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Dear Mogg, Thank you for the invitation; let's have a Powwow (as we say in Native American) via personal email, and perhaps include another Native American over here, Lee Irwin. He is currently meeting with OUP on which chapter submissions to include in the Oxford Handbook of Western Esotericism; my offering is titled "De Magia naturali Book II by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples: Christian Kabbalah of the Renaissance Humanists Embraces Classical & Medieval Esotericism". The fact that your publishing company distributes also through New Leaf is very important to me as a US citizen. I had Mandrake in my fav's file already, but had not looked at your bio and work on blogspot: very happy to learn that we have a mutual affinity in the First Peoples of India. My BA in Comparative Literature & Research in Consciousness is from Maharishi International University (now MUM), and includes practice of the Siddhis. My research on Lefèvre's technique of numerical ascension (embodied and described in DMN) pinpoints its parallel to Patanjali's formula. Unfortunately, I was required to relegate that exposition to the Preamble, which in toto had no place in Academic discourse I am told. The Preamble then will be Part I of the Trilogy, and include excerpts of my translation work refined by an expert as I said; Part II will be the thesis material per se; Part III, the complete transcription/translation of DMN Book II. So, I also belong to the US organizations ASE, Association for the Study of Esotericism, and Societas Magica. The efforts in Esotericism in this country are very underfunded, as are our Academic institutions on the whole. An uneducated populace is easier to manipulate. I refer you to OUP's publication of Arthur Versluis' The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism. I quote OUP's Reviews: "[. . .] Using our current knowledge of the despised esoteric thinkers, found under a number of labels - Gnostic, occult, mystic, theosophic [. . . ]." J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion. "[. . . Verluis] demonstrates how the West's modern political pathologies stem back to the dualistic logic of the late medieval Inquisition and almost two millennia of heretic-hunting. Verluis shows how this same irrational fear of religious dissent is disturbingly prevalent among intellectuals on both the right and the left. The result is a call for a return to that 'first America' of Jeffersonian pluralism, and a plea for a more mature religious view that can help us find our way out of that Cave of religious terror and political insanity in which we now all live." Jeffrey J. Kripal My office here in the front window of our Ojai home is decorated with pictures of East Indian, Celtic and African Saints, Gods and Goddesses as well as the Cross; a statue of Buddha sits on my windowsill, a statue of the Madonna by the front door; Sai Baba's hexagram sarva dharma symbol of six religions is posted on the front door below a plaque of the Celtic Lord of the Dance dancing in the pentacle. Ojai is steeped in pluralism, yet just two days ago I came home to find a flier in my doorhandle proclaiming, "The End of False Religion is Near". My experience here in the US is that Esotericism is predominately looked at as clearly non-Academic, "touchy-feely" as I was told by one professor. As Verluis apparently exposes per Kripal, this prejudice is "prevalent among intellectuals on both the right and the left." In my Preamble and thesis I address this oversight on the part of "acceptable" Academia. Now that I've chimed in on this Listserv, I thought it appropriate to offer a little background: thank you for listening, Kathryn ----- Original Message ----- From: Mandrake of Oxford <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Intellectus Agens [ was: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] More OTO ritual ] > Kathryn et al > > if looking for a publisher - Mandrake would be interested - > but it also occurs to me that maybe there could be a JSM book series in the > future - its up to SASM to authorise - but as a spin off from the journal > could work?? > > mogg > > ps: i lost all yesterday's messaages - so if anyone know how to read online > or as they used to say 'seset my pointers ' can you let me know how > > > > : ) .....................................: ) > Mandrake.uk.net > Publishers > PO Box 250, Oxford, OX1 1AP > +44 1865 243671 > homepage: <http://www.mandrake.uk.net> > Blogs = > http://mogg-morgan.blogspot.com > http://mandox.blogspot.com > secure page for credit card <http://www.mandrake.uk.net/books.htm>