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Ani.Mystic: Encounters with a Living Cosmos
by Gordon White
Gordon White’s sequel to his acclaimed Star.Ships is a book of adventure and encounter, of optimism and healing.
Ani.Mystic: Encounters with a Living Cosmos is a magician’s book, a dreaming book, one which aims to fundamentally shift the discourse within the western magical tradition.
Gordon explains, ‘the sole preoccupation of this book is exploring and uncovering animism as a dangerous category of European thought.’
In dialogue with teachers of Indigenous knowledge, spirits, angels, star people, saints, plants, and beast masters and mothers, Gordon weaves a new story of trans-species collaboration and custodianship.
Our journey begins in an airport hotel bar in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and the story unfolds through encounters with forest spirits, shark gods, and cities of the dead.
From stone altars in Micronesia, ancestral Maori pā, and Aboriginal songlines to lecturing on UFOs at the Guggenheim in New York and avenging angels in London, the journey gathers momentum.
We experience songlines, fire storms, and rain dragons in Tasmania, and are finally brought into ceremony with Ayahuasca in Peru.
Gordon is transformed through his encounters with a living cosmos, and in the Telling.
In walking in the magician’s footsteps, the candor of his heartbreaks and triumphs, we are invited to come into right relation ourselves, toward the cosmic aim of mutual flourishing.
Gordon White is an author, podcaster, chaos magician, shamanic practitioner, and permaculture designer with a background in data and analytics. He is the author of four books on magic, animism, and star lore and the founder of Rune Soup, a thriving online magical training program. He lives on a small farm in southern Tasmania.
Scarlet Imprint
paperback
English
February 17, 2022
280 pages
6.44 x 0.64 x 9.44 inches