Keep Laughing is the autobiography of Devon Blood, a Bay Area tattooer, artist, and skateboarder. In 2006, at the age of twenty-six, he was the victim of a near-fatal gunshot wound to the head. Truly lucky to be alive, when he awoke from a medically induced coma weeks later, he found that he had lost precise muscle control on the right side of his body. In particular, he suffered severe muscle tremors in his right hand, and Devon is right-handed. He knew he would never be able to ride a skateboard or a two-wheeled bicycle again, but nothing could come between Devon and his love of art and tattooing. Overcoming doubts of his doctors and therapists while surprising and inspiring everyone around him, he trained himself to use his left hand how he once used his right. He now paints, draws, and tattoos left-handed. Devon tells his incredible story as no one else could, and his words are accompanied with personal photographs documenting his life and rehabilitation, as well as original artwork from before, during, and after his recovery.

Keep Laughing

Biographies & Memoirs

Blood, Devon

Turan, Alex

Arts & Literature

Left Hand Press

"As above, so below"...This statement has, in the past, been said by philosophers, and this belief is a major part of the Arthurian Story.  Personalities and events in King Arthur’s Astral Worlds are reflected from those worlds into this world.  Time and time again, there is the occurrence, in material form, in this world, of objects and personalities which have an existence in Arthurian spirit worlds.  And these have had a large importance to this world.    Names are useful things in our arts and Owen’s King Arthur could be subtitled A Book of Names and their Deeds. There are subtle conjures here. To know the name of a spirit and withhold your own name is to purchase power over that spirit in a shadowy slave economy of the soul. To reverse the equation is the signature of a faith that can bring the worker to good or ill; witness the unpronounceable Name of God and all those who pay homage to Its power. To exchange names with a spirit can be to bless and burn, die and be reborn in an ecstasy of union. Those who have a practice, reverends, priestesses, and doctors will find much in this book of use in both understanding their experiences and conducting their experiments.

King Arthur: An Astral King

Religion & Spirituality

Knight, Owen

New Age & Spirituality

Claudia Williams is a licensed, ordained Minister of Ancient Ways and Priestess in American Vodou. She grew up in a barrio in New York City where she encountered African based religion while living directly above a Botanica. That resonated with her innate psychic abilities and a way of spiritual practice began. When she moved to New Orleans two decades ago, this background in West African based religious practices along with her own Native American and European heritage gave her a deeper and unique perspective on what makes magick work and why. The sigils and vévés in this book were born out of necessity and developed over many years. They have proven themselves to be most effective for her personally and her clients.

Manifesting Magick With Veves and Sigils

Williams,Claudia

Occult & Paranormal

There is a large context to being a Wiccan. A context in which you, as a Wiccan, will interface and interact with persons and groups in the greater society. This can be confusing and a firm grasp of ethics in general and Wiccan Ethics in particular is of great benefit in navigating the often treacherous and circuitous ethical byways of daily life. This book offers the reader a chance to examine and develop an ethical system that can inform and govern their behavior not only within the Coven but also within the Community, and Country. Wiccan Ethics is not a book of convoluted parables. With the density of information and general overload in our lives, who has time to decipher a parable? The blunt honesty found here isn't meant to offend. Though there are psychological aspects to some of the situations that will be discussed, this book is not full of jargon or psychobabble. The frank language is a refreshing change of pace. This work promises to be anything but the bullshit often seen, trying to make you feel good rather than to help you improve your lives. The book is not written like a lecture; it's more like a conversation. You will not find mere facts and information. You will also be asked to process the data and deeply consider the Ponderables found at the end of chapters. From a Wiccan standpoint, being ethical requires the ability to calculate and determine whether or not harm may come from your actions. For that reason, Wicca is not for the intellectually lazy. Nothing is cut and dried. Everything is subject to evaluation and Wiccan Ethics gives the reader the tools to conduct such an evaluation.

Basic Wiccan Ethics: Avoiding a Perilous Path

Kagan, Susan R.

