Spring Book Sale
Until 1 April, we’ve reduced the price on each of our print books, up to $5.50. In addition, we are again offering our Full Print Library package at a greatly reduced rate, and Permanent Supporter subscriptions are 30% off until that date as well.
Please note: Both the monthly supporter 10% discount and the permanent supporter free shipping can be applied on top of these sale prices.
Reclaiming Ourselves: $14.00 $12.00
release date: 15 November, 2020
In this time of economic, social, and environmental collapse, we cannot rely on governments or leaders to guide us through through the chaos. Yet this is no reason for despair, because these crises open old doors we thought rusted shut and old paths we thought too overgrown to ever find again.
Reclaiming Ourselves is a guide to those paths and a key to those doors.
With her clear and welcoming writing, Emma Kathryn presents an accessible and insightful map to rediscovering what we have always been capable of: reclaiming our relationship to ourselves, to our bodies, to the land around us, to healing, to food, to community, and to spirituality. Easily adaptable for any circumstance, her practical advice and tips on becoming more secure in this difficult world and her discussions of the struggles many of us face in reconnecting to ourselves feel like the words of a kind friend reminding us we will be okay.
Reclaiming Ourselves, by Emma Kathryn, is an ideal book for everyone seeking strength and connection to not only survive but thrive and be a light for others in these dark times.
Specifications: 130 pages, 5.25x8, B&W interior, perfect bound with matte cover
Reclaiming Ourselves, from Emma Kathryn, released into the world 15 November, 2020 and retails for $14 US.
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In The Midnight Hour: $7.00 $6.00
“A story like “I don’t matter” seems persuasive when it’s ricocheting off the interior of our skulls but makes no sense from the outside.
The truth is, we matter. Our bodies are literally matter. Once we exist, our very existence is an influence upon the world. Having a body means I take up space, I consume resources that could go to others, I am participating in life and culture and relationships. If I am in a room, someone sees me, and my presence impacts them in a certain way. There is no opting out."
From writer, witch, and licensed therapist Anthony Rella comes a collection of short essays on emotions, boundaries, disappointment, guilt, hope, shame, intimacy, and connection. Written with the warm voice of a caring and patient friend, these essays help guide the reader to their own center where they can find power, balance, and joy not despite difficult moments and emotions, but because of them.
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4 x 6 (“pocket”), 95 b&w pages, perfect bound with matte cover
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In The Midnight Hour: Finding Power in Difficult Emotions retails for $7.00 plus shipping.
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Solidarity Networks: $6.00 $5.00
54 pages, 4in x 6in, perfect bound, matte cover
Gods&Radicals Press is pleased to offer two of our most-viewed practical essays, updated and expanded in print form.
Solidarity Networks (viewed over 20,000 times online) presents a concrete guide for organizing with others for mutual solidarity and safety. What Solidarity Networks are, what they are not, and step-by-step instructions on how to form one with your friends are all explained in clear language.
Emergency Survival (read over 15,000 times online) is an expanded and updated guide written by an emergency service planner and instructor with 15 years experience, lays out in plain language the basic skills needed for preparing for crisis situations.
Unlike many guides for survival, however, both essays together focus not on individualism but on mutual aid and solidarity. Rather than the loner apocalyptic fantasies mass media feeds us, these comprise “A Practical Guide For Surviving The Collapse of Empire With Others.”
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Single copies cost $7.50 US plus shipping
Five Principles of Green Witchcraft: $5.50 $4.50
Gods&Radicals Press is thrilled to re-publish Asa West’s popular booklet, Five Principles of Green Witchcraft.
In an era of climate change and late capitalism, when everything sacred is paved over or commodified, how do you attune yourself to the rhythms of nature? How do you listen for—and hear—the language of the land on which you live? How do you push your magical practice beyond rote rituals into true communion with the spirits around you?
This short book explores green witchcraft through the lens of five principles:
1. The Forest Speaks with One Voice (unity)
2. Twilight Precedes Starlight (liminality)
3. Witchcraft Lives in the Body (embodiment)
4. The Witch Always Pays Her Coin (reciprocity)
5. The Goddess Reveals Herself in Silence (silence)
Originally published as a wildly popular and sold-out zine, Gods&Radicals Press now offers Five Principles of Green Witchcraft by special arrangement with the author.
(This is for the print edition. For the digital edition, see this link)
A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire: $27.50 $22.00
After Empire, the fifth issue of our print journal, A Beautiful Resistance.
A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire explores the truths we are all beginning to understand, the whispers on the plague winds, the portents in the polluted sky, the omens in the failing harvests and the chthonic call in the rising seas. Everywhere we look we see it: Empire is ending.
