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Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA groundbreaking book that explores how astrology can inform our understanding of the events that have shaped our world—the inspiration for the docuseries Changing of the Gods. In these pages, [...]
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Micea Eliade – Images and Symbols : Studies in Religious Symboli…
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMircea Eliade–one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic–shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before [...]
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Mircea Eliade – The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and Histo…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making [...]
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Charles Simic – Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting […]
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Crop Circles: A Beginner’s Guide
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCrop circles are mysterious markings that have been found on farmland worldwide, ranging from simple circles to elaborate formations. This Beginner’s Guide explores the history of crop [...]
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Calvin Tomkins – Lives of the Artists
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor more than four decades Calvin Tomkins’s incisive profiles in The New Yorker have given readers the most satisfying reports on contemporary art and artists available in any language. In [...]
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Francette Pacteau – The Symptom of Beauty
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor a woman in the Western world, there is no escaping beauty. Either she possesses it, or she lacks it. If she lacks it, she may hope to gain it. […]
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Dane Rudhyar – Occult Preparations for a New Age
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIntriguing work by the French astrologer/spiritualist. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear […]
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Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Write…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAs these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne [...]
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Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn extensive examination of the history of gnosticism and how its philosophy has influenced the Western esoteric tradition. Gnosticism was a contemporary of early Christianity, and its demise can [...]
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Jean Houston – The Passion of Isis and Osiris
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Passion of Isis and Osiris, Jean Houston, internationally renowned philosopher, psychologist, and explorer of world myth, takes us deep into the mysteries of Egypt, land of the ancient [...]
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Sacred Places: A Journey into the Holiest Lands
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTakes readers on a tour of the world’s most sacred sights while tracing the earliest religious rituals and traditions of each area, including Stonehenge, the Kali Temple in Calcutta, and [...]
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Mircea Eliade – The Sacred & The Profane
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane or secular, they still at times find themselves connected [...]
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Jean Baudrillard – The Conspiracy of Art
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes “War Porn,” on Abu Ghraib as a new genre of reality TV. The images [...]
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Craig Owens – Beyond Recognition : Representation, Power, and Cu…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPerhaps more than any other recent writer, Craig Owens explored the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. His familiarity with the New York art world and […]
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Andre Bazin – The Cinema Of Cruelty
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPerhaps the single most important voice of cinema in the twentieth century, André Bazin profoundly influenced the development of the scholarship that we know now as film criticism. Bazin has […]
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Henry Corbin – The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsClassic work on Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist school of Persian Sufism by renowned philosopher and Iranologist Henry Corbin. In the Sufism of ancient Iran, the quest for the dawning of light in [...]
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Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGnosticism developed alongside Judeo-Christianity over two thousand years ago, but with an important difference: It emphasizes, not faith, but direct perception of God–Gnosticism being [...]
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Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah [...]
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Walter Burkert – Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in …
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWe often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there […]
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The Still Point: Reflections on Zen and Christian Mysticism
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIt is surely a significant manifestation of the permanence of the soul’s quest for God that the Western world, at a time when human values, principles, and ideals are being […]
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Jacques Derrida – Dissemination
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the [...]
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Idries Shah – The Sufis
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIdries Shah’s The Sufis is the most authoritative book about Sufism ever produced for a modern audience. This definitive work explores an immemorial wisdom tradition best-known for its [...]
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Colin Wilson – Poetry and Mysticism
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe mystic’s moment of illumination shares with great poetry the liberating power of the deepest levels of consciousness. In the words of William Blake, “If the doors of perception [...]
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Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, an…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn his classic study The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell conducted us on a fascinating global tour, showing how the seeds of myth grew in a similar fashion throughout the […]
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John Keay – The Spice Route: A History
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage, The Spice Route transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth.The Spice Route […]
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From Black Land To Fifth Sun: The Science Of Sacred Sites
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the Nile’s black land to the Aztec’s world of the Fifth Sun, from the shrines at Phylakopi to the Maya ceremonial center of Xunantunich, sophisticated scientific techniques have [...]
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Camille Paglia – Sex, Art And American Culture
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA collection of twenty of Paglia’s out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America’s ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the [...]
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Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFor many ancient societies, the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets constituted an elaborate language, expressing the intentions of the spiritual forces they believed ruled the world. [...]
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George L. Hersey – Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the B…
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe age of the Baroque—a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics—witnessed the construction of some of the world’s most magnificent buildings. What did the work of […]
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Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to the Adena and Ohio…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMounds and earthworks are the most conspicuous elements of prehistoric Native American culture to be found on the landscape of eastern North America. This book, now in its seventh printing, […]
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The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThough its roots are in Hinduism, tantra’s goals are the universal ones of self-knowledge and liberated joy. Its methods and effects transcend geography and era, and can be applied to […]
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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1995, to honor the role of Central Europe in the spiritual history of the West, the New York Open Center invited students of Rosicrucianism and the Western Mystery traditions […]
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Mysticism: The Preeminent Study in the Nature and Development of Spiri…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFirst published in 1911, Mysticism remains the classic in its field and was lauded by The Princeton Theological Review as “brilliantly written [and] illuminated with numerous well-chosen [...]
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Jacques Derrida – Of Grammatology
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJacques Derrida’s revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American [...]
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Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Co…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The various and contradictory signs of English otherworldliness offered medieval writers a remarkably elastic medium with which to construct national identity…. Above all, the [...]
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Daniel Pinchbeck – Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While […]
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The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagin…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIbn al-‘Arabi is still known as “the Great Sheik” among the surviving Sufi orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has become famous in the West as the greatest mystical thinker […]
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Josef Albers – Interaction of Color: Revised Edition
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe masterworks of one of the most influential teacher-artists of the twentieth century, originally published as a limited, boxed edition in 1963, was conceived as a guide and teaching aid […]
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Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDespite the long and well-known history of conflict between Christians and Muslims, their mystical traditions especially in the Christian East and in Sufism, have shared for centuries many of the [...]
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Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe mandala appears in many forms – painted, made of sand, modelled three-dimensionally or constructed completely in the mind of the meditator. This volume presents the art and philosophy [...]
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Nothingness and Emptiness: A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis sustained and distinctively Buddhist challenge to the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness resolves the incoherence implicit in the Sartrean conception of nothingness [...]
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The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through Jung’s Mysterium Coniu…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book is a section by section commentary on Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis. Alchemy is a confusing topic by itself. Jung’s interpretation of it is highly nuanced and can easily be [...]
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Carl E. Schorske – Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political […]
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Astrology in the Renaissance: The Zodiac of Life
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA survey of the importance and place of astrology in the Renaissance, in the context of magic, Platonism and hermeticism. The book also includes charts of astrology of the period. […]
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Forests of The Vampire
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOf all the peoples who fought for supremacy on the vast eastern European plains, the Slavs have proved the most enduring. They spread out from homelands beyond the Carpathian Mountains, […]
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John F. Michell – The New View Over Atlantis
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe View Over Atlantis, John Michell’s unrivaled introduction to megalithic science, earth mysteries, and the inner meaning of number and measure, was described by Colin Wilson as [...]
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Annemarie Schimmel – Mystical Dimensions of Islam
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism — Islamic mysticism — from its beginnings through the [...]
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Yantra: The Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe yantra is both a complex metaphysical symbol and a tool of ritual and meditation. In kundalini yoga, the patterns contained in this metaphysical and geometrical construct correspond to the [...]
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Hans Jonas – The Gnostic Religion
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHans Jonas’s deep exploration into Gnosis as a belief system. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the […]
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