Magic & Mysticism

Arguelles, Jose, The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology. Blows the mind and spins the head.
Surfers of the Zuvuya: Tales of Interdimensional Travel. Arguelles propels the reader into a complete different dimension of otherworldly wonder. A "cult" classic.

Ashley, Leonard, The Complete Book of Devils and Demons. A new, popular compendium.

Bailey, Alice, Consciousness of the Atom. Whatever can be said of Bailey, she was hotwired into the ethers! Shows how creation thinks its way into existence.
Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty of mysticism, you need Bailey.
A Treatise on White Magic or the Way of the Disciple. A classic from this prolific writer, who seems to have lived in a completely different world of magic and mystery!

Birren, Faber, The Symbolism of Color. A favorite primer.

Blavatsky, Helena, Isis Unveiled (2 vols.). A can't-miss for the seeker of esoterica. Way ahead of her time, Blavatsky compiled a tremendous amount of information from around the world.
----, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy. Another classic from the master of mysticism.

Bucke, Richard , Cosmic Consciousness. Haven't read it, but it's been around for decades and is cited in other books, so it must be pretty good.

Budapest, Zsuzsanna, Summoning the Fates: A Woman's Guide to Destiny. Budapest is a popular authority on Wicca. Easy, accessible and friendly.
----, The Goddess in the Office: A Personal Energy Guide for the Spiritual Warrior at Work. "With liberal amounts of wisdom, a dash of whimsy, and a pinch of wit, one of America's best-known witches offers an empowering brew of recipes, spells, and rituals to enhance the work life of today's do-it-all woman." (The publisher)
----, The Grandmother of Time: A Woman's Book of Celebrations, Spells, and Sacred Objects for Every Month of the Year. Popular and fun.

Butler, WE, How to Read the Aura, Practice Psychometry, Telepathy and Clairvoyance. A classic guide.

Cabot, Laurie, Power of the Witch. Cabot is a REAL Salem witch! She teaches about the "old religion" - Wicca - in this well-loved book.

Castaneda, Carlos, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. A mindblowing, mystical journey that will change you forever from this wildly popular and controversial author. Try the books-on-tape version.
----, A Separate Reality: Further Conversations With Don Juan. Castaneda never fails to amaze and entertain with his otherworldly tales. You just can't get enough.
----, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan. "The dazzling, fantastic work that concludes the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer, Don Juan. Castaneda is an anthropologist, a mystic, a poet and a marvelously gifted author whose books have sold phenomenally well."
----, Tales of Power. "In this astonishing work, Carlos Castaneda at last completes the long journey into the world of sorcery that began with his now-legendary meeting with don Juan."
----, The Eagle's Gift. Does it again!

Cayce, Edgar, Edgar Cayce on Atlantis. Impressions of the lost world from the famous American "sleeping prophet."

Cott, Jonathan, The Search for Omm Sety: A Story of Eternal Love. A SUPERB, romantic story that you won't be able to put down. Omm Sety was a European woman who believed she was a reincarnation of a Pharaoh's lover.

Crowley, Aleister, Magick Without Tears. The works of this mischievous master magician never go out of style.
----, Book of the Law. If you want to explore the mind of a real "prophet," check out Crowley.
----, The Book of Lies. The brilliant Crowley reveals his innermost truths.

Cunningham, Scott. Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (Llewellyn's Practical Magick Series). A very popular classic, particularly for beginners.
Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic. Considered brilliant work by a dedicated author with 30 years of study and practice.
Magical Herbalism: The Secret of the Wise. Cunningham truly understands the meaning of "witch." Everyone should know about the magic of nature's herbs.
---- & Harrington, D., Spell Crafts: Creating Magical Objects. Does it again with another well-loved book.

David-Neel, Alexandra, My Journey to Lhasa. A fascinating account of the incredibly arduous and daring journey of the "first Western woman" - an astounding individual - to enter Tibet's mysterious "forbidden city." A "can't-put-down" book.
Magic and Mystery in Tibet. Astounding and hair-raising stories about bizarre beings ("tulpas") chanted into existence by lamas, along with other Tibetan magic and ritual.
The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects. More good stuff from Neel, who was considered by the Tibetans an incarnation of the "Great Sow" or Mother Goddess. Anyone interested in Tibetan esoterica must read this book!

De Givry, Grillot, Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy. This classic has staying power.

Fortune, Dion, The Mystical Qabalah. A classic from the popular author about the Hebrew mystical tradition and "Tree of Life."
----, Psychic Self-Defense. Step-by-step instructions.

