07.01.2023

“Embodying the Mystery: Somatic Wisdom for Emotional, Energetic, and Spiritual Awakening” by Richard Strozzi-Heckler

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"Embodying the Mystery: Somatic Wisdom for Emotional, Energetic, and Spiritual Awakening" by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
"Sharing profound stories, transformative incidents, and provocative situations from across his more than 7 decades of life, founding elder of the Somatics movement Richard Strozzi-Heckler explores the moments of insight and awakening that have been pivotal in forming his unique perspectives within the fields of embodiment, meditation, aikido, and leadership. Beginning with an early experience with death that revealed the universal principle of impermanence, the author takes us on a rich, textured journey into the inquiry of what it means to embody the mystery of Spirit. As we follow him through apprenticeships with masterful teachers, out-of-body experiences, meditation retreats in Asia, martial arts in Japan, facing his trauma at the hands of his father, and...>>
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07.01.2023

“The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky” by Colin Wilson

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"The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky" by Colin Wilson
"One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky was a complex and romantic soul. A promising young intellectual in Tsarist Russia, he won recognition as a novelist and philosopher, yet descended into self-chosen obscurity as a teacher of 'the Work', the system of his great contemporary Gurdjieff. Today, it is as Gurdjieff's chief disciple that he is remembered, yet Colin Wilson argues convincingly that he is to be considered a major writer and man of genius in his own right. A nostalgic melancholy Russian, on of Ouspensky's deepest instincts was that man can find his own salvation, yet towards the end of his turbulent life he lost faith in...>>
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07.01.2023

“The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge” by Ji Yun, Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum

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"The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge" by Ji Yun, Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum
"Imagine if a national political figure like Benjamin Franklin was also a paranormal investigator, one who wrote up his investigations with a storytelling flair that reads like a combination of M.R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, and Zhuangzi—with a dash of the bureaucratic absurdism of Kafka sprinkled in, alongside a healthy dose of H.P. Lovecraft’s weird antiquarianism. In China, at roughly the same time that Franklin was filling the sky with electrified kites, there was such a figure. He was Special Advisor to the emperor of China, Imperial Librarian, and one of the most celebrated scholars and poets of his time. His name was Ji Yun (纪昀). Beginning in 1789, Ji Yun published five volumes of weird...>>
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07.01.2023

“Tales From the Inverted World: Close Contact with Ghosts, UFOs Serial Killers and Simulation Theory” by Shane Cashman

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"Tales From the Inverted World: Close Contact with Ghosts, UFOs Serial Killers and Simulation Theory" by Shane Cashman
"Ghosts reaching through the simulation. Skeletons hidden in the forest. Children abducted by aliens. Birds falling from the sky. Death threats in Hell’s Kitchen. UFOs over military bases. Paranormal activity during COVID lockdowns. Serial killers on the loose. Haunted houses. Government experiments. Police cover-ups. Rat utopias. Societal collapse. Fear, hope, paranoia, and a search for truth in strange and desperate times. These are Tales From the Inverted World. True stories of paranormal encounters, unsolved murder, and events that will warp your perception of reality." thx to Miskatonic Library...>>
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