But no Empire ends politely nor quietly, nor do the torturous forms of their control merely disappear with them. Centuries of oppression, of discipline, of the shaping of our thoughts and dreams will not merely go away when the Capitols and Capital no longer exert their mythic power over our lives.
A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire is a ritual work of re-imagining, a revel and a parade back into the wilds of our own dreaming, our own symbols, our own forms of connection and community decoupled and divorced from what Empire has made of us.
A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire is edited by Rhyd Wildermuth with the brilliant design work of Casandra Johns and features the literary, poetic, fictive, and graphic work of 27 artists and writers, including:
Christopher Scott Thompson · Mirna Wabi-Sabi · Emma Kathryn ·Peter Grey · Rune Kjær Rasmussen · Twm Gwynne · V. Crowe. Ulrich Gehmann · Shane Burley · Kathleen Yearwood · Frank Seeburger · Tahlia Palmer · Sonali Roy · Peter Mark Adams · Finnchuill · Jane Skjoldli · Maddy Hag · Allyson Shaw · Lia Vé · Mason Parker · Ayling Zulema Dominguez · Laura Welsman · Slippery Elm · LAURIE RAE DIETRICH · Mel Hill · Bea Xu ·Z. Sager · Rhyd Wildermuth · DOMINIK RINNHOFER
Release Date: 15 October, 2020
Specifications: 150 pages, 8.5 x 11, full color, perfect bound, matte cover, with full-color images
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We Live In The Orbit Of Beings Greater Than Us:
$17.00$15.00
The Dead Hermes Epistolary:$17.50 $15.00
“This is the necromantic power of love, revealed to us at last by Dead Hermes. And by raising the ghosts of the past we are given visions of the future…”
In the nine missives which comprise The Dead Hermes Epistolary, trickster poet Slippery Elm leads the reader away from the pale world of dying meaning into the ever-living dream world of our forgotten past.
Whispers of wet forests, conspiracies of witches and indigenous elders, the erotic lyric of the troubadours, the arguments of Sephardic poets, Arabic mystic texts on agriculture, perfumed Andalusian gardens where kings bow before the power of beauty, the dead dancing with the living at a wedding: all these are the ghosts which lead us to the transgressive and liberating magic of Hermes Chthonios.
The Dead Hermes Epistolary is a work of deep poetic beauty and an act of soul retrieval for the revolutionary spirit, lost as it’s become in the pale half-light of the internet and Empire’s relentless war against meaning. Slippery Elm deftly awakens the knowledge hidden in places we’ve forgotten to look, all the while awakening in the reader the deep power of words and the profound magic in radical friendship.
(This is for the print edition. For the digital edition, see this link)
Of Monsters and Miso: $12.50 $10.00
By Alley Valkyrie
Released 15 September, 2019
“The old world is dying, a new world struggles to be born. This is the time of monsters…”
Antonio Gramsci
Is it a bilingual book of delicious miso sauce recipes?
Or a gallery of monsters wielding political slogans?
Is it in English?
Ou en français?
Why not both????
From print and textile artist Alley Valkyrie comes our latest book, Of Monsters and Miso. 12 recipes for amazing sauces and dressings with miso, accompanied by 12 adorable monsters with great politics.
Turn the book around, and you have another book, this time in French (along with metric instead of standard measurements)!
Of Monsters And Miso (Des Monstres et du Miso) contains 24 hand-drawn B&W images (12 each in English and in French), with B&W text on high-quality 70lb white paper. It is an English and French duplex book, perfect bound, matte cover, with 60 pages.
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Of Monsters And Miso released into the world 15 September, 2019 and lists for $12.50 US dollars.
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All That Is Sacred Is Profaned: $10.00 $8.00
(Release date 21 June, 2019)
How does capitalism work (and why isn’t it working)? How do the rich use race and gender strife to divide and control the poor? What was life like before Capitalism, and what might it be like after? And what’s the relationship between Marx’s ideas about alienation and the Pagan desire to re-enchant the world?
All That Is Sacred Is Profaned is the text from Rhyd Wildermuth’s popular introductory course on Marxism, now available in print. Written for those without privileged academic experience and those too busy trying to survive to read economic theory, this book uses real-world examples to explain how capitalism operates, why it came about, and how it might be stopped.
All That Is Sacred Is Profaned isn’t just an economic or political text. Instead, Pagan and druid Rhyd Wildermuth teases out the intersections between Marx’s ideas and the core worldviews of animism and Paganism: the magical transformation of the world through labor, the inspirited nature of the things we humans create and trade, and the sacred aspects of the world crushed beneath the demands of profit.
