A modern mystical journey through love – a many-headed snake twisting through devotion, sacrifice and the dream of returning home. In her visionary debut, Nisha Ramayya conjures an opalescent world by way of Tantric ritual and myth.

Spells brings together thirty-six contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet the transformative power of the occult. These poems unmake the world around them, so that it might be remade anew.

The first book to be co-created with the emergent AI, Pharmako-AI is a hallucinatory journey into selfhood, ecology and intelligence via cyberpunk, ancestry and biosemiotics. Through a writing process akin to musical improvisation, Allado-McDowell and GPT-3 together offer a fractal poetics of AI and a glimpse into the future of literature.

Like a snake eating its tail, artificial intelligence exists in a circular relationship with its human creators.

The Atlas presents a hyperdimensional view of the world, through a broad range of perspectives that explore the question of what AI has been and what it is becoming.

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto published a revolutionary white paper that described a simple peer-to-peer electronic cash system that would later become Bitcoin.

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.

“Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” — Pat Robertson

In an illustrated talk, Tere Arcq and Susan Aberth will speak about the creation of their new book and the centrality of the tarot to Leonora Carrington’s overall creative process and life, followed by a conversation with Pam Grossman.

The Ignota Diary is a tool for discovery in the practice of everyday life

*This Item is a preorder, and will be shipped in late 2021.

The Ignota Diary is a tool for discovery in the practice of everyday life. This beautifully designed diary and week-to-view planner is filled with historically significant magical and sacred dates from around the world. Drawn from events such as the Buddha’s birthday, esoteric festivals and artistic and occult history, the diary touches on the lives of characters such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ithell Colquhoun, Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Jung, Simone Weil, Leonora Carrington, Maya Deren, Aleister Crowley, George Bataille, Timothy Leary, Hilma af Klint, Saint Hildegard of Bingen, William Blake, W.B. Yeats and Octavia Butler.  

The diary provides full astrological navigation for 2021 with an overview of the year, a birthchart template and guides to moon magic, houses, planets and symbols. Key transits, retrogrades and lunar phases, noted throughout the planner, allow you to organise your life in alignment with the astrological weather, visible at a glance. A global map showing sacred sites provides inspiration for transformative pilgrimages.

Rituals by poets Nisha Ramayya and Bhanu Kapil, and tarot spreads by artists and practitioners Barby Asante and Jessica Dore, offer guidance and space for reflection throughout the year. Additional sources of inspiration include guides to dreamwork by Jennifer Dumpert, mushrooms by Ellen Percival, spellcraft by Ayesha Tan-Jones, and Soji cleaning by Zen monk Shoukei Matsumoto, author of the bestseller A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind. To support a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, an appendix contains guides to healing herbs, acupressure, Ayurveda, kriya yoga and daily practice. 

Brand new features this year include an introduction to regenerative farming by Elias Haas and a guide to weather watching. 

Contributors

Acupressure by Maria Christofi, Ayurveda and Prajna by Mira Manek, Astrology by SJ Anderson, Dreamwork by Jennifer Dumpert, Herbal Remedies by Paige Emery, Kriya Yoga by Rachel Okimo, Mushroom Guide by Ellen Percival, Regenerative Farming by Elias Haas, Rituals by Bhanu Kapil and Nisha Ramayya, Soji by Shoukei Matsumoto, Spellcraft by Ayesha Tan-Jones, Tarot by Barby Asante and Jessica Dore, Trend Forecasting by Emily Segal, Weather by Jay Drinkall

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The Ignota Diary is a tool for discovery in the practice of everyday life. This beautifully designed diary and week-to-view planner is filled with historically significant magical and sacred dates from around the world.