A People’s Guide To Tarot
A Primer For Everyone
by Rhyd Wildermuth
Release Date 1 September, 2024
Ritona is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of the latest book by druid, theorist, and author Rhyd Wildermuth.
A People’s Guide To Tarot: A Primer for Everyone is exactly what it claims to be. Rather than the dense and obscure language of most guides to magic and divination, A People’s Guide to Tarot shows how the skill of reading cards — and the mindset that comes with it — is available to everyone.
A People’s Guide To Tarot includes clear and broadly-accessible explanations of card meanings, tips for learning how to ask the right questions, and multiple ways of understanding the relationships between the cards and the reader.
About the Author: Rhyd Wildermuth is the author of eight books, including Being Pagan: A Guide to Re-Enchant Your Life. He’s a writer and a druid, and he splits his free time equally between the garden and the gym.
Specifications
Hardback: 6.14 inches x 9.21 inches (Royal), 124 black&white pages on 50lb cream paper, matte dust jacket on grey digital cloth. Retail: US 27.50
Paperback: 6.14 inches x 9.21 inches (Royal), 124 black&white pages on 50lb cream paper, perfectbound with matte finish cover. Retail: US 17.50
Digital: EPUB, PDF, Kindle: US 9.99
Pre-Ordering Details
A People’s Guide to Tarot: A Primer for Everyone, will release into the world 1 September, 2024. Before its date of publication, it can be purchased in advance for 20% off its retail price
Hardcover Edition: 27.50 US 22.00
Perfectbound Edition: 17.50 US 14.00
Use code PEOPLES for this discount at checkout
In addition, Ritona offers two special book packages that include A People’s Guide to Tarot. These are curated collections of books which complement each other, and our packages allow readers to purchase multiple books together at a significant discount.
People’s Guides Package
This packages includes the perfectbound editions of the following books, each of which focuses on making magic accessible to everyone:
A People’s Guide to Tarot: A Primer for Everyone, by Rhyd Wildermuth
The Witch’s Kin: Deepening Your Relationship With Nature, Spirits, and Humankind, by Asa West
Reclaiming Ourselves, by Emma Kathryn
Being Pagan: A Guide to Re-Enchant Your Life, by Rhyd Wildermuth
These books together retail for US 69.00, but can be bought as part of this package for US 55.00 (save 14.00).
Recent Hardcover Package
This package include the hardcover editions of the following books:
A People’s Guide To Tarot: A Primer For Everyone, by Rhyd Wildermuth
The Witch’s Kin: Deepening Your Relationship With Nature, Spirits, and Humankind, by Asa West
True to the Earth: Pagan Political Theology, by Kadmus
These books together retail for US 85.00, but can be bought as part of this package for US 68.00 (save 17.00).
To Pre-Order
Select your preferred option (Perfectbound, Hardcover, People’s Guides, or Recent Hardcover) on the form below and then click “add to cart.” You can then click “go to cart” to checkout.
At checkout, used code PEOPLES to apply the 20% pre-order discount.
Please note that advance orders — including all titles in advance order packages — are shipped together at the date of publication (1 September, 2024).
The Witch’s Kin
Deepening Your Relationship With Nature,
Spirits, and Humankind
by Asa West
Release date: 1 May, 2024
“Kinship, to me, means striving to truly understand the many beings around us — human, plant, animal, and spirit — and building community with all of them.
Not just the ones we feel an immediate affinity with. Not just the ones who are nice to us. All of them. Because they’re part of our communities already, whether we like it or not.”
From Asa West, the author of the wildly-popular Five Principles of Green Witchcraft, comes her exciting second release with RITONA: The Witch’s Kin: Deepening Your Relationship With Nature, Spirit, and Humankind.
In this book, Asa West offers a profoundly radical — yet deeply intuitive — framework for relating to all the others around us. Drawing from the deep wells of animist, scientific, and magical traditions, as well as her own deeply kind insights into human and other-than-human relations, The Witch’s Kin offers practical advice for being in the world with others.
“The kinship worldview restores our nature as humans, one clan among the many with whom we share this world. This book is a wonderful gift to those of us whose ancestors long ago lost the practices of relationship and connection, guiding us in how we may return to the family of all beings.”
About Asa West:
Asa West is a witch, writer, and artist in Los Angeles, California. Her work stems from Reclaiming Witchcraft, British Traditional Witchcraft, and her Jewish heritage, and she's fascinated by the intersections of nature and civilization. She's also the author of the zine Five Principles of Green Witchcraft.
Specifications:
Hardback: 6.14 inches x 9.21 inches (Royal), 150 black&white pages on 50lb cream paper, matte dust jacket on grey digital cloth.
Paperback: 6.14 inches x 9.21 inches (Royal), 150 black&white pages on 50lb cream paper, perfectbound with matte finish cover.
Digital: EPUB, PDF
Ordering Information:
Hardcover editions retail for US 27.50 and Perfectbound editions for 20.00 US. Combined Digital Editions are available for US 12.00.
In addition to single editions, RITONA has created two book packages to complement the publication of The Witch’s Kin. These packages allow readers to purchase multiple related books together at a significant discount.
The Hardcover package includes hardcover editions of the following titles:
The Witch’s Kin, by Asa West
True To The Earth, by Kadmus
The White Deer, by Melinda Reidinger
The Magic and Witchcraft package includes perfectbound editions of the following titles:
The Witch’s Kin, by Asa West
Reclaiming Ourselves, by Emma Kathryn
Being Pagan, by Rhyd Wildermuth
Circling The Star, by Anthony Rella
Five Principles of Green Witchcraft, by Asa West
The cost of the Hardcover Package is $75 US, a savings of 17.50 US from retail prices (normally 92.50 US).
The cost of the Magic and Witchcraft (paperback) Package is $55 US, a savings of 17.50 US (normally 72.50 US).
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And If I Go With Child?
Reimagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin
by Charlotte Hussey
Release date: 1 February, 2024
RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of And If I Go With Child? : Re-imagining the Mysteries of Tam Lin, by poet Charlotte Hussey.
‘His boneless fingers bend
to conjure newborn shapes
from perturbed clouds of matter,
a slippery, pink brood they fall
all around, or from me?
I wake, hands crossed
over my heart.’
Through twenty-seven poems, Charlotte Hussey explores the initiatory potential of the ancient Scottish faery story, “The Ballad of Tam Lin.”
The ballad tells the tale of a woman’s haunting encounter with a figure trapped by the Faerie Queen. In And If I Go With Child?, Charlotte Hussey becomes the story itself, and speaks beautifully in her poems of the power of redemptive love.
Specifications:
5.5 in x 8.5 in, perfect bound, matte cover, 76 black&white interior pages on cream paper.
Ordering Information:
And If I Go With Child releases into the world 1 February, 2024, and will retail for 12 US. Before its date of publication, it can be ordered for 10 US. All pre-ordered copies are shipped by the publication date before regular orders are shipped.
In addition, RITONA has bundled several poetry books together to celebrate the publication of And If I Go With Child. These include:
And If I Go With Child, by Charlotte Hussey
Kaleiodoscopic Forests, by Rune Kjær Rasmussen
Faunalia, by Alice Fulmer,
If In Ruins We Must Live, by Christopher Scott Thompson
Baedd and Other Poems, by Twm Gwynne
Enchanting The Shadowlands, by Lorna Smithers.
These six books can be ordered together for $42.00 US (they normally retail together for $64 US — save $22!) Please note that all books are shipped together at the release of And If I Go With Child.
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KALEIDOSCOPIC FORESTS
by Rune Kjær Rasmussen
Release date: 1 October, 2023
RITONA is pleased to announce the publication of Kaleidoscopic Forests, a collection of 56 poems from Danish animist and poet, Rune Kjær Rasmussen.