All That Is Sacred Is Profaned in arranged in five sections:
Chapter One: What Capitalism is (and isn’t), and how it has come to control the way we see the world and each other
Chapter Two: How Capitalism works (and doesn’t), and why owners are always at odds with the people who work for them.
Chapter Three: Why Capitalism replaced feudalism and other forms of society, and how our modern image of the past is shaped by capitalism, not by history.
Chapter Four: How Colonialism and Slavery relate to Capitalism, and how racism and sexism developed as management strategies to keep the poor divided
Chapter Five: Why Capitalism cannot continue forever, how its internal contradictions are destroying nature and humanity, and how we might use Marx’s ideas to survive our current crises.
In addition, All That Is Sacred Is Profaned includes study questions, a glossary, and additional material for those who wish to learn more.
132 pages, Perfect bound, B&W, Matte cover
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Gods-Speaking: $12.50 $10.00
“Their world lies behind ours like a bright shadow of reality: the shadow does not reflect what 'we have built (or destroyed), but what could be.”
What’s it like to speak to a god? Or more importantly, how do you know you’re actually speaking to one and not a voice you made up in your head? Why try to speak to gods at all? And what do we actually do about what they’re saying?
With earthly prose and her often hilarious wit, Druid and writer Judith O’Grady offers answers to these questions, along with deeply profound insight into the implications of modern animism in an overly-industrialized (and dying) world. Greatly expanding upon her earlier work (God-Speaking), Judith recounts her own experiences and rituals—from cleaning trash along river-banks to awakening sleeping spirits in abandoned urban places. Gods-Speaking narrates a world full of meaning in a time where we’ve forgotten humans are not the only beings with something to say.
“If you’ve ever just wanted to know how to talk to gods and change the world, and you’d rather learn how to do it from a kind elderly Druid woman (rather than some dense and overwrought esotericist who’s like 25 years old and can’t tell the difference between a Birch and an Alder), I think this book will mean as much to you as it meant to me.”
-Rhyd Wildermuth, from the Foreword.
(This is for the print edition. For the digital edition, see this link)
True To The Earth: $15.00 $12.50
180 pages, perfect bound, matte cover, B&W text.
Much more than traditions and customs are lost when an animist culture is suppressed or destroyed. Into the abyss of forgetting goes also an entire way of seeing humans, animals, gods, and the rest of nature, as well as the relationships these things constantly forge with each other.
These were also the worldviews of ancient Pagan cultures before the dominance of writing and monotheism supplanted them. Organic pluralism, an embrace of multiple, conflicting truths, and a deep understanding of the interconnection between humans and the natural world: all were core values of oral and animist cultures.
As global climate change and the collapse of Empire throw the earth and our modern societies into crisis, these core values are what humanity and the nature it destroys desperately need again.
In True To The Earth: Pagan Political Theology, author and professor of philosophy Kadmus weaves a narrative from the lore of Celtic, Greek, Norse, and indigenous traditions to show us how we once saw the world and how we can see it again. He unveils the modern assumptions which blind us from seeing the past and what we've lost, challenges the core foundations of literal, universalist thinking, and shakes us free from the unseen bonds monotheism has placed upon our understanding of ourselves and the world.
Well-researched and erudite, yet written in an engaging and accessible manner, True To The Earth offers back to us what we have lost, and gives us fertile soil from which a new earth-centered political understanding can arise.
About the Author:
Kadmus is a published academic with a Ph.D. in philosophy teaching at the college level. He is also a practicing ceremonial magician with a long standing relationship to the ancient Celtic deities.
Single copies of True To The Earth are available for $15.00 each. Select SINGLE when ordering.
In addition, True To The Earth can be purchased together with Pagan Anarchism (by Christopher Scott Thompson), A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer (by Alley Valkyrie & Rhyd Wildermuth), and Witches In a Crumbling Empire (by Rhyd Wildermuth) for $42.50 (regular $52.00). Select PAGAN when ordering.
Witches In A Crumbling Empire: $15.00 $12.50
“The Empire under which we all suffer, under which we are all ruled, was born upon the factory floor and upon the witch’s stake. But in the char of those burnings and the soot from those smokestacks we can see its impending death…”
Beauty stolen in a tavern of a Scottish port. A dead Cathar’s caress as a man waits for bootsteps that will drag him away. Rain-drenched grief over iron bridges. Plastic fairies littering an ancient stone circle. Sex amongst bones and the howls of the Hunter.
A new collection of essays, mystic prose, and poems from Gods&Radicals co-founder Rhyd Wildermuth, including the expanded and previously un-released text of his speech, “Witches In a Crumbling Empire.”
