18.07.2021

“Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays” by Alaina Lemon

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"Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians have together cultivated fascination with the workings and failures of communicative channels. Each accuses the other of media jamming and propaganda, and each proclaims its own communication practices better for expression and creativity. Technologies for Intuition theorizes phaticity—the processes by which people make, check, discern, or describe channels and contacts, judging them weak or strong, blocked or open. This historical ethnography of intuition juxtaposes telepathy experiments and theatrical empathy drills, passing through settings where media and performance professionals encounter neophytes, where locals open channels with foreigners, and where skeptics of contact debate naifs. Tacking across geopolitical borders, the book demonstrates how contact and channel shift in significance...>>

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18.07.2021

“Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies” by Andrew Joynes

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"Stories of spirits returning from the afterlife are as old as storytelling: accounts of ghosts and revenants which have crossed the mysterious border between the living and the dead are a dominant theme in many cultures, and in medieval Europe ghosts, nightstalkers, wild hunts and unearthly visitors from parallel worlds have figured in stories already in circulation before the coming of Christianity. Medieval Ghost Stories is a collection of ghostly occurrences from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries; they have been found in monastic chronicles and preaching manuals, in sagas and heroic poetry, and in medieval romances. In a religious age, the tales bore a peculiar freight of spooks and spirituality which can still...>>

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18.07.2021

“Consciousness and the Source of Reality: The PEAR Odyssey” by Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne

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"When Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne first embarked on their exotic scholarly journey more than three decades ago, their aspirations were little higher than to attempt replication of some previously asserted anomalous results that might conceivably impact future engineering practice, either negatively or positively, and to pursue those ramifications to some appropriate extent. But as they followed that tortuous research path deeper into its metaphysical forest, it became clear that far more fundamental epistemological issues were at stake, and far stranger phenomenological creatures were on the prowl, than they had originally envisaged, and that a substantially broader range of intellectual and cultural perspectives would be required to pursue that trek productively. This text is their attempt...>>

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17.07.2021

“Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo” by Miyuki Miyabe

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"In old Edo, the past was never forgotten. It lived alongside the present in dark corners and in the shadows. In these tales, award-winning author Miyuki Miyabe explores the ghosts of early modern Japan and the spaces of the living world—workplaces, families, and the human soul—that they inhabit. Written with a journalistic eye and a fantasist’s heart, Apparitions brings the restless dead, and those who encounter them, to life."...>>

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17.07.2021

“Evolutionary Witchcraft” by T. Thorn Coyle (kindle ebook version)

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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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