“Imagine all the language you do not know about.
Hibernating everywhere around the world. Or in full speed. The claws
and the paws and the grabbers. The elements. Sunshine
finding its way to a snout, a pinecone, a beetle.What kind of word is an animal to give to so many?”
Startling, playful, and profound insights drip from every leaf of Rasmussen’s work, refracting the everyday into an explosion of dazzling meaning.
Specifications:
5.5 in x 8.5 in, perfect bound, matte cover, black&white interior on cream paper.
Ordering Information:
Kaleidoscopic Forests releases into the world 1 October, 2023 and will retail for 12 US. Before its date of publication, it can be ordered for 10 US. All pre-ordered copies are shipped by the publication date before regular orders.
In addition, RITONA has bundled several poetry books together to celebrate the publication of Kaleidoscopic Forests. These include Faunalia, by Alice Fulmer, If In Ruins We Must Live, by Christopher Scott Thompson, and Baedd and Other Poems, by Twm Gwynn. These can be ordered together for $25.00 US (they normally retail together for $31 US) Please note that all books are shipped together at the release of Kaleidoscopic Forests.
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by Kadmus
Release date: 1 September, 2023
RITONA is pleased to announce an updated edition of one of our most popular titles: True To The Earth: Pagan Political Theology.
Originally released in 2018, True to the Earth is the first English work to offer a robust explanation of the power of pagan cosmologies and their relevance for modern environmental, political, and social crises.
This updated edition includes a foreword from Sarah Lyons and a new introduction from the author.
Organic pluralism, an embrace of multiple, conflicting truths, and a deep understanding of the interconnection between humans and the natural world: all were core values of oral and animist cultures. As global climate change and the collapse of Empire throw the earth and our modern societies into crisis, these core values are what humanity and the nature it destroys desperately need again.
“A fantastic eye-opener! Kadmus walks us through a profoundly-written approach to conscious embodiment and the living-out of pagan myth to develop a respectful reverence of all things, and from there guides us to an outlook of better living for and with our beleaguered world already so cruelly detached from the awe necessary for our continued survival and thriving. —”
In True To The Earth: Pagan Political Theology, author and professor of philosophy Kadmus weaves a narrative from the lore of Celtic, Greek, Norse, and indigenous traditions to show us how we once saw the world and how we can see it again. He unveils the modern assumptions which blind us from seeing the past and what we've lost, challenges the core foundations of literal, universalist thinking, and shakes us free from the unseen bonds monotheism has placed upon our understanding of ourselves and the world.
“True to the Earth provides a needed antidote to crackpot realism and the cynical calls for an “acceptable” level of misery in our politics. Many better worlds are possible, and Kadmus gives us a valuable vision of what shape these better worlds could take if we have the courage and luck to make them.”
Specifications and Ordering Information
This new edition of True to the Earth: Pagan Political Theology, will be released in all formats, including hardcover, on 1 September, 2023
Hardcover edition: 6.14 inches x 9.21 inches (Royal), 190 pages, hardcover with digital cloth finish and matte dust jacket, B&W text — $27.50
Paperback edition: 6.14 inches x 9.21 inches (Royal), 190 pages, perfect bound, matte cover, B&W text. —$18.00
In addition, we are offering two packages:
HARDCOVER RELEASE PACKAGE: includes hardcover editions of both True To The Earth and The White Deer, by Melinda Reidinger, for $55.00 US (these normally retail together for $65.00 US — save ten dollars!)
PAGAN THEORY COLLECTION: includes the paperback editions of True to the Earth, The White Deer by Melinda Reidinger, and Being Pagan, by Rhyd Wildermuth, for $48.00 US (these normally retail together for 58.00 US — save ten dollars!)
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Ecospirituality and the Mythic
By Melinda Reidinger
Release Date: 1 March, 2023
“... a journey that weaves ancient tradition with modern science and delivers us into a realm full of sovereignty and possibility—a realm we might just call home.”
In ancient myths from throughout the world, the appearance of a white deer presages a warning, leads humans to crucial crossroads, and points us to a gate to better understanding our our relationship to the world. Also, throughout history and in science, the white deer has been a sign of imbalance, impending peril, and also profound moments of opening and transformation.
In The White Deer: Ecospirituality and the Mythic, Melinda Reidinger chases the white deer down mythic paths and startling (and sometimes shocking) tracks. From the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand to the blue blood of horseshoe crabs, “monstrous” ladies and fallen knights to Magyar star-myths and desert forests, The White Deer speaks to a relationship with the living world we’ve forgotten but can learn to find again.
Deeply researched and densely rich with details from science, history, myth, and dream, and written with a warmly engaging voice, Melinda Reidinger’s opus also features the haunting interior illustration work of James Hutton and a foreword by Gordon White.
“ The White Deer is a brilliant book. Everyone who wants to think deeply about how to face the changing climate of the world and its increasingly-rare occasions for enchant- ment, should read it.”
Specifications
The White Deer—a crucial reference and a deeply inspiring tome—is published in multiple editions including Ritona’s first hardback edition.
Deluxe (hardcover): 6.14 inches x 9.21 inches (Royal), full color with images on 70lb paper, 290 pages, matte dust jacket, digital cloth.
Standard (paperback): 6.14 inches x 9.21 inches (Royal), full color with images on 70lb paper, 290 pages, perfectbound with matte cover
“Reidinger is a polymath, whose excursions into a tapestry of disciplines is as delightful as Joseph Campbell at his best; in this volume Reidinger has joined the ranks of the storytellers her work seeks to praise—it is a lyrical tour-de-force.”
Ordering Information
The White Deer: Ecospirituality and the Mythic by Melinda Reidinger released to the world 1 March, 2023. Deluxe (hardcover) editions retail for $37.50 US and Standard (paperback) editions for $22.50 US. Digital editions (PDF and EPUB) are sold together for $12.00 US.
In addition to single edition sales, The White Deer is offered as part of two packages. These allow readers to purchase several related books together for greatly reduced prices.
Deluxe (hardcover) release package:
Includes The White Deer by Melinda Reidinger as well as The Dead Hermes Epistolary by Slippery Elm and True To The Earth: Pagan Political Theology by Kadmus. The cost of this package is 55.00 (save 12.50: these books together retail normally for 67.50).
Standard (paperback) release package:
Includes The White Deer by Melinda Reidinger as well as The Dead Hermes Epistolary by Slippery Elm, True To The Earth: Pagan Political Theology by Kadmus, and Courting The Wild Queen by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue . The cost of this package is 55.00 (save 13.50: these books together retail for 68.50.)
“This book is a well-balanced and conversation-provoking joy.”
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Deluxe (Hardcover): 37.50 US
Standard (Paperback): 22.50 US
Deluxe (Hardcover) package: 55.00 US
Standard (Paperback) package: 55.00 US
Please note: all books within a package are delivered together after the release date of 1 March 2023.
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Poems from Alice Fulmer
Release Date: 1 May, 2023
“…Run me past the aqueducts,
of misery waft me, sift me, calibrate the
portions of my soul unmotherseen.
Prepare me for a harvest of nines
and nones and kneed in me those
moments in meadows and prices
Of pearls. Craft me into a homily
of the Earth and its green spots.”
From Alice Fulmer comes a collection of poems lushly vulnerable and soul-shakingly sensual. As with the best magical realism, her poems reveal just past arid city streets a sudden swell of verdant life.
“In that golden aged year, I learned that Grief is
a place you go, where you hang out with
dryads with tall tales, dripping off their boughs,
just to fill Apollo’s birdbaths with coins at the bottom.”
Specifications:
84 pages, 5.5 in x 8.5 in, perfect bound, matte cover, black&white interior.
