Nevill Drury

A survey of magic and witchcraft throughout history traces its earliest animist concepts about the universe's spiritual forces to the emergence of wicca and contemporary neopaganism, discussing such topics as traditional shamanism, medieval witchcraft, satanism, the occult, the tarot, and modern technologies. Reprint.

From Shamanism to the Technopagans

Magic and Witchcraft

The Rise of Modern Western Magic

Stealing Fire from Heaven

Pan's Daughter is the only biography of Rosaleen Norton and provides the most detailed and authoritative account of her magical beliefs and practices.

The Magical World of Rosaleen Norton

Pan's Daughter

Lynne Hume

A rare combination of personal and academic, this book showcases the myriad avenues for transcending the boundaries of reality through direct sensory experience. * Highlights techniques, rituals, and training of magical practitioners * Counterpoints the rational with the emotional and compares the past with the present * Takes a cross-cultural, historical, and anthropological approach that is accessible to all readers * Includes experiences of academics, shamans, occultists, healers, sorcerers, pagans, medieval magicians, cybermagicians, and indigenous peoples across the world

Indigenous, Medieval, and Modern Magic

The Varieties of Magical Experience

Despite the dramatic expansion of modern technology, which defines and dominates many aspects of contemporary life and thought, the Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. In this overview of the modern occult revival, Drury traces the rise of various forms of magical belief and practice.

Wisdom Seekers: The Rise of the New Spirituality explores the origins and precursors of the New Age movement, its consolidation within the American counterculture of the late 1960s, and its development into an international spiritual perspective in contemporary Western society. The book considers the influence on the New Age of metaphysicians like Emanuel Swedenborg, Mesmer, Madame Blavatsky and Gurdjieff; pioneering thinkers like Freud, Jung and William James; and the contribution to New Age thought of Indian spiritual traditions and transpersonal psychology. Wisdom Seekers also describes the way in which the New Age paradigm has absorbed the most recent discoveries of quantum physics and consciousness research, and it explores the New Age focus on personal spiritual experience rather than formal religious doctrines.

The Rise of the New Spirituality

Wisdom Seekers

The Life and Magic of Rosaleen Norton

The Witch of Kings Cross

Originally published in 1982, The Shaman and the Magician draws on the author’s wide experience of occultism, western magic and anthropological knowledge of shamanism, to explore the interesting parallels between traditional shamanism and the more visionary aspects of magic in modern western society. In both cases, as the author shows, the magician encounters profound god-energies of the spirit, and it is up to the individual to interpret these experiences in psychological or mythological terms. The book demonstrates that both shamanism and magic offer techniques of approaching the visionary sources of our culture.

Journeys Between the Worlds

The Shaman and the Magician

Gregory Tillett

Originally published in 1978, The Occult Sourcebook has been compiled primarily for the many people who are for the first time becoming engrossed by the numerous and often confusing possibilities underlying the occult sciences. It consists of a series of articles on key areas, providing the reader with easy access to basic facts, together with a carefully planned guide to further reading. Critical comments on the recommended books allow the reader to select those which best suit their interests. The authors have also included a ‘Who’s Who of the occult’ to provide short biographies of some of the more amazing figures who have already travelled down the mystic path. The book offers a programmed system of exploration into the realms of the unknown. It will be invaluable to the increasing number of people who are concerned with the exploration of enlarging human consciousness.

The Occult Sourcebook

Artists featured are: Graeme Altmann, Charles Anderson, Arthur Ashby, Asher Bilu, David Bromley, Gunther Diex, Wayne Eager, Michael Esson, Jutta Feddersen, George Foxhill, Gabriela Frutos, Marea Gazzard, John Graham, Julia Griffin, Paul Higgs, Pat Hoffie. Peter Hupfauf, George Johnson, Stephen King, Geoff La Gerche, Robert Lee, Brad Levido, Jon Lewis, Artur Lyczbz, David McBride, Polly MacCallam, Helen Marshall, Phillip Martin, Neil Moore, David Munro, Angus Nivison, Jill Noble, James Pasakos, Emanuel Raft, James Rogers, Graeme Rowe, Peter Sharp, Mary Stimson, Ben Taylor, Ann Thomson, Aida Tomescu, John Turier, David Walker, Di Wu.

Profiles in Contemporary Australian Art

New Art Five

Over 3000 authoritative, cross-referenced entries, covering magical traditions from all around the world.

