Using occultism to understand the paranormal sounds like diluting water or burying earth, but in this thoughtful and unusual book Duncan Barford draws on a deep familiarity with modern magick to provide a valuable toolbox of concepts for exploring the relationship between consciousness and the paranormal. Writing in an accessible and humorous style, Barford examines intriguing first-hand accounts of poltergeists, telepathy, communication with the dead, religious phenomena and astral projection. The essence of his unique exploration is that the paranormal does not happen only to special people and on rare occasions. In fact, to experience the paranormal we need simply turn our attention to the nature of our consciousness itself.
This book describes magic as I know it: teasing, tricky and never quite as expected, and yet it leaves our lives so much richer in colour and meaning. Read it, do it, and take a new look at your world. —Ramsey Dukes, author of SSOTBME and The Little Book of Demons
Enjoyable and enlightening… Engaging, insightful and often amusing. —Paranormal Magazine
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I’m really enjoying the book. Your excellent writing and fantastic observations make it a real pleasure. The only problem is that with this precedent, your readership will demand such quality in the future! Hopefully we’re a forgiving lot
Hey Duncan. I’ve created an OEITH page on Facebook and, although this wasn’t my original intention (I was trying to get a picture of the book onto where I ‘favorited’ it in my profile, and the result was to create a page for it), I was wondering if this was okay with you or not. If not, I’ll delete it, if so, well there it is. Either way no big deal, I just thought I’d let you know since you’re not on FB anymore and because you wrote the book and all.
That’s brilliant, Harris! Thank you!
And I’ve mailed you an invite to Diaspora, just so you can escape nasty, evil old Facebook – if you want to…