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08.01.2022

“Game Magic: A Designer’s Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice” by Jeff Howard

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"Game Magic: A Designer’s Guide to Magic Systems in Theory and Practice explains how to construct magic systems and presents a compendium of arcane lore, encompassing the theory, history, and structure of magic systems in games and human belief. The author combines rigorous scholarly analysis with practical game design advice in the form of a magical recipe book (grimoire). The book gives you an in-depth understanding of the history and structure of magic to make your games richer and deeper. It shows how to set up tables of correspondences and spell components as well as how to write programming code integrating these components as part of game mechanics. It also illustrates how to divide a...>>

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08.01.2022

“Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength” by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney

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"Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it's hard to possess willpower — or in fact even understand why we should need it. Yet it's actually the most important factor in achieving success and a happy life, shown to be more significant than money, looks, background or intelligence. This book reveals the secrets of self-control. For years the old-fashioned, even Victorian, value of willpower has been disparaged by psychologists who argued that we're largely driven by unconscious forces beyond our control. Here Roy Baumeister, one of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, and journalist John Tierney, turn this notion on its head. They show us that willpower is...>>

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08.01.2022

“Beyond Esoteric: Escaping Prison Planet” by Brad Olsen

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"Nothing in this world works the way you think it does; there is always more to the story. Be aware that there is a war for your mind and your soul. Corporations have taken over governments in a new form of Fascism that now incorporates high technology and artificial intelligence. The survival of the human race may depend on breaking the Embargo of truth, and collectively developing an ÜberMind. But truth always resonates! Beyond Esoteric takes off the kids gloves, and exposes the control grid extending its tentacles across the planet. The word occult means nothing more than to study the realm of the hidden. So much of real knowledge and wisdom is disguised...>>

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08.01.2022

“Future Esoteric: The Unseen Realms” by Brad Olsen (second edition)

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"The term “esoteric” implies knowledge available to a select few. This book opens the door to the many mysteries of our world being withheld from us in the "official narrative." But at what cost? What is lost when we are not fully informed in our current culture of secrecy? What is our true potential as humans? How will future generations view us at this pivotal moment of human ascension? There are so many tantalizing courses of study that could advance humanity to a new level, if only we were allowed open access to discover these subjects. From UFOs to free energy technology, from ET contact to the secrets behind controlled information distribution, from attaining new...>>

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08.01.2022

“Modern Esoteric: Beyond Our Senses” by Brad Olsen (first edition)

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"Organized into three sections—Lifeology, Control, and Thrive—Modern Esoteric examines the flaws in modern history and looks at how conspiracy theories, esoteric knowledge, and fringe subjects can be used to help change the dead-end course humanity seems to be following. The Lifeology section explores the long and storried “alternative narrative” of life on this planet. In the Control section, author Brad Olsen examines how Big Brother is here in the form of the New World Order, and how they keep the knowledge of humankind’s true nature from the mass population. Finally, the Thrive section looks at all the ways humans are evolving to achieve their full potential." #crackpot...>>

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