Magick Matters

11.01.2022

“Sacred Pathways: The Brain’s role in Religious and Mystic Experiences” by Todd Murphy (3rd edition)

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"Sacred Pathways: The Brain's role in Religious and Mystic Experiences" by Todd Murphy (3rd edition)
"Sacred Pathways explains how the brain areas that support Near-Death Experiences are also the basis for mystic experience during our lives. It's a 21st century synthesis of science and spirituality by brain scientist Todd Murphy, in which spiritual, religious, and mystic events are explained with neuroscience. Edited and re-edited to make the science easy to understand, it's a readable introduction to the science of the spiritual. Murphy uses Darwin's theory of evolution to understand the human death-process, and proposes that reincarnation is an evolutionary adaptation which contributed to the survival of our species. The book explores the ideas that the self is actually a hallucination, God is a manifestation of a part of ourselves, and...>>
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10.01.2022

“Tok Sen: Sacred Tapping on the Thai Meridians” by Elefteria Mantzorou

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"Tok Sen: Sacred Tapping on the Thai Meridians" by Elefteria Mantzorou
"Are you a massage therapist? Are you looking to enhance your skills with massage tools? Are you interested in energy work? Then this book is for you! It contains all the detailed instructions you will need in order to practice the ancient Thai therapy which is called “Tok Sen”. The book contains a link for a secret 26 minutes video, which demonstrates the techniques. Tok Sen is an ancient Thai treatment. It is practiced mainly in Northern Thailand, as it originates from Lanna animist traditions. It is performed with a set of wooden tools, which consists of a “hammer” and a “chisel”. It is a special part of the sacred Thai Massage tradition. What you will...>>
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10.01.2022

“Build Your Inner Strength: Through the Chinese Philosophy of Wang Yangming’s School of Mind” by Jueren Wang

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"Build Your Inner Strength: Through the Chinese Philosophy of Wang Yangming's School of Mind" by Jueren Wang
"Normality today is to be enslaved by the material world to the point where individual happiness has not kept pace with increasing material prosperity. Have we lost our original nature in the pursuit of the external material world? Wang Yangming's School of Mind of nearly 500 years ago teaches us how to overcome external circumstances and seek the source of the great strength that lies in our innermost being. Wang Yangming's School of Mind is a gathering together of the achievements of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. It is one of the most representative and influential strands of Chinese philosophical thought and proposes that "conscience" is a cosmic prime principle innate in man that transcends all...>>
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09.01.2022

“The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction” edited by Jerrold E. Hogle

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"The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction" edited by Jerrold E. Hogle
"Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies,...>>
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