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Love Against Hate

ISBN: 9780156538923

83,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
One of America's leading psychiatrists analyzes the war of the emotions within each of us and shows how the power of love can shape our instinctual aggressiveness to the service of human happiness. Index.
The Oxford Book of Dreams

ISBN: 9780192803856

148,10 PLN (BRUTTO)
Dreams have been a source of delight and terror for as long as people have kept records of their thought. Whether dreams are the key to the unconscious, as Freud proposed, or a way of wiping clean the mental slate, as Dr. Francis Crick's theory suggests, they have filled the pages of numerous diaries and been an integral part of literary masterworks such as The Divine Comedy and Finnegan's Wake.
In this rich anthology, Stephen Brook has collected hundreds of dreams recorded by authors, poets, psycholog
A Dictionary of Superstitions

ISBN: 9780192806642

78,52 PLN (BRUTTO)
Is it good or bad luck to mention a pig to a fisherman? What does it portend when you break a double-yolked egg? Or when you witness a headless shadow? How many frogs do you need to cure whooping cough? And what's all this about black cats?
Ranging from the familiar to the bizarre, and including everything from spells and omens to rituals and taboos, this delightfully informative dictionary covers a wide array of popular superstitions, touching on virtually every aspect of human culture. They embrace fa
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft

ISBN: 9780192854490

83,79 PLN (BRUTTO)
Here is a book that brings witchcraft out of the shadows. The Triumph of the Moon is the first full-scale study of the only religion England has ever given the world--modern pagan witchcraft, otherwise known as wicca. Meticulously researched, it provides a thorough account of an ancient religion that has spread from English shores across four continents.
For centuries, pagan witchcraft has been linked with chilling images of blood rituals, ghostlike druids, and even human sacrifices. But while Robert H
Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times

ISBN: 9780195056655

169,91 PLN (BRUTTO)
Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "near-death" experiences have appeared in the past decade. People who have survived a close brush with death reveal their extraordinary visions and ecstatic feelings at the moment they died, describing journeys through a tunnel to a realm of light, visual reviews of their past deeds, encounters with a benevolent spirit, and permanent transformation after returning to life.
Carol Zaleski's Otherworld Journeys offers the most comprehensive tr
The Mystery of Numbers

ISBN: 9780195089196

126,84 PLN (BRUTTO)
Why is the number seven lucky--even holy--in almost every culture? Why do we speak of the four corners of the earth? Why do cats have nine lives (except in Iran, where they have seven)? From literature to folklore to private superstitions, numbers play a conspicuous role in our daily lives. But in this fascinating book, Annemarie Schimmel shows that numbers have been filled with mystery and meaning since the earliest times, and across every society.
In The Mystery of Numbers Annemarie Schimmel conducts
The End of Magic

ISBN: 9780195108798

441,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
Throughout history, magic has been as widely and passionately practiced as religion. But while religion continues to flourish, magic stumbles towards extinction. What is magic? What does it do? Why do people believe in magic? Ariel Glucklich finds the answers to these questions in the streets of Banaras, India's most sacred city, where hundreds of magicians still practice ancient traditions, treating thousands of Hindu and Muslim patients of every caste and sect. Through study and interpretation of the Bana
The End of Magic

ISBN: 9780195108804

277,62 PLN (BRUTTO)
Throughout history, magic has been as widely and passionately practiced as religion. But while religion continues to flourish, magic stumbles towards extinction. What is magic? What does it do? Why do people believe in magic? Ariel Glucklich finds the answers to these questions in the streets of Banaras, India's most sacred city, where hundreds of magicians still practice ancient traditions, treating thousands of Hindu and Muslim patients of every caste and sect. Through study and interpretation of the Bana
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World

ISBN: 9780195134827

169,95 PLN (BRUTTO)
In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. These curses or binding spells, commonly called defixiones were intended to bring other people under the power and control of those who commissioned them. More than a thousand such texts, written between the 5th Century B.C.E. and the 5th Century C.E., have been discovered from North Africa to England, and from Syria to Spain. Extending into
Coming to the Edge of the Circle: A Wiccan Initiation Ritual

ISBN: 9780195166453

223,78 PLN (BRUTTO)
Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo. Suddenly you hear the sounds of far-off singing and chanting, drums booming, rattles "snaking," voices raised inharmony. The casting of the Circle is complete. You are led to the edge of the Circle, where Death, your challenge, is waiting for you. With the passwords of "perfect love" and "perfect trust" you enter Death's realm. The G
Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World

ISBN: 9780195169416

137,65 PLN (BRUTTO)
Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern phenomenon, juxtaposed to distinctly modern models of religion and science. Yet this notion of magic has remained stubbornly amorphous.
In Making Magic, Randall Styers seeks to account for the extraordinary
Beyond the Roof of the World: Music, Prayer, and Healing in the Pamir Mountains

