Resources

Hellenic Polytheism/Mysticism

• The Greeks and the Irrational by E.R. Dodds
• Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind by Yulia Ustinova
• The Seer in Ancient Greece by Michael Flower
• In the Dark Places of Wisdom by Peter Kingsley
• Orphic Hymn #30 to Dionysos (sung in ancient Greek to a tune of my own creation)
• Ancient Athenian Festival Calendar

Early Modern Witchcraft

• Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits by Emma Wilby
• Witches, Werewolves and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages by Claude Lecouteux
• The Shaman of Oberstdorf: Conrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night by Wolfgang Behringer
• Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age by Eva Pocs

Trance/Ekstasis

• Portals: Opening Doorways to Other Realities Through the Senses by Lynne Hume
• Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession by I.M. Lewis
• Music and Trance by Gilbert Rouget
• Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook by Belinda Gore

Shamanism

• Chosen by the Spirits by Sarangerel
• Journeying and Fairytales
• Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman in Siberia by Virlana Tkacz
• The Shaman: Voyages of the Soul, Trance, Ecstasy and Healing from Siberia to the Amazon by Piers Vitebsky

Northern Tradition

• Northern Tradition Shamanism, including: Pathwalking, Etiquette of Alternate Reality, Classic Shamanism and Core Shamanism: Basic Differences, The Eightfold Path to Altered States of Consciousness, Wyrdwalkers and Wightridden (books)
• The Seiðhman Rants, including: Where Does a Seiðhman Go?
• Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic by Jenny Blain
• The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia by Neil Price

Entheogens

• Visionary Plant Consciousness (essay collection)
• Erowid.org – comprehensive site on psychoactive substances
• Plants of the Gods by Schultes, Hofmann and Ratsch
• Initiation (documentary film)
• Resources for the Study of Amanita Muscaria (bibliography)

Animism and Spirits

• Animism: Respecting the Living World by Graham Harvey (also read Harvey’s brief Animist Manifesto)
• The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
• Elves, Wights and Trolls by Kveldulf Gundarsson
• Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore by Jennifer Larson
• Fairycraft: Following the Path of Fairy Witchcraft by Morgan Daimler
• Spirit Communication 101 course by The Wight Doctor

Art & Magic

• Art & Numen by Lo (the intersection of art and polytheism/animism)
• Numen Arts – for polytheist artists
• Fossil Angels by Alan Moore
• Glamourbombing as an Intersection of Spiritual, Magical & Artistic Practices

Miscellaneous

• Walking the Heartroad by Silence Maestas (devotion for spirit-workers)
• European Paganism by Ken Dowden
• Walking the Worlds – biannual journal of polytheism and spiritwork
• At the Edge – articles on folklore
• Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art by Lewis Hyde
• Sidewalk Oracles: Playing with Signs, Symbols, and Synchronicity in Everyday Life by Robert Moss
• The Super Natural by Whitley Streiber and Jeffrey Kripal
• Magic: A History from Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
• Mumming and masking resources at Masks & Monsters

 

Notable Posts from Spiritual Blogs

• On the Edge of the Village at Notes from a Barking Shaman
• Spirituality: Beyond the Superficial-World at Heathen Ranter
• Obligation at Root and Rock
• Thoughts on “Spiritually Transmitted Diseases” at Augoeides
• Spirituality is a Two Way Street at Highway to Hel
• Why I Worship the Gods at Feral Druidry
• Fallow Isn’t Just About Fields and Dreams at Mystical Bewilderment
• Rewilding Witchcraft at Scarlet Imprint
• Exploring Pagan Discernment at Through the Grapevine
• Fairies, Witches and Dangerous Magic at Living Liminally
• Baggage and Reactionary Definitions at Of Axe and Plough
• Practical Polytheism series at A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• ‘Deity Work’ Is Not Dangerous at Rotwork
• Just. Effing. Magick. at The Storyteller Way
• How To Interpret Messages From Plant Spirits at Human Parts (Medium)
• Something Something Animism at Patron Saint of Hard Times