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21.11.2023

“Maneki Neko: The Japanese Secret to Good Luck and Happiness” by Nobuo Suzuki

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "What does "good luck" look like and how do you achieve it? Lucky symbols, lucky numbers, lucky charms and luck-creating rituals—how is it that a disciplined and hard-working country like Japan is so invested in the idea of luck? And what, exactly, does "good luck" mean? This insightful book—by a leading expert on the subject—explores the ways in which "good luck" symbols and rituals in Japan are used in tandem with diligence and a positive attitude to help people overcome life's many twists, turns and bad patches. It explores how customs and beliefs play a vital role in creating positive expectations and outcomes—and includes practical exercises for bringing good fortune and happiness into your own life. Author...>>

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21.11.2023

“Where Dragons Dance: Lunar Eclipse Pathways to Personality & Prediction” by Kory Varlen

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Astrologers use lunar eclipses for timing and prediction. Our birth charts reveal we belong to a heavenly family—a family of dragons, a family of galvanizing lunar eclipse patterns, many of which are ancient and have been returning for centuries. Get ready to meet your dragon family and discover life patterns unknowable by any conventional means of astrological analysis. The ancient Chinese believed that lunar eclipse occurred when a dragon ate the moon. Our birth charts reveal we belong to a heavenly family—a family of dragons, or galvanizing lunar eclipse patterns, many of which are ancient and have been returning for centuries to check up on us, their earthly kin. Get ready to meet your...>>

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21.11.2023

“The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe” by Jamie James

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"For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, both mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in the sky mirrored (and were mirrored by) the spaces between notes forming chords and scales. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony that composers sought to capture and express. Jamie James allows readers to see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent it survives today — if at all. From Pythagoras to Newton, Bach to Beethoven, and on to the twentieth century of Einstein, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Cage and Glass. A...>>

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21.11.2023

“Necromancy in the Medici Library: An Edition and Translation of Excerpts from Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Plut. 89 sup. 38” by Brian Johnson

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"On the tumultuous eve of the sixteenth century, as Girolamo Savonarola preached apocalypse in the cathedral of Florence and his protégé, the neoplatonic philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, breathed his last under mysterious circumstances, all while the army of a French king marched on the Italian peninsula, an anonymous Roman scrivener was putting the finishing touches on his masterwork. But it was neither an illuminated book of hours nor an encyclopedic chronicle of kingly deeds to which he set his pen, for this copyist was a magician, and his humble notebook contained a treasure trove of arcane knowledge — knowledge that might bring him wealth, power, even love...if he could bear the risks it...>>

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21.11.2023

“Self-Hypnosis: The Complete Manual for Health and Self-Change” by Brian M. Alman and Peter Lambrou (2nd edition 1993)

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"Self-Hypnosis: The Complete Manual for Health and Self-Change offers a step-by step guide to using hypnosis to better well-being and stronger self-control. For over two decades renowned therapist and author Brian Alman showed thousands of individuals how to use self-inductive techniques for relief from pain, stress, and discomfort. Self-hypnosis assists in meditation and fosters positive self-regard. The exercises in Self-Hypnosis are clear, concise and easily attainable. As an effective therapy in alleviating the pain of childbirth, medical and dental surgery, burns, and accidental injuries, hypnosis is practiced widely. Hypnosis in pain relief is a noninvasive and natural healing process. Self-Hypnosis makes this healing technique available to the lay reader."...>>

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