27.06.2023

“Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The Classic Collection of Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural” by Pu Songling (newer translation by Herbert Giles, 164 stories)

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"Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost stories Kwaidan and In Ghostly Japan. Already a true classic of Chinese literature and of supernatural tales in general, this new edition of the Herbert A. Giles translation converts the work to Pinyin for the first time and includes a new foreword by Victoria Cass that properly introduces the book to both readers of Chinese literature and...>>

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27.06.2023

“Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” by Pu Songling (translated by John Minford, 104 stories)

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"Exquisite and amusing miniatures regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection from The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the...>>

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27.06.2023

“The Hermetic Marriage of Art and Alchemy: Imagination, Creativity, and the Great Work” by Marlene Seven Bremner

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "An initiatory and practical guide to creative alchemy • Shares hermetic and alchemical techniques for liberating creative expression and looks at the zodiacal and planetary timing of creative operations • Explains how to work with and transmute alchemical energies for increased levels of insight, intuition, and imaginative expression • Explores the connections between Surrealism and alchemy, as well as the rich and complicated symbolism of alchemical art In this initiatory guide to the Hermetic art of alchemy, artist Marlene Seven Bremner reveals how the alchemical opus, the Great Work, offers a practical means for liberating the authentic creator within and attaining gnosis, or true self-knowledge. Exploring the connections between Surrealism and alchemy, as well as the rich and...>>

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27.06.2023

“Through a Divine Lens: Practices to Quiet Your Ego and Align with Your Soul” by Sue Frederick

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "How to see the hidden wisdom in the painful moments we encounter • Presents sacred practices to align with the soul’s wisdom, quiet the ego, shift energy from fear to love, and release grief, anger, sadness, anxiety, and self-doubt • Explains how to use your pain as inspiring fuel for moving fearlessly through life’s trials and reaching your true self’s full potential • Shares practical action steps you can take during difficult moments to shift into the Divine lens view of your soul and experience immediate benefits Every day we have an inner battle going on between two parts of ourselves: our ego and our soul. When we view the world through our ego lens, life can...>>

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27.06.2023

“The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage into the World of the Weird” by Dan Schreiber (2023 edition)

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"A collection of the world’s most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious theories by the co-host of the hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, Dan Schreiber. Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited by extraterrestrials? Will we ever talk to animals? Are we being told the truth? Are mysterious creatures roaming the Earth? And why, when you’re in the shower, does the shower curtain always billow in towards you? We don’t know the answers to any of these questions (that includes the shower-curtain one, which is a mystery that has eluded scientists for decades, and which they are still trying to solve). But don’t...>>

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