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29.05.2021

“The Healing Journey: Pioneering Approaches to Psychedelic Therapy” by Claudio Naranjo (2nd edition)

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"This book takes an in-depth look at the spiritual and psychotherapeutic potential of the amphetamine derivatives MDA and MMDA, harmaline (the active compound in ayahuasca), and ibogaine. To distinguish them from classical psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin, Naranjo coins the terms “emotion-enhancers” and “fantasy-enhancers” for these substances."...>>

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29.05.2021

“The Gnostic Scriptures” by Bentley Layton and David Brakke (2nd edition)

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"This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. It provides authoritative translations of ancient texts from Greek, Latin, and Coptic, with introductions, bibliographies, and annotations. The texts are organized to reflect the history of gnosticism in the second through fourth century CE. This second edition provides updates throughout and adds three new ancient texts, including the recently discovered Gospel of Judas."...>>

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29.05.2021

“Essential Gnostic Scriptures” by Willis Barnstone adn Marvin Meyer

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"The people we’ve come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer have created a translation that brings the gnostic voices to us from across the centuries with remarkable power and beauty—beginning with texts from the earliest years of Christianity—including material from the Nag Hammadi library—and continuing all the way up to expressions of gnostic wisdom found within Islam and in the Cathar movement of the Middle Ages. The twenty-one texts included here serve as a compact ...>>

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29.05.2021

“Evolutionary Witchcraft” by T. Thorn Coyle

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"The power of Witchcraft is the power to bend and shape, the power to affect the self and the world. Align your Soul. Dive into the Elements of Life. Move and shape energy. Gaze into the Black and Silver mirrors. Harness the powers Above and Below. Know Yourself. Know the World. Bend the arc of humanity toward evolution with the help of this learned and serious manual to Witchcraft for the mature practitioner by one of the craft's leading teachers. "...>>

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28.05.2021

“Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices” edited by Christian H. Bull, Liv Ingeborg Lied and John D. Turner

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"Mystery and secrecy were central concepts in the ritual, rhetoric, and sociological stratification of antique Mediterranean religions. That the ultimate nature and workings of the divine were secret, and either could not or should not be revealed except as a mystery for the initiated, was widely accepted among Pagans, Jews, and then Christians, both Gnostic and otherwise. The similarities and differences in the language of mystery and secrecy across religious and cultural borders are thus crucial for understanding this important period of the history of religions. The present anthology aims to present and analyze a wide selection of sources elucidating this theme, reflecting the correspondingly wide scholarly interests of Professor Einar Thomassen in honor of ...>>

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