Pre-Ordering Information
Faunalia, by Alice Fulmer will release into the world 1 May, 2023, and will retail for $10 US. Before that date, it can be pre-ordered for only $8 US. Pre-ordered copies will be delivered first to readers before regular orders are delivered.
(Essays)
By Rhyd Wildermuth
Release date 1 December, 2022
Continuing the legacy of his previous collections (Your Face is a Forest, A Kindness of Ravens, and Witches in a Crumbling Empire), The Secret of Crossings collects the best prosaic and esoteric writings of Rhyd Wildermuth from 2020 to 2022.
“We can only hope perhaps there are still some secret paths that can be forded. Maybe not for all of humanity, nor even for most of us, but maybe at least the few who still look for those crossings: those who stand in awe at the larger forces of nature our false god Progress has unleashed.”
The Secret of Crossings compiles twenty-five essays first published for subscribers to From The Forests of Arduinna or Another World, many of them never released to the public.
About the Author
Rhyd Wildermuth is a druid, a theorist, and an autonomous Marxist. He writes at From The Forests of Arduinna, and is the author of six other books, including Being Pagan: A Guide To Re-enchant Your Life.
Print Specifications:
5.25 x 8 in, 254 pages, perfect bound with matte cover.
ORDERING Information
The Secret of Crossings by Rhyd Wildermuth released to the public 1 December, 2022 and retails for 17.50 US (print), 11.00 US (digital) and 9.99 US (Kindle).
In addition, The Secret of Crossings is part of several book packages. These packages allow readers to purchase similar books together at a greatly reduced rate. Please note that packages which contain an upcoming release are shipped together at the release date.
Recent Release Package: Includes The Secret of Crossings and Being Pagan by Rhyd Wildermuth, as well as Courting the Wild Queen by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue. This package is 38.00 US, a savings of $12.50 (normally $50.50 US).
Full Author Package: Contains seven books by Rhyd Wildermuth: The Secret of Crossings, Being Pagan, Your Face Is A Forest, A Kindness of Ravens, Witches In A Crumbling Empire, All That Is Sacred Is Profaned, and The Provisioner. This package is $70.00 US, a savings of $17 (normally $87.00)
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By Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue
Updated Release Date 21 June 2022
RITONA Press is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Courting The Wild Queen, by poet, herbalist, and mystic Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue.
“Just as a god might be the mind that arises from a forest, a river, a planet or a cluster of galaxies, so too each person’s consciousness is a collective consciousness born of the matter and energy that make up our beings.”
Courting The Wild Queen is a deeply poetic exploration of the ancient and modern world through the mythic and the ecological. Mycelium networks spreading their tangled threads of meaning beneath the forest floor reveal to the reader our own tapestries of meaning, while the ancient lore of Irish Kings and Queens of Land unveil the lost—but recoverable—centres of human existence.
Specifications:
156 pages, 5.25in x 8in, perfect bound with matte cover and black & white interior
Ordering Information:
Courting The Wild Queen will retail for 16.00 US in print and $11.00 in digital (pdf) and on Kindle (offsite) for $9.99.
In addition, Courting The Wild Queen is offered as part of several book collections. These collections offer readers a way to purchase multiple related books at greatly reduced prices.
Myth & Ecology Collection: Includes four books on ecological awareness and the realm of myth and lore: Courting the Wild Queen by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue, Being Pagan, by Rhyd Wildermuth, Five Principles of Green Witchcraft, by Asa West, and The Dead Hermes Epistolary, by Slippery Elm. Available for $35.50 US (save $10, normally $45.50 US).
Herbalism Collection: Includes two books on the subject of herbalism, Courting the Wild Queen by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue and Five Principles of Green Witchcraft, by Asa West. Available together for $17 US (save $5, normally $22 US)
Mystic Works: Includes three books of particular mystic quality: Courting the Wild Queen by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue, The Book of Onei, by Christopher Scott Thompson, Baedd and Other Poems, by Twm Gwynne, and Enchanting the Shadowlands, by Lorna Smithers. Available for $43 US (save $10—normally $53 US).
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A Guide to Re-Enchant Your World, by Rhyd Wildermuth
Release Date 15 November, 2021
(For the course of the same name, please see this link)
“To be pagan is to be connected to the land in a way that stands outside of—and often in opposition to—the concerns of the urban and of Empire. Even though the official histories of humanity always focus on them, empires and the cities they form are mere temporary interruptions to a more organic and mostly unwritten history of human life.
It is a history of relationship to land, of connection to it, of life lived in relative harmony with the nature of which humans are but one small part. It is not just a history, however, but a still-living reality for much of the world, and one we can still connect to and become part of.”
In a world of uncertainty, political upheaval, climate change, and endless consumerism, in alienated societies bereft of meaning and connection to nature or community, what does it mean to be Pagan?
From druid, theorist, and writer Rhyd Wildermuth comes Being Pagan, a guide to re-enchant your world. Exploring the meaning of pagan connection—to time, to land, to body, to nature, and to Other—through history, personal experiences, and myth, Wildermuth offers simple yet profound guidance for anyone searching for a deeper way to live.
Specifications:
230 pages, 5.25in x 8in, perfect bound with matte cover and black & white interior
Ordering Information:
Being Pagan retails for 17.50 US in print and $12.00 in digital. It is also available on Kindle for $9.99.
In addition, Being Pagan is offered as part of several book collections. These collections offer readers a way to purchase multiple related books at greatly reduced prices.
Re-Enchantment Collection: Includes three books exploring the re-enchantment of the world: Being Pagan, by Rhyd Wildermuth, Reclaiming Yourself, by Emma Kathryn, and Gods-Speaking, by Judith O’Grady. Available for $32.50 US (save $9)
Pagan Theory Collection: Includes three books for those who wish to explore the theory and philosophy of Paganism and magic: Being Pagan, by Rhyd Wildermuth, The Dead Hermes Epistolary, by Slippery Elm, and True To The Earth, by Kadmus. Available together for $35 US (save $12.50)
Author Package: Includes all 6 books published by Rhyd Wildermuth through Gods&Radicals Press, including Being Pagan, Your Face Is A Forest, A Kindness of Ravens, Witches In A Crumbling Empire, All That Is Sacred Is Profaned, and The Provisioner. Available for $55 US (save $15).
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About the Author
Rhyd Wildermuth
Rhyd is a druid, a writer, and a theorist. He was born in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains but now lives in a forested valley of the Ardennes.
Being Pagan is his sixth book. He is also the author of The Provisioner, All That is Sacred Is Profaned, Witches in a Crumbling Empire, A Kindness of Ravens, and Your Face Is a Forest, all from Gods&Radicals Press and RITONA Press.
He also writes frequently at From The Forests of Arduinna (rhyd.substack.com), and whiles much of his time with words, with plants, with his bike, with weightlifting, and with his partner.
Poems from Christopher Scott Thompson
Release Date: 1 October, 2021
Sorcerers of coal and oil,
We invoked, they came.
Never mind the prayers and praises,
Last-ditch rages, guilt and blame.
Gods as deaf as us have gathered:
Storm and flame and wind.
Now the gates of Ys are opened.
Now the ocean rushes in.
From Christopher Scott Thompson (author of Pagan Anarchism) comes a collection of mystic poetry for the punk, the rebel, the witch, and the dreamer.
In his poetic works, myth-soaked urban alleys lead to ancient ritual sites of awakening gods, while the spirits of fallen rebels whisper their secrets into the dwellers of post-apocalyptic landscapes.
Specifications:
106 pages, 4in x 6in, perfect bound, matte cover, black&white interior.
Ordering Information
If In Ruins We Must Live released 1 October, 2021 and retails for 8 US.
