People can be right buggers cant they? Ive just spent a week with no phoneline, no internet and no tv all because some sadistic rat bag (and thats putting my feelings about it very mildly!) decided to cut my connection wires to my home. Its unbelievable how low some people are and I have to wonder if they are indeed of the human species. But yes, Im back on now and trying to catch up on everything.
My personal library of occult books is still growing and Ive just taken delivery of a very interesting looking book this morning called 'Maat Magick: A Guide to Self-Initiation'by Nema. With Introduction by Kenneth Grant.
The blurb on the back of the book says that "Magick transcends the ability of organized religions to unite the soul with God, as it is an individual endeavor of direct experience, unmediated by an official priesthood, and independent of dogma, doctrine, and dependency on faith. Magick's initiations provide you with experience - not hearsay - and with knowledge instead of faith. Maat Magick is a form of, and a coninuation of, Thelemic Magick. Based on the formula of Love under will, Thelema was presented to the world by Aleister Crowley in the first half of the 20th century; its purpose - to destroy the corruption and decay brought about by the old formula of the Dying God. Maat Magick provides the next step, transforming the ashes and rubble of that destruction into a world society built on a new type of human. The riutals of Maat Magick are designed for the individual, though they may be adapted for group work. Nema (the author) leads the reader from the familiarity of physical reality through the uncharted transphysical realm and into truths that defy description. Maat Magick shows that you are your own best source for guidance and wisdom!
Another book I aquired recently is called 'The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge' by Jeremy Narby is on reading standby list too. The back blurb for this one is "While living among Peruvian Indians, anthropologist jeremy Narby became intrigued by their claim that their phenomenal knowledge of plants and biochemistry was communicated to them directly while under the ingluence of hallucinogens.
Despite his initial skepticism, Narby found himself engaged in an increasingly obsessive personal quest. The evidence he collected - on subjects as diverse as molecular biology, shamanism, neurology and ancient mythology - led inexorably to the conclusion that the Indians'claims were literally true: to a consciousness prepared with drugs, specific biochemical knowledge could indeed be directly transmitted through DNA itself. Narby demonstrates that indigenous and ancient peoples, from the Aborigines to the Egyptians, have known for mellenia about the double helix structure - something conventional science only discovered in 1953.
A gripping investigation that opens fresh perspectives on biology, anthropology and the limits of rationalism, The Cosmic Serpent is new science of the most exhilarating kind.
'Books such as Narby's are at the cutting edge of contemporary thought ... [The Cosmic Serpent] ought to be something of an intellectual cause celebre' ...Guardian."
Shame my reading speed is getting slower but my reading greed is getting bigger lol.
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