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A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world.

The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century set of playing cards, the deck on which the occult use of tarot was originally based. When Jessica Friedmann bought her first pack, the unfamiliar images sparked a deep immersion in the art, symbols, myths, and misrepresentations of Renaissance-era tarot. Over the years that followed, and as tarot became a part of her daily rhythm, Friedmann’s life was touched by floods and by drought, by devastating fires and a pandemic, creating an environment in which the only constant was change.

Twenty-Two Impressions: notes from the Major Arcana uses the Tarot de Marseille as a touchstone, blending historical research, art history, and critical insights with personal reflections. In these essays, Friedmann demonstrates how the cards of the Major Arcana can be used as a lens through which to examine the unexpectedness — and subtle beauty — of 21st-century life.

The True and The Eternal is the result of the collaboration between two visionaries, Danish bestselling author and renowned mystic Lars Muhl and gifted intuitive Naleea Landmann.
Together they have created a work of depth and insight, based on the testimony of Lars’ decades-long spiritual exploration combined with Naleea’s profound clarity, resulting in a book that is as inspiring as it is transformative.
This remarkable partnership bridges Lars’ life story, ancient wisdom, and modern spiritual understanding, offering timeless teachings and practical guidance. From Yeshua’s (Jesus’) healing methods, the Aramaic language he spoke, and Essene wisdom to revelations about God Consciousness, Lars and Naleea share their metaphysical experiences and guide readers on a profound journey from the world of questions into the world of answers.
The True and The Eternal is about spiritual transformation and is a moving and enlightening work that reveals the mysteries of existence and the transcendental possibilities man was given in the beginning of time. Together, Lars and Naleea have created a book that will inspire, heal and transform lives.

Exploring death, religion, science and social crisis, this is a startling history of the occult between the world wars, when Spiritualism was truly an international obsession.

The interwar period was a golden age of the uncanny. Clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind-readers, miracle-workers and jinn-summoners--all assured the masses that, just like the newly discovered invisible forces of electricity, radiation and magnetism, unseen spiritual powers commanded a realm of hidden human potential. This was a transnational movement of eccentrics, gurus and prophets, with East and West interacting in unexpected ways.

Drawing on untapped sources in Arabic as well as European records, Raphael Cormack follows two of the most unusual and charismatic figures of this age: Tahra Bey, who took 1920s Paris by storm as an 'Oriental' missionary; and Dr Dahesh, who harnessed Western science to create a pan-religious faith in Lebanon. Travelling between Cairo, New York and Jerusalem, Paris, Istanbul and Rio de Janeiro, the two mystics reflected the desires and anxieties of a troubled age. These forgotten holy men, who embodied the allure of the unexplained at a time of dramatic change, speak to our own unstable world today.

'From Athens and Cairo to Montmartre and Manhattan, Raphael Cormack reconstructs the careers of four occult impresarios through interlinked circles of artists, immigrants, politicians, and theatergoers. Rarely is cultural history presented with such mesmerizing legerdemain.'

--Nile Green, author ofEmpire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah