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grant
14:29 / 03.10.07
Here are two things I just found that might be of interest to people on here.

The first:

We are very pleased to notify you that all 22 years of our journal Oral Tradition are now available online and free of charge at

http://journal.oraltradition.org

This site now contains nearly 500 articles and 10,000 pages, with all of the contents downloadable as pdf files that you can read online or print out as you wish. The entire electronic archive of Oral Tradition is also searchable by keyword or author name, with phrase-based and Boolean searches possible as well.



They've got stuff from Basque folktales to Balinese epics.

More interesting (although not free) is:

Issue 4 of The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic (JSM4) is now out after a brief hiatus.

Contents:

  • Editorial


  • Marty Laubach, Louis Martinie’and Roselinda Clemons - The Practitioner, The Priest, and The Professor: Perspectives on Self-Initiation in the American Neopagan Community


  • Jayne Marie DeMente - The Trinity of the Hebrew Goddess: A Guided Presentation Of Goddess Narratives and Submerged Beliefs


  • Steven M. Stannish -The Topography of Magic in the Modern Western and Ancient Egyptian Minds


  • David Luke - The science of magic: A parapsychological model of psychic ability in the context of magical will


  • Steve Ash - Is Magic Possible Within A Quantum Mechanical Framework?


  • Catherine M. Lord -Angels with Nanotech Wings: Magic, Medicine and Technology in The Neuromancer and Brain Plague


  • Lauren Berman - Rowling’s Devil: Ancient Archetype or Modern Manifestation?


  • Carl Sederholm - "Delivered From Enchantment”: Cotton Mather, W. B. O. Peabody, and the Struggle against Magic


  • David Geall - In a Mirror, Darkly : A comparison between the Lovecraftian Mythos and African-Atlantic mystery religions


  • Melinda Marsh - The Journey of The Lion King and the Collective Unconscious


  • Michael Moynihan - “The Third Time’s the Charm”: Mythic Operative Magic in the Merseburger Zaubersprüche


  • Gulnara Karimova - Reading the Turkish Coffee Cup and Beyond: The Case of North Cyprus


  • Phillip A. Bernhardt-House - The Old Irish Impotence Spell: The Dam Díli, Fergus, Fertility, and the Mythic Backround of an Irish Incantation


  • Reviews





The webpage for orders is http://www.mandrake.uk.net/jsm.htm



Apparently, they offer discounts for students or for people who order more than one thing at a time.

I love the fact that they put an author named "Marsh" right after an article on Lovecraft. Because I am that sort of geek.
 
 
Papess
23:52 / 03.10.07
I don't have anything to add, I just want to thank you, Grant. What a fantastic resource.
 
 
Digital Hermes
20:57 / 23.11.07
Just thought I'd give this thread a bump, and hopefully add a few of my own online resources when I'm not at work and linking is easier.
 
 
Analogues On
13:04 / 04.01.08
Ur-Luddite that I am I've just upgraded from dial-up (finallllly) and purchased an mp3 player (one with a click wheel, whatever that is....) and I've been downloading as many podcasts, lectures and such as I can.

Amongst the glut of truly awful and so-called "Spiritual" content online, there have been some amazing resources which have made my hour-long commutes to work an absolute joy. Foremost amongst them are the downloads from www.gnosticteachings.org a site dedicated to the teachings of Samael Aun Weor of whom I was only vaguely aware previously.

While I haven't totally subscribed to this particular Gnostic viewpoint (still struggling with their particular brand of sexual and pharmalogical asceticism), the lectures and site-content cover a wide range of useful models, as well as Magical working methods and practical exercises, that i have found extremely useful in exploring the links between Gnosticism and other systems, particularly yoga, Karma and Kabbalah.

It's all free, easy to download in lecture format and comes accompanied by additional resources and transcripts. There are quite a few resources for those starting off, while those with background knowledge in the occult are catered for with lectures covering Awakened Consciousness, meditation, energy work, White Magic, the Sophia, Atlantean science and so on.

Of those I've listened to so far, the lectures on Esoteric Astrology and the Tarot have been the most compelling, and have helped me to piece together a more coherent and over-arching "system" that unifies a lot of the occultism I've been carrying around for some time.
 
 
JakeofHearts
23:53 / 21.02.08
Just received my copy of Vol. 1 of the JASM. Some really great stuff if you're into the more heavy academic lingo.

Of all the very well written works, my two favorite are one about the use and history of cards (playing and Tarot) in Western Europe, and another that talks about the literary and socio-historical context wherein Francis Barret compiled his work, The Magus.

Fantastic read. Looking forward to the next three.
 
 
grant
01:45 / 22.02.08
Hooray!

Who wrote the tarot one?
 
 
JakeofHearts
11:44 / 22.02.08
The article is called A History of Otherness: Tarot and Playing Cards from Early Modern Europe and it's written by Dr. Joyce Goggin, who is a professor of Film and New Media at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
 
  
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