ISBN: 9780195367744

285,15 PLN (BRUTTO)
While Western medicine has conventionally separated music, science, and religion into distinct entities, traditional cultures throughout the world have always viewed music as a bridge that connects the physical with the spiritual. Now, as people in even the most technologically advanced nations across the globe struggle with obtaining affordable and reliable healthcare coverage, more and more people are turning to these ancient cultural practices of ICAM healing (integrative, complementary, and alternative
Plato's Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance

ISBN: 9780195388350

244,24 PLN (BRUTTO)
In its day, spiritualism brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to seance tables and trance lectures. It has alternately been ridiculed as the apogee of fatuous credulity and hailed as a feminist movement. Its tricks have been exposed, its charlatans unmasked, and its heroes' names lost to posterity. In its day, however, its leaders were household names and politicians worried about capturing the Spiritualist vote. Cathy Gutierrez places Spiritualism in the context of the 19th-century American Renaissan
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft

ISBN: 9780198207443

622,15 PLN (BRUTTO)
Here is a book that brings witchcraft out of the shadows. The Triumph of the Moon is the first full-scale study of the only religion England has ever given the world--modern pagan witchcraft, otherwise known as wicca. Meticulously researched, it provides a thorough account of an ancient religion that has spread from English shores across four continents.
For centuries, pagan witchcraft has been linked with chilling images of blood rituals, ghostlike druids, and even human sacrifices. But while Robert H
The Witches of Lorraine

ISBN: 9780198225829

694,28 PLN (BRUTTO)
Based on perhaps the richest surviving archive of witchcraft trials to be found in Europe, The Witches of Lorraine reveals the extraordinary stories held within those documents. They paint a vivid picture of life amongst the ordinary people of a small duchy on the borders of France and the Holy Roman Empire, and allow a very close analysis of the beliefs, social tensions, and behavior patterns underlying popular attitudes to witchcraft.
Intense persecution occurred in the period 1570-1630, but the focus
An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century: Samuel Jeake of Rye 1652-1699

ISBN: 9780198229629

665,21 PLN (BRUTTO)
A seventeenth-century merchant and nonconformist from Rye in Sussex, Samuel Jeake had a passionate interest in astrology. In his diary--recently recovered in Los Angeles and published here for the first time--Jeake not only recorded the events of his life; he subjected them to astrological scrutiny, interspersing his text with horoscopes. The result is one of the most interesting 17th-century diaries to be published in many years, throwing important light on the history of astrology, commerce, medicine, and
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande

ISBN: 9780198740292

148,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
Paganism: A Very Short Introduction

ISBN: 9780199235162

50,10 PLN (BRUTTO)
"Paganism" is an evocative word that even today conjures up deep-seated emotions and prejudices. Until recently, it was primarily a derogatory term used by Christians to describe the non-Christian cultures vanquished by their churches. For some it evokes images of sacrifice and barbaric behavior, while for others it symbolizes a peace-loving, nature-worshipping spiritual relationship with the earth. Written in a concise and lively style, this Very Short Introduction explores the meaning of the words "pagan"
Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction

ISBN: 9780199236954

50,10 PLN (BRUTTO)
Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all. Indeed, from childhood most of us develop some mental image of a witch--usually an old woman, mysterious and malignant. But why do witches still feature so heavily in our cultures and consciousness? From Halloween superstitions to literary references such as Faust and, of course, Harry Potter, witches seem ever-present in our lives. In this Very Short Introduction, Malcolm Gaskill takes a long historical perspective, from the ancient world to contemporary paga
Druids

ISBN: 9780199539406

50,10 PLN (BRUTTO)
The Druids have been known and discussed for at least 2400 years, first by Greek writers and later by the Romans, who came in contact with them in Gaul and Britain. According to these sources, they were a learned caste who officiated in religious ceremonies, taught the ancient wisdoms, and were revered as philosophers. But few figures flit so elusively through history, and the Druids remain enigmatic and puzzling to this day. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the leading authorities on British archaeo
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books

ISBN: 9780199590049

92,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
No books have been more feared than grimoires, and no books have been more valued and revered. In Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, Owen Davies illuminates the many fascinating forms these recondite books have taken and exactly what these books held. At their most benign, these repositories of forbidden knowledge revealed how to make powerful talismans and protective amulets, and provided charms and conjurations for healing illness, finding love, and warding off evil. But other books promised the power t
Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic

ISBN: 9780199750993

424,26 PLN (BRUTTO)
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. How can we account for this widespread interest in ancient magical belief systems?
In historical terms, 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 fi
Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic

ISBN: 9780199751006

141,75 PLN (BRUTTO)
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. How can we account for this widespread interest in ancient magical belief systems?
In historical terms, 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 fi
Extrasensory Perception

