New Releases: Publications and Books
Compiled by Lezlie A. Kinyon, Ph.D.
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Books
The Wizard and the Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick & Paganism
https://oberonzell.com/books.html
by Oberon and Morning Glory Zell & John C. Sulak
This is the stranger-than-fiction story of two soul mates who rejected the status quo and embraced higher ideals . . . and had a whole lot of fun while they were at it. Reclaiming Pagan as a spiritual identity—and living in an open marriage for over four decades—Oberon and Morning Glory Zell truly embody the freedom to think, to love, and to live.
Beethoven’s Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Classical Music and Beyond
http://skyhorsepublishing.com/titles/11664-9781510712713-beethovens-skull
By Tim Rayborn
Beethoven’s Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving that good music and shocking tabloid-style stories make excellent bedfellows, it presents tales of revenge, murder, curious accidents, and strange fates that span more than two thousand years. Highlights include:
A cursed song that kills those who hear it
A composer who lovingly cradles the head of Beethoven’s corpse when his remains are exhumed half a century after his death
A fifteenth-century German poet who sings of the real-life Dracula
A dream of the devil that inspires a virtuoso violin piece
Unlike many music books that begin their histories with the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries, Beethoven’s Skull takes the reader back to the world of ancient Greece and Rome, progressing through the Middle Ages and all the way into the twentieth century. It also looks at myths and legends, superstitions, and musical mysteries, detailing the ways that musicians and their peers have been rather horrible to one another over the centuries.
Hear the Silence
Jamie Glaser will be profiled in Spring 2017.
Audiobook and free clip: http://www.gotocyberschool.com/book.html
Print: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631920693
Hear The Silence is about healing , strength, courage , love of oneself and others. In 1994 studio musician, performer,music composer and producer Jamie Glaser was in the Northridge Earthquake in California, when the shaking stopped nothing was the same. From 1978 to 1994 he toured the world with Grammy award winning musical acts, lived the good life in Los Angeles, and suddenly found himself unable to get out of bed for 6 months. Jamie lost all his worldly possessions in the days following the earthquake, his self esteem, his quality work and eventually found himself homeless and without hope. Hear The Silence tells the story of life lessons and experiences that brought him back from the “dead”, to the wonderful life he has today, and inspires others to celebrate with him. Jamie is presently the guitarist for Jon Anderson and Jean Luc Ponty. “The Anderson Ponty Band”
The Essential Guide to Possession, Dispossession, and Divine Relationships
By Diana L. Paxson
Diana L. Paxson will be profiled in Spring 2017.
Will be launched on Presidents’ Day weekend at PantheaCon in San Jose. The official Weiser Books publication date is March.
Although the practice of possession by deities, ancestors or spirits is best known from African inspired traditions such as Santeria, it happens in every culture, and an increasing number of Americans are experiencing it—intentionally or involuntarily—today. I have been studying this phenomenon ever since Odin unexpectedly showed up at a ritual in my living room over twenty years ago, talking to people who experience it, working with groups that practice it, and eventually learning how to do it myself. It has become increasingly clear to me that letting another Person into your head is an intimate relationship, and if it is to be a positive experience, the guidelines one would use for any healthy relationship should apply. This book is the result of my own experience practicing and teaching this kind of trance work, and includes comments from others who do this work in a variety of religious traditions.
City of Refuge
by Starhawk (Author), Jessica Perlstein (Illustrator), Diane Rigoli (Designer) 
Thanks to all of you who supported my Kickstarter campaign, I have successfully self-published City of Refuge and it is now available on Amazon as either an Ebook or a Paperback. The paperback can also be ordered right now by your favorite neighborhood bookstore through Ingram Book Company- ask for it! – Starhawk
Sacred Consumption: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture
By Elizabeth Morán
Available December 2016
https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Consumption-Ritual-Aztec-Culture/dp/147731069X
Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs and food processing and consumption. Both gods and humans were depicted feasting, and food and eating clearly played a pervasive, integral role in Aztec rituals. Basic foods were transformed into sacred elements within particular rituals, while food in turn gave meaning to the ritual performance.
New Feature! Paper Publications on the Ritual Arts
In order to add to the collective knowledge base for the ritual arts, Coreopsis Eds. will – occasionally – present papers of note published by scholars in the ritual arts.
Hosting the Divine: The Kōlam as Ritual, Art and Ecology in Tamil Nadu, India, Volume 1
University of California, Berkeley, 1998 – Hindu art – 810 pages
On Angel Concerts in the 15th Century: A Critical Approach to Realism and Symbolism in Sacred Painting
http://www.jstor.org/stable/740578?seq=1#fndtn-page_scan_tab_contents
Emanuel Winternitz
The Musical Quarterly
Vol. 49, No. 4 (Oct., 1963), pp. 450-463
Published by: Oxford University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/740578
Page Count: 19
The Way of Beauty
David Clayton
This article was first printed in the journal Second Spring.
The Foundation for Sacred Arts Knowledge Base
http://thesacredarts.org/newsite/knowledge-base/articles/115-the-way-of-beauty-by-david-clayton
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