Best New Age Publishing Companies Are Free At Your Local Library

Updated 3-7-15

I wanted to give some of you an idea about what are some of the best new age publishers.  I believe that great publishers attract great authors and great reading.   My best method is to look over my bookshelves to see what publishers dominate my library.  

I will do something more thorough later, but I have to give credit to Llewellyn Publications as one of my favorite publishers.  They have more books on my shelf than probably any other publisher.  I would have to say most of my learning comes from them.  

The library is an excellent source of material if you low funds or are on a budget.  One of my favorite books from the local library is Low Magic: It's All In Your Head... by Lon Milo DuQuette.  He is United States Deputy Grand Master of the OTO.   My other favorite is Rediscover Magick of the Gods and Goddesses by Jean-Louis de Biasi.  Jean-Louis de Biasi is Grand Master of the Ordo Aurum Solis.  You can read more about him at the Amazon site which shows his books.   I came to know the Ordo Aurum Solis through the books of Denning & Phillips awhile back.

I think the reason authors don't make too much money is the fact that so many incredible books are at the library.  Nobody has to buy any books anymore.   Seek out books at your local library.   See what they have on the shelves.   I had built a lot of knowledge from the metaphysical section of Lansing Community College and Eastern Michigan University while attending college.  

I've got to examine the rest of my library a little more to see what publishers are in my top 5 and get back to you on the rest.

MORE TO COME...

My Bad Blog Experience From England

Updated Title Change 6-2-2015

Many will remember the blog evocationmagic.com.  It no longer exists.   The last I had heard was that some people are trying to recreate it in some form on the web again.  For those that remember, here's a review of the blog.

We might all have stories to tell when it comes to joining a particular blog.   It can be a frustrating experience filled with debate.   It is hoped all people can participate in a blog with tons of creativity.  However, that isn't always the case.

Many N.A.P. discussions were going on at the evocationmagic.com blog when I was a member.   I
had interjected in those discussions.  There were some leaders of this group that seemed to want
to push others in a specific direction.  Let me give you an example of a blog discussion  about
N.A.P. and let's define some things in the topic.  Verify the following in Wikipedia or other
sources of the web if you wish.

Gray-Cobb's book, New Avatar Power, came from either the Nuctameron by Apollonius of Tyana
or  Transcendental Magic by Levi.   Apollonius lived in a Roman province prior to 100 C.E.  From
some of the books on the Latin language, we still aren't completely sure of the pronunciation of
this language.   From all the research I've done, Ashkenazic Hebrew is a theoretical pronunciation system used by a variety of Jewish people.  We really don't know for sure how
Biblical Hebrew was pronounced either.   We probably come closer to proper Latin pronunciation
than we can speak ancient Hebrew today.

The evocation magic blog member, raum215, questioned everything and liked to add all kinds of
tidbits that really didn't pertain directly to a blog topic.  Member raum215 was hung up on
pronunciation claiming he knew how each of the ancient words was pronounced.  Everyone that
refers to cabalistic words pronounce them differently.  His claim was that some of these words
had to be pronounced in Ashkenazic.  I found raum215 didn't like those who stated things, but
rather liked those who questioned.  He was to the evocation magic group what Aleister Crowley
was to his prospective organizations:  just a another man seeking power.  I don't supply things
here to feed my ego.   It's fine raum215 knew a lot of things, but he needed to not sweep other
people's ideas under the rug like dust.

Member raum215 stated he knew where the word Labezerin came from.  Everything doesn't have
to fit "Sephardic and Ashkenazic hebrew".  He was correct stating  "and there were already LOTS
of dialects"; so, other pronunciations would allow magickal miracles to occur as well.   I'm sure
you could still get results if you didn't speak Ashkenazic Hebrew correctly.

There are leaders and followers and I choose not to follow the information provided by raum215
just as others chose not to follow the controlling authority of Aleister Crowley.   I may have been
banned for a N.A.P. Ritual of Lust,  or running a link back to my blog.  After reviewing all the
Google web cached pages stored on my computer, I believe raum215 had me banned because he
felt I gave wrong information about N.A.P.   Perhaps, I didn't speak Ashkenazic Hebrew
accurately?

