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Christopher Penczak (Author)
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Publication Date: June 1, 2001
Penczak tells us we can learn to embrace the heart of the surrounding world using the tools right in front of us. Included in this book are: an outline of the basics of magic as relevant to city surroundings; a discussion of the potential for magic in everyday places; how to read the writing on the walls (graffiti); creating and maintaining a personal temple, an intruduction to metropolitan spirits; how to find spirit guides and animal totems within the city.

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Weiser Books (June 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1578632064
  • ISBN-13: 978-1578632060
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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Christopher Penczak
Christopher Penczak is an author, teacher, and healing practitioner. Rooted firmly in the traditions of modern Witchcraft, he draws from the timeless wisdom of many cultures in the creation of new techniques and traditions.

Christopher is the author of numerous books, including the award-winning six-volume Temple of Witchcraft series (Llewellyn) and the Three Rays of Witchcraft (Copper Cauldron Publishing). Other works include Ascension Magick, Instant Magick, and the Witch's Shield (Llewellyn) and City Magick, Gay Witchcraft, and Spirit Allies (Red Wheel/Weiser). He has been a featured columnist for newWitch magazine and publications such as Genre, InnerSelf, and Kaleidoscope.

Christopher is a co-founder of the Temple of Witchcraft tradition and not-for-profit religious organization, and teaches and travels extensively teaching Witchcraft. He also offers a variety of online classes and lectures. For more visit www.christopherpenczak.com and www.templeofwitchcraft.org.

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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One of the most relevant and timely books out today, Christopher Penczak's City Magick serves to prove that natural spirituality and paganism can be practiced and enjoyed deep in the rush of the urban jungle. Penczak has taken city life and opened it to the energies and rhythms of a "different" way of life for practitioners of magic.

With simple language and rich tones of personal experience, Mr. Penczak explains sources of energy, symbols and details of a magical life surrounded by concrete. He teaches us how to use limited space more efficiently for temples, altars and magical storage. Drawing on details from urban life, we're shown how the simple uses of tools, herbs, stones and graffiti sigils can bring us closer to a co-relationship with our environment. He introduces the reader to "Neon Devas and Electric Gods", beginning a new and refreshing open dialogue for those pagans who must or by choice, reside in cities.

Covering such subjects as "metropolitan spirits, urban magic, tools, language of the street, techno temples" and much more, this book delves deep into the heart of the city to unearth the powers that lurk there, waiting to be summoned. Included in the volume are twenty-three good illustrations and twenty-seven practical and simple exercises to enhance your magic and spirituality, while making your home within the steel and glass of an urban environment.

If you reside in a city, this book is a must-have. It will help alleviate the notion that magic can only be effective in a natural setting. Feel "at-one-ness" with the beat of the urban heart. Connect with your surroundings. Use the energy around you to strengthen and enhance magic. Practice urban magic and embrace the pulse of city-life.

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Fresh new look to the Craft November 26, 2001
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I have been practicing and studying Wicca/Paganism, Tarot and many other tools of Divination for seven years now and this is by far the best book I've laid my hands on. Maybe it's because of the way he writes, the fresh new look and the way of thinking he has on the subject. I am getting very, very irritated from all the fluffy commercialized books I keep seeing and the tacky stuff people do like teen spell kits, velour covered love spell books and whatever else they can think of to take advantage of the fact that Wicca/Paganism is a fast growing path. Anyway, enough of that. Sorry but I had to say it but to let you know his book is not like that at all. It is clear (to me) that this book is not for beginners but for intermediate to more experienced practitioners of the Craft but it's not hard to digest at all. Excellent!
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A whole new outlook March 2, 2002
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This book is a phenominal piece of craft lierature. It brings paganism from the forest into the concrete jungle. As an avid Techno-mage, I have found it informative, useful, and pleasing. I would recommend this book to any practitioner who lives in the city, and can't always get to a forest or a stream to perform their rituals. I have already tried many of the exercises in the book and have found that they have really opened my eyes to the spirit of the city. I look forward to reading this book many, many times in the future.
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city magick
This is my second copy as the first was borrowed and never returned. It is clear and well written and I am glad to have it again.
Published on October 4, 2008 by Ann M. Junkins
A valuable text for the urban pagan!
Having been raised in a rural area, it's taken some effort to adjust to living in the city. Granted, Portland is pretty green, with a lot of parks in the city proper. Read more
Published on July 31, 2007 by Lupa
Extremely interesting.
I purchased this from a local outfit, mainly because it seemed different from the other fair I was used to seeing. This assessment was correct. Read more
Published on January 29, 2007 by T. Schaefer
The Urban Landscape Transformed!
'City Magick' by Christopher Penczak is one of the most enjoyable, original and inventive books on witchcraft/magic that I have read in quite sometime. Read more
Published on June 6, 2006 by Brian E. Erland
Over all, a great book
This is the thing if you live or work in a city (or just near one) you NEED this book. Most of us cant get out in a "wild" area each Sabbat. Read more
Published on August 2, 2005 by Witchy Mama
michaeljofis@yahoo -you said it all!!
...and beat me to it also LOL! Honestly folks, he could not put it better and I know I can't but wanted to second that review wholeheartedly. Read more
Published on November 16, 2001
Unpalatable new age rubbish
It seems that recently every single author I love is somehow into chaos majick and postmodern occultism. So I gave this book a chance. The concept sounded nice, after all.

Well. Read more

Published on November 6, 2001 by Fabio Rossi
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city magick, urban magick, city sigils, rune cloth, thank all beings, pranic breathing, magick words, city totems, magick circle, love magick, doing magick, mechanical spirits, rune set, magical intentions, release the circle, sympathetic magick, modern magick, harming none, harmful energy, visible city, harmful energies, magical eyes, trance work, hidden city, circle ritual
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Metropolitan Spirits, Meeting the Makers, Our Town, Native American, The New Urban Temples, Materials Needed, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York City, World Tree, Mother Earth, Hong Kong, Wheel of the Year, Feng Shui, Northern Hemisphere, San Francisco, Start Exercise, William Michie
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