Raymond Buckland
Taken at the Victorian Seance
in Lily Dale, NY, 2008 and 2009
VICTORIAN SEANCE (Lily Dale)
The Victorian Séances have all gone extremely well. All the
Mediums (nineteen of them) are dressed in Victorian garb, as are the majority of the sitters. Ray's Planchette Séance
is popular and greatly appreciated by the sitters. Greg Ford of Fordo Productions takes Victorian-style photographs throughout
the weekends. Photos of Ray, from 2008 and 2009, are shown above.
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Tickets for the Victorian Seance
go on sale in February each year, through the Lily Dale Assembly, and are snapped up very quickly.
*** BACK IN PRINT DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND
There have been a lot of enquiries about Ray's tarot deck, the BUCKLAND ROMANI TAROT KIT. Although
this popular deck-and-book was out of print for a while, it is now available again - expanded, with
a new Introduction . . . by a new publisher, Galde Press.
*** YOU
CAN ORDER NOW FROM GALDE PRESS -
Contact: orders@galdepress.com
ISBN: 978-1-931942-62-1
Size: Book - 6 x 9, 240
pgs. • Deck - 78 cards
Price: $34.95 (postage $5.00)
Another book back in print
(first published in 1974) is HERE IS THE OCCULT. One or two copies of the original
have shown up on the Internet at prices as high as $200. Now you can order yours. Available now from Amazon.com, Abebooks.com,
BookSurge.com, and Alibris.com See "Recent Books" for details.
BRAND NEW BOOKS -- Ray's new book The
Weiser Field Guide to GHOSTS - Apparitions, Spirits, Spectral Lights, and Other Hauntings of History and Legend,
published by Red Wheel/Weiser. See "Recent Books".
Also: Buckland's
Book of Gypsy Magic is now available. See full details at http://redwheelweiser.com/detail.html?session=3d367504fc865ef7491f6b2b770c9b74&id=9781578634675
BOOK and SPIRIT BOARD -
Ray's book on the Talking Board, OUIJA - "Yes! Yes!" is now
available. It is marketed by Doorway Publications & Gifts together with Ray's new design
BUCKLAND SPIRIT BOARD; a professional talking board that comes with a solid wood planchette.
Buy them both together and save.
Additionally,
Ray has just finished a small book which is the first of a series of about a dozen. These have the titles Buckland
Doorway to . . . These will be covering such things as Tarot, Scrying, Healing, Meditation, Psychic Protection,
etc. The first one is now available and is Buckland Doorway to Candle Magic. Price is $12.95, post included. Order from Buckland Books,
P.O. Box 892, Wooster, OH 44691-0892
COVER GUY Issue #46 of PanGaia magazine has a great photo of Ray on the cover
and an inside featured interview with him. Don't miss it.
One of Ray's main Spiritualist works: THE SPIRIT BOOK: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF CLAIRVOYANCE, CHANNELING AND SPIRIT COMMUNICATION (Visible Ink Press). With 500 entries
and 100 illustrations rich with details that will fascinate and astonish, this book includes accounts of ghosts and hauntings,
levitation and trances, astral projection, psychic surgery, self-painting portraits, crystal gazing, predictions, and poltergeists,
Mediums, clairvoyants, telepaths, and other well-known people connected to the field worldwide are profiled, as are notorious
fakes and frauds. Spirit beliefs among the famous, including Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Mae West, are examined. This
is a fascinating book! FATE Magazine, July 2005, carried an excerpt from The Spirit Book in the form of
an article: "The Mediumship of the Eddy Brothers: Horatio and William." NOTE: The October 31, 2005, edition of PEOPLE
Magazine carried a (brief) review of THE SPIRIT BOOK (page 56).
IN THE WORKS Also, due to frequent
requests, Raymond is currently working on his autobiography. He has been blessed with a long, varied, and successful career
(spanning over a half century) and throughout this time he has witnessed - and had a hand in - the emergence of Wicca as a
major religious force. This book is sure to find a place on the history shelves and will be an eye-opener to younger generations
of Witches. It will also correct the erroneous information that is given on some web sites and in some books.
A
NEW BOOK, Domino Divination, is soon to be published, along with a new edition of Ray's book on Color Magic.
Watch for announcements of their becoming available.
Ray's first Victorian Mystery novel is also in the works
and will soon be available: GOLDEN ILLUMINATI. Set in London in 1899 it deals with the Golden Dawn and the
Illuminati!
The John Carney Show was on CBS Radio KMOX (1120), St. Louis, IL, at 11:10pm
on Sept. 10. You can still listen to this at http://www.kmox.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType:Episode&audioId=4013322
UPCOMING
APPEARANCES
October 14-17, 2010 - Bouchercon, Hyatt-Regency,
San Francisco. Ray will be at the famous mystery-writers' convention in San Francisco.
November 6, 2010 - Ray will be signing his books at the Buckeye Book Fair, Fisher Auditorium, OARDC/OSU Campus,
Wooster, OH 9:30am-4:00pm
FOREIGN EDITIONS Raymond's books have been translated into seventeen
foreign languages. We recently came across copies of some of these and offer them, hopefully giving people in countries other
than the U.S. a chance to get Ray's books in their own language and signed by him.
Note: There was Russian edition of the Buckland Romani Tarot Cards produced without
permission. We have been unable to contact the publisher. Ray would love to have a copy of that edition (it was produced in
a smaller size than most tarot decks - about the size of a regular poker deck). If you have one or know of one, please get
in touch with Ray at raymond@raybuckland.com Many thanks.
BEWARE THE BLOG (AND "MY SPACE")! It came to our attention that someone had placed a blog
on the Internet, at http://www.myspace.com/raymondbuckland This was completely unauthorized; it was not Ray
himself but someone presuming to speak for him without his knowledge!
More
recently a "Tribute to Raymond Buckland" has appeared on www.myspace.com/raymondbuckland Similarly, this was not
put there by Ray but by someone else, "in tribute" to him, so be aware that if you think you are one of Ray's "Friends"
. . . in fact he knows nothing about it! Much as Ray would enjoy doing a "blog" he doesn't have the time to do
one. If he should, anytime in the future, then it will be announced here. Many thanks.
WITCHCRAFT DVD Don't miss this fabulous new release of his original video (but now in DVD format) titled
Witchcraft: Rebirth of the Old Religion. It features an extra hour (total of two hours)
of material, including "music videos", blooper reel, commentaries on the changes to Wicca since the first release,
current interview with Raymond and "behind-the-scenes extras" footage.
RAYMOND BUCKLAND LIBRARY . . .
Do, please, check out http://www.doorwaypublications.com/bucklandlibrary.html