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Personal Religion and Spiritual Healing
(February 2019)
The Panacea Society in the Twentieth Century
Alastair Lockhart - Author
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A unique historical study of the personal nature of religion, spirituality, and healing in the twentieth century based on the letters of ordinary people from around the world.
The Panacea Society was a small religious community of women that was established in England in the early twentieth century. They followed the early nineteenth-century mystic Joanna Southcott, as well other emerging spiritual movements of the day, and deve...(Read More) |
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The Problem of Disenchantment
(June 2018)
Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939
Egil Asprem - Author
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Challenges the conventional view of a “disenchanted” and secular modernity, and recovers the complex relation that exists between science, religion, and esotericism in the modern world.
Max Weber famously characterized the ongoing process of intellectualization and rationalization that separates the natural world from the divine (by excluding magic and value from the realm of science, and reason and fact from the re...(Read More) |
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Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato
(May 2018)
Sara Ahbel-Rappe - Author
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Argues that Socrates’s fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge.
In this highly original and provocative book, Sara Ahbel-Rappe argues that the Platonic dialogues contain an esoteric Socrates who signifies a profound commitment to self-knowledge and whose appearances in the dialogues are meant to foster the practice of self-inquiry. According to Ahbel-Rappe, the elenchus, or ...(Read More) |
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Invisible Hosts
(September 2017)
Performing the Nineteenth-Century Spirit Medium's Autobiography
Elizabeth Schleber Lowry - Author
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Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit mediums’ autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian-era America.
Invisible Hosts explores how the central tenets of Spiritualism influenced ways in which women conceived of their bodies and their civic responsibilities, arguing that Spiritualist ideologies helped to lay the foundation for the social and political advances made by women in the la...(Read More) |
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Platonic Mysticism
(September 2017)
Contemplative Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Art
Arthur Versluis - Author
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Restores the Platonic history and context of mysticism and shows how it helps us understand more deeply the humanities as a whole, from philosophy and literature to art.
In Platonic Mysticism, Arthur Versluis clearly and tautly argues that mysticism must be properly understood as belonging to the great tradition of Platonism. He demonstrates how mysticism was historically understood in Western philosophical and religious...(Read More) |
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Upstate Cauldron
(June 2015)
Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State
Joscelyn Godwin - Author
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Bronze Medalist 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast – Best Regional Non-Fiction Category
HONORABLE MENTION 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Religion Category
A guide to the phenomenal crop of prophets, cults, and utopian communities that arose in Upstate New York f...(Read More) |
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Talking to the Gods
(May 2015)
Occultism in the Work of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune
Susan Johnston Graf - Author
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Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Talking to the Gods explores the linkages between the imaginative literature and the occult beliefs and practices of four writers who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. William Butler Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune were all members of the occult organi...(Read More) |
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From Modernity to Cosmodernity
(January 2014)
Science, Culture, and Spirituality
Basarab Nicolescu - Author
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Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.
The quantum, biological, and information revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries should have thoroughly changed our view of reality, yet the old viewpoint based on classical science remains dominant, reinforcing a notion of a rational, mechanistic world that allows for endless ...(Read More) |
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Arguing with Angels
(May 2012)
Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture
Egil Asprem - Author
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An exploration of John Dee’s Enochian magic of angel contact, its reinterpretation over the years, and its endurance to the present day.
This fascinating work explores John Dee’s Enochian magic and the history of its reception. Dee (1527–1608/9), an accomplished natural philosopher and member of Queen Elizabeth I’s court, was also an esoteric researcher whose diaries detail years of convers...(Read More) |
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Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival
(January 2011)
Christopher McIntosh - Author
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A searching study of Eliphas Lévi and the French occult revival.
This classic study of the French magician Eliphas Lévi and the occult revival in France is at last available again after being out of print and highly sought after for many years. Its central focus is Lévi himself (1810–1875), would-be priest, revolutionary socialist, utopian visionary, artist, poet, and, above all, autho...(Read More) |
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