Review: Ecstatic Ritual, by Brandy Williams

Ecstatic Ritual: Practical Sex Magic, by Brandy Williams
Prism Press, 1990

This was a rather interesting book on sex magic, that unfortunately is out-of-print.¹ I got mine through Alibris. For someone who isn’t an experienced sex magician, this is an excellent book to read. As someone who has been actively working sex magic for a long time, I didn’t find anything new per se, though some of her approaches differed a bit from other books I read. I found the concept of sealing the chakras to be particularly interesting and useful.

Another thing I found very fascinating is that Williams spends a small, but significant section describing BDSM in magic. She describes the use of guided meditation in BDSM, as well as some other practices…and as far as I can tell is the first author to do so.

Well worth a read.

1. SN Note: It’s now back in print in a new edition by Megalithica Books: Ecstatic Ritual. [↩]

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