Magick Matters

07.12.2022

“The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World” by David Robson

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"A journey through the cutting-edge science of how our mindset shapes every facet of our lives, revealing how your brain holds the keys to unlocking a better you. What you believe can make it so. You’ve heard of the placebo effect and how sugar pills can accelerate healing. But did you know that sham heart surgeries often work just as well as placing real stents? Or that people who think they’re particularly prone to cardiovascular disease are four times as likely to die from cardiac arrest? Such is the power and deadly importance of the expectation effect―how what we think will happen changes what does happen. Melding neuroscience with narrative, science journalist David Robson takes ...>>

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07.12.2022

“Fighting Malevolent Spirits: A Demonologist’s Darkest Encounters” by Samantha E. Harris

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"A demon hellbent on chaos and pain throws a young man across a room again and again, without mercy or remorse, attempting to break his spirit and mutilate his soul. The evil spirits at the site of an old sanitarium destroy an innocent family, driving them into an unfathomable hole of addiction and madness. Ghostly shrieks of pain drive a researcher to the point of insanity, pushing her toward the infinite blackness of total annihilation. Demonologist Samantha E. Harris has faced the world’s most malicious entities... and lived to tell the tales. Fighting Malevolent Spirits tells the true stories of her darkest, creepiest, most terrifying cases. Featuring extreme encounters with poltergeists, demons, and unhappy spirits ...>>

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07.12.2022

“Crystals Beyond Beginners: Awaken Your Consciousness with Precious Gifts from the Earth” by Margaret Ann Lembo (Kindle ebook version)

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"Uncover Amazing Techniques and Insights to Take Your Crystal Work to the Next Level Deepen your knowledge of crystals, gemstones, and rocks, and learn how to put their power to work for you. Crystals Beyond Beginners helps you draw upon your foundation of crystal work to improve your skills and take the next steps in your personal practice. With this comprehensive book, you'll learn how to use crystals for: Career Support Specific Intention Healing Alignments Grids Spiritual Insight Mindful Manifestation Smudging Cord Cutting Chakras Aroma-Energetic Mists Crystal Intention Pouches Numerology Astrology And More Through exercises, affirmations, and in-depth guidance, Crystals Beyond Beginners teaches you how to fully incorporate crystals into your daily life and unlock ...>>

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07.12.2022

“Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice” by Oliver Leaman

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"Ritual and practice are some of the most defining features of religion, linked with its central beliefs. Discussing the wide range of Jewish ritual and practice, this volume provides a contemporary guide to this significant aspect of religious life and experience. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, this volume describes not only what takes place, but the reasons behind this and the implications both the theory and practice have for our understanding of Judaism. Organized in terms of texts, periods, practices, languages and relationships with the other, the book includes accounts of prayer, food, history, synagogues and the various legal and ideological debates that exist within Judaism with the focus on how they influence ...>>

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06.12.2022

“Your Body is Not Your Body: A New Weird Horror Anthology” edited by Alex Woodroe and Matt Blairstone

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"A centaur seeks illicit surgery in an alien bodily modification club. Two medieval monks react to their transformation and demonic pregnancy in very different ways. A resourceful trans teen destroys sports bigots through the power of pluckiness... and gratuitious body horror. A spacebound cathedral crosses galaxies to dump the corpse of God into a star; hopefully they won't be distracted from their mission by excessive psychedelic orgies. A doxxed teen falls victim to violent assault... and dishes out some harrowing retribution of their own. The rules of conventional Horror go out the f$%&ing window in this collection of stories featuring cosmic malice; technological killing machines; murderous pleasure-bots; acid-filled alien cops; Weird worm implants; witchcraft; mad ...>>

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