{"quotes":[{"text":"In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of the initiate on the left-hand path is to become ‘this bisexual twin godhead’ and activate a state of perceptual sexual ecstasy within one's own consciousness. Zeena points out that a corresponding symbolism is found in the western hermeticism in the idea of ‘the inner androgyne.’--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["action","buddhism","dissident","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","outcasts","revolutionary","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","subversion","taboo-breaking","taboos","taking-action","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":11967,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.","author":"Rod Serling","tags":["magic","sorcery","spirituality","witch"],"id":23706,"author_id":"Rod+Serling"},{"text":"Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the laws of time, space and ordered causality, is closely connected with, and structured by, the categories of the subconscious, the inner impulses of man's nature. At first glance the scope of fantastic literature, free as it is from the restrictions of natural law, appears to be unlimited. A closer look, however, will show that a few dominant themes and motifs constantly recur: deals with the Devil; returns from the grave for revenge or atonement; invisible creatures; vampires; werewolves; golems; animated puppets or automatons; witchcraft and sorcery; human organs operating as separate entities, and so on. Fantastic literature is a kind of fiction that always leads us back to ourselves, however exotic the presentation; and the objects and events, however bizarre they seem, are simply externalizations of inner psychic states. This may often be mere mummery, but on occasion it seems to touch the heart in its inmost depths and become great literature.","author":"Franz Rottensteiner","tags":["devil","fantastic","fantastique","fantasy","genre","golem","horror","literature","sorcery","supernatural","vampire","werewolf","witchcraft"],"id":31661,"author_id":"Franz+Rottensteiner"},{"text":"Violence always leads to pain' Trendal Malian- Ishtaria: Prince of Blades.","author":"Keith Collier","tags":["best","blade","blades","book","fantasy","ishtaria","malian","prince","seller","series","sorcery","sword","tram","wot"],"id":39736,"author_id":"Keith+Collier"},{"text":"Lord help her, but she was instantly drawn to his scent - a mixture of smoke and salt and mystery - as well as his strength. The pulse of his heart, the hum of blood through his veins, the aura of power and danger surrounding him.","author":"Jo Grafford","tags":["magic","romance","sorcery","viking","witches"],"id":70276,"author_id":"Jo+Grafford"},{"text":"Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the left-hand path seek liberation in this life.--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["action","buddhism","dissident","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","outcasts","revolutionary","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","subversion","taboo-breaking","taboos","taking-action","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":79168,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"A year ago on my twenty-third birthday, I rebuffed the advances of a beautiful young woman whom I did not love. Alas, she turned out to be a sorceress. She repaid me by casting a spell that forces every female I touch to fall into a frenzy of lust.' His mouth twisted bitterly. 'Thus she robbed me of one of mankind's greatest gifts - the ability to seek and find true love.","author":"Jo Grafford","tags":["romance","sorcery","vikings","witches"],"id":85580,"author_id":"Jo+Grafford"},{"text":"A certain amount of native skill and training can allow many individuals to be fairly successful magicians, achieving a surprisingly high ratio of positive results through sorcery.(...) These outer changes, no matter how dramatic, will not necessarily have a deep impact on the deepest levels of your psyche, which is where the process of initiation most meaningfully manifests.'--Zeena Schreck for “Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its backgroundand role within new Western religiosity,” University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["buddhism","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":86153,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"Such is my curse, Branwyn O'Tyre. Every woman I touch is forced to lavish her affections upon me.","author":"Jo Grafford","tags":["magic","mermaids","romance","sorcery","vikings","witches"],"id":92386,"author_id":"Jo+Grafford"},{"text":"The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["karma","karma-spiritual","left-hand-path","magic","magical","magical-practices","magician","magick","maya","shamanism","sorcerers","sorceress-and-magic","sorceresses","sorcery","zeena-schreck"],"id":105901,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}