The Hierophant of 100th Street

The Hierophant of 100th Street
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Publisher : Frog Books
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 158394253X
ISBN-13 : 9781583942536
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis The Hierophant of 100th Street by : Cullen Dorn

***WINNER – IPPY Bronze Book Award – Best Regional Fiction (2009) ***WINNER – BookBundlz Best Book (2009-2010 Winter Award) The Hierophant of 100th Street is a remarkable, unusual book: a metaphysical novel set in a violent world of slums, gangs, and prisons. Drawing on the author's experience of growing up in the infamous East Harlem neighborhood of 100th Street in the 1960s, the story follows 17-year-old Adam Kadman and his 9-year-old brother John through their respective initiations into the realities of street life while simultaneously introducing real-life characters who dwell in the life of the spirit. Veiled in the guise of fiction, most of what appears in the book is actually a truthful account of the author's real-life experience. Like the author, the young Adam also ventures out from the slums of New York to discover the meaning of life amid the horrors of existence, and finds romance, mysticism, and purpose. Seeking to extricate himself from 100th Street, Adam is drafted into the army and later travels to Egypt, where in a harsh world of theocrats and misogynists he falls in love with a young Arab woman. Out of his element, he attacks the social structure—and ends up running for his life. He returns back to the old neighborhood only to find it changed … destroyed by an invasion of drugs, betrayal, and murder. By chance he encounters a mysterious man, Clifford Bias (a renowned twentieth-century clairvoyant), and is taken under the wing of the "magus." Discovering his own psychic abilities, Adam enters his mentor's secret society and a world of mysticism and love. Tapping the same rich spiritual vein as The Da Vinci Code and The Celestine Prophecy and written in the stark language of the streets, this daring, cinematic novel explores the ancient truths and metaphysical mysteries hidden in the fabric of everyday life.

Soul Shift

Soul Shift
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Publisher : Frog Books
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781583943311
ISBN-13 : 1583943315
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Soul Shift by : Mark Ireland

Businessman Mark Ireland’s father was Richard Ireland, a deeply spiritual minister and renowned psychic and medium who counted Mae West among his famous clients. While he loved his father, Mark followed a more conventional path in pursuit of mainstream success—until the wrenching death of his youngest son. This unexpected tragedy plunges Mark into the spiritual world of psychics and mediums in a frantic attempt to communicate with the dead. His defenses and pragmatic mindset begin to fade as he remembers premonitions on the day of his son’s death. He consults a number of well-known mediums and is struck by the remarkably accurate information their readings provide. Mark first meets with Allison Dubois, the subject of NBC’s hit show Medium, and later participates in a single-blind lab experiment with medium Laurie Campbell, filmed for a Discovery Channel feature. He then enters a new dimension of personal paranormal experience, as his own psychic awareness begins to unfold. This dramatic story of a father’s unbearable loss and his discovery of life after death offers hope to the bereaved and compelling evidence that death may not be the end.

The Bardo of Waking Life

The Bardo of Waking Life
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Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Total Pages : 553
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ISBN-10 : 9781583944066
ISBN-13 : 1583944060
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bardo of Waking Life by : Richard Grossinger

An avant garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger’s The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life and its history and language as if it were a bardo state rather than ultimate reality, and thus seeks a context for life (and dreams), even as it addresses more "mundane issues" including genetic theory, the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's presidency, North Korea, advertising, global warming, Prison Industrial Culture, childhood trauma, even country western music. Written with playfulness and precision, Bardo takes a new, probing approach to all the important questions of creation, destruction, and existence. In these intellectual field notes, Grossinger proves thematically fearless as he crosses quantum mechanics with totemic hexes and draws transcendental insight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. If, as Tibetan cosmology holds true, all conditional realms are bardos, then the state we all share is nothing less than the bardo of waking life.

The New Science of Consciousness Survival and the Metaparadigm Shift to a Conscious Universe

The New Science of Consciousness Survival and the Metaparadigm Shift to a Conscious Universe
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Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781457546945
ISBN-13 : 1457546949
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The New Science of Consciousness Survival and the Metaparadigm Shift to a Conscious Universe by : Dr. Alan Ross Hugenot

"Alan Hugenot" lectures on “the Leading-Edge Science of the Afterlife,… he concluded that the entire universe is conscious and that this explains both near-death experiences and certain paradoxes of quantum theory…. As someone with a physics degree, I know that Hugenot’s….basic idea of a conscious universe is neither crazy nor new…. Erwin Schrödinger, one of the fathers of quantum physics, was an avid student of Hindu philosophy, and believed something similar." Gideon Lichfield, April 2015 Atlantic Monthly “The existence of a hidden field (Bohm’s implicate order) of non-physical consciousness, occupying as yet undiscerned additional dimensions, which are outside the visible reality (Bohm’s explicate order) as defined by 3-D plus time, has now been proven scientifically by the following collated data: Recent repeated replication of John Bell’s theory of non-locality, Studies of the Near-Death experience, and After-death communications demonstrated in triple blind laboratory experiments testing evidential mediumship This hidden field (implicate order) of non-physical consciousness, also provides the matrix upon which the explicate order of observed reality is continually manifested." Alan Hugenot “Our challenge is to discover, through careful science, how we can interface with this matrix of consciousness. Viewing psi phenomena as belonging to aspects of reality, about which we as yet simply know very little, is the only honest way for any scientist to proceed. Healthy scientific skepticism must be open to new discoveries; and so allow open examination of the scientific data developed by rigorous para-normal research. Honest, open minded inquiry will bring both new discoveries of truth and new laws of physics beyond the limits of the Newtonian paradigm. Alan Hugenot

The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger

The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger
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Publisher : Frog Books
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 1583942106
ISBN-13 : 9781583942109
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger by : Cecil Brown

“If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides.” So says the antihero of this legendary novel that reimagines the Bible’s prodigal son as a young black man in post-Civil Rights-era America. George Washington—one of his many aliases—is a classic trickster figure, a blend of con artist, deep thinker, and willing object of white women’s sexual fantasies. Fed up with life in racist America, he leaves his rural South for Denmark on a curious quest, determined to discover if there is “any mother fucker in this despiteful world who ever told himself the truth.” In Denmark he spends his days bantering with fellow black expatriates and his nights bedding a series of white women who project their desires on him. Inevitably, these worlds collide, with Washington, aka Anthony Miller, aka Paul Winthrop, aka Mr. Jiveass Nigger, increasingly alienated in a world of opportunists. A return to America after his self-imposed exile promises transformation, but is Washington too far gone? Cecil Brown brings blistering prose, unabashed eroticism, and biting satire to this controversial masterpiece that’s as timely today as when it was first published.

Qabalah, Tarot & the Western Mystery Tradition

Qabalah, Tarot & the Western Mystery Tradition
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Publisher : Weiser Books
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 1578630312
ISBN-13 : 9781578630318
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Qabalah, Tarot & the Western Mystery Tradition by : Clifford Bias

The late spiritualist minister Clifford Bias has given readers a fresh approach to exploring the 22 paths on the Tree of Life by using the Tarot and the symbolism for the journey. This text is rich in self-exploration that leads us out of our limited circles of awareness and shows us how we fit into the greater reality of the cosmos. Illustrated.

Faeries' Oracle

Faeries' Oracle
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9780743201117
ISBN-13 : 0743201116
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Faeries' Oracle by : Brian Froud

This divination kit comprises of a deck of 66 divination cards and a book that introduces the most powerful and important members of the faery kingdom.

The Voudon Gnostic Workbook

The Voudon Gnostic Workbook
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Publisher : Weiser Books
Total Pages : 654
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ISBN-10 : 1578633397
ISBN-13 : 9781578633395
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis The Voudon Gnostic Workbook by : Michael Bertiaux

A long-awaited new edition of the seminal text on the spiritual system that is a convergence of Gnosticism and Haitian voodoo, The Voudon Gnostic Workbook is a singular sacred work that is comprehensive in scope -- from "how to be a lucky Hoodoo" to how magick and voodoo intersect energetically, to esoteric time travel. Complete with charts and graphs and instructive interdimensional physics, The Voudon Gnostic Workbook is an "object of desire" among students of the occult. Weiser's long-anticipated republication of this rare text will be an event in the annals of esoteric publishing, as the book itself is somewhat of an "unholy grail." There are listservers devoted to it and much discussion of the mysteries held within its pages. While The Voudon Gnostic Workbook has remained a controversial book considered important for masters of metaphysics, it recently came into popular culture and renewed popularity when Grant Morrison revealed it had been the inspiration for his cult comics The Invisibles, using the cribbed time travel from Bertiaux' s masterwork. Voodoo is not an evil religion and is much misunderstood. It derives from the Dahomean Gods called the "Loa." Esoteric voodoo is actually a highly practical procedure for leading us into making contact with the deepest levels of our being and most ancient modes of consciousness. Michael Bertiaux's Voudon Gnostic Workbook is the most comprehensive and illuminating contemporary book on the subject. Launched out of a correspondence course and series of classes for students and followers of Voudon Gnosticism and the OTO, this seminal text is at once one of the most mysterious and magnificent of all esoteric books.

The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead

The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead
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Publisher : Quest Books
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9780835630245
ISBN-13 : 0835630242
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead by : Stephan A Hoeller

Jungian psychology based on a little known treatise he authored in his earlier years.