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27.02.2021

“Ultrahuman” by Steve Madison

"Ultrahuman" by Steve Madison

"The Ultrahuman is coming. The Ultrahuman is a member of a higher community. The Ultrahuman is our destiny. The Ultrahuman is the ordinary human’s designated replacement. Everything is about to change. The greatest and final paradigm shift is coming. The Ultrahuman is the being associated with this final phase, when humanity starts to understand its own divinity. The medieval eschatologist Joachim of Fiore spoke of three great Ages: 1) The Age of the Father (the Old Testament). 2) The Age of the Son (the New Testament). 3) The Age of the Holy Spirit (the Highest Testament). In this final phase, the Noosphere will merge with the Omega Point. The Ultrahuman is the being for the Third and Final Age. Are you ready...>>

27.02.2021

“What’s Eating You?: How the World Is Screwing You Up” by Steve Madison

"What's Eating You?: How the World Is Screwing You Up" by Steve Madison

"Life is eating you up and spitting you out. The apex predators are everywhere. The pressure is rising. Can you cope? Predatory capitalism is consuming you from the outside, while your personal demons are eating you from the inside. Will they meet in the middle? Nietzsche said, “In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.” What’s it to be? Will you devour life, or will you allow it to devour you? You need to get on top of the game, ahead of the game. Only the best players can level up. What kind of player are you?"...>>

26.02.2021

“Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania” edited by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs

"Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania" edited by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs

"This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region hitherto rarely taken into consideration in witchcraft research. Special attention is given to healers, midwives, and cunning folk, including archaic sorcerer figures such as the táltos; whose ambivalent role is analysed in social, legal, medical and religious contexts. This volume examines how waves of persecution emerged and declined, and how witchcraft was decriminalised. Fascinating case-studies on vindictive witch-hunters, quarrelling neighbours, rivalling midwives, cunning shepherds, weather magician impostors, and exorcist Franciscan friars provide...>>

26.02.2021

“New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature: The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft” edited by Sean Moreland

"New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature: The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft" edited by Sean Moreland

"This collection of essays examines the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important critical work, Supernatural Horror in Literature. Each chapter illuminates a crucial aspect of Lovecraft’s criticism, from its aesthetic, philosophical and literary sources, to its psychobiological underpinnings, to its pervasive influence on the conception and course of horror and weird literature through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These essays investigate the meaning of cosmic horror before and after Lovecraft, explore his critical relevance to contemporary social science, feminist and queer readings of his work, and ultimately reveal Lovecraft’s importance for contemporary speculative philosophy, film and literature. "...>>

26.02.2021

“Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey” by Sallie Nichols

"Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey" by Sallie Nichols

"This highly innovative work presents a piercing interpretation of the tarot in terms of Jungian psychology. Through analogies to the humanities, mythology, and the graphic arts, the significance of the cards is related to personal growth and what Jung termed individuation. The Major Arcana becomes a map of life, and the hero's journey becomes something that each individual can relate to one's personal life. Sallie Nichols, in her profound investigation of the Tarot has performed an immense service. Her book enriches and helps us to understand the awesome responsibilities laid upon consciousness. She has done this not in an arid fashion but derived from her own experience of the Tarot and its strangely translucent lights....>>