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Murry Hope (b. 1930) is an English woman writer, lecturer, psychic, healer, astrologer, numerologist, palmist, former lyric singer and universal occultist. She makes part of the staff composed by most popular authors^[3][4] from New Age^[5][6] and also performing as Wicca priestess.^[7][1] Her more than twenty books encompass branches of studies such as psychology, human consciousness, the future of planet Earth, witchcraft and singular subjects like the Sirius star system,^[8][5] its inhabitants and their influence over the Earth, especially at ancient times in Egypt^[7] and in the mythological city of Atlantis.^[3][4]

Murry Hope's mother deserted the daughter shortly after her birth and the father died of throat cancer few days later. Hence she was raised by her nurse Rhoda Adams, according to Hope a very Jungian person. Hope was a talented child learning to read at four years old and emotionally affected by Russian subjects^[9] she assimilated Tolstoy when was around six.^[6] Adams and her family tried to adopt Hope, but were refused for not comprising all the formal regulation. Lasting the Second War a bombing in 1945 killed her nanny leaving her in the care of Adams’s husband and niece then staying in a safe country zone.

At nineteen years old Hope had been integrated as a member of the Women's Royal Air Force finishing up, after two years of service, as integrant Senior Officer’s delegation for the Crown in WRAF, who on that occasion was represented by Duchess of Gloucester. In 1951 she was working for the Officer's Association of the British Legion treating, by means of her knowledge of psychology, traumas of war, rehabilitation and other issues.

Hope studied voice lessons with a teacher from the Paris Conservatoire and in London made a small part in West End production during two years. Next she followed the dramaturgical career with works on television, concerts, two repertory companies, and others. Meanwhile she accomplished an opera scholarship at the Royal College of Music where she stayed for three years then passing to the English National Opera. Her premiere was the mystical opera The Magic Flute and after some moths later was soloist playing Papagena.

In 1957 she co-founded with Tony Neate the Atlanteans Society, a healing and spiritual group in the Malvern Hills in England aiming treat issues like exorcism and mental cases.^[4] By that time Hope had a periodic column for Prediction magazine where she used the pseudonym of Athene Williams. In 1975 the predominant Christian layout installed amidst Atlanteans weighed as much to Murry that she decided to leave the group. She could not stay there because Hope expressed her personal Pagan belief as something at a great distance of any anthropomorphism; according to her all beings are part of Gaia, all are one organism.^[1]

In 1977 Murry had her alleged psychics abilities tested by a doctor from Cambridge University under the supervision of the broadcaster BBC and obtained good results. Hope, among her occult powers, also affirms to remember her past lives as being not human, she would have been belonging to the devic kingdom.^[10]

In her esoteric essays Hope still created the method Cartouche, a way of divination with cards allegedly for attaining heightened levels of awareness^[11] based on symbols of energies on the monuments and walls of various Egyptian temples.^[4][12] She contracted Martin Jones in 1983 to develop the artwork for the deck of cards with symbols. That year Hope and Jed Collard founded the company Ostaris Publications which produced three thousands collections of playing cards each joined by a small guidance book. The decks sold very well drawing a business transaction between Jed Collard and the American book publisher St. Martin's Press. From that, oversized cards and a larger guidance book were printed by St. Martins, under license from Ostaris, intending global distribution rights.^[13] At long last concluding that enterprise she published her book The Way of Cartouche in 1985.

In 1988 Hope founded the Institute of Transpersonal Sensitivity, which intends establishing a relation between the transpersonal experience and the approved schools of psychology.^[3] While establishing definitively like a writer, in her personal life she had four unfortunate marriages and no children by impossibilities of pregnancy. Thereafter she kicked off its book publishing and eventually making lectures.^[14]

Considering her literally themes a frequently subject such as “the roots of ancient Egyptian civilization”,^[16][17] is explored through books like Ancient Egypt: The Sirius Connection of 1991, The Paschats and the Crystal People^[7] of 1992 and others. There she calls attention for the unusual knowledge of North African tribes, namely the Dogons,^[18] and conducts the reader on a trip across an alien legacy from the tri-star system of Sirius.^[19][8] 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 mysteries and the stellar energies. Later on she examines the nature of a leonine entities of Sirius called the Paschats whom she conjectures through the lion goddess Bastet were worshipped in Egypt.^[7][15][20]

Besides the right mystical issues, particularly in The Gaia Dialogues (1995), Hope defends the natural world asserting the Earth (Gaia) as a highly conscious and living being who was shifting its magnetic poles and planning to defend itself from human destruction if it is unavoidable.^[6][2]

• Practical Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, 1984, ISBN 0850303613; republished as The Ancient Wisdom of Egypt, Thorsons Publishers, 1999, ISBN 978-0722535820.
• The Way of Cartouche: An Oracle of Ancient Egyptian Magic, St. Martin's Press, 1985. ISBN 031285823X.
• Practical Techniques of Psychic Self-Defense, St. Martin's Press, 1986, ISBN 0312635524.
• Practical Greek Magic: A Complete Manual of a Unique Magical System Based on the Classical Legends of Ancient Greece, Aquarian Press, 1987, ISBN 085030430X.
• Practical Celtic Magic: A Working Guide to the Magical Heritage of the Celtic Races, Aquarian Press, 1988, ISBN 0850306248.
• The Lion People: Intercosmic Messages from the Future, 1989; republished by Thoth Publications, 2006. ISBN 978-1870450010.
• Essential Woman: Her Mystery, Her Power, Thoth Publications, 1990, ISBN 1852740973.
• The Nine Lives of Tyo, Thoth Publications, 1990, ISBN 1870450124.
• The Psychology of Healing, Element Books, 1990, ISBN 1852301074; rev. ed., Vega Books, 2002, ISBN 978-1843336587.
• Time: The Ultimate Energy, Element Books, 1991, ISBN 1852302372; rev. ed., Vega Books, 2002, ISBN 978-1843332619.
• Ancient Egypt: The Sirius Connection, Element Books, 1991. ISBN 1852301775; republished as The Sirius Connection: Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Egypt, Element Books, 1996, ISBN 978-1852308186 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1862041028 (paperback).
• Atlantis: Myth or Reality?, Penguin, 1991, ISBN 0140192328.
• The Elements of the Greek Tradition, Element Books, 1991, ISBN 1852301120.
• Olympus: An Experience of Self-Discovery, Aquarian Press, 1991, ISBN 1855381281.
• The Psychology of Ritual, Element Books, 1991, ISBN 1852300434.
• Practical Atlantean Magic: A Study of the Science, Mysticism and Theurgy of Ancient Atlantis, Aquarian Press, 1992, ISBN 1855380692; republished as The Ancient Wisdom of Atlantis, Thorsons Publishers, 1999, ISBN 978-0722535851.
• The Paschats and the Crystal People, Thoth Publications, 1992, ISBN 1870450132.
• The Gaia Dialogues, Thoth Publications, 1995, ISBN 1870450183.
• Cosmic Connections, Thoth Publications, 1996, ISBN 1870450205.
• The Changeling: The Autobiography of Murry Hope, The College of Psychic Studies, 1999, ISBN 978-0903336314.
• The Ancient Wisdom of the Celts, Thorsons Publishers, 1999, ISBN 978-0722535868.
• The World of Psychism: An Authoritative Study of Mysticism and Magic, Thoth Publications, 2001, ISBN 978-1870450447.