Magick Matters

03.09.2022

“Magical Faery Plants: A Guide for Working with Faeries and Nature Spirits” by Sandra Kynes

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"Build Relationships with Faeries and Connect with Nature on a Deep, Soul Level The natural world is integral to our spiritual and magical lives and the lives of faeries and nature spirits. With this book, you'll discover how plants bridge the worlds and help us work with these extraordinary beings. Drawing from folklore, history, and personal experience, Sandra Kynes teaches you all about faery magic and the unique ways that plants enhance your connection to the fae. This comprehensive guide presents over one hundred profiles of common and obscure plants associated with faeries and nature spirits. Grow bracken fern to attract faeries to your property. Hold a small bundle of vervain to help you communicate with...>>

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02.09.2022

“Learn to Lucid Dream: Powerful Techniques for Awakening Creativity and Consciousness” by Kristen LaMarca

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"Follow your dreams and discover your best self—a beginner’s guide. You’re the stuff dreams are made of—or rather, your subconscious is. Learn to Lucid Dream teaches you how to deliberately explore and manipulate your dreams (called “lucid dreaming”) to gain insight into your inner self. You might even learn to conquer your nightmares—or just enjoy the dreamy freedom of flying. This methodical introduction teaches you both the science and spirituality of dreaming. You’ll practice developing dream awareness and apply the discoveries you make while sleeping towards improving your waking hours. Lucid dreaming can help you heighten your focus, prioritize your core values, and be more observant. This guide to lucid dreaming includes: Step-by-step plan—Follow...>>

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02.09.2022

“Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity” by Cynthia Sue Larson

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"Quantum Jumps presents a radical new paradigm—that we exist in an interconnected holographic multiverse in which we literally jump from one parallel universe to another. Experience a new science of instant transformation. In a moment you can become smarter... more confident... happier... more outgoing... more effective... in better relationships... with more willpower. Gain practical tools to achieve real change in your life, regardless of past history. Leap forward to become happier and more successful, living the life of your dreams. Supported by distinguished sources from the fields of psychology, biology, sociology and physics, Quantum Jumps is an inspirational book packed with practical tools for living a happier, healthier, more prosperous life."...>>

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01.09.2022

“Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control” by Daniel Pick (2022 edition)

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"In 1953, a group of prisoners of war who had fought against the communist invasion of South Korea were released. They chose—apparently freely—to move to Mao's China. Among those refusing repatriation were twenty-one American GIs. Their decision sparked alarm in the West: why didn't they want to come home? What was going on? Soon, people were saying that the POWs' had been 'brainwashed'. Was this something new or a phenomenon that has been around for centuries? The belief that it is possible to marshal scientific knowledge to govern someone's mind gained enormous attention. In an era of Cold War paranoia and experimentation on 'altered states', the idea of brainwashing flourished, appearing in everything from critiques...>>

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01.09.2022

“The Jaynes Legacy: Shining New Light Through the Cracks of the Bicameral Mind” by Lawrence Wile

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"Julian Jaynes' 1976 book, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, continues to arouse an unsettling ambivalence. Richard Dawkins called it "either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between". The present book suggests that the bicameral mind is a phantasm; the dating of the origin of consciousness contradicts archeological and literary evidence; and the theory contributes nothing toward explaining why some physical states are conscious while others are not because the nonconscious bicameral brain is neurophysiologically equivalent to the conscious brain. However, the author pays tribute to Jaynes's work as a work of "consummate genius" because it compels us to re-evaluate the significance of humankind's earliest traditions...>>

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