Magick Matters

31.08.2021

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

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"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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31.08.2021

“The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories” by Matthew R. X. Dentith

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"Conspiracy theories are a popular topic of conversation in everyday life but are often frowned upon in academic discussions. Looking at the recent spate of philosophical interest in conspiracy theories, The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories looks at whether the assumption that belief in conspiracy theories is typically irrational is well founded."...>>

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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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"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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"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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30.08.2021

“Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England” by Keith Thomas (kindle ebook version)

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"Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief."...>>

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