Megan and Raven's Reading List
Raven
At the top of the reading list my wife and I have distributed for the
past three years are five books we label as good "General Advice":
Marion Weinstein, POSITIVE MAGIC
Dione Fortune, PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE
--- SANE OCCULTISM
--- THE TRAINING AND WORK OF AN INITIATE
Robert Anton Wilson, PROMETHEUS RISING
Becoming familiar with those -- especially with what Weinstein calls
the "Inner Bell" in her "Ten Foot Pole" chapter -- should help keep
you from many of the worse mistakes. This does NOT mean that I agree
with everything in those books, and in fact one thing you should learn
quickly is NOT to believe too much of what you read anywhere, but these
at least are on the side of a sane and healthy approach to occultism.
Other books you might then want to study:
Margot Adler, DRAWING DOWN THE MOON
Adam Smith, POWERS OF MIND
Robert Anton Wilson, COSMIC TRIGGER
--- ISHTAR RISING
Hans Holzer, THE NEW PAGANS
P.E.I. Bonewits, REAL MAGIC (see the Cult Danger frame in back)
Pauwels and Bergier, THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS
Colin Wilson, THE OCCULT
Charles G. Leland, ARADIA: GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES
Robert Graves, THE WHITE GODDESS
Margaret Murray, THE WITCH-CULT IN WESTERN EUROPE
--- THE GOD OF THE WITCHES
Lucius Apuleius, THE GOLDEN ASS
Sir James Frazer, THE NEW GOLDEN BOUGH (ed. Theodor H. Gaster)
Munro S. Edmonson, LORE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF FOLKLORE...
Robert Eisler, MAN INTO WOLF
Joseph Campbell (ed), THE MYSTERIES
Israel Regardie, RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN
Eliphas Levi, TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC
A.E. Waite, THE BOOK OF BLACK MAGIC AND CEREMONIAL MAGIC
Gerald B. Gardner, WITCHCRAFT TODAY
--- THE MEANING OF WITCHCRAFT
Vivianne Crowley, WICCA: THE OLD RELIGION IN THE NEW AGE
Stewart Farrar, WHAT WITCHES DO
Starhawk, THE SPIRAL DANCE
Z Budapest, THE GRANDMOTHER OF TIME
--- HOLY WOMEN'S MYSTERIES
Michael Harner, THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN
Eden Gray, MASTERING THE TAROT
R.G.H. Siu, THE PORTABLE DRAGON (I Ching for Westerners)
Paul Huson, MASTERING WITCHCRAFT <<caution!>>
Aleister Crowley, MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE <<extra caution!>>
FICTION:
Marion Zimmer Bradley,THE INHERITOR
Dione Fortune, SEA PRIESTESS
--- MOON MAGIC
Robert Anton Wilson, MASKS OF THE ILLUMINATI
Peter Valentine Timlett, The SEEDBEARERS Trilogy
James Gunn, THE MAGICIANS
Robert A. Heinlein, MAGIC INCORPORATED
Lyndon Hardy, MASTER OF THE FIVE MAGICS
James Blish, JACK OF EAGLES
--- BLACK EASTER
-- Raven (JSi...@Music.Lib.MATC.Edu). [All standard disclaimers apply]