Over 3000 Entries on the World of Magical Formulas, Secret Symbols and the Occult

The Watkins Dictionary of Magic

The Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. In Stealing Fire from Heaven, Nevill Drury offers an overview of the modern occult revival and seeks to explain this growing interest in ancient magical belief systems. Gnosticism and the Hermetica, the medieval Kabbalah, Tarot and Alchemy, and more recently, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, collectively laid the basis for the modern magical revival, which first began to gather momentum in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Western magic has since become increasingly eclectic, drawing on such diverse sources as classical Greco-Roman mythology, Celtic cosmology, Kundalini yoga and Tantra, shamanism, chaos theory, and the various spiritual traditions associated in many different cultures with the Universal Goddess. Drury traces the rise of various forms of magical belief and practice, from the influential Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn to the emergence of Wicca and Goddess worship as expressions of contemporary feminine spirituality. He also explores Chaos Magick and the occult practices of the so-called Left-Hand Path, as well as twenty-first-century magical forays into cyberspace. He believes that the rise of modern Western magic stems essentially from the quest for personal spiritual transformation and direct experience of the sacred--a quest which the trance occultist and visionary artist Austin Osman Spare once referred to as "stealing fire from heaven." Considered in this light, Drury argues, modern Western magic can be regarded as a form of alternative spirituality in which the practitioners seek direct engagement with the mythic realm.

With ovear 3000 cross-referenced entries this is an invaluable reference to the mystical and esoteric traditions. It gives succinct definitions in the fields of magic hermeticism, alchemy, spiritualism, parapsychology, eastern and western mysticism, mind and consciousness research divination, tarot, and a variety of less welll-known subjects. It also features biographies of leading figures in the field with details of their lives, philosophies and writings- from astrologer Evangeline Adams to the prophet Zarathustra.

3000 Entries on the Mystical and Occult Traditions

The Dictionary of the Esoteric

Offers a path towards personal and spiritual transformation. Drawing on magical ideas and practices from several different wisdom traditions, including the Kabbalah, Wicca and Goddess spirituality, alchemy, Shamanism and the Tarot, this book shows how to bring visionary empowerment into everyday life to help focus on goals and aspirations.

Everyday Magic

Rosaleen Norton achieved notoriety in 1950s Australia as a controversial pagan worshipper and artist who performed mysterious occult rituals in her secret Kings Cross coven and paid homage to the ancient Greek god, Pan. Homage to Pan is an authoritative and fully-illustrated overview of Norton's life and metaphysical beliefs which provides a detailed insight into her pursuit of sex-magic and visionary art and identifies her as a key practitioner of the Left Hand Path.

The Life, Art and Sex-Magic of Rosaleen Norton

Homage to Pan

Lynne L. Hume Ph.D.

A rare combination of personal and academic, this book showcases the myriad avenues for transcending the boundaries of reality through direct sensory experience. • Highlights techniques, rituals, and training of magical practitioners • Counterpoints the rational with the emotional and compares the past with the present • Takes a cross-cultural, historical, and anthropological approach that is accessible to all readers • Includes experiences of academics, shamans, occultists, healers, sorcerers, pagans, medieval magicians, cybermagicians, and indigenous peoples across the world

The Varieties of Magical Experience: Indigenous, Medieval, and Modern Magic

If you loved The Da Vinci Code and The Celestine Prophecy, consider this: The date is 21 December 2012, the fabled End-Time of the Mayan Calendar. What will happen on this fateful day? Journalist James Highgate and linguist Flavia Timmins journey to Xocomil near Lake AtitlNBn in the Mayan highlands. There they meet the custodian of a secret ancient text that holds the key to the amazing link between the Mayan god Kukulcan and the Christian disciple St Thomas, brother of Jesus. How are the destinies of these two spiritual figures connected as the End-Time draws near? Both the secret Mayan teachings and the ancient biblical text point to a dramatic climax in world history which will take place at the end of recorded time, on 21 December 2012. Is this the date of the biblical Second Coming? And what dark forces stand in the way of this startling Revelation?

The Mayan Revelation

Second Coming: 2012

Here is my gift to you--a secret book of wondrous power and spells of enchantment. Here are the elements of earth, water, fire, air, and spirit--and the magickal symbols of the circle, sword, wand, disc and cup. Here are the secret formulae for calling the spirits, ensnaring your lover, attracting good fortune and predicting what will come to pass.

Nevill Drury

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