Magick Matters

01.09.2021

“The Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded Edition” edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer (kindle ebook version)

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"The Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded Edition" edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer (kindle ebook version)
"Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in the past fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread in ancient and medieval religions—and what a marvelous body of scriptures it produced. The selections gathered here in poetic, readable translation represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Their regions...>>
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31.08.2021

“Subliminal: The New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us” by Leonard Mlodinow

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"Subliminal: The New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us" by Leonard Mlodinow
"Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking) and War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra) here examines how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world, and how, for instance, we often misperceive everything from our relationships with family, friends and business associates, the reasons for our investment decisions, to our own past. Your preference in politicians, the amount of tip you give the waiter-all our judgments and perceptions-reflect the workings of our mind on two levels, the conscious, of which we are aware, and the unconscious, which is hidden from us. The latter has long been the subject of speculation, but over...>>
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30.08.2021

“Toltec Dreaming: Don Juan’s Teachings on the Energy Body” by Ken Eagle Feather (kindle ebook version)

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"Toltec Dreaming: Don Juan's Teachings on the Energy Body" by Ken Eagle Feather (kindle ebook version)
"A metaphysical instruction manual on the role of dreaming in the Toltec tradition • Describes the energy body, its modes of perception, and how it produces dreaming • Provides an outline of the dream gates showing how they correspond to the chakras • Includes detailed instructions for awakening dreaming potential and for exercising and expanding the dreaming body—what to expect and how to respond Toltec Dreaming explores the many aspects and levels of the dream-state, distinguishing ordinary dreaming from “dreaming awake,” a condition of heightened awareness through which the active dreamer ascends to the Dream of Transcendence. In this book, Ken Eagle Feather presents the history of dreaming’s place within the Toltec tradition and provides a practical how-to...>>
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30.08.2021

“The Romeo Error: A Meditation on Life and Death” by Lyall Watson

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"The Romeo Error: A Meditation on Life and Death" by Lyall Watson
"What new scientific findings are destroying the concept of death? What cases of reincarnation, out-of-body experiences, possession and psychic surgery have emerged as completely authentic? Now, at last, a book gives us the whole picture of what is happening to our knowledge of life and death today. In this clearly written, excitingly authoritative major work, a renowned natural scientist shows how new evidence has challenged all the prejudices of the past, and has opened the door to dazzling illumination of the future that awaits us all in a world where death has ceased to be."...>>
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