Psychic Self-Defense

by Dion Fortune

Book Overview

A new edition of an occult classic, which includes a new introduction by Mary K. Greer, author of Women of the Golden Dawn, and a new afterword with excerpts from rarely seen documents by Fortune... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578631513
• ISBN13: 9781578631513
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Protecting one-self

Dion's witty and honest witting style makes the reading of her books a pleasurable experience living an endeleble mark in one's mind and soul. The easy and practical teachings one can learn from "Psychic Self-Defense" are extraordinary. Human beings should be very gateful for all the sacrifices, endurance, and generosity of this remarkable woman. The world is a better place thanks to her and her inner strenght and integrity to pursue the light at all times and at any necessary cost.Ms. Murillo

Psychic Attack or Psychological Disorder?

Psychic Self-DefenceA Study in Occult Pathology and Criminalityby Dion FortuneI don't remember why I originally purchased this book, several years ago, but I recently re-read it. It was just as good the second time around. It's an absolutely fascinating book - it's very readable and entertaining.I am of the opinion, though, that the things Dion calls attacks are psychological disorders, such as depression, co-dependency or the famous low self-esteem. For example, she describes PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome) quite accurately. This is pretty amazing for a book written in 1930; long before that particular syndrome was defined. However, she does include a chapter on telling the difference between mental illness and psychic attack. . (Actually, I think my cat is bulimic due to low self-esteem but maybe it's a psychic attack... ). Dion Fortune, a noted occultist at the first part of the 20th century, wrote this book in order to instruct those who felt they may be under attack but she wrote it in such a fashion as to not reveal any information that would allow someone to perpetrate an attack. Because of this style of writing, she gives tantalizing glimpses into how life as an "adept" occultist would have been at the first part of the twentieth century. I had the uneasy feeling, while reading this book, that there was a whole mysterious culture/society right under the thin layer of ordinary life.If you have any interest at all in secret societies, or even if you just want to be entertained I would definitely recommend this book. It can be read on both levels perhaps even practiced.

The modern vampire-hunter, ghost-buster manual!!

This book is so serious, scientific and well written that total sceptics I have shown it to are compelled to consider occultism as a science after they've read this one. Not only for the student of the occult and the magician, but also for the "scientific" parapsychologist and the professional exorcist, (e.g. psychologists and psychiatrists) this book is a must. Fascinating, incredible, anecdotic and yet practical and easy to follow, this book helps you recognize and deal with psychic attack on others and on oneself, and most importantly, to differentiate psychic attack from psychological dissorder.With Mystical Cabbalah and Sane Occutlism, the best book by Dion Fortune.