In addition, If In Ruins We Must Live can be ordered as part of several special book packages. They include the following:
Author New Release Collection: Includes If In Ruins We Must Live and The Book Of Onei, both by Christopher Scott Thompson. These books retail together for 23 US but can be purchased together as part of this collection for 17.50 US
Full Author Collection: Includes If In Ruins We Must Live, The Book Of Onei, and Pagan Anarchism, all by Christopher Scott Thompson. These books retail together for 33 US but can be purchased together as part of this collection for 22.50 US
Poetry Collection: Includes If In Ruins We Must Live, Baedd & Other Poems (by Twm Gwynne), and Enchanting The Shadowlands (by Lorna Smithers). These books retail together for 30 US but can be purchased together as part of this collection for 22.50 US.
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From Christopher Scott Thompson
Release Date: 1 October, 2021
“The Book of Onei is not The Book,” my father once said. I remember him still, walking beside me on that sunless beach—but was it before he had died, or after? “The Book of Onei is only a guide, a book of riddles that don’t always lead to any answers, a book of truths within lies. I have been to Onei many times, but I have never been to any of the cities or nations mentioned in the Book of Onei, nor have I seen their ruins, nor met their citizens. As far as I can tell they do not exist, and most likely they never existed—not even in Onei.”
“Then what is the Book of Onei?” I asked him. “Is it just a fraud?”
“The Book of Onei is both a key and a lock,” he said. His face was haunted, as if he always listened and always waited—perhaps for a footfall. “Those stories mean something, but I do not know what. The Book of Onei hints at something, but I am afraid to ask.”
From Christopher Scott Thompson (author of Pagan Anarchism and If In Ruins We Must Live) comes The Book of Onei, an antinomian dream grimoire.
The Book of Onei is a rare work of myth that is simultaneously fantasy and a ritual guide to your own dreaming.
Specifications:
140 pages, perfect bound, 5.25in x 8in, matte cover, black&white interior.
Ordering Information
The Book of Onei will release into the world 1 October, 2021, and will retail for $15 US in print or $10 US in digital
In addition, The Book of Onei is included in several print collection packages which offer readers a chance to purchase several related books at reduced prices. They are the following:
Author New Release Collection: Includes If In Ruins We Must Live and The Book Of Onei, both by Christopher Scott Thompson. These books retail together for 23 US but can be purchased together as part of this collection for 17.50 US
Full Author Collection: Includes If In Ruins We Must Live, The Book Of Onei, and Pagan Anarchism, all by Christopher Scott Thompson. These books retail together for 33 US but can be purchased together as part of this collection for 22.50 US
Ritual Fantasy Collection: Includes The Book of Onei by Christopher Scott Thompson and The Provisioner, by Rhyd Wildermuth. These books retail together for 29 US but can be purchased together as part of this collection for 22.50 US.
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Reclaiming Food,
by Emma Kathryn
Core recipes and Cooking Skills for Reclaiming Your Food Security
Release Date: 1 September, 2021
From Emma Kathryn (author of Reclaiming Ourselves and instructor of Becoming Wild—The Tools of Resistance) comes a uniquely useful and simple guide to something many of us have forgotten we can do for ourselves: cooking.
In her much-loved straightforward and playful manner, Emma Kathryn explains the basics of cooking and pantry management, and offers scores of recipes that can be modified and expanded to create countless other dishes, all with the goal of helping the reader become more independent from commercial food production, more secure in their food budgets, and more grounded in their relationship with nature and the earth.
Specifications:
8 in X 5.25 perfect bound,140 pages, b&w with matte cover. Release Date: 1 September, 2021
Ordering Information
Reclaiming Food, by Emma Kathryn, retails for $14.00 US for the Print edition and $10.00 US for the digital edition.
In addition, we are offering an author package by Emma Kathryn which contains both print books published through us: Reclaiming Ourselves and Reclaiming Food. These two books together normally cost $29.00 US but can be purchased together for $22.00 US plus shipping.
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Baedd & Other Poems
by Twm Gwynne
Release date: 1 August 2021
“From here, I can taste the falling waters
In the air.”
Gods&Radicals Press is thrilled to offer Baedd & Other Poems, our first poetry chapbook through our mystic and esoteric imprint, Ritona.
From poet and writer Twm Gwynne (published in A Beautiful Resistance) comes a short collection of profound poetry inspired by raw life, deep nature, and the spirit in all things.
“Twm’s subtle grasp of the profound power in simple words manifests in poems that startle and linger long after you’ve read them.”
—Rhyd Wildermuth
Specifications
62 pages, 4 in x 6 in, perfect bound, b&w with matte cover. Release day 1 August, 2021
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Baedd & Other Poems retails for 7 US in print and $4 US in digital.
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THE PROVISIONER, by Rhyd Wildermuth
A fantasy Romance novella
Release date: 1 May, 2021)
Garen is a Provisioner, gifted and cursed with unbidden visions of the future and unconscious moments of sordid lust. He is trained and devoted to use his ability to help those in need, but when an empire on the verge of war enlists him to provision a group of brutal killers hunting the last surviving wolf, he must decide whether to follow the inscrutable plots of the goddess of foresight or embrace his own buried desire.
The Provisioner is a work of erotic fantasy, of bodily liberation, and of deep magic.
Specifications:
158 pages, 8 x 5.25, perfect bound with matte cover, b&w interior.
Release date: 1 May, 2021
Ordering Information
Single purchase: The Provisioner retails for $14.00 US.
Author package: We offer a package where readers may purchase additional books at a reduced rate. This package includes the author’s first three esoteric prose books published by Gods&Radicals Press: Your Face Is A Forest, A Kindness of Ravens, and Witches In A Crumbling Empire. The total retail value of this package is $55.00, but they can be purchased together along with The Provisioner for $45 US.
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Enchanting The Shadowlands (print re-release), by Lorna Smithers
"Few of her poems do what you think they’ll do; none of the paths she leads you down go where you expect, and each time you’re left a little breathless, a little surprised at yourself, and looking around for the guide you thought you were following." (From Rhyd Wildermuth's review)
Gods&Radicals Press, through our new poetry and mystic imprint Ritona, is pleased to release a new edition of Lorna Smithers' first collection of poetic works, Enchanting The Shadowlands. Poems and short stories gathered from the local landscape in response to an imperative from Gwyn ap Nudd, Enchanting The Shadowlands does precisely what its title suggests.
Originally released in 2015, this edition features updated layout and cover design, as well as an introduction from Rhyd Wildermuth.
order Information
Enchanting The Shadowlands retails for 15.00 US in print and 6.00 US digital.
In addition, two other books by Lorna Smithers are also being re-released in print through Gods&Radicals Press in our Ritona imprint: The Broken Cauldron and Gatherer of Souls. Each will retail for 15.00 US but can be purchased together along with Enchanting the Shadowlands for 30.00 US (a savings of 15.00 US from retail cost).
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In The Midnight Hour, by Anthony Rella
finding power in difficult emotions
Release date: 15 November, 2020
“A story like “I don’t matter” seems persuasive when it’s ricocheting off the interior of our skulls but makes no sense from the outside.
The truth is, we matter. Our bodies are literally matter. Once we exist, our very existence is an influence upon the world. Having a body means I take up space, I consume resources that could go to others, I am participating in life and culture and relationships. If I am in a room, someone sees me, and my presence impacts them in a certain way. There is no opting out."
From writer, witch, and licensed therapist Anthony Rella comes a collection of short essays on emotions, boundaries, disappointment, guilt, hope, shame, intimacy, and connection. Written with the warm voice of a caring and patient friend, these essays help guide the reader to their own center where they can find power, balance, and joy not despite difficult moments and emotions, but because of them.
Specifications
4 x 6 (“pocket”), 95 b&w pages, perfect bound with matte cover
Pre-sale information:
In The Midnight Hour: Finding Power in Difficult Emotions will retail for $7.00 plus shipping.
Until 15 November, single copies may be ordered for $6.00 US plus shipping.
