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08.11.2023

“Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences” by D.W. Pasulka

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing contact with nonhuman life-forms of all kinds due to technological innovations and research into the experiences of people at the forefront of this development. In Encounters, author D.W. Pasulka takes readers to the forefront of this revolution, sharing the work of experts across a spectrum of fields who are working to connect humanity with unknown life-forms. Most of us have visions of nonhuman encounters that are shaped far more by Hollywood than they are informed by the current research. Encounters rewrites our visions of nonhuman species by featuring the work and stories of contemporary innovators who are...>>

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08.11.2023

“Aisthetics of the Spirits: Spirits in Early Modern Science, Religion, Literature and Music” edited by Steffen Schneider

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"The notion of the "spirit" is dazzling: it has manifold meanings and plays a crucial role in Early Modern medicine, psychology, religion, natural philosophy and cosmology. This book explores how those disciplines conceived of the spirits and shows that knowledge of the spirits is an essential prerequisite for the understanding of Renaissance literature and music. The volume focusses on the way in which the spirits act upon the soul's perception, imagination and cognition, and on the cultural practices which aim to use or to purge or to ban the spirits."...>>

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08.11.2023

“The First Alchemists: The Spiritual and Practical Origins of the Noble and Holy Art” by Tobias Churton

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Explores the origins and practices of early alchemy • Examines the oldest surviving alchemical texts, the original purpose of the "Royal Art", and the first alchemists, showing how women dominated early alchemy • Looks at the historical setting for the first alchemists, with detailed accounts of their apparatus, recipes, chemical processes, and the ingredients they used • Reveals how changing the color of materials was more important in early alchemy than transmuting base metals into gold Investigating the origins of alchemy and the legend of the Philosopher’s Stone, Tobias Churton explores the oldest surviving alchemical texts, the original purpose of the "Royal Art", and the first alchemists themselves. He reveals the theories and philosophies behind the art...>>

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08.11.2023

“Becoming Psychic: Lessons from the Minds of Mediums, Healers, and Psychics” by Jeff Tarrant

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "A scientific, brain-based approach that provides an understanding of psychic abilities, spirit communication, and energy healing. Jeff Tarrant was fascinated by the paranormal as a child but then his training as a neuropsychologist turned him into a hardcore skeptic. If something could not be reliably and consistently demonstrated in the laboratory, then it wasn’t real. These rigid ideas were gradually worn away as he repeatedly witnessed and experienced things that simply should not be possible—telekenesis, clairvoyance, telepathy, mediumship, energy healing, and more... This book follows his journey of studying, interviewing, and testing a wide variety of mediums, psychics, and healers as he tries to determine what is going on in their brains when they...>>

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08.11.2023

“Bones & Honey: A Heathen Prayer Book” by Danielle Dulsky

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Wild Medicine for Apocalyptic Times This Witch’s devotional is a collection of nature-inspired prayers, mythic incantations, stories, and pagan poetry that can be enjoyed slowly or all at once. It will resonate with anyone looking to soothe the wounds of modernity with eco-devotional language, spellwork, and daily spiritual nourishment. Danielle Dulsky speaks to the expanding movement of those returning to slow, simple living and cultivating an Earth-inspired, sustainable existence. Organized around thirteen archetypes and their themes, ranging from the Mountain Mage (solitude) and Bone-Witch (grievers) to the Heathen Queen (empowerment) and Shepherd (nurturing), Bones & Honey will carry you to the "third road", the unforeseen way that arises from the tension of opposites."...>>

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