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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is a discipline that seeks to investigate the existence and causes of psychic abilities and life after death using the scientific method. Parapsychological experiments have included the use of random number generators to test for evidence of precognition and psychokinesis with both...
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The Book of the Law

Liber AL vel Legis is the central sacred text of Thelema, written by Aleister Crowley in Cairo, Egypt in the year 1904. Its full title is Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX, as delivered by XCIII=418 to DCLXVI, and it is commonly referred to as The...

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  • 1904

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The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections....

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  • 1621

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  • 1621

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777 and other Qabalistic writings

777 and other Qabalistic writings of Aleister Crowley is a collection of papers written by Aleister Crowley. It was edited and introduced by Dr. Israel Regardie, and is a reference book based on the Hermetic Qabalah. 777 is one of the forefront...

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Conversations with God

Conversations with God (CwG) is a sequence of nine books written by Neale Donald Walsch, written as a dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers. The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An...

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  • 1995

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The Interpretation of Dreams

The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The first edition (in German, and bearing the title Die Traumdeutung) was published in November 1899 (post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The book inaugurated the theory of...

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  • Nov 1899

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Wilhelm Reich in Hell

Wilhelm Reich in Hell is a 1987 play/musical in two acts by Robert Anton Wilson. It presents the character of famous psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who died in a United States prison, passing through death and judgment. It draws on sources common to...

The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror: A True Story is a book by Jay Anson, and was published in September 1977. It is also the basis of a series of films released between 1979 and 2005. The book is said to be based on the real life paranormal experiences of the...

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  • Sep 13, 1977

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The Magus

The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer is a handbook of the occult and ceremonial magic compiled by Francis Barrett and published in 1801. Much of the material was actually collected by Barrett from older occult handbooks, as he hints in the preface:...

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Heaven and Hell

Heaven and Hell is a philosophical work by Aldous Huxley, published in 1956. The title is derived from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake. The essay discusses the relationship between bright, colorful objects, geometric designs,...

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  • 1956

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Prometheus Rising

Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson is a guide book of "how to get from here to there", an amalgam of Timothy Leary's 8-circuit model of consciousness, Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, Aleister...

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  • 1983

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  • 1983

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  • 7492

The Illuminati Papers

The Illuminati Papers is a collection of essays and other works by Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1980 (ISBN 1-57951-002-7). The book expands upon characters and themes from his earlier The Illuminatus! Trilogy (written with Robert Shea) and...

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  • 1980

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  • 7495

The Roots of Coincidence

The Roots of Coincidence, written by Arthur Koestler, is an accessible introduction to theories of parapsychology, including extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. It postulates links between elements of quantum mechanics, such as the behaviour...

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Return from tomorrow

Return From Tomorrow is a book by Dr. George G. Ritchie describing his near-death experience (NDE) in an Army hospital at the age of 20. In "Return from Tomorrow," he tells of his out-of-the-body encounter with other beings, his travel through...

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography, by Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), is a book written in six parts, the first two parts published in 1929. It is subtitled "An Autohagiography" which refers to the autobiography of a Saint, a...

Magick Without Tears

Magick Without Tears was the last book written by English occultist Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). It was initially written in the mid 1940s near the end of Crowley's life, and first published in 1954 with a foreward by its editor, Karl Germer. The...

The Law is for All

The Law is for All is a collection of Aleister Crowley's commentary on The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. It was edited to be a primer of sorts into Crowley's general interpretations about the sometimes opaque text of Liber...

The Equinox of the Gods

The Equinox of the Gods (ISBN 1-56184-028-9) is a book first published in 1936 detailing the events and circumstances leading up to Aleister Crowley's transcription of the The Book of the Law, the central text of Thelema. Included in The Equinox of...

The Art of Dreaming

The Art of Dreaming is an allegedly non-fictional book written by author/anthropologist Carlos Castaneda and published in 1993. The book reportedly describes the events that took place during an apprenticeship he claimed to have served with a self...

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  • 1994

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The Ancient Engineers

The Ancient Engineers is a 1963 science book by L. Sprague de Camp, one of his most popular works. It was first published by Doubleday and has been reprinted numerous times by other publishers. Translations into German and Polish have also appeared....

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  • 1963

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  • 1963

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  • 831602

Communion

Communion is a book by American ufologist and horror author Whitley Strieber that was first published in February of 1987. The book is based on Strieber's own alleged experiences with non-human, possibly extraterrestrial entities. Communion was a...

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  • Jul 1977

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  • Feb 1, 1988

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  • 955780

Mental Radio

Mental Radio: Does it work, and how? (1930) was written by the American author Upton Sinclair. This book documents Sinclair's test of psychic abilities of Mary Craig Kimbrough, his second wife, while she was in a state of profound depression with a...

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  • 1930

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Undead and Unwed

Undead and Unwed is a paranormal romance novel by MaryJanice Davidson. It follows the first of six adventures Elizabeth Anne "Betsy" Taylor has after her transformation into a vampire. Betsy Taylor—former model, newly unemployed secretary, 30, and...

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  • Mar 2004

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  • 179642

The Truth About Uri Geller

The Truth About Uri Geller, formerly known as The Magic of Uri Geller, is a 1982 book by magician and skeptic James Randi about alleged psychic Uri Geller. In this comprehensive biography Randi challenges Uri Geller's assertion that he performs...

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  • Jun 1982

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Disappearance

Disappearance is a novel written by Jude Watson. Gracie Kenzi has never known her father - he disappeared when she was three and was never heard from again. Now, two years after her mother's death, he's back... with some dark secrets in tow. His and...

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The Teachings of Don Juan

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge was published by the University of California Press in 1968 as a work of anthropology. It was written by Carlos Castaneda and submitted as his master’s thesis in the school of anthropology. It...

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  • 1968

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Of two minds

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  • 1995

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  • 8361

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More minds

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  • 1996

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  • 7863

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The vampire book

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  • 1998

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  • 103026

Taking Up The Runes

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  • Apr 20, 2005

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  • 185334
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