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  • Terence McKenna – Food Of The Gods
    Terence McKenna – Food Of The Gods
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    Ethnobotanist Terence Mckenna, hailed by Tom Robbins as “the most important—and most entertaining—visionary scholar in America,” explores humanity’s symbiotic relationship with spirits, tobacco, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Reginald Bakeley – On Gnoming
    Reginald Bakeley – On Gnoming
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    “On Gnoming”: Phooka editor Reginald Bakeley outlines the principles of hunting and cooking these small, malignant, and particularly tasty woodland creatures. A sidebar on defenses against trolls [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Reginald Bakeley – Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop
    Reginald Bakeley – Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop
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    “Goblinproofing One’s Chicken Coop”: Another classic from Reginald Bakeley. In this essay, Reg spends some time at his Welsh farm making sure the henhouse is safe from goblins and their […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Riddle Of The Sphinx: The Artist’s Path And The Secrets Of Immortality
    The Riddle Of The Sphinx: The Artist’s Path And The Secrets Of I…
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    The Artist’s Path and the Secrets of Immortality A Fiddler’s Green Leaflet by Clint Marsh & Adrienne Rozzi 16 pages, 4 illustrations, and copper foil leaf logo on the cover […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Umberto Eco – The Limits of Interpretation
    Umberto Eco – The Limits of Interpretation
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    Umberto Eco focuses here on what he once called “the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation”―that is, the belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of texts, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • C. G. Jung: A Biography in Books
    C. G. Jung: A Biography in Books
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    In 1912, C. G. Jung wrote, “Should it happen that all traditions in the world were cut off with a single blow, the whole mythology and history of religion would […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Steven Mithen – After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC
    Steven Mithen – After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-500…
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    20,000 BC, the peak of the last ice age―the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hans Belting – The Invisible Masterpiece
    Hans Belting – The Invisible Masterpiece
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    The ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. By means of this metaphor borrowed from […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
    The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
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    A pre-cursor to contemporary chemistry and physics, alchemy began as the pursuit of knowledge, initially in China as a search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Place of the Song-Dream: The Animal Spirituality of Kenneth Grahame
    The Place of the Song-Dream: The Animal Spirituality of Kenneth Graham…
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    A Fiddler’s Green Leaflet by Clint Marsh & Timothy Renner 12 pages, 2 illustrations, and copper foil leaf logo on the cover A missing child prompts two friends to set […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Percival Dwight – Regarding Fairy Phlegm
    Percival Dwight – Regarding Fairy Phlegm
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    “Regarding Fairy Phlegm”: Gordon Murphy is believed to have found the world’s first specimen of a “bogie’s bogie.” Percival Dwight interviews Murphy about his unique possession and summarizes the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Exploding The Tangerine: A Sky Person’s Guide To Battle Magic
    Exploding The Tangerine: A Sky Person’s Guide To Battle Magic
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    A Shy Person’s Guide to Battle Magic A Fiddler’s Green Leaflet by Clint Marsh & Oliver Bly 12 pages, 2 illustrations, and copper foil leaf logo on the cover Magical […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Enchantment Dismantled: Superstition And The Thinking Irrationalist
    Enchantment Dismantled: Superstition And The Thinking Irrationalist
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    Superstition and the Thinking Irrationalist A Fiddler’s Green Leaflet by Clint Marsh & Kelly Patton 12 pages, 4 illustrations, and copper foil leaf logo on the cover Have you ever […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Communicating Vessels: Look At Those Fish
    Communicating Vessels: Look At Those Fish
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    Covering the great wild beyond, the sea & more! Zine is in Like New condition and shows very light general wear. *Image in the listing is stock. There may be […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • C.G Jung – Psychology and the East
    C.G Jung – Psychology and the East
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    Extracted from Volumes 10, 11, 13, and 18. Includes Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower, Psychological Commentary on The Tibetan Book of the Dead and The Tibetan Book […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hillel Schwartz – Century’s End : An Orientation Manual for Futurists
    Hillel Schwartz – Century’s End : An Orientation Manual fo…
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    A “Future Shock” for the turn of the century, Century’s End contains a rich trove of facts that will delight readers whose job it is to know what moods will […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lovecraft: A Study In The Fantastic
    Lovecraft: A Study In The Fantastic
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    Maurice Lévy’s book is a penetrating analysis of the themes running through the works of H. P. Lovecraft, the writer of horror and supernatural fiction. Broader than a thematic study, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lucy R. Lippard – Mixed Blessings : New Art in a Multicultural America
    Lucy R. Lippard – Mixed Blessings : New Art in a Multicultural A…
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    In America today there is a little-known explosion of creative art by women and men from many different ethnic backgrounds. Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the crosscultural […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Lost Language of Symbolism: An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies
    The Lost Language of Symbolism: An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain …
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    The Lost Language of Symbolism by Harold Bayley is a comprehensive exploration of the hidden meanings and symbolism behind various symbols and images found in art, literature, and mythology. The [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Antero Alli – The Akashic Record Player: A Non-Stop Geomantic Conspiracy
    Antero Alli – The Akashic Record Player: A Non-Stop Geomantic Co…
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    Amidst a wild confluence of interlocking conspiracies, the Temple of Erisian Deities prepare their next home invasion ritual in Boulder CO while a charismatic publisher of esoteric books in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Mythic Imagination: The Quest for Meaning Through Personal Mythology
    The Mythic Imagination: The Quest for Meaning Through Personal Mytholo…
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    Mythology is the universal tongue of human imagination. As a tool for self-discovery, mythology is also a way of gaining access to the secrets of the psyche. The Mythic Imagination […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
    Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Li…
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    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner’s Handbook tells the amazing story of William James’s quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world. What if [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
    Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
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    At a time when violence threatens to become epidemic and genocide takes the place of diplomacy in many regions of the world, it is no longer enough to simply dismiss […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Seven Story Tower: A Mythic Journey Through Space and Time
    The Seven Story Tower: A Mythic Journey Through Space and Time