In addition, two book packages have been created for those who wish to take advantage of reduced pricing.
Author Package: Anthony Rella’s first book with Gods&Radicals Press, Circling The Star, can be purchased along with In The Midnight Hour together for $20.00, a savings of $2.00 from retail prices
Pocket Series: In The Midnight Hour is part of a new series of pocket-sized books designed for gift-giving, sharing, and personal collections. This is the third book in this series; the other two—Five Principles of Green Witchcraft and Solidarity Networks & Emergency Survival—can be purchased along with In The Midnight Hour for $15.00 US (a savings of $4.00 from retail prices).
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THE BROKEN CAULDRON (re-Release), by Lorna Smithers
“What lies in the cauldron now you have done away with the knowledge of wise women? Split the witches in half? Killed the giants? Driven to the seas the most ancient of boars? You are on the wrong quest, looking for the wrong grail, the cure-all that does not exist.”
Gods&Radicals is pleased to re-release the print edition of Lorna Smithers’ second collection of mystical and mythic poetry and prose, The Broken Cauldron.
At the centre of ancient British mythology stands the cauldron; a symbol of inspiration, wisdom, rebirth, the womb of Ceridwen, Old Mother Universe. What happens when it lies shattered, the universe fragmented, the world out of kilter?
First published in 2018, Gods&Radicals Press is thrilled to bring The Broken Cauldron back into print through our imprint Ritona. Read Rhyd Wildermuth's review of The Broken Cauldron here.
PRE-ORder Information
The Broken Cauldron, by Lorna Smithers, retails for 15.00 US in print and 6.00 in digital.
In addition the The Broken Cauldron, we are re-releasing two other books by Lorna Smithers through our Ritona imprint: Gatherer of Souls and Enchanting The Shadowlands. Each will retail for 15.00 US, but the three can be purchased together in advance for only 30.00 US (a savings of 15 US from retail cost).
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GATHERER OF SOULS (Re-Release), by LORNA SMITHERS
Gods&Radicals Press is thrilled to announce that we are re-releasing Gatherer of Souls, by Lorna Smithers. Originally printed in 2018 and out of print, this collection of prose and poems by awenydd Lorna Smithers lures the reader into the mist-veiled forests of time to meet Gwyn Ap Nudd.
'“Chasing the chaser into his myths, hunting with the hunter into the place from which dreams and reality are both born, Lorna leads the reader into the wet caverns below the coal mines, across the ice fields long-since melted into sea, into a time long before witch-blood and wolf-blood could ever be stolen to build Empire.
As with her other books (Enchanting the Shadowlands and The Broken Cauldron), Gatherer of Souls seems at first to be an innocuous collection of prose and poems. Part of Lorna’s particular magic (and her path as an awenydd), however, is to lull the reader into a serene sense of wonder and familiarity before moving the earth beneath their feet. Like walking through a forest shrouded in mist, her narrative voice feels safe, close, quiet, but veils from your sight until it is time the unearthly truths she wants to show you.”
—Rhyd Wildermuth
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Gatherer of Souls, by Lorna Smithers, retails for 15.00 US in Print and 6.00 US in digital.
In addition to Gatherer of Souls, Gods&Radicals Press is also re-releasing two other books by Lorna Smithers through our Ritona imprint: Enchanting The Shadowlands and The Broken Cauldron. Each will retail for 15.00 US but can be purchased together in advance of their release for 30.00 US (a savings of 15.00 US from retail cost).
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Reclaiming Ourselves, by Emma Kathryn
release date: 15 November, 2020
In this time of economic, social, and environmental collapse, we cannot rely on governments or leaders to guide us through the chaos. Yet this is no reason for despair, because these crises open old doors we thought rusted shut and old paths we thought too overgrown to ever find again.
Reclaiming Ourselves is a guide to those paths and a key to those doors.
With her clear and welcoming writing, Emma Kathryn presents an accessible and insightful map to rediscovering what we have always been capable of: reclaiming our relationship to ourselves, to our bodies, to the land around us, to healing, to food, to community, and to spirituality. Easily adaptable for any circumstance, her practical advice and tips on becoming more secure in this difficult world and her discussions of the struggles many of us face in reconnecting to ourselves feel like the words of a kind friend reminding us we will be okay.
Reclaiming Ourselves, by Emma Kathryn, is an ideal book for everyone seeking strength and connection to not only survive but thrive and be a light for others in these dark times.
Specifications: 130 pages, 5.25x8, B&W interior, perfect bound with matte cover
ORDERING
Reclaiming Ourselves, from Emma Kathryn, will release into the world 15 November, 2020 and will retail for $14 US. Before its release date, we are offering a special pre-sale price of $11 US, a savings of $3.00
In addition, we are also offering a combined pre-sale package of several books together which expand upon the themes of Reclaiming Ourselves. That package includes Reclaiming Ourselves (from Emma Kathryn), Five Principles of Green Witchcraft (from Asa West), Solidarity Networks & Emergency Survival (anonymous), and Witches in a Crumbling Empire (from Rhyd Wildermuth). Those books together retail for $41.00 US but can be ordered together as a package for $35.00 US
To order, use the form below and select either Single (for single copies of Reclaiming Ourselves) or Guides (for the package), then click “add to cart.”
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A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE 5: AFTER EMPIRE
Gods&Radicals Press is thrilled to announce After Empire, the fifth issue of our print journal, A Beautiful Resistance.
A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire explores the truths we are all beginning to understand, the whispers on the plague winds, the portents in the polluted sky, the omens in the failing harvests and the chthonic call in the rising seas. Everywhere we look we see it: Empire is ending.
But no Empire ends politely nor quietly, nor do the torturous forms of their control merely disappear with them. Centuries of oppression, of discipline, of the shaping of our thoughts and dreams will not merely go away when the Capitols and Capital no longer exert their mythic power over our lives.
A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire is a ritual work of re-imagining, a revel and a parade back into the wilds of our own dreaming, our own symbols, our own forms of connection and community decoupled and divorced from what Empire has made of us.
A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire is edited by Rhyd Wildermuth with the brilliant design work of Casandra Johns and features the literary, poetic, fictive, and graphic work of 27 artists and writers, including:
Christopher Scott Thompson · Mirna Wabi-Sabi · Emma Kathryn ·Peter Grey · Rune Kjær Rasmussen · TWM GWYNNE · Ulrich Gehmann · V. Crowe · Shane Burley · Kathleen Yearwood · Frank Seeburger · TaHlia Palmer · Sonali Roy · Peter Mark Adams · Finnchuill · Jane Skjoldli · Maddy Hag · Allyson Shaw · Lia Vé · Mason Parker · Ayling Zulema Dominguez · Laura Welsman · Slippery Elm · LAURIE RAE DIETRICH · Mel Hill · Bea Xu ·Z. Sager · Rhyd Wildermuth · DOMINIK RINNHOFER
Release Date: 15 October, 2020
Specifications: 150 pages, 8.5 x 11, full color, perfect bound, matte cover, with full-color images
Order Information:
A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire retails for 27.50 US.
In addition, Gods&Radicals Press offers A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire as part of two book packages. These packages allow readers to purchase multiple books at reduced cost.
The first package is our Journal Collection, which contains all five issues of A Beautiful Resistance (Everything We Already Are, The Fire Is Here, Left Sacred, The Crossing, and After Empire). The first four are no longer available as individual print orders, so this is the only way to purchase these. All five can be purchased for $60 US + shipping. Select JOURNAL as your purchase option.
The second package contains A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire and We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us, by Patrick Farnsworth. Both are designed by Casandra Johns and are not only beautiful works of art but also collections of powerful ideas on how to live as the Empire ends. These two can be ordered together for $35.00 US plus shipping (a savings of $10 US from retail prices). Select EMPIRE as your purchase option.
