Inner Traditions imprint: 307 books
The Secret History of Vampires
Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
A look at the forgotten ancestors of the modern-day vampire, many of which have very different characteristics
• Looks at the many ancestoral forms of the modern vampire, including shroud eaters, appesarts, and stafi
• Presents evidence for the reality of this phenomenon from pre-19th-century...
Tales of a Modern Sufi
The Invisible Fence of Reality and Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
A collection of modern Sufi tales by renowned Rumi translator and Sufi initiate Nevit Ergin
• Contains 24 deceptively simple stories that invoke questioning and awareness
• By the renowned English translator of Rumi’s complete Divan-i Kebir
Sufi stories have traditionally...
India: A Civilization of Differences
The Ancient Tradition of Universal Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
A collection of Daniélou's writings that builds a bold and cogent defense of India's caste system
• Looks at the Hindu caste system not as racist inequality but as a natural ordering of diversity
• Reveals the stereotypes of Indian society invented to justify colonialism
•...
The Return of the Dead
Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
How the ghost stories of pagan times reveal the seamless union existing between the world of the living and the afterlife
• Demonstrates how Medieval Christianity transformed the more corporeal ghost encountered in pagan cultures with the disembodied form known today
• Explains how...
Five Meditations on Death
In Other Words . . . On Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Philosophical discussions on the ways that death makes life meaningful and sacred
• Reveals how being conscious of death gives our fate its full meaning, inviting the reader to contemplate life in the light of their own death
• Examines the author’s experience of ancestor worship...
The Secret History of Poltergeists and Haunted Houses
From Pagan Folklore to Modern Manifestations
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
What poltergeist accounts through the ages reveal about our own worldviews
• Provides a wide array of case studies from ancient Greece and Rome to medieval Europe to the modern world
• Explores the relationship between poltergeists and troubled adolescence
• Looks beneath...
Meditations on the Peaks
Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Evola articulates the close relationship between the physical rigors of mountain climbing and the ascent of the initiate toward self-transcendence.
Julius Evola, a leading exponent of esoteric thought, was also an ardent mountain climber who personally scaled the peaks of the Tyrols, Alps, and Dolomites....
The Strong Eye of Shamanism
A Journey into the Caves of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
An exploration of shamanism and the archetypal symbolism that sits at the foundation of all human life
• Not just an academic work. Helps the reader experience the actual mindset of the shaman
• Presents a cohesive view of the recurrent patterns of symbolism and visionary experience...
Men's Business, Women's Business
The Spiritual Role of Gender in the World's Oldest Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Beautiful stories of life in Australian Aboriginal society--where gender influences every aspect of existence--that show a new way to find happiness in our modern Western culture
• Follows an Australian Aboriginal boy and girl from childhood through adolescence, adulthood, old age, and death,...
Magia Sexualis
Sexual Practices for Magical Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
A step-by-step guide to the occult science of sex magic
• Based on the practices of P. B. Randolph, occult rival of H. P. Blavatsky
• Reveals how to perform sex magic rituals for specific real-world results, such as greater strength or enhancement of the senses
• Explains...
The Sacred Rite of Magical Love
A Ceremony of Word and Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The first English translation of Maria de Naglowska’s sexually magical novella, Le rite sacré de l’amour magique
• Contains autobiographical material from Maria de Naglowska’s life
• Continues, in symbolic story form, the sexual initiatory teachings expounded in Naglowska’s...
Advanced Sex Magic
The Hanging Mystery Initiation
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
The first English translation of Maria de Naglowska’s treatise on advanced sexual magic practices, Le mystère de la pendaison
• Details Naglowska’s advanced occult teachings on the Third Term of the Trinity and the spiritually transformative power of sex
• Explains the mystical...
The Sailfish and the Sacred Mountain
Passages in the Lives of a Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2004
An account of spiritual awakening told through the rites of passage of a father and son
• Reveals the essential role spirituality can play in our mundane lives
• Celebrates not only traditional rites of passage, but also the more subtle moments of change that continually take place...
by Claude Lecouteux
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
A thorough reference to the many deities, magical beings, mythical places, and ancient customs of the Norse and Germanic regions of Europe
• Explores the legends and origins of well-known gods and figures such as Odin, Thor, Krampus, and the Valkyries, as well as a broad range of magical...