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Yeah, I'd be careful judging a book by a four word self-description of one person who reviewed it.
Here's the Amazon link to the book, which a lot of people have raved about: https://www.amazon.com/Rose-Paracelsus-Secrets-Sacraments/dp/0692509003
<em>The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story</em> by Greg Long. Probably the only truly unbiased investigation into the Patterson-Gimlin film. This book covers the testimonies of people who knew Roger Patterson and his peculiar life style, as well as the people involved in making the film.
Of course, let's attack the source, and not the arguments. I find no significant complaints registered generally about Greg Long's work. Does that mean it is perfect? No, I cannot offer that, gauging public reaction is always difficult, and certainly the book is not and will never be a best seller, if Amazon is any guide, as of today (23 July 2020) A used copy (new it was $25.99) is listed at an incredible $312.00! Reviews number 67, and average at 3 1/2 stars. With 57% at 5 Star, 4% at 4 Star, 10% at 3 star, and 20% for 1 and two stars (together)
Once again, Amazon reviews are not the end all tell all, but unless you have some other info, I would say it is a fair view of the book from readers.
The Book is listed here if anyone wants to see the review data:
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Bigfoot-Inside-Story/dp/1591021391
Might check this site out. As someone who has worked in the mental health field, I've seen patients struggle with this but it's doable. I believe there are some people who need them (but it's a WAY smaller percentage than what is on them). It can take quite a long time (weeks to years) because these medicines alter your brain chemistry. And as someone else has mentioned it does depend on what you've taken, and how much. Your brain is highly adaptive though. Best advice I would have is be patient with yourself, stay positive, and know it does get better.
If Abilify at those doses is all you've taken, I have high hopes your mind will clear up. Maybe start with simple brain exercises like puzzle games. Something to help calm, check out some of the free meditation videos that's all over the place. I don't like ones where people are talking but the music ones.
This book isn't about antipsychotic use, but a physician who had a stroke and how she recovered from it and the power of positive thinking.
Good luck to you and don't give up!
This is an interesting comparison chart from what was apparently an abduction study conference held at MIT in Cambridge, MA.
(Be vigilant with this information, I haven’t cross referenced it’s sources so I’m not 100% confident of it’s legitimacy. Though it does seem to line up with other material that I’ve read, it could very well be disinformation, as with all things. I don’t want to mislead you.)
And nope, no ists or isms for me.
In general, the creation and use of familiars can be found by researching European folklore and (historical) witchcraft. There is plenty of records from European witch trials and academic research on witchcraft, a lot is available online in a variety of sites from Google books to archive.org. You might also find helpful the book Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits by Emma Wilby.
This blog is a decent introduction to the topic of familiars in modern practices and how to go about developing a relationship with one.
In general, you might look further on r/witchcraft as well. Do a search before posting as there will have been previous discussions on familiars and chances are they address at least some of the question might have.
There is a book called The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, by Barbara Walker. This contains many scholarly references about early (pre-Christian and pre-Judeism) religious beliefs globally. I have a hardbound copy, but you might be able to find an ebook online. Amazon and Abe books also have copies.
https://www.amazon.com/Womans-Encyclopedia-Myths-Secrets/dp/006250925X
This is the edition I used for the initial espionage experiments with the Theurgia Goetia. https://www.amazon.com/Lesser-Key-Solomon-Joseph-Peterson/dp/157863220X/ref=sr\_1\_3?crid=1FTMZCNMTP6MN&keywords=lemegeton+peterson&qid=1660987705&s=books&sprefix=lemegeton+peterson%2Cstripbooks%2C90&sr=1-3
It may be almost 30 years old, but in my opinion the best and most reputable academic source for abduction stuff is still Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference Held at M.I.T. Cambridge, Ma. Textbook Binding – September 1, 1995
But, $750 for a book is kind of a lot (no, I did not forget the decimal point), so the second-best source is Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, the audiobook of which is free with an Audible trial; it goes over the events of the conference as well as including interviews with several purported lifelong abductees
Same also with the Fairy in Europe. The entities "witches" and "cunning women" claimed to interact with. The primary source accounts also agree on all of these points.
In 2004, author Greg Long thought he'd cracked the case and wrote "The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story", featuring Bob Heironimus and his story.
The book is hard to find and I don't have a copy of it, but I found this review by Roger Knights on Amazon to be quite helpful. It wasn't Bob in a suit.
A Tale of Two Suits: 26 Reasons Heironimus Wasn't "Queen Kong"
Look for a 2 star review.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Bigfoot-Inside-Story/dp/1591021391/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
I think you have to take it in the context of the fiction, and the historical accounts it draws from. Firstly, she is not a woman as such she is basically a faerie - characterised in folklore as amoral trickster intelligences, see also nymphs dryads etc. These may well reflect pre-modern ideas of women and sexuality that are distasteful to modern people, but Wolfe here is drawing on these conceptions. Having said that there is no doubt a sexual titillating element to it, and fetishization of Disiri and co. Secondly, there are also parallels to the reports of succubi who feed on sexual energy, and many historical accounts from witches of having sexual congress with their familiars. I recently read this for example:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1845190793/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Lastly, it raises some interesting issues as one of the central themes is that Abel is a child in a man's body . Although if I recall correctly there are some allusions that he may only recall being a child and has lived longer in this other world (perhaps to adult hood).