SOLIDARITY NETWORKS & EMERGENCY SURVIVAL
A Practical Guide For Surviving The Collapse Of EMPIRE With Others
54 pages, 4in x 6in, perfect bound, matte cover
Gods&Radicals Press is pleased to offer two of our most-viewed practical essays, updated and expanded in print form.
Solidarity Networks (viewed over 20,000 times online) presents a concrete guide for organizing with others for mutual solidarity and safety. What Solidarity Networks are, what they are not, and step-by-step instructions on how to form one with your friends are all explained in clear language.
Emergency Survival (read over 15,000 times online) is an expanded and updated guide written by an emergency service planner and instructor with 15 years experience, lays out in plain language the basic skills needed for preparing for crisis situations.
Unlike many guides for survival, however, both essays together focus not on individualism but on mutual aid and solidarity. Rather than the loner apocalyptic fantasies mass media feeds us, these comprise “A Practical Guide For Surviving The Collapse of Empire With Others.”
Ordering Information
Solidarity Networks & Emergency Survival will be released 1 October, 2020 and is available for pre-order now for delivery between 25 September to 5 October, 2020
pricing:
Single copies cost $6.00 US plus shipping.
As this book is designed to be used not just for individuals but for groups and community distribution, Gods&Radicals Press also offers bulk purchases at a discount.
Five copies can be ordered together for $25.00 US ($5/copy) plus shipping.
Ten copies can be ordered together for $45.00 US ($4.50/copy) plus shipping
Twenty copies can be ordered together for $80.00 US ($4.00/copy) plus shipping.
For larger quantities, please contact us by email: distro@abeautifulresistance.com)
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Five Principles of Green Witchcraft, by Asa West
24 pages, perfect bound; 4 x 6, b&w interior with images
RELEASE DATE 15 SEPTEMBER, 2020
Gods&Radicals Press is thrilled to re-publish Asa West’s popular booklet, Five Principles of Green Witchcraft.
In an era of climate change and late capitalism, when everything sacred is paved over or commodified, how do you attune yourself to the rhythms of nature? How do you listen for—and hear—the language of the land on which you live? How do you push your magical practice beyond rote rituals into true communion with the spirits around you?
This short book explores green witchcraft through the lens of five principles:
1. The Forest Speaks with One Voice (unity)
2. Twilight Precedes Starlight (liminality)
3. Witchcraft Lives in the Body (embodiment)
4. The Witch Always Pays Her Coin (reciprocity)
5. The Goddess Reveals Herself in Silence (silence)
Originally published as a wildly popular and sold-out zine, Gods&Radicals Press now offers Five Principles of Green Witchcraft by special arrangement with the author.
PRE-ORDER INFORMATION
Five Principles of Green Witchcraft will retail for $6.00 US, but we are offering it at a reduced rate for pre-order. Until 15 September, single copies may be purchased for $4.50 US plus shipping.
In addition, we are offering two special pre-release book packages.
The first, Zine Collection, contains all three of our published zines: Five Principles of Green Witchcraft, Of Monsters & Miso, and A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer, both by Alley Valkyrie. Full retail price on these books together is $25 US, but you can order them all together here for $20 US
The second is our Green Witch collection, containing Five Principles of Green Witchcraft, Circling the Star (by Anthony Rella), and Gods-Speaking (by Judith O’Grady). Full retail price on these books together is $33.50 US, but you can order them all together here for $25 US.
Please note that for package orders, all books are shipped together when the primary book (Five Principles of Green Witchcraft) is released.
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We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us
from Patrick Farnsworth
Gods&Radicals Press is deeply excited to offer this collection of interviews of scientists, feminists, theorists, psychologists, journalists, environmentalists, and other important thinkers, all addressing the most overwhelming crisis of our time: Climate Change and the collapse of industrial civilization.
We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us collects interviews by audio journalist Patrick Farnsworth which first appeared on his popular podcast, Last Born In The Wilderness.
This collection weaves together the words of these thinkers into a profound narrative that challenges the way we think about the future of the planet, unflinching in its approach while always grounded in love for humanity and nature.
We Live In The Orbit Of Beings Greater Than Us features 30 interviews, along with Patrick Farnsworth commentary on the significance of each interview to our collective work for each other, ourselves, and for the earth.
Includes interviews from:
Dahr Jamail • Silvia Federici • Bayo Akomolafe
Nicholas Humphrey • Franscisco Sanchez-Bayo
William Rees • Holly Truhlar • Iain McGilchrist
Rhyd Wildermuth • Gerald Horne • Tad Hargrave
Shane Burley • Siniša Malešević • Liyah Babayan
Dezeray Lyn • Peter Gelderloos • Gord Hill
Make Rojava Green Again / Xabat • Ramon Elani
Michael Sliwa • Rob Seimetz • John H. Richardson
Jasper Bernes • Paul BeckwitH • John Halstead
Karla Tait • Stephen Jenkinson • Joe Brewer
Specifications:
8in x 10in journal format, perfect bound, B&W with images, 220 pages.
PURCHASE Information
We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us is now available in print and digital form.
Single Print editions are available for $17.00 + shipping.
In addition, we are offering We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us as part of book packages. These packages pair books of similar themes together at greatly reduced prices.
Love Letters: The first package includes both We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us and The Dead Hermes Epistolary, by Slippery Elm, together for $27 US + shipping. Both books feature profound looks into the roots of our current situation and draw together apparently disparate disciplines to answer these questions in startling and inspiring ways. This package is a $7 reduction from full retail prices.
The World Is Alive: The second packages includes both of the above books, as well as True To The Earth by Kadmus and Witches In A Crumbling Empire, by Rhyd Wildermuth. We believe these four books together will help provide a deep historical and animist context for readers seeking an engaged response to Climate Change and the problems of industrial capitalism. This package is available for $42 US + shipping (a savings of $18 from full retail prices).
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THE DEAD HERMES EPISTOLARY, by Slippery Elm
“It is a rare and precious thing to find a book which talks to the heart, and it takes a troubadour to perform such a miracle.”
—Peter Grey
254 pages, 6in x 9in, perfect bound, matte cover, black&white text
Release date: 1 December, 2019
“This is the necromantic power of love, revealed to us at last by Dead Hermes. And by raising the ghosts of the past we are given visions of the future…”
In the nine missives which comprise The Dead Hermes Epistolary, trickster poet Slippery Elm leads the reader away from the pale world of dying meaning into the ever-living dream world of our forgotten past.
Whispers of wet forests, conspiracies of witches and indigenous elders, the erotic lyric of the troubadours, the arguments of Sephardic poets, Arabic mystic texts on agriculture, perfumed Andalusian gardens where kings bow before the power of beauty, the dead dancing with the living at a wedding: all these are the ghosts Slippery Elm summons to lead us towards the transgressive and liberating magic of Hermes Chthonios.
The Dead Hermes Epistolary is a work of deep poetic beauty and an act of soul retrieval for the revolutionary spirit, lost as it’s become in the pale half-light of the internet and Empire’s relentless war against meaning. Slippery Elm deftly awakens the knowledge hidden in places we’ve forgotten to look, all the while awakening in the reader the deep power of words and the deeper magic of radical friendship.
Advance Praise From Peter Grey:
“The letters of Slippery Elm are the plumage of a nightingale who soars high, singing the lyrical anarchism of Spain. Language is the means of struggle, of subversion, satire and celebration, in a voice that turns from ecstatic to erotic. As they lift the groaning bones of Franco from his grave, the facist myth that elides the history of Al-Andalus crumbles to dust. Slippery Elm plays his part, sings the hidden song of lost Lorca, whose duende weeps as a spring more precious than gold, evokes a world that was and is, and is yet to come. An adventurer, whose path has all the light stepping and emphatic stamp of the flamenco dancer, whose dancing ground is strewn with poetry, a lover who writes with candour and beauty. It is a rare and precious thing to find a book which talks to the heart, and it takes a troubadour to perform such a miracle.”