Tao Haiku is not just a collection of extraordinary haiku poetry and truly beautiful illustrations. That would be enough, but again this is New Orleans. We always like to give more...we call it "lagniappe." Where this book is concerned, it is not only an introduction to Taoist philosophy. Nor is it limited to being a way to experience Taoist philosophy and the I-Ching using haiku poetry. It is not simply a book of beautiful, deeply meaningful illustrations to help the reader ponder the meaning of each of the sixty-four hexagrams contained within.The book is a magickal tool. Meditate on the poems and images to see new ways of approaching problems with which you have been grappling. It can even be used as a divination tool which allows the reader to elicit answers to questions without having to learn how to read the I-Ching. (Though it is hoped the reader will be inspired to learn more about it).

Tao Haiku: Employing the Magick of the I-Ching Through Art and Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Landry, Phillip

Poetry

A Craft application of Wicca as an Occult Lodge system and Craft Coven Organization.Book I: The Covenant: Herein are all the Tenets and Redes of the Faith with the Laws of Wicca and Coven Rules.Book II: The Book of Beginnings: Herein are the initiations where the ancient ceremonies of rising in the Degrees of the Craft are explained and given for use. All spiritual ceremonies that mark the beginning of a new phase in the total life experience of a Covener are found therein.Book III: The Book of Lights:Section I: Works of the High Priest - Herein are the Coven Sabbat worship for the four Solar/Celestial Sabbats of the year.Section II: Works of the High Priestess - The Coven Sabbat worship for the four Terrestrial Sabbats of the year.Section III: The Manual of Exorcisms - Rituals to banish negative entities.Section IV: Book of Elders - Concerning the Council of Elders and the Mystic Coven of Seven.

The Sacred Pentagraph: Books I, II, and III (The Sacred Pentagraph: A Craft Work in Five Volumes)

Tarostar

An extensively researched, indispensible guide concerning Marie Laveau and the family members, friends, and strangers interred in the famous tomb. Featuring the first known statement to appear in print of Marie Laveau's own words as to her age and condition of health that was taken in a deposition by a Justice of the Peace on February 24, 1873.

The Tomb of Marie Laveau: In St. Louis Cemetery No. 1

Long, Carolyn Morrow

Community & Culture

Death Meditation is a short book on what is an important part of any esoteric work and also daily life. Courtries such as India have long had guides for the living, instructing them in the realms of the dead. The Bardo Thodol (Book of the Dead) is their best example. The ancient Egyptians too, had their book of the dead. What I have brought together here is a short summary of how man has come to see and create the world of death, how he has attempted to conquer, relate and experience it. The book is complete with instructions on how we all can come to know the ultimate unknown - death. Experience is the only way to know, it is this which I here try and put over in a way which all can understand. The ancients taught by throwing the initiate into circumstances which were beyond his comprehension. Later, when his conscious mind had caught up, he would understand and grow through his new knowledge. Today, through the printed book, we can learn a little more before going ahead with actual experience. That's what this book is about, giving foreknowledge before experience. But experience we must!

Death Meditation

Davies,Simon

Twinkle didn't know which was worse-having her apartment building explode, getting fired from her perfect job, or being threatened by one of the most powerful men in Colorado-all within twenty-four hours. Her life flipped from the mundane to the extraordinary when she grudgingly became the sidekick to a homeless neighbor bent on rescuing Colorado from an evil political candidate. Now, all Twinkle wants is her life back. Yet returning to a normal life won't be so easy. She must avoid the vicious cannibalistic thugs who seem to be overpowering the city, get her crazy friend to a probably imaginary sister, pay back the man she left but maybe still loves, work with a man that she may be falling in love with, and cooperate with a woman she can't stand. But will she be able to endure her forced plunge into Boulder's hippie subculture and the trust fund artistes of Chatfield Reservoir?  Full of quirky characters in bizarre situations, all set against Colorado in the near future, Twinklespunk is a fun and fast-paced read perfect for escaping from the everyday.

Twinklespunk

H. E. Christian

Contemporary

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