Immanion Press New Releases – Dec 2009

Immanion Press
Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Oregon, United States
editorial@immanion-press.com
http://www.immanion-press.com

For Immediate Release

Josef Karika and Immanion Press Bring Eastern European Perspective to Chaos Magic

Liber 767 vel Boeingus Full of Innovation, Humor

21 December, 2009 — Chaos magic has come a long way from its early, quantum-infused inception via Carroll and Hine, though some would say it’s courted stagnancy in recent years. Slovakian author Josef Karika has the antidote to that fear with his entertaining, irreverent, and wholly pragmatic text, Liber 767 vel Boeingus: Rough Experiments in Chaos Magic.

Karika takes chaos magic back to its experimental, exploratory roots with a wide variety of practices ranging from twisting the concept of servitors and sigils into new shapes (sometimes literally!), to both helpful and harmful applications of magic when dealing with other people. There’s also a hearty helping of pop culture magic a la Taylor Ellwood, and the integration of modern technology, most notably the easy to access cell phone, in on the go magical practice. And the psychological model of magic is much expanded in rather creative manners!

If you think chaos magic has jumped the shark, think again. Karika’s subversion of the proverbial box (as in, “thinking outside of the”) has produced a volume of practical, hands on, make-it-happen-dammit magic that anyone with a penchant for magical experimentation should take a good, close look at.

A Slovakian historian and publicist, Jozef Karika has been experimenting with magic for more than fifteen years, in ceremonial and chaos magic.

Immanion Press Publishes Anthology of Female Occultists’ Writing

Women’s Voices in Magic Shatters Gender Stereotypes

21 December, 2009 — Women are lunar and passive, men are solar and active. Women are witches, men are magicians. Women cooperate in groups, men explore new territory on their own. These and more stereotypes permeate the occult community even into the 21^st century.

Editor Brandy Williams and the contributors to Women’s Voices in Magic demonstrate just how limiting those stereotypes are. From chaotes to ceremonialists, Satanists to sex magicians, the vibrant array of essayists in this collection display their innovations, as well as share their experiences as female magicians in a largely male-dominated subculture. From the introduction by Williams:

This collection of women’s essays about our own magical work serves the same function as other histories or collections of women’s writings. It presents women as essential and integral parts of the magical communities in which we work, in the past, and in the present. It provides a place to speak, however, loudly or quietly, about whatever topic interests the writer. The contributors do not speak in a common voice, or even in a special woman’s voice, but from individual and unique perspectives. . . a literary community encouraging every woman to speak and to pursue any magical path.(12)

Featuring essays by Alison More, Amy Hale, Byron Ballard, Caroline Tully, Erynn Rowan Laurie, Grace Victoria Swann, Helen Honeycutt, Jaymi Elford, Kat Sanborn, Kayla Block, Kirsten Brown, Kris Leet, Leni Hester, Lesa Whyte, Lupa, Mordant Carnival, Shellay Maughan, Soror Inde Seraphina, Sybil Black, Teresa Garcia and Venus Satanas.

Immanion Press is a small publisher specializing in edgy, experimental magical texts. All Immanion nonfiction titles are available on the Immanion Press website, at http://www.thegreenwolf.com/books.html, Amazon.com (all sites) and select independent pagan and occult shops; distribution through Ingram, Baker and Taylor, and New Leaf (US). For more information please contact Lupa at the publicity department at whishthound@gmail.com