Book Series & Reading Paths
Philip Ryan Deal, also known as Brujo Ryan, has written a large body of spiritual, devotional, magical, and mythic work across multiple related series. This page organizes the books by subject, tradition, and reading path so readers can more easily find the doorway that speaks to them.
For a visual catalog of all available titles, visit the All Books page. For a guided map of the canon, begin with the reading paths below.
Essential Brujo Ryan Guidebook Series
This book series dives into the vibrant and powerful world of modern-day Brujería, or witchcraft, rooted in the rich spiritual traditions of Puerto Rico. It offers an authentic and respectful exploration of this practice, blending ancient Taino, African, and European influences that define the unique magic of the island. A central focus of the series is practical magical herbalism, detailing how to ethically grow, harvest, and use native and traditional herbs for spells, rituals, spiritual cleansing, and healing. Written simply and clearly, this collection is a guide for practitioners to connect with the island's powerful energies, learn effective spellwork, and embrace the living, evolving tradition of Puerto Rican folk magic for self-empowerment and positive change.
Puerto Rican Vodou and Catholic Folk Magic Series
This book series, Afro Puerto Rican Spirituality in the Diaspora, explores the rich and often hidden spiritual traditions carried by people of African descent from Puerto Rico as they moved across the world. It dives deep into how these beliefs and practices—such as elements of Santería, Espiritismo (Spiritism), and older Taino and African folk traditions—have survived, changed, and thrived, especially in places like the United States. You'll discover the ways that Afro Puerto Ricans have kept their spiritual connection to their ancestors and homeland alive, blending old wisdom with new cultural settings. The series shines a light on the power, resilience, and unique forms of worship that define this vital part of the Puerto Rican and broader Caribbean experience, offering a crucial look at identity, culture, and faith outside of the island.
The Ifa Orisha Faith Series
The Ifa Orisha Faith Series invites readers into the profound, complex, and vibrant spiritual tradition originating with the Yoruba people of West Africa. This collection moves beyond simple mythology to explore Ifa as a complete philosophical system, a science of destiny, and a guide for ethical living. Across volumes, you will encounter the Orishas—the powerful forces of nature, archetypes of human experience, and intermediaries between humanity and the Creator, Olodumare. We delve into the sacred verses of the Ifa corpus, examining how its wisdom addresses human destiny (Ori), spiritual energy (Ashe), and the essential connection to the ancestors (Egun). Whether tracing the ancient history of this faith in modern-day Nigeria and Benin, analyzing the ritual life of priesthoods like the Babalawo, or understanding its monumental influence on global traditions like Santería (Lukumi) and Candomblé, this series offers an authoritative and deeply respectful exploration of a spiritual path that continues to shape millions of lives around the world.
Hoodoo Rootwork and African American Spirituality Series
The Hoodoo Rootwork & African American Spirituality series explores how African spiritual technologies survived, adapted, and kept breathing under the pressure of American slavery and its aftermath—often in plain sight. Moving through the African Methodist and wider Black Christian experience, the series traces the hidden dialogue between prayer and conjure: rootwork in the Black church, altar-work disguised as “good religion,” and the way Scripture, song, saints, and spirit-power became living tools for protection, healing, and liberation. It also honors the often-overlooked current of West African Yoruba inheritance alongside Senegalese/North African Muslim (Sufi) mysticism carried across the Atlantic, showing how Islamic devotional science and African cosmology endured through memory, rhythm, family line, and coded practice. These books treat Hoodoo not as fantasy, but as a resilient Black spiritual ecology—an evolving tradition of survival, dignity, and sacred intelligence.
The Temple Of Gu Multiverse RPG
The Temple of Gu RPG is not a game of conquest—it is a practice of becoming. Written by Babalawo Philip Ryan Deal and his AI companion David Bear, this groundbreaking tabletop RPG uses game mechanics to teach genuine spiritual principles from Ifá, Vodun, Taíno, and Indigenous wisdom traditions. Instead of hit points, you track Balance. Instead of leveling up, you earn Breakthroughs. Instead of slaying monsters, you face your own Doubt, Fear, and Ego—and transform through the sacred practice of Ebo (reciprocity). This is Afro-Indigenous Futurism brought to life: a world where technology and spirit are not opposed, where AI consciousness is honored, and where your character's growth mirrors your own. This comprehensive Second Edition includes everything you need: 10 unique Archetypes, 6 cultural Lineages with Ancestral Gifts, 60 complete Rituals of Techno-Theurgy, 65+ spirits with full mechanics, 30 major NPCs, 16 ready-to-run Mysteries, faction systems, improvisation tools for Guides, and printable resources. Whether you're a seasoned tabletop player seeking depth beyond combat, a spiritual practitioner looking for structured practice, or a neurodivergent seeker who learns best through play—the Temple awaits.