Gilbert, R.A., The Golden Dawn Scrapbook: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order. "The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was the last and greatest flowering of the Victorian occult revival. Historian R.A. Gilbert uses photos and personal letters never before seen or published to provide an intimate and cohesive history of this controversial group--from its creation in the late 1800s to its fractured dissolution in the early 1900s."

Graff, Dale, Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness: An Exploration of Remote Viewing, Esp, Precognitive Dreaming, and Synchronicity. "Graff, who was, for 17 years, the leading researcher and expert in the Defense Department in the area of parapsychological phenomenon, provides a fascinating account of his personal experiences and his years of research and development with the STARGATE program Media appearances."

Guazzo, Francesco, Compendium Maleficarum. Written in the early 1600's, "this extraordinary document, considered one of the most important manuals ever compiled on witchcraft, offers striking insight into the early 17th-century mind and society's attempts to cope with the evils it saw manifested in sorcery." Obviously, from a Catholic priestly perspective.

Gurdieff, George, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man. A tough read, but many people have made the foray into the mind of this rascal saint and teacher.
Meetings with Remarkable Men. An easy and fascinating account of a true adventure in mysterious places.

Halevi, Z'ev Ben Shimon, The Way of Kabbalah. Halevi was ahead of the times with this classic about the now-popular Jewish mysticism.

Hall, Manly, The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosiccucian Symbolical Philosophy. Reduced version of the BIG, expensive book from this incredibly prolific Western mystic. No serious student of the occult and mysticism can not study Hall.
Astrological Keywords. Very popular.
Dream Symbolism. Learn from a master.
Magic: a Treatise on Esoteric Ethics

Harpur, Patrick, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld. "Anomalous lights in the sky, mysterious creatures, angelic figures, strange subhumans ..." Just what is going on? Find out in this well-loved book.

Heuvelmans, Bernard, et al., On the Track of Unknown Animals. The BIG book of cryptozoology. There are many mysteries yet to be solved.

Hogue, John, The Millennium Book of Prophecy: 777 Visions and Predictions from Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, Gurdjieff, Tamo-San, Madame Blavatsky, Old and New Testaments. A popular author, Hogue is one of the world's foremost authorities on Nostradamus, prophets and prophecies.
Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies.

Hull, John, Hellenistic Magic and the Synoptic Tradition.

Inglis, Brian, Natural and Supernatural: A History of the Paranormal from Earliest Times to 1914. "This thorough study is the first and only exhaustive history of the topic."

Johnson, Kendall, The Living Aura: Radiation Field Photography and the Kirlian Effect. An important, earlier work in this field.

Kraig, Donald M., Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts. A very popular book on ceremonial magick, Wicca, paganism and Druidism.

Krishna, Gopi, Kundalini: Empowering Human Evolution: Selected Writings of Gopi Krishna. "For centuries, the secrets of Kundalini yoga have been carefully guarded by the yogis of India. Drawn from the celebrated writings of Gopi Krishna, the world-renowned founder of the Kundalini movement, the reflections and observations in this book comprise the definitive guide to understanding the mystery of Kundalini and to awakening this remarkable source of inner light."

Krishnamurti, U.G., The Mystique of Enlightenment, Dinesh Vaghela, India, 1982.
Mind As a Myth. Video. Known as the "anti-guru," U.G. hacks away at gurus and meaningless mystical mumbo-jumbo.

Lawlor, Robert, Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice. Considered a textbook - accessible and entertaining. Great for artists seeking to add meaning to their art.

Leek, Sybil, Complete Art of Witchcraft. Instruction from a master witch.

Levi, Eliphas, The History of Magic: Including a Clear & Precise Exposition of Its Procedures, Its Rites & Its Mysteries. Levi is considered one of the best esoteric magicians of all time. Crowley was so impressed, he considered Levi his previous incarnation.

Li, Pak, Feng Shui: Secrets That Change Your Life. The ancient Chinese art of placement with respect to energy flow.

MacDougall, Curtis, Superstition and the Press. How the press stirs it up, from America's most skeptical publishers, Prometheus.

Mair, Victor, tr., Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu. "Beautiful and strange tales" from the Chinese mystic.

Masello, Robert, Raising Hell: A Concise History of the Black Arts and Those Who Dared Practice Them. "Here, in one spellbinding volume, is a history of the major occult arts as they have been practiced from ancient Babylon to the present day."

