12.02.2022

“The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained” by Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal

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"The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained" by Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal
"Two of today's maverick authors on anomalous experience present a perception-altering and intellectually thrilling analysis of why the paranormal is real, but radically different from what is conventionally understood. Whitley Strieber (Communion) and Jeffrey J. Kripal (J. Newton Rayzor professor of religion at Rice University) team up on this unprecedented and intellectually vibrant new framing of inexplicable events and experiences. Rather than merely document the anomalous, these authors—one the man who popularized alien abduction and the other a renowned scholar and "renegade advocate for including the paranormal in religious studies" (The New York Times)—deliver a fast-paced and exhilarating study of why the supernatural is neither fantasy nor fiction but a vital and authentic aspect of life. Their suggestion?...>>
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12.02.2022

“The Spirits Book” by Allan Kardec

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"The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec
"The Spirits Book (1857), written by Allan Kardec, is widely regarded as the most important piece of writing in the 'Spiritist' canon. It is the first in a series of five books that Kardec wrote that are collectively known as the Spiritist Codification. Although the other four books; The Medium's Book, The Gospel According to Spiritism, Heaven and Hell and The Genesis According to Spiritism are of great importance to the Spiritist movement it is The Spirits Book that lays out the doctrine of the belief system. The Spiritist movement was founded by Allen Kardec and although its roots lay in Spiritualism there are differences in belief. The most important of these differences is...>>
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12.02.2022

“The Acid Diaries: A Psychonaut’s Guide to the History and Use of LSD” by Christopher Gray

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"The Acid Diaries: A Psychonaut's Guide to the History and Use of LSD" by Christopher Gray
"An exploration of the personal and spiritual truths revealed through LSD • Reveals that LSD visions weave an ongoing story from trip to trip • Shows that trips progress through three stages: personal issues and pre-birth consciousness, ego-loss, and on to the sacred • Explores psychedelic use throughout history, including the mass hallucinations common in the Middle Ages and the early therapeutic use of LSD Toward the end of his fifties, Christopher Gray took, for the first time in years, a 100-microgram acid trip. So extraordinary, and to his surprise so enjoyable, were the effects that he began to take the same dose in the same way--quietly and on his own--once every two to three weeks. In The Acid...>>
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11.02.2022

Yin Magic: How to be Still, Sarah Robinson

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<em>Yin Magic: How to be Still</em>, Sarah Robinson
From the author of the bestselling Yoga for Witches...Yin Magic shows how ancient Chinese Taoist alchemical practices can mingle with yoga and magic to enhance our wellbeing from sleep to stress-levels, helping us to move beyond the burnout cycles and embody the beauty of letting go.Yin Magic shares: * What yin is…and why it matters. * An introduction to the practice of yin yoga * Yin yoga journeys for each season and the meridians. * Insight from cutting-edge neuroscience research. * Connections between Celtic, witch and Chinese medicine traditions. * Ideas for putting trust in one’s own nature, and the pace of the natural world. * Sympathetic magic and how to bring it into your yoga practice. * How to embrace the...>>
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11.02.2022

“Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity” by Moshe Bar

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"Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity" by Moshe Bar
"Our brains are noisy; certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming, worrying about the future, and self-chatter, taking up to forty-seven percent of our waking time. This is mindwandering—and while it can tug your attention away from the present and contribute to anxiety and depression, cognitive neuroscientist Moshe Bar is here to tell you about the method behind this apparent madness. Mindwandering is the first popular book to explore this multi-faceted phenomenon of your wandering mind and introduces you to the new, exciting research behind it. Bar combines his decades of research to explain the benefits and the possible cost of mindwandering within the broader context...>>
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