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SSOTBME was originally commissioned by Christopher McIntosh (author of Eliphas levi and the French Occult Revival and other works on Hermetic and Masonic history) as an essay for a semi-academic collection of essays on comparative religion. That project never happened, but the material was expanded into a small book published by the author in 1974. The book was an immediate success with a new wave of practicing magicians in the UK, including Pete Carroll, Ray Sherwin and other members of what was to become the Chaos Magic movement. Further editions were printed including a German,...

The book that launched the virtual reality debate back in 1986 is back in print - with four additional appendices.

It raises the question: Which is most fundamental - matter, energy or information? Are we living in a virtual, information-based reality? Or are we simply bound to believe that we are?

Independence, randomness and irrelevance are basic qualities expected of material reality, but costly attributes in a virtual reality where connectedness would be the expected norm - suggesting a magical universe where divination and action at a distance are to be expected. Do...

Long out of print and much sought after, this important collection of essays was republished as a print on demand title

• Why does there seem to be less magic in the modern world? Could it be because we are all better magicians?
• Is it time to reinstate the charlatan in his vital role as initiator on the occult path?
• Is scientific thought declining in favour of magical thought? And is this inevitable?
• Have men traditionally played a leading role because of a deep sense of their own uselessness relative to women? And is this situation beginning to...

Is it ok for a national government to negotiate with terrorists? Should we be prepared to make a pact with the demon Terrorism - or should we remain forever sworn to the demon No Compromise? Many old and new demons lurk on these pages: black magic, sexism, elitism, satanism, publishers, prejudice, suicide, liberalism, violence, slime, old age, bitterness, war and the New Age. Some reviewer comments: "Ramsey Dukes has a clarity, and creativity, of thought that means each of the many and varied chapters of this book leaves you with something to think about long after you've finished...

People are fascinated by magic but few understand it. Most would rather deny, demonise or glamorise magic rather than ever admit to thinking magically. Rationalists that are concerned by the growing popularity of alternative healing, astrology and New Age ideas, ask: "whatever happened to the Enlightenment?"

The assumption is that "The Enlightenment" marked a break with a superstitious past; it was a forward leap for humanity after which any return to magical thinking would be regressive, or even impossible. But there is another, cyclic, view that sees the Enlightenment as having...