ISBN: 9780202362717

148,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
If extrasensory perception is a common human ability, why cant we all score high on ESP tests? This book answers the question by describing psychological determinants of success and failure in extrasensory perception. Some of the most significant points raised in the editors enlightening introduction are developed in greater detail in the nine essays that follow, all of them important statements giving a clear picture of research into ESP and the debate that surrounds it. Each essay is followed by a comment
Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age

ISBN: 9780226011462

137,65 PLN (BRUTTO)
This ground-breaking study reveals an unorganized and previously unacknowledged religion at the heart of American culture. Nature, Albanese argues, has provided a compelling religious center throughout American history.
The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations

ISBN: 9780226071527

77,36 PLN (BRUTTO)
For over thirty years, Stephen Braude has studied the paranormal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and psychokinesis to mediumship and materialization. "The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological Investigations" is a highly readable and often amusing account of his most memorable encounters with such phenomena. Here Braude recounts in fascinating detail five particular cases--some that challenge our most fundamental scientific beliefs and others that expose our own credulousness. Braude beg
Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend

ISBN: 9780226079790

94,16 PLN (BRUTTO)

Last August, two men in rural Georgia announced that they had killed Bigfoot. The claim drew instant, feverish attention, leading to more than 1,000 news stories worldwide--despite the fact that nearly everyone "knew" it was a hoax. Though Bigfoot may not exist, there's no denying Bigfoot mania.

With "Bigfoot," Joshua Blu Buhs traces the wild and wooly story of America's favorite homegrown monster. He begins with nineteenth-century accounts of wildmen roaming the forests of America, treks to the Himala

Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend

ISBN: 9780226079806

65,73 PLN (BRUTTO)
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance

ISBN: 9780226123165

137,65 PLN (BRUTTO)
It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. "Eros and Magic in the Renaissance" challenges this view, providing an in-depth scholarly explanation of the workings of magic and showing that magic continues to exist in an altered form even today.
Renaissance magic, according to Ioan Couliano, was a scientifically plausible attempt to manipulate individuals and groups b
Interpreting Maimonides: Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy

ISBN: 9780226259420

148,42 PLN (BRUTTO)
Lives of the Psychics Lives of the Psychics Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism the Shared Worlds of Science and Mystici

ISBN: 9780226265865

96,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
The daughter of a man about to leave on a trip wakes up crying during the night. She has just had a nightmare that his plane will crash. The father flies without incident to Spain, but the next day, the plane he has taken to Spain crashes and burns outside Malaga on its return trip to New York. Was the dream a premonition? Many people experience similar phenomena, ranging from extra-sensory perceptions all the way to near-death experiences on operating tables. Are these events evidence of the paranormal, or
Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath

ISBN: 9780226296937

116,12 PLN (BRUTTO)
Weaving early accounts of witchcraft--trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular ic
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred

ISBN: 9780226453866

164,57 PLN (BRUTTO)
Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred and by tracing that history through the last two centuries of Western thought we can see its potential centrality to the critic
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred

ISBN: 9780226453873

106,43 PLN (BRUTTO)
Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred and by tracing that history through the last two centuries of Western thought we can see its potential centrality to the critic
Satan's Rhetoric Satan's Rhetoric Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology a Study of Renaissance Demonology a Study of Renaissance Demonol

ISBN: 9780226501321

223,78 PLN (BRUTTO)
According to Christian theology, fallen angels share key similarities with human beings because they share our outcast condition. Cast to Earth and wandering in search of respite, their chief activity is their engagement and dialogue with humanity.
With this probing new contribution to the study of Christianity, Armando Maggi examines this dialogue, exploring how evil spirits interacted with mankind during the early modern period. Reading innumerable treatises on demonology written during the Renaissanc
The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern

ISBN: 9780226642017

103,20 PLN (BRUTTO)
By the end of the nineteenth century, Victorians were seeking rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud was developing his innovative models of the conscious and unconscious mind. And anthropologist James George Frazer was subjecting magic, myth, and ritual to systematic inquiry. Why, then, in this quintessentially modern moment, did late-Victorian and Edwardian men and women become absorbed by metaphy
The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern

ISBN: 9780226642048

126,89 PLN (BRUTTO)
By the end of the nineteenth century, Victorians were seeking rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud was developing his innovative models of the conscious and unconscious mind. And anthropologist James George Frazer was subjecting magic, myth, and ritual to systematic inquiry. Why, then, in this quintessentially modern moment, did late-Victorian and Edwardian men and women become absorbed by metaphy
The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England

ISBN: 9780226642055

126,89 PLN (BRUTTO)
A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era, "The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums--it's an exploration of the era's gender relations.
The hugely popular spiritualist movement, which maintained that women were uniquely qualified to commune with spirits of the dead, offered female mediums a new independence, authority, and potential to undermine conventiona
Water Witching U.S.A. Water Witching U.S.A. Water Witching U.S.A.

