The Ship of Thought: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Learning (The Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Barford, Duncan

Mental Health

Routledge

Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford, two experienced magicians, present an uncensored record of their activities over the course of a year. In their ongoing effort to unleash magick from the dead-end of extreme post-modernism and re-invigorate the notion of 'The Great Work', the authors climb onto the ladder of enlightenment and haul themselves across the abyss, detailing their techniques and experiences as they go. This compendium of articles, essays, dialogues and magickal rituals contains all you need to replicate that process and cross the abyss for yourself, plus plenty more besides: spirits, angels, demons, aliens, Aleister Crowley, Robert Anton Wilson and Austin Osman Spare. The book is written in the usual down-to-earth and humorous style of the authors' award-winning occult website, The Baptist's Head, where most of this material first appeared. It has been lovingly revised, referenced and indexed for this collection.

The Blood of the Saints

Religion & Spirituality

Chapman, Alan

Occult & Paranormal

Heptarchia

Chapman and Barford are two contemporary magicians who have transformed the face of contemporary occultism by reviving the notion of 'The Great Work' and setting modern magick free from the dead-end of post-modern nihilism. 'The Urn' is the second in the three-volume series of their uncensored magical exploits. Having successfully crossed the abyss, the two authors now set their sights on the goal of full enlightenment, setting out in detail their findings and techniques. On the way they encounter a guru who can enlighten people just by being near them; receive prophecies from an astral representative of The Great White Brotherhood; and explore the true significance of love and the meaning of life. Like the first volume ('The Blood of the Saints'), this compelling collection of essays, articles, rituals and interviews contains utterly unique material that lays bare the meaning and purpose of magick in a straightforward and humorous style. It will prove an invaluable guide for anyone interested in understanding how the Western Magical Tradition remains an authentic source of wisdom for seekers after truth in the Twenty-First Century.

The Urn

A Desert of Roses

Handbook for the Recently Enlightened: What Enlightenment Is and How to Attain It

From pain and irritation to bizarre insights and transcendent bliss. This book offers unique advice on how to tackle meditation retreats - and how to practise well in spite of them. A frank, quirky and humorous memoir, its contents will speak to first-time retreatants as well as seasoned retreat veterans.

The Retreat - A Semi-Fictional Memoir Exploring Common Problems in Meditation and Contemporary Spirituality

A Dark Song (2017) is a cult movie that presents maybe the most realistic depiction ever of ceremonial magick.\nIts heroine undertakes "the Abramelin ritual", an occult process for summoning her Guardian Angel, so that it might grant her stated wish to meet again with her murdered child.\nYet the ritual depicted in the film is not entirely fictional. It takes its name from an actual magical working, once attempted by the notorious Aleister Crowley, and undertaken by real-life occultists to the present day.\nThis book explores their experiences. It examines what the real-life Abramelin ritual is and the way it works. And it answers the question of how A Dark Song offers such a realistic representation of magick when angels and demons are not supposed to exist in reality at all.

The Magick of A Dark Song: The Abramelin Ritual in Fiction and Reality

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The Baptist's Head Compendium: Magick as a Path to Enlightenment

New Age & Spirituality

Aeon Books

Learning is the most basic means by which we can change oursleves. Of all the activities of the mind, learning is perhaps the most fundamental, yet one of the most provocative and difficult to understand. In this fourth volume of the Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis, ten new essays by an interdisciplinary array of educationalists, psychoanalysts and academics confront head-on the many problems associated with the mystery of learning. What is learning? How are ideas 'transmitted' from the mind of one person to the mind of another? What makes a good teacher? Like all the preceding volumes in The Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis, ideas and opinions are presented from a contrasting variety of viewpoints within contemporary psychoanalytic theory. Individual chapters are devoted to the theories of learning implicit in the work of Freud, Jung, Klein, Bion, Winnicott, and Lacan. Other topics explored in this extremely comprehensive and thought-provoking collection include: how to teach 'psychoanalytically'; the relationship between learning difficulty and 'writer's block'; and the problems inherent in teaching psychoanalysis itself.

Ship of Thought: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Learning (Encyclopaedia of psychoanalysis Vol. 4)

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