02.05.2023

“The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality” by Andy Clark

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"The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality" by Andy Clark
🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "For as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what’s really there—or so the thinking goes. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption on its head. What if rather than perceiving reality passively, your mind actively predicts it? Widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark unpacks this provocative new theory that the brain is a powerful, dynamic prediction engine, mediating our experience of both body and world. From the most mundane experiences to the most sublime, reality as we know it is the complex synthesis of sensory information and expectation. Exploring its fascinating mechanics...>>
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02.05.2023

“The Breathable Body: Transforming Your World and Your Life, One Breath at a Time” by Robert Litman

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"The Breathable Body: Transforming Your World and Your Life, One Breath at a Time" by Robert Litman
🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Renowned breathing expert offers a guide to conscious breathing with skills for reducing stress, alleviating tension, returning breath to its natural state of harmony, and opening your heart. Breath moves in wavelike motions. When breath flows freely within the body, we live in a natural state of harmony, making choices that enhance well-being and generate energy. Each individual breath travels through us in a unique way depending on its flow, texture, speed, and patterning. Like a leaf falling from a tree that spirals to the ground, waves of breath travel through the airways of the body in a spiraling motion. This is the way air moves, the way breath moves, and the way oceans,...>>
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02.05.2023

“The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges” by Lilith Mahmud

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"The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges" by Lilith Mahmud
"From its cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, the Freemasons have long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: there are also female members. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Lilith Mahmud takes readers inside Masonic lodges of contemporary Italy, where she observes the ritualistic and fraternal bonds forged among Freemason women. Offering a tantalizing look behind lodge doors, The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters unveils a complex culture of discretion in which Freemasons reveal some truths and hide others. Female initiates—one of Freemasonry’s best-kept secrets—are often upper class and highly educated, yet avowedly antifeminist. Their self-cultivation...>>
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02.05.2023

“Strange Tales from Japan: 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural” by Keisuke Nishimoto

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"Strange Tales from Japan: 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural" by Keisuke Nishimoto
"Prepare to be spooked by these chilling Japanese short stories! Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches of the Japanese countryside. 33 color woodblock prints and over 55 b&w illustrations of these creatures, who have inhabited the Japanese imagination for centuries, bring the stories to life. The captivating tales in this volume include: The Vengeance of Oiwa—The terrifying spirit of a woman murdered by her husband who seeks retribution from beyond the grave The Curse of Okiku—A servant girl is murdered by her master and curses his family, with gruesome results The Snow...>>
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02.05.2023

“The Astrology Guide: Understanding Your Signs, Your Gifts, and Yourself” by Claudia Trivelas

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"The Astrology Guide: Understanding Your Signs, Your Gifts, and Yourself" by Claudia Trivelas
🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "How does each planetary sign, each house, and the relationships between planetary bodies influence your life? This essential guide lets you harness the energy of your unique astrological influences and gifts! Building on the basics of traditional astrology with an in-depth understanding of the 12 signs, 12 houses, the planets, and the planetary combinations, The Astrology Guide: Understanding Your Signs, Your Gifts, and Yourself includes interpretations of the asteroid Chiron and the recently discovered dwarf planets Ceres, Eris, and Sedna. Beginner and advanced practitioners will benefit from its mastery of chart interpretation and its understanding of the gifts (and challenges) of planetary energies. Rather than interpreting planetary influences as "good" or "bad", thereby putting the...>>
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