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  The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship (Toltec Wisdom Book)

  by Miguel Ruiz

  In The Mastery of Love, don Miguel illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in our relationships. Using insightful stories to bring his message to life, he shows us how to heal our emotional wounds, recover the freedom and joy that are our birthright, and restore the spirit of playfulness that is vital to loving relationships. Using teachings from the... (more)
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  Myths to Live By

  by Joseph Campbell

  The brilliant author of The Masks of God shares his ideas and speculations on our universal myths, in a fascinating, very personal work which explores the enduring power of the myths that influence our lives and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present.
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  Lost Christianities/ Lost Scriptures

  by Bart D. Ehrman

  The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look... (more)
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  Buckland's Complete Book Of Witchcraft (Llewellyn's Practical Magick)

  by Raymond Buckland

  Here is the most complete self-study course in modern Wicca available, written by the person who first went public with "The Old Religion" in the United States. For group or solitary use, it includes rituals; exercises for developing psychic talents; information on all major "sects" of the Craft; sections on tools, beliefs, dreams, meditations, divination, herbal lore, healing, ritual clothing; and much, much... (more)
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  Why People Believe Weird Things

  by Michael Shermer

  Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find... (more)
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  Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger

  by Robert Anton Wilson, Malaclypse

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  Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

  by Margot Adler

  Now fully revised—the classic study of Neo-Paganism Almost thirty years since its original publication, Drawing Down the Moon continues to be the only detailed history of the burgeoning but still widely misunderstood Neo-Pagan subculture. Margot Adler attended ritual gatherings and interviewed a diverse, colorful gallery of people across the United States, people who find inspiration in ancient... (more)
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  2007 Magical Almanac (Llewellyn's Magical Almanac)

  by Llewellyn

  Recapture the magic of everyday living, and hearken back to the old ways with this eclectic treasury of folklore, spells, and practical how-tos. This year's edition emphasizes daily magic and features a dazzling array of articles (over fifty in all) on air magic, banishing rituals, Beltane recipes, color magic, earth magic, fire magic, household rituals, kitchen witchery, magical gardening, signs and sigils, water... (more)
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  Egyptian Religion: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life (Arkana S.)

  by E. A. Wallis Budge

  The ancient Egyptians worshipped fish and monkeys, snakes and crocodiles. They had gods for every province, town and village and even for individual families. This book makes clear that the immense variety of Egyptian deities never excluded a firm belief in a single almighty Sun-god Ra.
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  By Oak, Ash, & Thorn (Llewellyn's Celtic Wisdom)

  by Anna-Marie Ferguson, D. J. Conway

  Take one part of the world''s oldest spiritual system (shamanism), mix in one part of one of the world''s most popular spiritual cultures (the Celts), and bring it up to date by blending in modern forms of shamanism. The result is one of the most amazing books you''ll ever use, D. J. Conway''s By Oak, Ash, & Thorn . This book is filled with information that can start you on a lifetime of study,... (more)
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  Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions

  by James Randi

  In this book, Randi explores and exposes what he believes to be the outrageous deception that has been promoted widely in the media. Unafraid to call researchers to account for their failures and impostures, Randi tells us that we have been badly served by scientists who have failed to follow the procedures required by their training and traditions. Here, he shows us how what he views as sloppy research has been... (more)
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  The Witches' God: Lord of the Dance

  by Stewart Farrar, Janet Farrar

  Exploring the Masculine Principle of Divinity This companion volume to The Witches' Goddess re-establishes the ancient balance between God and Goddess. Part I covers the many concepts of the God examined, including: His faces throughout history; The Son/Lover God; The Vegetation God; The War God; The Anti-God; and more Part II gives a close look at 12 individual gods of history with an appropriate invoking ritual... (more)
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  Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.

  by Samuel Noah Kramer

  Book Description: "The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who lived in southern Babylonia from 4000-3000 B.C.E. They invented cunieform writing, and their spiritual beliefs influenced all successive Near Eastern religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They produced an extensive body of literature, among the oldest in the world. Samuel Noah Kramer spent most of his life studying... (more)
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  The Chalice & The Blade: Our History, Our Future

  by Riane Tennenhaus Eisler

  The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- The Chalice and the Blade has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping cultures from our prehistoric past.
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  Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani

  by E. A. Wallis Budge

  The history of the great body of religious compositions which form the Book of the Dead, translated by Wallis Budge
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  Will Storr vs. The Supernatural: One Man's Search for the Truth About Ghosts

  by Will Storr

  Will Storr has done some seriously bizarre and otherworldly things over the course of his career as a journalist. But even spending an entire day with Ozzy Osbourne wasn't as frightening as when he agreed to follow Philadelphia "demonologist" Lou Gentile on his appointed rounds. Will Storr never believed in ghosts—but his healthy skepticism couldn't explain the strange lights and sounds he witnessed, and the weird... (more)
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  365 Goddess: A Daily Guide to the Magic and Inspiration of the Goddess

  by Patricia Telesco

  The wisdom of hundreds of goddesses from all around the world, symbolising love, fertility, healing, peace, and more, are revealed and honoured in the pages of 365 Goddess, a daily guide to drawing on the ancient feminine aspects of the divine for inspiration, empowerment, and spiritual sustenance. A compact and irresistible volume, it is the ideal gift for goddess fans and anyone looking for new ways to celebrate... (more)
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  Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East

  by David Adams Leeming

  Here, David Leeming offers the first comprehensive narrative study of the mythology of the Middle East. Leeming offers an in-depth discussion of the mythology of the region, covering individual pantheons, cosmic myths, mythic heroes, and much more. He ranges from prehistoric figures such as the Mother Goddess of Catal Huyuk to Mesopotamian gods such as Marduk and mythic heroes such as Gilgamesh, to the pantheon of... (more)