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Positively Wyrd by Tom Graves |
This
is a personal development book with a difference - literally a weird one.
Starting with a new way of looking at an old word, it merges chaos theory
with transpersonal psychology to create something that's highly practical and
that gives new power and new direction to the everyday confusions of life. In Nordic
tradition, the word 'wyrd' - or 'weird' - meant much the same as 'fate'. Like
fate, it describes the fabric of our lives: yet we always have choice, though
there's always a twist that changes each one to something we don't expect.
It's those twists that give our wyrd its weirdness; yet the real weirdness is
that these 'messages from the wyrd' are always there to help us. We can
ignore them, and wait passively - fatalistically - for life to change: which
it probably never will. We can fight against them, try to wrest control of
our life from the Fates: only to discover that control itself is nothing more
than a myth. Or we can learn to work _with_ life's weirdnesses - and use
their help to weave the fabric of our fate into a new form of our choosing.
That's our choice: yet there's always that twist... It may seem a
weird way of working with the world, but unlike so many others, it's one that
_does_ work. With commonsense and clarity, with humour and humanity, and with
a strong emphasis on practice and personal experience, this book shows how to
develop an affinity for the natural weirdness of life - and to make life
positively wyrd. |
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Wyrd Allies by Tom Graves |
No
matter how hard we try, we can never control our relationships with others.
Whether those relationships are personal or professional, social or familial,
there's always a hint of chaos and confusion. And sometimes it can seem that
life goes in circles and cycles: the faces and places may be different, but
in some weird way a different relationship can seem very familiar... Merging
ancient mythology and modern chaos theory with the subtle insights of
transpersonal psychology, this book shows how we can work _with_ the
weirdness - the wyrd - in our relationships, moving beyond the chaos of
control and manipulation, and towards a way of relating which empowers
everyone. Here we learn how every person can be our ally - whatever it may
seem on the surface - and every relationship can be a way of finding out more
about our wyrd purpose in life. |
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SSOTBME by Ramsey Dukes available
direct from publisher as paperback or electronic book |
"The book that put the magic back in magic"
Gerald Suster - First published in 1974, SSOTBME immediately established
itself as a seminal text of the magical revival. The book became an essential
text for the Chaos Magic current as well as was a significant influence upon
the later New Age movement. Long since out of print, SSOTBME is now available
as an internet edition. It has been brought right up to date and enlarged
with additional commentary to over 150 pages by Ramsey Dukes. |
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SSOTBME
Polish Edition |
103 pages
including over 25 illustrations by Austin O Spare and special |
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Healing language and colour imagery by Dave Evans free
of charge electronic book |
A psychological field
study of spiritual healers carried out in 1998. It came from the starting
point of watching healers at work, and their decisions to use particular
colour visualisations to treat particular conditions. This was paralleled to
the standard diagnostic methods and treatments schedules that the average
Medical Doctor would (or should) use - e.g. all doctors trained in western
clinical medicine, when presented with a patient showing a high temperature
and a swollen, painful, foul-smelling deep leg wound should diagnose it as
something akin to gangrene and prescribe antibiotics. If one doctor were to
prescribe a laxative, or perhaps an eye-patch for such a case it would be
highly unusual (and probably later actionable by the grieving family’s lawyer);
and indicate that they were operating from a very different diagnostic scheme
from their colleagues. Some healers are believed to base therapy on coherent
systems that associate “aura” colours with disease states, and corresponding
colour visualisations with treatment. This small study devised a means to
test for the existence of any such consistent and coherent scheme across a
group of five different healers; it also tested the coherence and consistency
of each individual healer’s method over several months. |
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