Moon, Peter, The Black Sun: Montauk's Nazi-Tibetan Connection. Moon's book is, no doubt, unpopular with the Hollywood crowd. Jam-packed with startling and explosive information.
---- & Nichols, Preston, The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time. The first of this hot series that outlines the occult aspects of Nazism and their connection to the infamous Montauk Project time-travel experiments.
Montauk Revisited: Adventures in Synchronicity. Part 2 of this mind-blowing and popular series.
Pyramids of Montauk: Explorations in Consciousness (The Montauk Trilogy Book 3). Like so many other places in the world, Montauk has the tantalizing remains of a mysterious vanished civilization.

Morehouse, David, Psychic Warrior: Inside the CIA's Stargate Program: The True Story of a Soldier's Espionage and Awakening. Another can't-miss for people interested in this fascinating subject.

Nigal, Gedalyah, Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism: The Supernatural in Jewish Thought. Students of the Kabbalah will be interested in this thorough compendium.

Ouspensky, PD, The Fourth Way.
In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching. Ouspensky is the intellectual's mystic.

Paulson, Genevieve, Meditation and Human Growth: A Practical Manual for Higher Consciousness (Llewellyn's New Age Series). Llewellyn is known for publishing books that are easy to read and accessible.

Peterson, Scott, Native American Prophecies. A well-written overview.

Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree, Only One Sky. A beloved classic on Tantra, romantic and deeply soulful.
----, Tantra, Spirituality & Sex. A classic, short book that tells it like it is.
----, Tantra, the Supreme Understanding: Discourses on the Tantric Way of Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra. Tantra is not just sex. One of the world's greatest mystics explains in his readily accessible, folksy style.

Rampa, Lobsang, The Third Eye. If you want to disappear into a fascinating and astounding world of magic and mystery, Rampa's the one for you. Fact or fiction, it matters not, as Rampa provides an unparalleled journey in all of his books.
----, Cave of the Ancients. More! Give us more! Rampa finds mysterious machinery of a very profound age.
----, My Visit to Venus. High up in the Himalaya are secret meadows where Venusians have been landing for centuries - only the most evolved Tibetan lamas get to meet them!
----, Wisdom of the Ancients. Rampa always makes learning fun and easy to digest.

Randi, James & Asimov, Isaac, Flim-Flam! Psychics, Esp, Unicorns, and Other Delusions. General and thorough debunking by our favorite notorious skeptic.
---, & Clarke, Arthur C. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural: James Randi's Decidedly Skeptical Definitions of Alternate Realities. Read this before you have that psychic surgery!
The Magic World of the Amazing Randi. Read this before you worship Sai Baba!

Regardie, Israel, et al., The Golden Dawn: A Complete Course in Practical Ceremonial Magic/Four Volumes in One (Llewellyn's Golden Dawn Series). A fine series from a popular author. "Required reading for every magician!"
---- & Crowley, 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley. Deep magic, mysticism and geomatria.

Roberts, Jane, How to Develop Your Esp Power: The First Published Encounter With Seth. The latest from this popular author.
Dreams, 'Evolution', and Value Fulfillment: A Seth Book. Many people have loved the Seth books.

Rudhyar, Dane, Occult Preparations for a New Age. This theosophical publication keeps on going!

Sakoian, Frances & Acker, LS, The Astrologer's Handbook. "With nearly 200,000 copies sold, this guide to casting and interpreting natal charts remains a constant bestseller."

Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies. "For the first time, this explosive expose reveals the Pentagon's use of psychic spies--a true life version of The X-Files!" A very hot book on a sizzling subject.

Scott, Walter, ed., Hermetica: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus. A classic collection of these important works attributed to the mystical, mythical god-teacher.

Shah, Idries, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way. The master author leads us into the mysterious world of the Sufis, the mystical brotherhood that has survived within Islam.

Shroder, Tom, Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives. New! Fascinating look at reincarnation, with intriguing evidence.

Shuker, Karl, From Flying Toads to Snakes with Wings: From the Pages of Fate Magazine. Cool stuff about all sorts of weird critters! Written by a zoologist.

Skafte, Dianne, PhD, Listening to the Oracle: The Ancient Art of Finding Guidance in the Signs and Symbols All Around Us.

Somerville, Neil, Your Chinese Horoscope 1998: What the Year of the Tiger Holds in Store for You. Somerville writes a new one every year, but the information is timeless. Learn more about yourself!

Starhawk, et al., The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing over.