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    From the white stag to the green knight, The Seven Story Tower examines how myth colors our perception of history, nature, and ourselves. Organized around seven key myths-representing the Irish, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)
    Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)
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    “In its breadth of vision and seriousness of purpose, the series leaves little room for complaint or cavil…An editorial program of real vision; series like this are what makes [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robert Silverberg – The Mound Builders
    Robert Silverberg – The Mound Builders
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    In Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio River Valley alone. The Mound Builders traces the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection
    The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrecti…
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    In the tradition of Jungian analysis, a psychiatrist and an anthropologist explore the meanings and manifestations of death through ritual, religion and myth.The knowledge that he must die is the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Harry C James – Pages from Hopi History
    Harry C James – Pages from Hopi History
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    “More than half a century of contact between the author and the Hopi people has resulted in an unusual opportunity for long informative talks with friends from the villages. These […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth
    The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the …
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    The priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft, and all the institutions of their [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
    Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
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    A survey of five centuries of writings on the world’s great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bill Viola – Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House : Writings 1973-1994
    Bill Viola – Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House : Writings 1…
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    Chosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internationally for his work in video […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Eliphas Levi – The History Of Magic
    Eliphas Levi – The History Of Magic
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    The History of Magic (1913) is an extensive work on the origins of ceremonial magic throughout the world’s many cultures and religions. Written by mystic and occultist Éliphas Lévi and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Wollen – Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture
    Peter Wollen – Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Cent…
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    Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mircea Eliade – Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
    Mircea Eliade – Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
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    Originally published as From Primitives to Zen, this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. Here are colorful [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julian Stallabrass – High Art Lite
    Julian Stallabrass – High Art Lite
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    The recent controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Sensation! Show has further inflated the already burgeoning media profiles of British artists like Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Sarah [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity
    Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and th…
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    Transhumanism is an international movement that advocates the use of science and technology to overcome the “natural” limitations experienced by humanity through such developments as: [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Calvin Thomkins – Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time
    Calvin Thomkins – Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art …
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    Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at Rauschenberg’s painting Double [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture
    The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self…
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    Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy
    Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy
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    “Edinger has greatly enriched my understanding of psychology through the avenue of alchemy. No other contribution has been as helpful as this for revealing, in a word, the anatomy of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Maurice Nadeau – The History of Surrealism
    Maurice Nadeau – The History of Surrealism
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    “I believe,” André Breton said, “in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality–in appearance so contradictory–in a sort of absolute reality, or [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Herbert Silberer – Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts
    Herbert Silberer – Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Ar…
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    This thoughtful study, which antedates the work of Jung by a generation, represents the first serious attempt to correlate the methods of psychoanalysis with the literature of alchemy and of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Daniel C. Noel – The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imaginal Realities
    Daniel C. Noel – The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imagi…
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    From the Merlin of Arthurian romances to Mircea Eliade’s academic researches, from Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan to the archetypal images of Carl Jung, the figure of the shaman has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Qabalah: Secret Tradition of the West
    The Qabalah: Secret Tradition of the West
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    Papus (Dr. Ge’rard Encausse 1865-1916) was one of the great occultists of France, and was instrumental in developing and popularizing Eliphas Levi’s earlier suggestions of a link [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nigel Pennick – Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance of Ancient Scripts Including Runes, Greek, Ogham, Hebrew and Alchemical Alphabets
    Nigel Pennick – Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance …
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    Using the premise that languages and the alphabets that comprise them are metaphorical microcosms of our world, Nigel Pennick demonstrates how various alphabets function as a metaphysical [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gaston Bachelard – Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement
    Gaston Bachelard – Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination o…
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    Bachelard uses his extensive knowledge of the poetry of Poe, Blake, Shelley, and Nietzsche to amplify the images of the airy elements. THE BACHELARD TRANSLATIONS are the inspiration of Joanne [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mike Jay – The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius
    Mike Jay – The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments o…
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    The stranger-than-fiction story of the Enlightenment visionaries who discovered the unexpected effects of inhaling nitrous oxide. At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, England, founded in the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paracelsus: Selected Writings
    Paracelsus: Selected Writings
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    The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
    Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
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    Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature
    The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature
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    The Serpent and the Swan is a history and analysis of animal bride tales from antiquity to the present. The animal bride tale, the author argues, is an enduring expression […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jacques Derrida – The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
    Jacques Derrida – The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyo…
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    17 November 1979 You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction