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A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story
about food, sex and god from the Women's Prize longlisted author of
The Pisces A STYLIST, INDEPENDENT, THE WEEK AND RED HIGHLIGHT FOR
2021 'Sexy and fun and a little weird ... This riot of carnal
pleasure will make you laugh as well as gasp' The Times 'A
revelation ... Melissa Broder has produced one of the strangest and
sexiest novels of the new year ... Exhilarating' Entertainment
Weekly 'A luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery through
the relentless pursuit of desire. I couldn't get enough of this
devastating and extremely sexy book' Carmen Maria Machado, author
of Her Body and Other Parties Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew
who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she
maintains an illusion of control by way of obsessive food rituals.
At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Then Rachel
meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman intent upon feeding
her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam - by her
sundaes and her body, her faith and her family - and as the two
grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors,
mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey. Pairing superlative emotional
insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Melissa Broder tells a tale
of appetites: of physical hunger, of sexual desire, of spiritual
longing. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on
love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed,
from one of our major writers on the psyche - both sacred and
profane.
Pagans recognize that the material world perceived with our five
senses is only part of the whole. There are unseen Otherworlds
overlapping our own, populated by gods and goddesses, nature
spirits, and elementals-the conscious embodiments of the natural
forces and energies responsible for the functioning of the
universe. For the Pagan, everything has a soul or spiritual
essence. This deck is based on the Pagan worldview, its symbols,
and teachings, and offers 78 beautiful cards featuring gods and
goddesses. An accompanying, easy-to-understand guide tells the
story of the Fool as he journeys through the Minor and Major
Arcanas, encountering the forces that shape him and each one of us.
The myths of the gods create links between cards, between the
Majors and Minors, and between the inner and outer paths we walk.
This Pagan system of divination can initiate you into the realities
of your own psyche and become your guide to spiritual
enlightenment.Includes cards and book.
Charles Fort's classic recording of unexplained, paranormal events
and phenomena offer fascinating insights into bizarre occurrences
the author felt had been unjustly damned from formal, scientific
study. The title derives from the author's perception that the
book's subjects were so stigmatized and excluded from ordinary
scientific inquiry that they had become 'damned'. Perhaps
permanently forbade for formal study, the oddities and unexplained
events in this text were felt worthy of attention by the author,
who eventually became an authority on anomalous phenomena. The
topics in Fort's thesis include unexplained disappearances of large
groups of people, frogs and fish suddenly raining from the sky, the
possibility that mythical beasts such as giants exist, UFOs
manifest as glowing and sometimes moving lights in the sky, and
bizarre weather phenomena. Fort attributes credence to many of
these oddities, and argues that science - by dismissing them - has
become a religion in itself.
Herbert Silberer's examinations of alchemy and the occult, and his
attempts to correlate the two crafts to the pursuit of
psychoanalysis, is published here complete with the original
illustrations. First published in 1917, this text represents the
extensive investigations Herbert Silberer undertook in order to map
occurrences in the occult with the ascendant psychoanalytic
disciplines present in the Vienna School of which he was part. This
text is marked by its depth of research, with sources such as
Hermes Trismegistus, Flamel, Lacinius, Michael Meier, Paracelsus,
and Boehme quoted and drawn upon in service of Silberer's thesis.
The support of alchemy as a spiritual movement, on the same level
as the yoga traditions of the Indian subcontinent, is also notable.
Together with the three original illustrations, this edition also
contains the extensive bibliography and notes of Silberer.
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