di toccare contemporaneamente argomenti di più campi del sapere: filosofia, psicologia, antropologia, storia e spiritualismo nel tentativo di dare delle risposte chiare advert alcune domande fondamentali.

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