Stearn, Jess, Edgar Cayce the Sleeping Prophet. The classic bestseller by one of the world's foremost Cayce biographers. Cayce has mystified for decades.
Yoga, Youth, and Reincarnation. Stearn has been called "the father of the New Age movement" and this book "the bible of the yoga movement." A good buddy of ours, he practices what he preaches - into his eigth decade.

Steiger, Brad & Sherry, Angels Around the World. The Steigers are masters at taking a vast amount of research and distilling it down into juicy bite-size pieces.
----, Kahuna Magic. New.
----, Mysteries of Animal Intelligence. "Includes such true accounts as a dog that guided a blind man 2,400 miles down the Appalachian Trail, a cat that defended a sleeping infant from a poised rattlesnake, and a dolphin that saved a human from drowning."
----, Mysteries in Time and Space. Another goody from this prolific writer.
----, The Philadelphia Experiment and Other UFO Conspiracies. A Steiger classic.

Summers, Montague & Morrison, Sarah, The History of Witchcraft and Demonology. "Although a Roman Catholic priest, Montague Summers' (1880-1948) controversial views on witchcraft and demonology differed considerably from those of his Catholic contemporaries. First published in 1926, this work is a classic study of witchcraft."
---- & Institoris, Henricus, The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger. THE guide used for centuries beginning in the 1400's by depraved priests to hunt "witches."

Sutphen, Dick, Predestined Love: Soulmates, Reunited Across the Centuries--Extraordinary Spiritual Odysseys on the Path to Perfect Love. A friend of ours, Sutphen has found his perfect love, Tara. He knows what he writes!
Radical Spirituality: Metaphysical Awareness for a New Century. "Zen master" Sutphen kicks the butt of what he calls "cosmic frou-frou" ideas of the New Age. BTW, he likes the writings of Acharya S.

Swann, Ingo, Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP: Unlocking the Extrasensory Power of Your Mind. World-famous Swann is considered a gifted psychic.

Targ, Russell & Katra, Jane, PhD, Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing. "Relying on their strengths--he a pioneering physicist and she a highly respected spiritual healer--Targ and Katra reveal scientific evidence and gripping stories to prove the innate psychic power of the human mind."

The Three Initiates, Kybalion: a Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece. More than a few people feel this book to be very important.

Time-Life, Library of Curious and Unusual Facts. Another great, wonderfully illustrated series. Only a couple of them are still in print:
A World of Luck. Games, gambling, gods and goddesses. The history of fate.
Shadows of Death. Celebrity demises, strange deaths, weird burials.

Time-Life, Mysteries of the Unknown. This fabulously illustrated series is impossible to put down. Children will be forever fascinated by the enigmatic and unexplained after opening these books. The volume above appears to be an overview. Separate volumes of the series are below. The rest of the series is unfortunately out of print, but you can get Amazon to query for you. If you wish to have one set of books that covers almost everything in this subject, with pictures and photos, this would be it!
Mysterious Lands and Peoples. Who built all the ruins around the world? Includes tales of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Mystic Quests.
Search for Immortality. A history of the quest from ancient times until today.
Spirit Summonings. From ancient hauntings to Victorian spiritualism to Edgar Cayce to channelling.

Too, Lillian, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui: How to Apply the Secrets of Chinese Wisdom for Health, Wealth and Happiness. "Feng Shui is the 4,000-year-old Chinese art of living in harmony with your environment."

Van Praagh, Talking to Heaven: A Medium's Message of Life After Death. An instant bestseller from a hugely popular medium. Van Praagh gives apoplectic fits to skeptics, who dismiss him as a "mentalist." Fascinating and moving nevertheless. Try the books-on-tape version!

Waite, Arthur, The Book of Ceremonial Magic. This classic has gotten a lot of mileage in the gnostic and esoteric circles.

Wilson, Colin, Mysteries of the Universe (The Unexplained). The newest from this prolific and popular writer.
----, Ghost Sightings (Strange but
True Series). Wilson is always fascinating.
----, Psychic Powers (The
Unexplained). Wilson never fails to deliver.

Wydra, Nancilee, Feng Shui: The Book of Cures: 150 Simple Solutions for Health and Happiness in Your Home or Office. "This book details the incredible impact spaces have on people and then shows how to adjust factors such as lighting, furniture, and objects for a happier, healthier environment."

Yogananda, Paramanhansa, The Autobiography of a Yogi. This classic from the well-loved Yogananda is a LOT of fun - if you don't take it too seriously!