03.04.2022

“Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages” by Matthew Green

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"Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training. Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived,...>>

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03.04.2022

“Dreaming Ahead of Time: Experiences with Precognitive Dreams, Synchronicity and Coincidence” by Gary Lachman

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"Can we see the future in our dreams? Does time flow in one direction? What is a 'meaningful coincidence'? Renowned esoteric writer Gary Lachman has been recording his own precognitive dreams for forty years. In this unique and intriguing book, Lachman recounts the discovery that he dreams 'ahead of time', and argues convincingly that this extraordinary ability is, in fact, shared by all of us. Dreaming Ahead of Time is a personal exploration of precognition, synchronicity and coincidence drawing on the work of thinkers including J.W. Dunne, J.B. Priestly and C.G. Jung. Lachman's description and analysis of his own experience introduces readers to the uncanny power of our dreaming minds, and reveals the illusion of our...>>

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03.04.2022

“Practical Chinese Magic” by Jason Read

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"The book you now hold in your hands is a training book for a real Taoist School somewhat unknown in the West and misunderstood in Asia. In the West, scholars tend to focus on either philosophical Taoism or its manifestation in a distant historical past. In actuality Taoism has moved with the times and has a new vocabulary of which they have no inkling. Yet, all Taoism is rooted in over 5000 years of history. One may read an academic text on Tang Dynasty rituals and terminology and think that is how modern Taoists work, which mostly, just isn't the case. Taoism in Asia has developed and evolved. This is particularly true in folk Taoism which...>>

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03.04.2022

“The Gnostic Jesus Christ & Yaldabaoth His Ignorant Unbegotten Brother: Gnosticism 2022” by David Allen Neron

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"Whether you're new to Gnosticism or you've been studying it for a long time I'm certain you'll find this book highly thought-provoking. Giving a unique perspective on the texts from the Nag Hammadi library. A completely different theological narrative in comparison to the Christianity that formed out of the Roman Catholic Church. Gnosticism and the "Gnostic-Christ" contain a far more revealing problem facing humanity. Ignorance. As these topics and concepts become more popular in the mainstream I've noticed some glaring misconceptions and misunderstandings when it comes to comparing traditional Christianity & Gnosticism. I hope this book helps clear up some of the problems people may have trying to understand the ramifications of this different narrative of...>>

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03.04.2022

“The Demons of Science: What They Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our World” by Friedel Weinert

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"This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who — by contrast — experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche’s thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In each case a number of philosophical consequences regarding determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of the mind and free will are said to follow from the Demons’s worldviews. The book investigates what...>>

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