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17.11.2021

“Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard” by Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao (kindle ebook version)

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"Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard" by Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao (kindle ebook version)
"This authorized biography of the contemporary Taoist expert Wang Liping (1949 -) tells the true story of his apprenticeship in Taoist wizardry, as well as Taoist principles and secrets of inner transformation. The 18th-generation transmitter of Dragon Gate Taoism, Wang Liping is heir to a tradition of esoteric knowledge and practice accumulated and refined over eleven centuries. This is the first English translation by noted writer Thomas Cleary of the authorized biography by two longtime disciples of this living master of the Dragon Gate branch of the Complete Reality school of Taoism, which integrated Buddhism and Confucianism into a comprehensive new form of Taoism."...>>
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17.11.2021

“Rites of the Mummy: The K’rla Cell and the Secret Key to Liber AL” by Jeffrey D. Evans and Peter Levenda

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"Rites of the Mummy: The K’rla Cell and the Secret Key to Liber AL" by Jeffrey D. Evans and Peter Levenda
"An arcane ritual reveals a code hidden within Thelema’s most holy book. Over a period of several years, the former head of Kenneth Grant’s Typhonian Order in the United States, conducted a bizarre sexual ritual with elements of Thelema, Lovecraft, and the Egyptian mummification ceremony to unlock a mathematical code buried in plain sight in Aleister Crowley’s Book of the Law. Jeffrey Evans, a follower of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema since his teenage years, had an encounter on a bridge in Washington, DC, with a being he identified as his holy guardian angel. This being—Karla—provided him with the inspiration to begin a series of rituals incorporating Egyptian and Lovecraftian elements in an effort to traverse the...>>
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17.11.2021

“Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination” by Avery F. Gordon

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"Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination" by Avery F. Gordon
"Drawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches), Avery Gordon demonstrates that past or haunting social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Written with a power to match its subject, Ghostly Matters has advanced the way we look at the complex intersections of race, gender, and class as they traverse our lives in sharp relief and shadowy manifestations."...>>
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16.11.2021

“The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” by John Koenig

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"The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" by John Koenig
🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express, until now—from the creator of the popular online project of the same name. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking...>>
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