“Mystical Mushrooms: Discover the Magic & Folklore of Fantastic Fungi” by Aurora Kane

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Mystical Mushrooms defines the beauty of mushrooms by focusing on their magical connections and symbolic meanings through folkloric tales and superstitions throughout the world. Go for a walk in the woods on any given summer day and you may find yourself surrounded in fungi galore as they lay nestled among the ferns and trees. After a rainstorm, peek out in your backyard and you may see tiny spores sprouting from the grass, forming what is known as a fairy ring. Mushrooms grow in all shapes, sizes, and colors and—depending on where you live—you might find some that are conducive to magic practice. Mystical Mushrooms enters this realm, exploring the magical properties, mythological connections, and...>>

“Daoist Immortality and Internal Alchemy: The Dao and its Three Treasures of Jing, Qi, and Shen, Elixir Fields and Three Dantian, Heavenly Cycles, Nei … & Tai Chi” by Diohka Aesden

"A 500-page comprehensive study of Daoism's esoteric topics, including: The Three Treasures Cultivation of the Five Elements Lower, Middle, and Upper Dantian Small Heavenly Cycle Great Heavenly Cycle Three Elixir Fields Wu Wei Yin and Yang Three Regulations Eight Extraordinary Meridians Nei Gong Xing Ming Shuang Xiu Meditation and Visualization Inner Smile Five Animal Frolics Healing Sounds Hun Yuan Dietary...>>

“The Sacred Herbs of Yule and Christmas: Remedies, Recipes, Magic, and Brews for the Winter Season” by Ellen Evert Hopman

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "An around-the-world tour of ancient Christmas celebrations, Pagan Solstice customs, and magical seasonal plants • Explores in depth the medicinal and magical properties of the many herbs, barks, and berries associated with the Christmas and Yuletide season • Looks at the origins of the Christmas tree and Santa Claus, as well as female gift bringers, holiday Spirits, and Yuletide animals • Shares crafts such as how to make a Yule Log, practices such as Winter Solstice divinations, and recipes for traditional foods and drinks For millennia cultures have taken time out to honor the darkest days of the year with lights, foods, and festivities. In ancient Egypt, people decorated their homes with greenery at the festival of the...>>

“The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters” by Simon Buxton

"Reveals for the first time the ancient tradition of bee shamanism and its secret practices and teachings • Examines the healing and ceremonial powers of the honeybee and the hive • Reveals bee shamanism’s system of acupuncture, which predates the Chinese systems • Imparts teachings from the female tradition and explores the transformative powers of the magico-sexual elixirs they produce Bee shamanism may well be the most ancient and enigmatic branch of shamanism. It exists throughout the world—wherever in fact the honeybee exists. Its medicinal tools—such as honey, pollen, propolis, and royal jelly—are now in common usage, and even the origins of Chinese acupuncture can be traced back to the ancient practice of applying bee stings to the...>>

“The Timothy Leary Project: Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment” by Jennifer Ulrich

"The life of Timothy Leary is examined through papers and correspondence preserved in his archive. The first collection of Timothy Leary’s (1920–1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out", Leary cultivated interests that ranged across experimentation with hallucinogens, social change and legal reform, and mysticism and spirituality, with a passion to determine what lies beyond our consciousness. Through Leary’s papers, the reader meets such key figures as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Marshall McLuhan, Aldous Huxley, John Lennon and Yoko Ono,...>>