The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific...

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Making Spirits: Materiality and Transcendence in Contemporary Religion

Academic analyses of religious phenomena have often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies and prioritized the understanding of reli...

7:54 AM

The Vatican Heresy: Bernini and the Building of the Hermetic Temple ofthe Sun

Reveals how the largest Sun Temple in the world, built according to Hermetic principles, is located at one of Christianity’s holiest site...

6:02 PM

Esoteric Medicine and Practical Magic

In ancient times, only the wisest were trusted with medical knowledge, for it bears power over life and death. The remedies and methods ...

6:54 AM

Ritual: Power, Healing and Community

"The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commen...

4:50 AM

Odun: Discourses, Strategies and Power in the Yoruba Play ofTransformation

A poetic 'voice' scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún ; then the voice falls silent. What is...

5:10 AM

The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt

According to Egyptian mythology, when the ancient Egyptian sun god Re cried, his tears turned into honey bees upon touching the ground. F...

5:07 AM

Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Developmentin Neoliberal Kenya

These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter...

11:06 AM

The Lure of the Honeybird: The Storytellers of Ethiopia

A bestselling, award-winning author turns her hand to a work of travel memoir with this book. In 1967, at the age of 23, Elizabeth Laird ...

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West African Folk Tales

Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the univer...

9:12 AM

African Art: Its Background and Traditions

The many dimensions of African art are explored, aong with illustrations and explanations of various examples of tribal art, against thei...

12:54 PM

Point of Origin: Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World'sCosmologies

Reveals Gobekli Tepe as a center of civilizing knowledge for the ancient world • Details how symbolic elements at Gobekli Tepe link a pre...

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Dictionary of Pagan Religions

Assembled here for the first time in one volume are the essential facts about the cults, rites and rituals associated with polytheistic re...

5:06 PM

Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeonin...

12:42 PM

Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing

Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu....

6:23 AM

Powerful African Love and Money Magick Rituals by Kam Ottoyo

Magick has been successfully practiced in the "Dark Continent" (Africa) for a long time and continues to be practiced diligent...

6:49 AM

The Hermetic Code in DNA: The Sacred Principles in the Ordering of the Universe

An examination of the precise code that connects ancient spirituality with modern science • Shows how the numerical patterns in ancient p...

9:15 AM

Yoruba Myths

This collection of myths - some of them simple, strong pieces of narrative, others mysterious, poetic and often amusing - illustrate the r...

1:32 PM

Santeria: A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic

Santeria is a religion similar to Voodoo, but Hispanic Criolo rather than French Creole. With millions of participants in the Americas, i...

8:22 AM

Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: There Is a Mystery

Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: There is a Mystery, brings together groundbreaking essays that inaugurate Africana E...

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