Remedios Varo. Still Life Reviving. 1963. “The archetype of the witch is long overdue for celebration. Daughters, mothers, queens, virgins, ...
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Not only is Roberto Rossellini’s 1950 film The Flowers of St. Francis just outrageously beautiful, not only does it have ...
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Kabbalah – Ein Sof and angelic hierarchies (Universes or olamot). “Our modern science acknowledges a Supreme Power, an Invisible Principle, ...
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Divan of Hafiz includes paintings on its doublures. Calligraphy by Muhammad Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Mulla. Iran, 1842. Drunk on ...
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Shamanic Rite. Etching. “Shamans seem to flourish, as might be expected, mainly among people whose religion is not highly organized ...
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Sill’s biography is strewn with tragedy: family deaths, drug addiction, horrible accidents, poverty, maybe prostitution. She died in 1979, age ...
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Film still from Ben Russell’s “River Rites,” 2011. “The real skill of the practitioner [of magic] lies not in skilled ...
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Marcello Venusti. Ecce Homo. 16th century. “What you say about Jesus says more about you than it does about Jesus.” ...
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“‘Modern Spiritualism’ had, after all, started in the United States when the Fox sisters discovered in March 1848 that the ...
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“The performer sees herself as a medium the spirit passes through.” — Joan Jonas, 1982, “Closing Statement”. Theories and Documents ...
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Louise Bourgeois. Spiral Woman. Sculpture. 2003. For Freud, totems and taboos both were outward expressions of the same psychological tendency ...
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The Unicorn is Found. Tapestry. 16th Century. Anonymous. Magic is everywhere. Magic sparkles from cleaning products in television advertisements. Sarah ...
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An Oracle is defined as a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom the divine speaks. Of course, ...
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Tarot 17. The Star, from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. What A Reading Can Do For You Tarot offers a fresh perspective ...
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2 of Cups. Rider-Waite-Smith deck. If you love literature and poetry, symbols and mythology, music and art, come join my ...
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©Oracle of Los Angeles, 2016 “A spell is a symbolic act done in an altered state of consciousness, in order ...
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