Witches In A Crumbling Empire weaves together love, resistance, and magic into a ritual not to hold up the pillars of Empire as they fall, but to dance as they collapse.
(This is for the print edition. For the digital edition, see this link)
Circling The Star: $15.00 $12.50
With your freedom, what would you make of this world?
Circling the Star is a practical journey into the esoteric wisdom of the Iron Pentacle for activists, witches, rebels, and mystics seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and of the world they wish to transform.
Circling the Star offers the seeker a spiritual philosophy which will empower their resistance to capital and Empire. Weaving together psychology, Egyptian polytheism, queer and occult theory, Kabbalah, intersectional feminism, and Feri witchcraft, witch and therapist Anthony Rella offers us a powerful manual for personal and political liberation.
Those already familiar with the workings of the Iron Pentacle but seeking a more engaged witchcraft will find Circling the Star invaluable. Those new to these workings will find Circling the Star an ideal introduction. And the many of us wary of mass-market glossy ‘magic’ texts and white-light spiritual bypassing will find Circling the Star an exhilarating glimpse of what engaged, radical witchcraft can be again.
Drawing on his years of magical practice and spiritual study, Tony blends his own devotional practice with his training in psychotherapy. The result is a deep understanding, coupled with a dash of poetry. He calls on us to open to states of wonder. To plumb our depths. To be strengthened and renewed.
These tools can change you, too, if you let them.
-T. Thorn Coyle
Featuring illustrations from Alley Valkyrie, cover art from Li Pallas, and a foreword from T. Thorn Coyle.
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Pagan Anarchism: $12.00 $10.00
Our best-selling and most global title…
From poet, anarchist, and pagan Christopher Scott Thompson, Pagan Anarchism explores the history of anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist movements and discovers alongside them a fierce Pagan rebellion against the State.
Witchpunks, rebels, magicians, and revolutionaries will find this book both a compelling history and an inspiring manifesto.
(This is for the print edition. For the digital edition, see this link)
A Kindness of Ravens: $14.00 $12.00
A dead bard on a desolate hill, giants on a cliff-edge, a heroin-addict in a dumpster, blood-soaked shattered glass on a window-ledge, and midwinter sunlight streaming through the tomb of Newgrange...
A Kindness of Ravens is a collection of forest-edged words arrayed against the theft of meaning and the death of dreams. Find within essay on civilisation and its end, poems on gods & love, and journals from an unlikely pilgrimage each haunted by the songs of the Singers in the Darkness and the rage of the Raven King.
This is the second edition, now published by Gods&Radicals Press.
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Your Face Is A Forest: $14.00 $12.00
The tea-soaked and rain-drenched musings of a nomadic punk bard. Encounters with the gods, the dead, and the spirits of forest and stream. Musings for the dreaming rebel in the leaf-strewn tavern, the urban poet following the course of buried rivers beneath her feet, and all those who await the return of the gods and the uprising of the trees.
This is the second edition of Your Face Is a Forest, now published by Gods&Radicals Press
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A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer: $7.00 $5.00
40 pages, perfect-bound, matte cover.
Gods&Radicals was started after Alley Valkyrie & Rhyd Wildermuth gave a presentation about Capitalism and Paganism at a conference. The room was packed, people spilled outside, and both Alley and Rhyd found themselves sitting on a counter ledge so more people could fit.
A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer is the zine they handed out, and Gods&Radicals now offers an expanded, professionally-printed version.
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Full Print Library: 25 books including upcoming releases, for delivery 15 April
$250.00$200.00
The Full Print Library includes ever print edition that we have ever published, including four out-of-print journals. Save over $150 on retail prices.
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Titles are as follows:
A Beautiful Resistance: Everything We Already Are
A Beautiful Resistance: The Fire is Here
A Beautiful Resistance: Left Sacred
A Beautiful Resistance: The Crossing
A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire
A Pagan Anti-Capitalist Primer
All That Is Sacred Is Profaned
Pagan Anarchism
Gods-Speaking
Your Face is a Forest
A Kindness of Ravens
Witches in a Crumbing Empire
True To The Earth
The Dead Hermes Epistolary
We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us
In The Midnight Hour
Solidarity Networks & Emergency Survival
Five Principles of Green Witchcraft
Enchanting the Shadowlands
The Broken Cauldron
The Gatherer of Souls
Reclaiming Ourselves
Circling The Star
Of Monsters And Miso
The Provisioner
If In Ruins We Must Live
The Book of Onei
Baedd and Other Poems
Reclaiming Food
Being Pagan
Courting the Wild Queen
The Secret of Crossings
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