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Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > The Occult > General
Three hundred important combinations is intended to provide
knowledge of the Yogas which indicate specific horoscopic trends.
All planetary combinations are divided into two groups, viz, Yogas
and Aristhas or fortunes and misfortunes. It deals with various
standing combinations of Yogas. The systematised account of all the
important Yogas is brought out so that it may illustrate practical
horoscopes.
Colin Wilson's classic work is the essential guidebook to the
mind-expanding experiences and discoveries of the 20th century. His
genius lies in producing a skillful synthesis of the available
material - clarifying without simplifying, seeing the occult in the
light of reason and reason in the light of the mystical and
paranormal. It is a journey of enlightenment. He provides a
wide-ranging survey of the subject, a comprehensive history of
"magic" and an insightful exploration of our latent powers, and
brings his own refreshingly optimistic and stimulating
interpretation to the worlds of the paranormal, the occult and the
supernatural.
In 2019 a group of book-lovers began to turn from their usual diet
of contemporary novels to read classics of the ‘English eerie’
like Arthur Machen’s 'The Great God Pan'. The documents
recovered, (edited by Phil Smith of 'Mythogeography'), and
published here as 'Living In The Magical Mode', describe the
subsequently inspired attempts of these readers – in a time of
virus and social and climate catastrophe –– to live anew, with
‘magic-as-ordinary’, to do magic as if it were the washing up.
At first, the readers fall on new ways of remaking their everyday
lives in the magical mode, but the mode soon find ways to remake
the readers. Challenging assumptions, magic turns lives upside down
and shakes out mysteries. The documents of 'Living In The Magical
Mode' describe a pulling back of veils, until all veils but one are
exhausted; then the book-lovers put their hands upon the veil
inside themselves.... 'Living In The Magical World' crosses dream
wastelands, racecourses, motorway cafes, edgeland quarries and
suburban valleys, in an adventure of encounters with ‘others’.
It brings its readers to an occulted realm of unbounded desires
that once unfolded refuses to recede. The surviving documents of
the book club, reprinted here, describe the final frantic efforts
of what remains of its members to understand a collision of many
worlds and make novel webs of reconciliation.
Revised and Expanded Edition.
In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. In an entirely new chapter, "Why Smart People Believe in Weird Things," Michael Shermer takes on science luminaries like physicist Frank Tippler and others, who hide their spiritual beliefs behind the trappings of science.
Shermer, science historian and true crusader, also reveals the more dangerous side of such illogical thinking, including Holocaust denial, the recovered-memory movement, the satanic ritual abuse scare, and other modern crazes. Why People Believe Strange Things is an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them.
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