11.08.2024

“My Cosmic Trigger: High Strangeness in Theory and Practice” by Matt Vaughn

Magick Matters

"High strangeness denotes happenings so uncanny they are deemed "utterly absurd". It involves the intersection of multiple paranormal phenomena, revealing an eerie undergirding of reality. My Cosmic Trigger is a deep dive into the subject, covering its history, theories, and notable researchers, analyzing mechanisms behind this cosmic enigma. The author's personal experiences provide a penetrating understanding of the phenomenon by demonstrating how and why extramundane weirdness manifests on a personal level, helping people navigate their own "synchromystic initiation" with a sense of clarity, fostering a constructive relationship with odd occurrences (not a destabilizing one), and enabling readers to successfully pull their own cosmic trigger."...>>

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10.08.2024

“Japanese Folk Magic Sampler 2” by Maddy

Magick Matters

"This book is: • a result of the compiler’s passion for Oriental occultism • a small collection of Japanese folk magic spells • a supplement to the previous Japanese Folk Magic Sampler. • meant to be short because less is more. The spells: • need not be said in Japanese - any language will do. What matters is strong intent and faith in the spell. • are from various sources ranging from regional folk practices, folk grimoires, and classical poems • are in Classical Japanese and will sound archaic to a modern Japanese speaker • have been tried and tested by the compiler and have proven to be fairly reliable"...>>

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09.08.2024

“TEAM for Actors: A Holistic Approach to Embodied Acting” by Laura Bond

Magick Matters

"Have you struggled with an acting role, realizing you were "not quite there yet" but not knowing what was missing? Have you felt challenged, not sure how to portray a character's needs and actions? TEAM for Actors gives you reliable tools for successful acting and helps resolve a common gap between the mind and body so you can create a dynamic, holistic performance. Based on Laura Bond's twenty years of teaching acting and somatic emotion-regulation techniques, TEAM for Actors provides tangible methods for integrating the thoughts, emotions, and actions of expressive behavior into acting. The book incorporates scientific research, traditional acting approaches, and aspects of the Alba Emoting technique, a reliable method for embodying...>>

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09.08.2024

“Semantic Satiation: What Happens when You Repeat A Word Over and Over Again” by Leon James

Magick Matters

"The author Leon James originally coined the expression "semantic satiation" in his Ph.D. Dissertation at McGill University in 1962. He then published two dozen articles in psychology journals reporting on his findings of what happens when you repeat a word over and over again. In the intervening 56 years since then, semantic satiation has been a research topic in cognitive psychology, advertising, aesthetics, and semantics. In the past ten years the idea of semantic satiation has intrigued many people and has entered the popular discussions in the form of music, videos, chat room discussions, dance, and art. Because of this continued interest in semantic satiation on the part of academic researchers and the popular culture,...>>

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09.08.2024

“The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance” by Laura Tempest Zakroff

Magick Matters

"Aradia or The Gospel of the Witches, as it was collected by Charles Godfrey Leland, brings us a folkloric mixture of myth, poetry, and magical instructions. Wrapped within those pages is the truth that Witchcraft is a revolutionary practice — a means for fighting against social injustices, shifting the balance of power, freeing people from oppression, breaking down political and financial systems that work against the people and nature itself. Witchcraft has long been the tool of the disenfranchised and the marginal. Calling oneself a Witch is in itself an act of defiance, a statement of going against the grain and the status quo of society. Right now, Witchcraft is experiencing another revival that’s...>>

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