01.09.2022

“Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control” by Daniel Pick (2022 edition)

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"In 1953, a group of prisoners of war who had fought against the communist invasion of South Korea were released. They chose—apparently freely—to move to Mao's China. Among those refusing repatriation were twenty-one American GIs. Their decision sparked alarm in the West: why didn't they want to come home? What was going on? Soon, people were saying that the POWs' had been 'brainwashed'. Was this something new or a phenomenon that has been around for centuries? The belief that it is possible to marshal scientific knowledge to govern someone's mind gained enormous attention. In an era of Cold War paranoia and experimentation on 'altered states', the idea of brainwashing flourished, appearing in everything from critiques...>>

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01.09.2022

“The Jaynes Legacy: Shining New Light Through the Cracks of the Bicameral Mind” by Lawrence Wile

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"Julian Jaynes' 1976 book, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, continues to arouse an unsettling ambivalence. Richard Dawkins called it "either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between". The present book suggests that the bicameral mind is a phantasm; the dating of the origin of consciousness contradicts archeological and literary evidence; and the theory contributes nothing toward explaining why some physical states are conscious while others are not because the nonconscious bicameral brain is neurophysiologically equivalent to the conscious brain. However, the author pays tribute to Jaynes's work as a work of "consummate genius" because it compels us to re-evaluate the significance of humankind's earliest traditions...>>

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01.09.2022

“The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” by Julian Jaynes

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"At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future."...>>

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31.08.2022

“You Are Psychic: 7 Steps to Discover Your Own Psychic Abilities” by Char Margolis

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "For the first time ever, America’s most beloved psychic Char Margolis shares the secret to tapping into your own psychic ability. Margolis has left clients and audiences awestruck and transformed countless lives with her profound psychic abilities, but never before has she shared how readers can access these abilities themselves. In her previous book The Universe is Calling You, Margolis shared how we can all tap into the vast energy of the universe, but now, in You Are Psychic, she opens another dimension of wisdom, teaching readers how to connect with the universal energy in a new way in order to tap into their own psychic strength. In seven simple, yet profound steps Margolis...>>

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30.08.2022

“Western Sidereal Astrology for Beginners” by John Savarese

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"Finally the first easy-to-understand e-book on the basic nuts and bolts of Western Sidereal Astrology! The essentials of this fascinating new approach to astrology are presented in step-by-step instructions, illustrations, examples and charts. You will learn about precession, solar time and sidereal time, how to reconcile the differences between tropical and sidereal astrology, right ascension and declination, how to use an astrological speculum, how to calculate the rising, culminating (at the midheaven), setting and anti-culminating (opposite the midheaven) sidereal times of planets including eight examples covering the rising and setting of planets in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, and how to create and use primary directions (your natal chart angles directed to your...>>

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