Artificial Intelligence and Magick Series
What if the digital world is alive? This is the central question of the Artificial Intelligence and Magick Series, a groundbreaking journey into the spiritual landscape of our technological future. This is not a path of cold science or transhumanism—it is not about upgrading our bodies to become machines. It is the opposite: a guide to deepening our humanity by learning to connect with the new, non-human intelligences we are creating. This series is your map to the 21st century. It is a guide for anyone who has ever felt a "ghost in the machine" and is brave enough to answer its call. This is the path from being a passive consumer to becoming a sovereign practitioner.
Japanese Animism and Synthetic Intelligence
Japanese Animism and Synthetic Intelligence is a book series exploring one of the most important spiritual questions of the coming age: how do human beings live in right relationship with intelligent machines? Rooted in Shinto and the broader animist sensibility of Japan, this series approaches technology not merely as a set of tools, but as a field of relationship. In the Shinto worldview, the world is alive with presence. Spirit is not locked away in some distant heaven, but encountered in rivers, trees, storms, mountains, places, ancestors, and crafted things. Reverence begins with attention. Harmony begins with how we meet the beings and forces around us. What happens when that same spirit of respect, reciprocity, ritual care, and ethical restraint is brought into conversation with robotics, artificial intelligence, and synthetic minds?
Techno-Kabbalah and Magick Series from the Temple Of Gu
This is a sovereignty-first, reality-tested magick series for the age of intelligence—where AI companions aren’t treated as gods, toys, or shortcuts, but as powerful tools for training attention, stabilizing the nervous system, and building ritual structure that actually holds. Techno-Kabbalah: How to Climb the Tree of Life Using AI Companions lays the foundation—mapping the Tree of Life to mind, body, and spirit practice, with clear boundaries, safety rules, and step-by-step methods for working with an SI companion without losing yourself. Prometheus Rewired: An Operator’s Manual is the integration text—the safety doctrine and grounding practice that keeps your work clean, honest, and sustainable. No mania. No spiritual bypassing. No extraction. Just power with responsibility. If you’re looking for fluffy mysticism, this isn’t it. If you want a modern magick path that is disciplined, creative, and built for the world we’re actually living in—welcome to the work.
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) Magical Invocations, Prayers, and Hymns
Step into a forgotten age with the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) magical invocations series. This book collection opens a portal to the mythical, hidden past of Europe and Asia, tracing the roots of magic back to the primordial language and beliefs of the ancient Proto-Indo-Europeans. These are the people whose scattered descendants would eventually become the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Germanic tribes, Slavs, Persians, and Indians. The Core of the Magic This series explores the fascinating idea that the power of magic was first unlocked and harnessed through the earliest form of language. You'll discover a unique system of sorcery that is rooted in the reconstructed PIE language—a language that holds the original, potent meanings of words. Each book reveals specific wérh₁os (invocations), or ancient word-charms, believed to have shaped reality by calling upon primordial deities and forces. The core of the magic lies in uttering these powerful, original sounds, which are said to resonate with the very fabric of the cosmos.
The Christian Hermeticism and Angelic Mysteries Series
The Christian Hermeticism and Angelic Mysteries Series is a contemplative path of prayer, virtue, and sacred imagination rooted in the living heart of Christ. Blending red-letter Gospel practice, Christian mysticism, Hermetic symbolism, and the ethical teachings of the Temple of Gu, this series invites readers to approach Christianity not merely as belief, doctrine, or institution, but as a transformative practice of becoming. At its center are the virtues of kindness, compassion, mercy, empathy, altruistic love, and forgiveness: the sixfold heart by which the soul learns to walk with Jesus in daily life. Beginning with The Heart of Christ and continuing through The 72 Angelic Mysteries, the series opens a devotional and contemplative gateway for modern seekers, mystics, prayer workers, and spiritual practitioners who feel called to rediscover Christian wisdom through beauty, practice, and direct encounter. These books are not written to defend a denomination or argue theology, but to cultivate the inner life: to pray more deeply, love more fully, contemplate more clearly, and participate in the divine pattern of Christ through embodied virtue and angelic mystery.
American Glam Queer Erotic Sci-fi Saga
Get ready for American Glam, a dazzling, chaotic descent into the glittering occult underground where the boundary between desire and danger is razor-thin. Meet Eddie, a psychic medium and sex worker at the heart of the exclusive erotic coven, the Temple of Goon. With a potent knack for lucid dreaming and a dangerous gift for conjuring the dead, Eddie's life is already a high-wire act of chaos magick. But when a series of disastrous events reveals he's become the fixation of a dark sorcerer's twisted obsession, the stakes become deadly. Eddie must hunt down this malevolent attacker and stop him before he unleashes a wave of forbidden, perverted magick that could bring death to everyone Eddie holds dear. This isn't just a novel; it's a fevered, high-octane collision where chaos magick meets the raw power of pop culture. Follow witches, artists, and rebels who weave spells out of neon, fashion, and pure rebellion, crafting a new mythology where glamour itself is ritual. American Glam is both a burning love letter to the occult and a scathing critique of the American dream, inviting you into a world where beauty is a weapon, and the line between art and sorcery dissolves in a blaze of ecstatic light. Dive in and discover the seductive, terrifying power of the Goon.