“Kenogaia (A Gnostic Tale)” by David Bentley Hart

"The “genre” of the modern Gnostic novel encompasses an especially eclectic range of works. With this book—a fantasy by turns dark, absurd, comic, frantic, and lyrical—David Bentley Hart joins a company that includes figures as diverse as Georges Bernanos, Anatole France, David Lindsay, Philip K. Dick, Patrick White, Umberto Eco, William Gaddis, Harold Bloom, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, John Crowley, and Philip Pullman. In Kenogaia, a clockwork universe, an oppressive global society of ever-present surveillance, and the coming of age of its protagonist, Michael Ambrosius, are all disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious child from beyond the stars. Modeled on the Gnostic Hymn of the Pearl, Hart’s tale is an imaginative exploration...>>

“Goddess Magic: A Handbook of Spells, Charms, and Rituals Divine in Origin” by Aurora Kane

"Tune into the divine power of Goddess Magic, featuring a directory of deities alongside 50 spells, altars, and exaltations to amplify your highest vibes and attract fulfillment, success, friendship, growth, love, and fortune. Goddesses, both new and old, will lend their powers to those who seek their favor. Goddess Magic helps you channel divine power while also helping you find your patron deity of choice. Connect with your spiritual heritage and tap into the powers of your ancestors and all the mystical beings around you. This beautiful handbook contains well-known goddesses from the ancient world famously claimed by witches throughout the ages as well as other, less common ones, like catholic patron saints, around whom specific...>>

“Fairy Magic: A Handbook of Enchanting Spells, Charms, and Rituals” by Aurora Kane

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Tap into the wild spirits of the forest with Fairy Magic’s glossary of spells and intuitive guidance on communing and honoring the fay folk. Natural (and powerful) magical spirits are all around us. Fairy, faery, or Fay (fairies, faeries, or fays) include an infinite variety of mythical creatures and serves as an umbrella term describing a wide array of spirits usually associated with nature. These woodland creatures can help you navigate life when you harness their fairy knowledge, magical powers, and inspiration. An intuitive guide on how to connect with these creatures alongside descriptions of regional lore for the different types of fay play give you a comprehensive introduction to these magical folks. In Fairy...>>

“Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century” by Edward F. Kelly and Emily Williams Kelly

"Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically that this reductive materialism is not only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, and in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms. Topics addressed include phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and secondary personality, near-death experiences and allied phenomena, genius-level creativity, and 'mystical' states of consciousness both spontaneous and drug-induced. The authors further show...>>

“The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever” by Peter Ward

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "In the tradition of Jon Ronson and Tim Wu, an absorbing and revelatory journey into the American Way of Defying Death . . . As longevity medicine revolutionizes the lives of many older people, the quest to take the next step—to live as long as we choose—has spurred a scientific arms race in search of the elixir of life, funded by Big Tech and Silicon Valley. Once the stuff of Mesopotamian mythology and episodes of Star Trek, the effort to make humans immortal is becoming increasingly credible as the pace of technological progress quickens. It has also empowered a wild-eyed fringe of pseudo-scientists, tech visionaries, scam-artists, and religious fanatics who...>>