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THE BLOODY SACRIFICE
Posted in Art, Spirituality, TITLES
Tagged animist, art, Artist, beliefs, blood rites, body, Charlotte Rodgers, Counterculture, magick, Ritual, Spirituality, The Bloody Sacrifice
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Pagan Heart of the West V
The Pagan Heart of the West:Embodying Ancient Beliefs and Practicesfrom Antiquity to the PresentVol. V The Arts and PhilosophyRandy P. Conner PhDISBN 9781906958909£20.00+p&p /$28.00+p&p Click HERE for UK edition Click HERE for USA & Elsewhere Get Pagan Heart of The West … Continue reading
Posted in Paganism, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Spirituality, TITLES
Tagged art, Pagan Heart of the West, Pagan Heart of the West Quartet, Philosophy
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Drawing in Real Perspective
Drawing in Real PerspectiveA new approach to space with natural and immediate applicationXavier BolotFormat: Softcover/244ppISBN: 8781906958770£14.99/$22Subjects: Art/Art History/Art Theory/Drawing/Painting. In this book we learn how to draw using a natural technique that is amazingly efficient and simple. Real Perspective is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Drawing & Painting, TITLES
Tagged Ancient Greece, art, Art History, Art Theory, artists, Contemporary Culture, curves, David Hockney, Drawing, Drawing in Real Perspective, drawing techniques, Henri Matisse, Leonardo da Vinci, Painting, Perspective, Real Perspective, Renaissance, Space, vanishing point, xavier bolot
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Surrealism & The Occult
Surrealism & The Occult Nadia ChouchaFormat: Softcover/164 pp.ISBN: 9781906958749£15.00Subjects: Art/Art History/Surrealism/Occult. Click HERE for the UK edition Many people associate Surrealism with politics, but it was also permeated by occult ideas, a fact often overlooked by art historians. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, avant garde, Culture, Surrealism, TITLES
Tagged Andre Breton, AO Spare, art, Art History, automatic drawing, avant garde, Eliphas Levi, Kandinsky, Leonora Carrington, magick, Max Ernst, Nadia Choucha, occult, Occult Art, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Shamanism, Surrealism, Surrealism & The Occult, Theosophy
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Ithell Colquhoun
pioneer surrealist artist, occultist, writer and poet (reprinted) Eric Ratcliffe ——————————————————————- Ithell Colquhoun / UK / £30 ——————————————————————- Ithell Colquhoun / USA / US$40 ——————————————————————- Ithell Colquhoun pioneer surrealist artist, occultist, writer & poet Eric Ratcliffe Format: Softcover/312pp/90 illustrations (25 … Continue reading
Posted in Aleister Crowley & Thelema, Art, avant garde, Biography, Esotericism, London Occult Scene, TITLES
Tagged 1950s, alchemy, Alpha et Omega, Ancient Celtic Church, ancient stones, art, Art History, Artist, avant garde, Biography, Cheryl Straffon Editor Meyn Mamvro, Co-Freemasonry, Cornish and Breton Gorsedd, Cornish landscape, Cornwall, Dion Fortune, Dr WB Crow, drawings, Druid Order, Druidism, Earth Magic, Eric Ratcliffe, Fellowship of Isis, Fraternity of The Inner Light, Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn, Ithell Colquhoun, Kenneth Grant, London, magick, Moina Mathers, Nu-Isis Temple, occult, Occult Art, Order of the Holy Wisdom, Order of the Keltic Cross, Order of The Pyramid & Sphinx, OTO, paintings, pioneer surrealist artist occultist writer and poet, Poetry, sacred sites, Slade School of Art, Surrealism, Tamara Bourkhoun, The Living Stones, Theosophical circles, Typhonian OTO
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P is For Prostitution
An A-Z of a harsh life survived Charlotte Rodgers Illustrated by Ruth Ramsden P is for Prostitution An A to Z of a harsh life survived Charlotte Rodgers ISBN: 978-1-906958-26-8 £15.00 +P&P /US $24.00 +P&P Click HERE for UK Click … Continue reading
Posted in Counterculture, TITLES
Tagged abuse, addiction, adult neglect, adulthood, agencies, art, Asia, Australia, black comedy, bulimia, chaotic existence, Charlotte Rodgers, childhood, codes of behaviour, Counterculture, creativity, cruelty, cults of the ancestors, Death, early life, eating disorders, England, Europe, family, formative experiences, institutions, junkie, Memoirs, misfits, misogyny, New Zealand, nihilistic, P is For Prostitution An A-Z of a harsh life survived, psychiatric, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, psychosis, Ruth Ramsden, sexual norms, Spirituality, womanhood, writing
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RADICAL DESIRE
Kink & Magickal Sex Mark Ramsden & Ruth Ramsden (Erotica) (Fetish) (Non-Fiction) Radical Desire Kink & Magickal Sex Mark Ramsden & Ruth Ramsden Format: Softcover/140pp ISBN: 978-1-906958-19-0 £15.00 / US$24.00 Subjects: Erotica/Fetish/Tantra/Erotic Art/Non-Fiction UK edition USA & AUS editions – … Continue reading
Posted in Erotica, Sex Magick, Tantra, TITLES
Tagged art, Counterculture, Dark Tantra Prints, Dark Tantra Tarot, Erotic Art, erotic novel, Erotica, Fetish, Fetish magazine, Fetish Times, literary genre, literary novel, Mark Ramsden, mark ramsden ruth ramsden, Non-Fiction, Pauline Reage, piercings, Radical Desire: Kink & Magickal Sex, Ruth Ramsden, Skin Two, style, style guru, Tantra, Tantric sex, The Story of O, The Torture Garden
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The Apophenion
A Chaos Magic Paradigm Peter J. Carroll The Apophenion A Chaos Magic Paradigm Peter J. Carroll ISBN: 978-1869928650 Format: Softcover £15.00 / US$24 Subjects: Chaos Magic Click HERE for The Apophenion / USA Click HERE The Apophenion / UK Click … Continue reading
Posted in Chaos Magick, TITLES
Tagged Apophenia, art, Artist, Chaos Magick, Chaosphere, David Gough cover artwork, Occult Art, Peter J. Carroll, The Apophenion: A Chaos Magic Paradigm
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