who is your favorite publisher of the occult, weiser, mandrake, new falcon, llewelyn, bear?

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1. [Tzimisce] Antediluvian says:

   13. October 2009 at 09:50

   I’m just here to take down some notes…

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2. Been There Brilliantly DoneThat! says:

   13. October 2009 at 09:50

   Llewelyn has always satisfied my tastes.

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   (((Tzimisce))) lol! So nice to hear you say that. : )
3. Brandon says:

   13. October 2009 at 09:50

   I think Llewellyn is too "new agey" and "fluffy bunny-ish" for my tastes. And how many wicca 101 books can they continue to publish although I’m not wiccan I do read books on (non-wiccan) traditional witchcraft from time to time? The last Llewellyn book I purchased was some years ago, Nocturnicon by Konstantinos.

   Nowadays, I consider any occult book to be a good book when it gives accurate, unbiased information. Also I don’t like books that try to dictate my moral compass or what my ethics should be.
4. efritzliepke says:

   13. October 2009 at 09:50

   Bear & Co.
5. Angela P says:

   13. October 2009 at 09:50

   llewelyn has most of what I am looking for, mandrake is my second choice.
6. mac-a-licious says:

   13. October 2009 at 09:50

   Zondervan puts out weird stuff. Oh wait, that’s a Fundamentalist publishing house. Never mind.
7. Valkyri says:

   13. October 2009 at 09:50

   Well, Llewelyn published Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs before he died, and I’ve found that book immensely helpful. They also did a book I love that has a lot of contributing authors and authoresses, edited by Michelle Belanger. Weiser also published at least one of Belanger’s works, which are very respectable, well thought out and sensible from what I’ve seen.

   There are others like Avon, which published LaVey’s Satanic Bible and the Simon version of The Necronomicon by Lovecraft. They make for interesting reads, even if they aren’t my greatest wellsprings of theory and practice.

   Also, I love reading "The Gothic Tarot Compendium" by Joseph Vargo. It’s just adorable how he can’t seem to decide whether he wants to be knowledgable about Divination and make himself look like something that climbed out of a Bram Stoker Novel, or be a devout, stuffy@ss Xian and warn people about "Sin" and "The Devil". It’s published by Monolith Books if anyone needs a good laugh…

   Also, given that the topic is Occult Books, and Occult means kept secret or not readily visible to most of Modern Society, I think this next one fits really well. There’s one by Wilhelm Reich called "The Invasion of Compulsory Sex Morality" which makes a lot of good points against the overly specific Sexual Morality forced on people in the Mainstream World, as well as serving to open your eyes to the many different cultures of Earth that were actually better off before the European Settlers and Missionaries came around with attempts to force a change in their culture sexually, religiousely or otherwise. Reading that, it makes sense why just about every other country in the world thinks America is WAY too stuffy when it comes to Sex. The book’s publisher is Farrar Straus Giroux in case it sounds interesting to anybody.

   To tell the honest truth, I’m not the world’s biggest Bookworm though, even if I’m reading more than I used to. I tend to be practicing my music, divining, casting, meditating, interacting with like minds online and working out a lot more in my free time lately, and most of what I read is in eMails, Webpages, Profiles and Forums. I guess most of my readings don’t come from a specific publisher, huh. There are still some good ones though.

   Those are a few favorites of mine though, so I hope they bring some of the rest of you a similar amount of enjoyment.

   *Blessings of Darkness and Light*

   -Valkyri