Magia Seu Ritual Poder E Objetivo

O objetivo do mágico genuíno, diz W.E. Butler, deve perceber aquele Eu Verdadeiro do qual sua personalidade terrena é apenas a máscara. Neste livro pode ser encontrada uma explicação notavelmente concisa dos antigos usos, rituais e verdadeiros objetivos da Magia. O autor varre a confusão causada por muitos conceitos errôneos e examina a história da magia, desde a velha religião dos tempos pré-cristãos até as descobertas da psicologia moderna. E é, diz ele, com a escola moderna de psicologia, particularmente a junguiana, que o mágico encontra seu vínculo mais próximo com o pensamento moderno. Já que o autor está escrevendo para o homem ocidental, ele não está preocupado com os sistemas mágicos orientais, mas explica aqui a Tradição Ocidental da Magia. Essa tradição incorpora os ensinamentos e as práticas que foram transmitidos desde a antiguidade, sendo a filosofia central sobre a qual ela depende o corpus da sabedoria mística hebraica conhecida como Cabala. A magia, longe de ser uma superstição irracional, é baseada em profundas leis psicológicas e possui sua própria técnica especial. Embora reprimida ao longo dos tempos no mundo ocidental, ela nunca deixou de existir e, de tempos em tempos, emergiu em diferentes formas - uma das mais notáveis ​​na Grã-Bretanha sendo a Ordem da Golden Dawn , que ainda existe e perpetua as tradições mágicas ocidentais. Este livro constitui um guia preliminar muito útil para qualquer estudo em profundidade desse assunto reconhecidamente vasto.

Para se tornar uma bruxa, você não precisa de ritual de iniciação, poderes especiais ou ingredientes místicos – só precisa despertar a magia que existe em você e no mundo à sua volta. Este livro vai ensinar você a preparar feitiços e amuletos, energizar cristais, neutralizar energias negativas, aguçar sua intuição e se abrir para o universo fascinante da bruxaria. E você pode fazer tudo isso com itens que tem em casa, como temperos, velas, incensos, pedras, etc. Ao conectar o seu poder interior com a energia da natureza, você vai aprender a usar essa força para transformar seu dia a dia, adicionando autoconsciência, autocuidado e um toque de magia a tudo que faz.

In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice.As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports."

Written by Grant Morrison; Art by Steve Yeowell, Jill Thompson and others Throughout history, a secret society called the Invisibles, who count among their number Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, work against the forces of order that seek to repress humanity's growth. In this first collection, the Invisibles latest recruit, a teenage lout from the streets of London, must survive a bizarre, mind-altering training course before being projected into the past to help enlist the Marquis de Sade.

From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

João do Rio (1881-1921) was a literary journalist before his time, before the term existed, before anyone saw that journalism could be raised to the level of art by infusing it with intellecual insight and sociological analysis. He went wherever necessary to observe life as Rio de Janeiro struggled to enter the 20th century while clinging to its traditional imperial politics and lifestyle. He flaunted his homosexuality a century before it became socially acceptable. Here, for the first time in English, are João do Rio's reports on the bizarre confluence of European, North American, and African religions that found adherents in Rio de Janeiro. Candomblé, Spiritism, Positivism, Satanism, Judaism, the Cult of the Sea, the New Jerusalem, the Physiolaters, the Priestesses, the Evangelicals...they all fell under his scrutiny. Ana Lessa-Schmidt's translation of As Religiões no Rio, brilliant and true to the original, brings João do Rio's insight and revelations to full light. Just as João do Rio took readers down the dark streets of the low-life and into dark houses of worship, Lessa-Schmidt's translation takes readers into one of the world's most glorious and mysterious cities during its post-imperial heyday at the turn of the 20th century. This bilingual edition is in Portuguese and English.

The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.