—Peter Grey (author of Apocalyptic Witchcraft, Lucifer Princeps, The Red Goddess)
The Dead Hermes Epistolary will be released into the world 1 December, 2019 with a cover price of $17.50.
PRE-ORDER
Gods&Radicals is offering a pre-sale at a reduced price until the date of release.
Single copies until 1 December 2019 are available direct from us worldwide for $14.00+ shipping. (save $3.50 from regular price)
In addition, we’re offering the following pre-sale package for The Dead Hermes Epistolary. You can purchase The Dead Hermes Epistolary along with True To The Earth (by Kadmus) and Witches In A Crumbling Empire (by Rhyd Wildermuth) together for $36 + shipping (regular $47.50 + shipping). Please note that all books are shipped together when the primary book is released.
Tudo Que É Sagrado É Profanado
136 páginas, Brochura, P&B, Capa fosca
(Data de lançamento 15 de novembro de 2019)
Tradução de Thiago Sá
Editado por Mirna Wabi-Sabi
Como o capitalismo funciona (e por que não está funcionando)? Como pessoas ricas usam conflitos de raça e gênero para dividir e controlar pessoas pobres? Como era a vida antes do capitalismo e como seria depois? E qual é a relação entre as ideias de Marx sobre alienação e o desejo pagão de re-encantar o mundo?
Tudo Que É Sagrado É Profanado é o texto do curso introdutório popular de Rhyd Wildermuth sobre marxismo, agora disponível em português (BR). Escrito para aqueles sem experiência acadêmica privilegiada e aqueles muito ocupados tentando sobreviver para ler teoria econômica, este livro usa exemplos do mundo real para explicar como o capitalismo opera, por que surgiu e como pode ser interrompido.
Tudo Que É Sagrado É Profanado não é apenas um texto econômico ou político. Em vez disso, o pagão e druida Rhyd Wildermuth provoca as interseções entre as ideias de Marx e as visões fundamentais do mundo do animismo e do paganismo: a transformação mágica do mundo através do trabalho, a natureza inspirada das coisas que nós humanos criamos e comercializamos, e os aspectos sagrados do mundo esmagado sob as demandas de lucro.
A tradução de Tudo Que É Sagrado É Profanado para o português (BR) foi possibilitada por doadores de vários tipos à Gods & Radicals Press.
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OF MONSTERS AND MISO
from Alley Valkyrie
Release date 15 September, 2019
“The old world is dying, a new world struggles to be born. This is the time of monsters…”
Antonio Gramsci
Is it a bilingual book of delicious miso sauce recipes?
Or a gallery of monsters wielding political slogans?
Is it in English?
Ou en français?
Why not both????
From print and textile artist Alley Valkyrie comes our latest book, Of Monsters and Miso. 12 recipes for amazing sauces and dressings with miso, accompanied by 12 adorable monsters with great politics.
Turn the book around, and you have another book, this time in French (along with metric instead of standard measurements)!
A sampling of the English-speaking monsters:
Of Monsters And Miso (Des Monstres et du Miso) contains 24 hand-drawn B&W images (12 each in English and in French), with B&W text on high-quality 70lb white paper. It is an English and French duplex book, perfect bound, matte cover, with 60 pages.
Ordering INFORMATION
Of Monsters And Miso released into the world 15 September, 2019 and lists for $12.50 US dollars.
SINGLE pre-order copies sell for $12.50 US plus shipping.
POLITICAL MONSTERS PACKAGE: We’ve collected our most political books together into this package. Receive Of Monsters and Miso, All That is Sacred is Profaned, True To The Earth, Pagan Anarchism, and A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer together for $45 US + shipping (save $12 US by ordering them together!).
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ALL THAT IS SACRED IS PROFANED: A PAGAN GUIDE TO MARXISM
by Rhyd Wildermuth
132 pages, Perfect bound, B&W, Matte cover (Release date 21 June, 2019)
How does capitalism work (and why isn’t it working)? How do the rich use race and gender strife to divide and control the poor? What was life like before Capitalism, and what might it be like after? And what’s the relationship between Marx’s ideas about alienation and the Pagan desire to re-enchant the world?
All That Is Sacred Is Profaned is the text from Rhyd Wildermuth’s popular introductory course on Marxism, now available in print. Written for those without privileged academic experience and those too busy trying to survive to read economic theory, this book uses real-world examples to explain how capitalism operates, why it came about, and how it might be stopped.
All That Is Sacred Is Profaned isn’t just an economic or political text. Instead, Pagan and druid Rhyd Wildermuth teases out the intersections between Marx’s ideas and the core worldviews of animism and Paganism: the magical transformation of the world through labor, the inspirited nature of the things we humans create and trade, and the sacred aspects of the world crushed beneath the demands of profit.
All That Is Sacred Is Profaned in arranged in five sections:
Chapter One: What Capitalism is (and isn’t), and how it has come to control the way we see the world and each other
Chapter Two: How Capitalism works (and doesn’t), and why owners are always at odds with the people who work for them.
Chapter Three: Why Capitalism replaced feudalism and other forms of society, and how our modern image of the past is shaped by capitalism, not by history.
Chapter Four: How Colonialism and Slavery relate to Capitalism, and how racism and sexism developed as management strategies to keep the poor divided
Chapter Five: Why Capitalism cannot continue forever, how its internal contradictions are destroying nature and humanity, and how we might use Marx’s ideas to survive our current crises.
In addition, All That Is Sacred Is Profaned includes study questions, a glossary, and additional material for those who wish to learn more.
ORDER INFORMATION
SINGLE: Single copies of All That Is Sacred Is Profaned are $8 US + shipping
PRIMER: Includes one copy each of All That is Sacred Is Profaned and A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer (by Alley Valkyrie & Rhyd Wildermuth) for $12 + shipping
DIGITAL: Digital copies are $3.00 US (use second order button below)
GODS-SPEAKING, by JUDITH O’GRADY
100 pages, perfect-bound, matte cover, B&W text.
Release date 1 May, 2019
“Their world lies behind ours like a bright shadow of reality: the shadow does not reflect what we have built (or destroyed), but what could be.”
What’s it like to speak to a god? Or more importantly, how do you know you’re actually speaking to one and not a voice you made up in your head? Why try to speak to gods at all? And what do we actually do about what they’re saying?
With earthly prose and her often hilarious wit, Druid and writer Judith O’Grady offers answers to these questions, along with deeply profound insight into the implications of modern animism in an overly-industrialized (and dying) world. Greatly expanding upon her earlier work (God-Speaking), Judith recounts her own experiences and rituals—from cleaning trash along river-banks to awakening sleeping spirits in abandoned urban places. Gods-Speaking narrates a world full of meaning in a time where we’ve forgotten humans are not the only beings with something to say.
“If you’ve ever just wanted to know how to talk to gods and change the world, and you’d rather learn how to do it from a kind elderly Druid woman (rather than some dense and overwrought esotericist who’s like 25 years old and can’t tell the difference between a Birch and an Alder), I think this book will mean as much to you as it meant to me.”
-Rhyd Wildermuth, from the Foreword.
[Read a review of this book here.]
How to Order
Gods-Speaking by Judith O’Grady was released into the world 1 May, 2019;
Single print copies
Single print editions can be ordered for $12.50 US + shipping.
DIGITAL EDITION
The Digital edition (.pdf) can be ordered for $7.50US and is delivered via our site (look for link after completing payment).