ISBN: 9780226862989

105,35 PLN (BRUTTO)
Despite advanced technology, the practice of water witching--using a forked stick to indicate an underground source of water--persists in both rural and urban areas. "Water Witching U.S.A." is a lively look at "dowsing," full of personal accounts, historical background, and data from controlled experiments and a nationwide survey. This study includes a collection of photographs, drawings, and historical woodcuts showing the tools, techniques, and early instances of dowsing, as well as cross-sectional views
Beyond the Horizon

ISBN: 9780227674123

93,51 PLN (BRUTTO)
A sincere and honest account of how the author became the recipient of messages by automatic writing, apparently from a recently deceased friend. She tells of her bewilderment at this completely puzzling and unsought phenomena, and after much hesitation her final acceptance of the experience. A reluctant medium, Grace Rosher was dedicated in her attempts to evaluate as objectively as she could the genuineness of the communications she has received. Including the evidence of a graphologist who pronounced the
The Supreme Adventure: Analyses of Psychic Communications

ISBN: 9780227676066

141,96 PLN (BRUTTO)
While religious faith, at least that which is of the orthodox type, appears to be on the decline and church attendance fall, the great experience of death which all men must undergo continues to intrigue many who seldom, if ever, cross the threshold of a church. In this meticulously compiled volume, Dr. Robert Crookall, an eminent scientist who is also a student of psychical research, has brought together, from a great many different sources, what appear to be the personal testimonies of the experiences of
Intimations of Immortality: 'Seeing' That Leads to 'Believing'

ISBN: 9780227676622

129,04 PLN (BRUTTO)
This book begins with some intriguing evidence in favour of the belief in survival. It consists of a study of the testimonies of people who, like Lazarus of Bethany, suffered suspended animation, or pseudo-death. The conclusions that were reached by over a hundred serious investigators of the problem of survival are reviewed. Of these investigators, including psychical researchers, psychologists, physicians, surgeons, physicists, lawyers, businessmen, authors, clergymen, etc, about eighty-one percent became
A Hand in Dialogue

ISBN: 9780227678411

114,50 PLN (BRUTTO)
Is this a record of a genuine communication between this world and the next' That is the question posed by this remarkable book. A man of sceptical nature, Anglican priest Charles Fryer responded to these experiences under paranormal influence with Christian honesty and intellectual integrity. His book is a record of the development of his paranormal faculty - the ability to receive, through the medium of 'automatic writing', communications from his dead father. These communications include a detailed recor
Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead

ISBN: 9780230507821

368,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
Why do the dead return? Are the dead lost to us for ever, or do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they persistently emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and in the works of thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and the psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. The book suggests that it may be as difficult for the living to get rid of the dead as it is to live without them.
The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England

ISBN: 9780230623873

88,99 PLN (BRUTTO)
In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones that rained upon a local tavern and appeared at random inside its walls. Town residents blamed what they called "Lithobolia" or "the stone-throwing devil." In this lively account, Emerson Baker shows how witchcraft hysteria overtook one town and spawned copycat incidents elsewhere in New Englan
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There. by Richard Wiseman

ISBN: 9780230752986

87,05 PLN (BRUTTO)
The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi

ISBN: 9780231082945

342,22 PLN (BRUTTO)

Used in China as a book of divination and source of wisdom for more than three thousand years, the "I Ching" has been taken up by millions of English-language speakers in the nineteenth century. The first translation ever to appear in English that includes one of the major Chinese philosophical commentaries, the Columbia "I Ching" presents the classic book of changes for the world today.

Richard Lynn's introduction to this new translation explains the organization of "The Classic of Changes" through th

The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi

ISBN: 9780231082952

83,69 PLN (BRUTTO)

Used in China as a book of divination and source of wisdom for more than three thousand years, the "I Ching" has been taken up by millions of English-language speakers in the nineteenth century. The first translation ever to appear in English that includes one of the major Chinese philosophical commentaries, the Columbia "I Ching" presents the classic book of changes for the world today.

Richard Lynn's introduction to this new translation explains the organization of "The Classic of Changes" through th

Samba in the Night: Spiritism in Brazil

ISBN: 9780231084321

344,37 PLN (BRUTTO)
Written as an informal first-person narrative, "Samba in the Night"is an absorbing account of an anthropologist's fieldwork and explorations into alternative religions in Brazil that invites the reader into the mysterious world of spirit mediums, poltergeists, psychic surgery, exorcism, and spiritual healing.

Hess provides colorful descriptions of rituals and at the same time weaves in a detective story about the complex relations between Spiritism and the rest of their world. Through a variety of anecdot

History of Magic and Experimental Science, Vol 1

ISBN: 9780231087940

835,32 PLN (BRUTTO)

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