Do Pets Go To Heaven?

Updated Title Change 6-2-2015

A recent death of our dog in January of 2014 lead me to some new conclusions.  If you've been keeping up with this blog you will recall my work with psychic explorations.  After our dog passed, I started getting what I call a psychic flash.  I am usually waking up in the morning and receive a still image of something.  I had received a still image of our dog standing outside the house on the south side.  I can tell my dreams from my psychic impressions.  Psychic impressions are usually still images like a picture whereas dreams are a movie for me.  Chrissy, our dog, was in one of these still pictures.  She was standing in the grass outside staring at me as though she was seeing me.  It was kind of like when you take a picture of a pet with a camera.  I think that I may want to get into American Indian legends to see what actually might happen to pets when they pass away.  My wife thinks they go to heaven, but I think the contrary.  Pets may remain here on Earth and recycle into another animal.  They may even help their fellow pet friends when they cross over.  If I ever really develop full clairvoyance I may find that all our pets have remained on the property and have been watching us all along!  Now, to look into the beliefs of American Indians...

Russia: In The New Age This Bear Is Not Asleep

Updated: 7/20/2014

With the recent reports of Russian Separtists downing the plane in the Ukraine, some might wonder why I would credit anything to Russia.  Well, countries will always war and politicians will always disappoint their peoples.  Putin is one man, but occult is something personal for each individual.  There is still some wonderful new age information that can be learned from this country.

As I've promised, I've done some searching to find you some great reading by my fellow Bloggers:

http://sageofquay.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-russian-occult-revival.html
http://holyhexes.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-occult-in-russian-and-soviet-culture.html
http://mrobsr.blogspot.com/2009/08/politics-occultism.html
http://traditionalistblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/dugin-and-occult-dissident-culture.html
http://markturnersmysteriousworld.blogspot.com/2014/04/occult-beginnings-of-nasas-jpl.html

It's always interesting to read what others have decided to publish on their blogs.   Take time to enjoy a few.   

China: More Contributions Than Just Tea Leaves

Updated: 7/20/2014

Here are some of some Chinese related occult sites.  Some just have a small mention, but might be worth reading.  The first one is more on just books:

ehrati-occultbooks.blogspot.com
https://plus.google.com/117790806559934264418/posts
https://www.blogger.com/profile/13168521366340779960

Are All Satanists Killing Animals and People?

New 3/25/14

This title is bizarre, or the title could have said, "Faulty Stereotypes and Double Standards in America" or maybe "Not All Bad People are Bad or All Good People aren't Necessarily Good".  Stereotypes generally come from a number of faulty attitudes. My wife watches all these criminal profiling shows and it has everyone pegged.  There are so many pursuing criminal justice degrees that criminal profiling is their "Bible" when it comes to America's perception of criminals. These attitudes come from people. They get a few stats and some expert comes up with a theory that everyone is like that.  Can I say that all cops eat donuts?  It kind of reminds me of that movie White Men Can't Jump starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.   There is a stereotype inside the title as well as the story.  I can think of hundreds of new stereotype movie titles that could be brought up in my living room for the entertainment of my wife and myself.  I sure couldn't mention it in this blog for fear that it was inappropriate for public media.

I work with a retired cop in my security work.  We get to talk most of the day while we maintain a post in state government.  He mentioned he got in trouble, as a cop, with his boss when he cussed out a juvenile offender that was going to jail.  The juvenile had spit on him.  I said there are 2 kinds of standards in society regarding speech: what we can say in public and what we can say at home.  An example of this is that we have to eject those that are cussing us out at our security posts.  It is inappropriate in public. However, when I get home and am watching cable or Netflix I can listen to cussing and swearing from TV; I can cuss and swear with my fellow family members.  We have a double standard in America.
   
Are you motivated by an unusual prejudice idea?  Do you see a double standard in America?   Take some time to think about it.  Have you got someone pegged?   The answer to the above blog entry title: No, not all satanists are killing animals and people.  I could say that this is a conservative, Christian or Republican stereotype.  Could I say that just because a New Jersey Republican governor gives tax cuts to the rich that all Republicans want to give tax cuts to the wealthy?  Question your values.  Are they right?