SPECIAL PACKAGE OFFER
In addition, Gods-Speaking can be purchased as part of a special themed pre-sale package, granting significant discounts on the included books. This package includes 5 books, each with similar themes:
Gods-Speaking, by Judith O’Grady
A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer (by Alley Valkyrie & Rhyd Wildermuth),
Pagan Anarchism (by Christopher Scott Thompson),
True to the Earth (by Kadmus), and
Witches In a Crumbling Empire (by Rhyd Wildermuth)
The Gods-Speaking package costs $40.00 US + shipping. (Normally these books cost $58.00, an $18 savings)
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WITCHES IN A CRUMBLING EMPIRE, by Rhyd Wildermuth
“The Empire under which we all suffer, under which we are all ruled, was born upon the factory floor and upon the witch’s stake. But in the char of those burnings and the soot from those smokestacks we can see its impending death…”
Beauty stolen in a tavern of a Scottish port. A dead Cathar’s caress as a man waits for bootsteps that will drag him away. Rain-drenched grief over iron bridges. Plastic fairies littering an ancient stone circle. Sex amongst bones and the howls of the Hunter.
A new collection of essays, mystic prose, and poems from Gods&Radicals co-founder Rhyd Wildermuth, including the expanded and previously un-released text of his speech, “Witches In a Crumbling Empire.”
Witches In A Crumbling Empire weaves together love, resistance, and magic into a ritual not to hold up the pillars of Empire as they fall, but to dance as they collapse.
Single copies are available for $15.00
Author Package: includes special re-released editions of Rhyd Wildermuth’s previous collections (Your Face is a Forest & A Kindness of Ravens). All three books together are available for $35.00 (Regular $43).
Witch Package: Also, a book package is available which includes Witches in a Crumbling Empire, Pagan Anarchism (by Christopher Scott Thompson), Circling The Star (by Anthony Rella), and True To The Earth (by Kadmus). This package is available for $50. (Regular $61)
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OTHER TITLES BY RHYD WILDERMUTH YOU MAY ENJOY:
With your freedom, what would you make of this world?
Gods&Radicals Press is pleased to announce our newest release: Circling the Star, by Anthony Rella.
Circling The Star is a practical journey into the esoteric wisdom of the Iron Pentacle for activists, witches, rebels, and mystics seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and of the world they wish to transform.
Circling the Star offers the seeker a spiritual philosophy which will empower their resistance to capital and Empire. Weaving together psychology, Egyptian polytheism, queer and occult theory, Kabbalah, intersectional feminism, and Feri witchcraft, witch and therapist Anthony Rella offers us a powerful manual for personal and political liberation.
Those already familiar with the workings of the Iron Pentacle but seeking a more engaged witchcraft will find Circling The Star invaluable. Those new to these workings will find Circling The Star an ideal introduction. And the many of us wary of mass-market glossy ‘magic’ texts and white-light spiritual bypassing will find Circling the Star an exhilarating glimpse of what engaged, radical witchcraft can be again.
Drawing on his years of magical practice and spiritual study, Tony blends his own devotional practice with his training in psychotherapy. The result is a deep understanding, coupled with a dash of poetry. He calls on us to open to states of wonder. To plumb our depths. To be strengthened and renewed.
These tools can change you, too, if you let them.
-T. Thorn Coyle
Featuring illustrations from Alley Valkyrie, cover art from Li Pallas, and a foreword from T. Thorn Coyle, Circling the Star is due for release on 14 February, 2018, the 3-year anniversary of the birth of the beautiful resistance that is Gods&Radicals.
Specifications: 184 pages, Perfect Bound 6″x9″, Matte cover, black&white with illustrations.
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THESE BOOKS AND COURSES MAY ALSO INTEREST YOU:
PAGAN ANARCHISM, by Christopher Scott Thompson
Our first offering by poet, anarchist, and Pagan Christopher Scott Thompson, Pagan Anarchism explores the history of anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist movements and discovers alongside them a fierce Pagan rebellion against the State.
Witchpunks, rebels, magicians, and revolutionaries will find this book both a compelling history and an inspiring manifesto.
Read an excerpt of Pagan Anarchism here
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THESE MIGHT INTEREST YOU, TOO:
A KINDNESS OF RAVENS, by Rhyd Wildermuth
A dead bard on a desolate hill, giants on a cliff-edge, a heroin-addict in a dumpster, blood-soaked shattered glass on a window-ledge, and midwinter sunlight streaming through the tomb of Newgrange...
A Kindness of Ravens is a collection of forest-edged words arrayed against the theft of meaning and the death of dreams. Find within essay on civilisation and its end, poems on gods & love, and journals from an unlikely pilgrimage each haunted by the songs of the Singers in the Darkness and the rage of the Raven King.
This is the second edition, now published by Gods&Radicals Press.
You can order A KINDNESS OF RAVENS in either Print or Digital below. It's also available at a reduced price as part of the WITCHES IN THE CRUMBLING EMPIRE author package (all three books by Rhyd Wildermuth together).
OTHER WORKS BY RHYD WILDERMUTH:
A PAGAN ANTI-CAPITALIST PRIMER
40 pages, perfect-bound, matte cover.
Gods&Radicals was started after Alley Valkyrie & Rhyd Wildermuth gave a presentation about Capitalism and Paganism at a conference. The room was packed, people spilled outside, and both Alley and Rhyd found themselves sitting on a counter ledge so more people could fit.
A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer is the zine they handed out, and Gods&Radicals now offers an expanded, professionally-printed version.
YOUR FACE IS A FOREST, by Rhyd Wildermuth
The tea-soaked and rain-drenched musings of a nomadic punk bard. Encounters with the gods, the dead, and the spirits of forest and stream. Musings for the dreaming rebel in the leaf-strewn tavern, the urban poet following the course of buried rivers beneath her feet, and all those who await the return of the gods and the uprising of the trees.
This is the second edition of Your Face Is a Forest, now published by Gods&Radicals Press
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OTHER WORKS BY RHYD WILDERMUTH
A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE, the Gods&Radicals Print Journal
A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE #4: THE CROSSING
Edited by Lorna Smithers and Lia Hunter, foreworded by Peter Dybing, and yet again featuring the brilliant cover artistry of Li Pallas, A Beautiful Resistance: The Crossing features literary and artistic works from Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America:
Nina George, Nimue Brown, S. A. O’Hungerdell, Angharad Lois, Nicole Heneveld, Bryan Hewitt, Rex Butters, Rhyd Wildermuth, Lorna Smithers, Dennis Mombauer, Dr. Bones, Boham, Ingi House, Jason Derr, Aicila Lewis, Joe DiCicco, Tahni J. Nikitins, Shane Burley, Innocent Chizaram Ilo, Michael Browne, Nebulosus Severine, Finnchuill, Rune Kjær Rasmussen, Sean Donahue, Sonali Roy, Christine Brands, Jude Lally, and Ilyse Krivel.
This is the fourth issue of our journal.
Specifications: 8.5x11in, full color, perfect bound, matte finish, 100 pages.
Single Issue: $22.50 US
A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE #3: LEFT SACRED
What is a sacred left? What is left of the sacred? What is the left sacred?
These are the interweaving themes of this third issue of A Beautiful Resistance, watched over by the Angel of History, its wings forced open by a wind from another world.
Edited by Lia Hunter & Rhyd Wildermuth, with a foreword by Margaret Killjoy, this issue contains the art and words of: Erynn Rowan Laurie, Left Eye, Lorna Smithers, Dr. Bones, Rocket. Yvonne Aburrow. Sean Donahue, Loïs Cordelia, Marion Le Bourhis. Christopher DeLange. Brianna Bliss, Lia Hunter. Rhyd Wildermuth, Anthony Rella, Hunter Hall, Finnchuill,Nina George, Nimue Brown, William Hawes
This is the third issue of our journal.
Specifications: 8.5x11in, full color, perfect bound, matte finish, 108 pages.
Single Issue: $20.00