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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Showing posts with label esoteric. Show all posts
Friday, October 30, 2015
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Making Spirits: Materiality and Transcendence in Contemporary Religion
7:54 AM
Academic analyses of religious phenomena have often placed an emphasis on beliefs and ideologies and prioritized the understanding of reli...
Saturday, October 24, 2015
The Vatican Heresy: Bernini and the Building of the Hermetic Temple ofthe Sun
6:02 PM
Reveals how the largest Sun Temple in the world, built according to Hermetic principles, is located at one of Christianity’s holiest site...
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Esoteric Medicine and Practical Magic
6:54 AM
In ancient times, only the wisest were trusted with medical knowledge, for it bears power over life and death. The remedies and methods ...
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
4:50 AM
"The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commen...
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Odun: Discourses, Strategies and Power in the Yoruba Play ofTransformation
5:10 AM
A poetic 'voice' scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún ; then the voice falls silent. What is...
The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
5:07 AM
According to Egyptian mythology, when the ancient Egyptian sun god Re cried, his tears turned into honey bees upon touching the ground. F...
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Developmentin Neoliberal Kenya
11:06 AM
These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
The Lure of the Honeybird: The Storytellers of Ethiopia
9:46 AM
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 ...
West African Folk Tales
9:12 AM
Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the univer...
Friday, July 24, 2015
African Art: Its Background and Traditions
12:54 PM
The many dimensions of African art are explored, aong with illustrations and explanations of various examples of tribal art, against thei...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Point of Origin: Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World'sCosmologies
8:12 AM
Reveals Gobekli Tepe as a center of civilizing knowledge for the ancient world • Details how symbolic elements at Gobekli Tepe link a pre...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Dictionary of Pagan Religions
5:06 PM
Assembled here for the first time in one volume are the essential facts about the cults, rites and rituals associated with polytheistic re...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture
12:42 PM
In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeonin...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing
6:23 AM
Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu....
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Powerful African Love and Money Magick Rituals by Kam Ottoyo
6:49 AM
Magick has been successfully practiced in the "Dark Continent" (Africa) for a long time and continues to be practiced diligent...
Sunday, March 1, 2015
The Hermetic Code in DNA: The Sacred Principles in the Ordering of the Universe
9:15 AM
An examination of the precise code that connects ancient spirituality with modern science • Shows how the numerical patterns in ancient p...
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Yoruba Myths
1:32 PM
This collection of myths - some of them simple, strong pieces of narrative, others mysterious, poetic and often amusing - illustrate the r...
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Santeria: A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic
8:22 AM
Santeria is a religion similar to Voodoo, but Hispanic Criolo rather than French Creole. With millions of participants in the Americas, i...
Sunday, January 11, 2015
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Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: There Is a Mystery
8:13 AM
Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: There is a Mystery, brings together groundbreaking essays that inaugurate Africana E...
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