Murry Hope

Hope argued that Gaia, a living and conscious being, must be protected in her work The Gaia Dialogues.

Murry Hope (17 September 1929 – 25 October 2012) was an English writer and occultist. Considered a Wiccan priestess and a New Age author, she wrote sundry books on the topics of psychology, human consciousness, the future of planet Earth, witchcraft, the Sirius star system, etc.

Early life Hope's mother left her after she was born and her father died of throat cancer at a very early age. She was raised by her nurse, Rhoda Adams. A bomb killed her nanny in 1945, leaving her in the care of Adams's husband and niece who were in the country at the time. At 19 Hope was a member of the Women's Royal Air Force. In 1951 she was working for the Officer's Association of the British Legion.

In her esoteric essays Hope created the Cartouche, a method of divination which used cards that she claimed heightened levels of awareness. based on symbols of energies on the monuments and walls of various Egyptian temples. She contracted Martin Jones in 1983 to develop artwork for the deck with symbols. The same year Hope and Jed Collard founded Ostaris Publications which produced 3,000 decks of these cards with accompanying guide book. The decks sold well, drawing a business transaction between Jed Collard and the American book publisher St. Martin's Press. Following this success, oversized cards and a larger guidance book were printed by St. Martins. Her final contribution was the book The Way of Cartouche, published in 1985.

In 1988 Hope founded the Institute of Transpersonal Sensitivity in America, intending to establish a relation between transpersonal experience and the approved schools of psychology.

Themes Hope's frequent themes, including "the roots of ancient Egyptian civilization", are explored through books like Ancient Egypt: The Sirius Connection of 1991, The Paschats and the Crystal People of 1992 and others. There she calls attention to the knowledge possessed by North African tribes, namely the Dogons, and conducts the reader on a trip across an alleged alien legacy descended from the "tri-star system of Sirius". She claims that beryl stone represents the Sirius star system and emerald the "Sirius C star", which create a cosmic link between initiates from Egyptian and stellar energies. Later on she examines the nature of leonine entities from Sirius called Paschats which, conjectures Hope, through the lion goddess Bastet were worshiped in Egypt.

Particularly in The Gaia Dialogues (1995), Hope defends the natural world asserting that the Earth (Gaia) is a conscious being, a living entity who is shifting its magnetic poles as part of a plan to defend itself from desolation caused by its human children.

Books Practical Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, 1984, ; republished as The Ancient Wisdom of Egypt, Thorsons Publishers, 1999. The Way of Cartouche: An Oracle of Ancient Egyptian Magic, St. Martin's Press, 1985. . Practical Techniques of Psychic Self-Defense, St. Martin's Press, 1986. Practical Greek Magic: A Complete Manual of a Unique Magical System Based on the Classical Legends of Ancient Greece, Aquarian Press, 1987. Practical Celtic Magic: A Working Guide to the Magical Heritage of the Celtic Races, Aquarian Press, 1988. The Lion People: Intercosmic Messages from the Future, 1989; republished by Thoth Publications, 2006. . Essential Woman: Her Mystery, Her Power, Thoth Publications, 1990. The Nine Lives of Tyo, Thoth Publications, 1990. The Psychology of Healing, Element Books, 1990, ; rev. ed., Vega Books, 2002. Time: The Ultimate Energy, Element Books, 1991, ; rev. ed., Vega Books, 2002. Ancient Egypt: The Sirius Connection, Element Books, 1991. ; republished as The Sirius Connection: Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Egypt, Element Books, 1996, (hardcover), (paperback). Atlantis: Myth or Reality?, Penguin, 1991. The Elements of the Greek Tradition, Element Books, 1991. Olympus: An Experience of Self-Discovery, Aquarian Press, 1991. The Psychology of Ritual, Element Books, 1991. Practical Atlantean Magic: A Study of the Science, Mysticism and Theurgy of Ancient Atlantis, Aquarian Press, 1992, ; republished as The Ancient Wisdom of Atlantis, Thorsons Publishers, 1999. The Paschats and the Crystal People, Thoth Publications, 1992. The Gaia Dialogues, Thoth Publications, 1995. Cosmic Connections, Thoth Publications, 1996. The Changeling: The Autobiography of Murry Hope, The College of Psychic Studies, 1999. The Ancient Wisdom of the Celts, Thorsons Publishers, 1999. The World of Psychism: An Authoritative Study of Mysticism and Magic, Thoth Publications, 2001.