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Occult, Magic, Mysticism

Updated on Tuesday November 15, 2005.

Read all of Jacqueline Lichtenberg's reviews posted on amazon.com.  It contains many detailed discussions of the Training of a Magician.   

 

Selections here are chosen to support an article by Jacqueline Lichtenberg in Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Show.  But each title is replete with story and plot ideas for the stumped writer.  

Every writer, and indeed most people, need to find a method of interpreting their own dreams and nightmares.

A writer can use a character's dreams to convey the totality of the fictional reality to the reader in a few bold strokes.

Connect with a character by understanding their dreams and you may come to a new and deeper understanding of yourself and your mundane reality. 

This Feb. 2006 book on dreams is very slender with spread out type and margins you can scribble in.  Only 133 pages but you won't read it all at one sitting! 

 
Miyelo by Viggo Mortensen
                                

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Watch for bargain prices on this priceless photo-journalistic visit to the sacred a traditional Lakota Ghost Dance, and the resulting images re-create the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band. Treating this sacred rite as both delirious remembrance and ephemeral dream, Miyelo includes literary and historical documentation that examines the Ghost Dance's origins.

Discovering Your Soul Mission : How to Use Karmic Astrology to Create the Life You Want
by LINDA BRADY, EVAN ST. LIFER

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$13.95

 Hey what about a novel about a person who tries this method and it doesn't work exactly as advertised?  

Greer's New Encyclopedia of the Occult
by John Michael Greer

List Price:   $29.95

Check today's discount.  Greer knows his stuff and this is a valuable reference book for any writer venturing to write fantasy involving magic.  

Your Book of Shadows: How to Write Your Own Magickal Spells
by Patricia Telesco

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If you watch CHARMED you have seen them consult their "Book of Shadows" -- if you're going to write about such things, find out what it REALLY is first.  

Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
by Raymond Buckland (Introduction), Ray Buckland

List Price:   $17.95

Check out today's discount and see if shipping is free today.  

Click to read reviews.  

The Wiccan Path is not for everyone -- it isn't my Path.  But as you can't be a really good Christian without knowing what the Protestants were protesting against, you can't be a magician if you think witches only cast spells and have no idea what "The Craft" really is.  

This is a how-to handbook, practical guide, and can be very superficial if taken alone.  

In fact, the best advice for beginners is to regard each and every one of the books published in this field as having been published simply as a way for the author and publisher to exploit the gullible public and make money.  

When you find one that doesn't do that - read it twice.  

Don't believe a word of it, and don't try to find the "right" answer.  Don't ever think anyone else on this Earth is wiser than you are, and learn well how wise you are not.  

Diary of a Witch.
by Sybil. Leek


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This is a book that is very long out of print, but if you can nab a copy it will illuminate this entire subject for you very quickly.  This is a book which confers insight.  

How to Be Your Own Astrologer
by Sybil Leek


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This has the best explanation of Houses in it that I have EVER seen.  

Never Cross a Palm With Silver (The Bible Tarot Series)
by Jacqueline Lichtenberg


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 Of course this is the best intro to Tarot I've read - I wrote it.  So what else can I say?  

Cover by Hannah Shapero who has work in our Arensti Gallery.

A Complete Guide to the Tarot
by Eden Gray


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I always start beginners on this book, and not just because it's where I started.  Learn all this, and you're equiped to go on.  

amazon offers the deck that goes with this book for one reasonable price.  See today's price.

If you'd like to get onto the Initiatory Path, you will have to dig into Tarot all the way -- to begin to see it as an Initiatory System that is built upon  the Qabalistic concept of how the Universe is constructed, where humans fit into this scheme, and how bringing that greater structure of the Universe into your conscious awareness can give you a much better ability to function in your life.   

View those who recommend lazy shortcuts around the difficult requirement of real study with severe skepticism.  

 

Mastering the Tarot
by Eden Gray


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$5.99

This book will take you a long way along the Initiatory Path if you use it daily.  

Mystical Qabalah
by Dion Fortune


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 $16.95

 

This is actually the advanced book on the Tarot - the Minor Arcana - and is the most comprehensive treatment I've seen of the Tarot.  

 

Unfortunately that leaves a huge gap between the level of Master The Tarot and the Mystical Qabalah.  My own series of books is not yet being printed, but it was designed to be that intermediate level step in understanding the Universe in this very non-scientific way.  

Sane Occultism
by Dion Fortune


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 Amazon usually has some used copies.  This book has to be reprinted soon - NOTHING can substitute for it even though all Dion Fortune's titles are severely dated.  

If you can't lay hands on a copy, then really study and read "Never Cross A Palm With Silver" above.  

 

PSYCHIC SELF-DEFENSE
by Dion Fortune

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$12.95

 This is not a book to start with - but you must not skip it either.

First read Sane Occultism.  You will know you're ready to begin on your Path when a copy of that book comes to your hands.  

 

 


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