So, it's complex, appreciate where you are coming from though and sorry to hear of your experience.
I loved the first book, didn't finish the second - it became wilfully obtuse for me, it's like Wolfe always has the temptation to give you precisely what you don't want, and sideline the narrative into something a bit tedious or skip over vast tracts of time when it was just getting exciting. I adore his conception of other worlds in this series though. Particularly, that they races from worlds above are hyper-real and akin to Gods to those down below. Probably my favourite conception of planes of existence in any fiction.
Thanks for the info, its great. I will have a look at his experience. By suggesting he may have been paranoid at points, I don't mean to say he was, or that either that, or the question about some of the sources invalidate his work or hypothesis. I am OK with people being complex. I loved the Men in Blank accounts, particularly the one who tried to drink jello, and the one who when asked for a glass of water from the host - to be delivered in 12 minutes time. Amusing.
I was wondering about whether the dark skinned oriental description had any antecedents.
I read this book recently. It's very academic but it has some amazing accounts of what Witche's in early modern England and Scotland told there accusers. You'd think it would just be all typical biblical stuff told under duress, but it's really weird. There's a lot of men in black appearing to them and making them offers, which lead to them developing psi type abilities. Some seem like classic images of the devil but some are just strange dark clothed men, and others talking frogs, ferrets and weirder things, sometimes they desire blood, or them to renounce their faith. Anyway, accounts of a kind of "men in black" from centuries ago. Sometimes they take them away to the Witches Sabbath too, which seems like some other state with missing time involved. We can't ever really know whether they really experienced this, but it's very interesting.
I bet you would like the Proceedings of the first Abduction Studies conference held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. It is the most levelheaded analysis of the alien abduction phenomenon I have ever encountered. The book is out of print and exceedingly rare, but if you can afford it it really is worth a read.
It was an academic conference co-chaired by a tenured physics professor at the university, and the (at the time) sitting head of the psychology department at Harvard Medical school's Cambridge training hospital. They basically sent out invitations asking for anyone who was currently studying alien abductions or working with people who claimed to be abductees, then filtered out "the crazies" and obvious grifters.
Their conclusion was that "the extraterrestrial hypothesis" is just as likely an explanation for the alien abduction phenomenon as any other, and that the "this is all just sleep paralysis", "hypnotherapists are purposely asking leading questions to create false memories" and "these are just cover memories for repressed child abuse" hypotheses are not supported by the available evidence.
Instead of assuming these people were crazy, they actually LISTENED to them individually, then looked for patterns in the aggregated data from all those reports.
In general, the creation and use of familiars can be found by researching European folklore and (historical) witchcraft. Most of modern knowledge of familiars stems from Margaret Murray (the same folklorist who popularised the witch cult hypothesis) from her books “The Witch Cult in Western Europe”. Her book, other academic sources and records from European witch trials can be found online in a variety of sites from Google books to archive.org.
You might also find helpful the book Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits by Emma Wilby.
Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias is a decent introduction to the history of familiars.
I bought a copy of this in the early 90s from a bookstore I work d in. It’s not strictly a book on witchcraft, more a fascinating history book Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
Whats interesting is how the name of this book has changed, its original title is The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State but that is obviously in bad taste, especially when it talks about increasing the speed at which this happens by defunding the state through hiding your money in the Caribbean (a la Mogg Jnr).
If you are wondering what happens then, well the rich who 'operate like the gods of myth in the same physical environment as the ordinary, subject citizen, but in a separate realm' will take over New Zealand and rule the world from there.
Look into the psychedelic clinical trials and the psychological interpretations of the 'mystical/religious' experiences they occasion. A book recommendation:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sacred-Knowledge-Psychedelics-Religious-Experiences/dp/0231174063
Also look into Sam Harris and his understanding of 'secular spirituality' and his views on meditation and the types of experiences that can happen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGYaB633gF8
and his book 'waking up' .
I just bought the book Ryan X Charles recommended, (related to your username and what you are talking about):
https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2owj55/welcome_drew_ryan_mike_daniel_joe_dave_david/cmratzl
$3 dollars in Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684810077/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
> I just bought the book Ryan X Charles recommended, (related to the same)
> https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2owj55/welcome_drew_ryan_mike_daniel_joe_dave_david/cmratzl
> $3 dollars in Amazon
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684810077/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Yeah, and I specifically said privatise. You're the one who brought pay-to-use.
And on that note, you might want to have a look at what Daddy Rees-Moog has to say:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sovereign-Individual-Survive-Collapse-Welfare/dp/0684810077
You should read My stroke of Insight. It's a brain doctors struggles of having gone through a stroke alone and then coming back after
I own this one and it's a very detailed translation derived from many documents. It includes all five books, not just the Ars Goetia, as well as all the drawings from the original sources. It might be a bit more expensive than other translations but I think it's worth the price.
I have something kinda like that. Here's an Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Tarot-Forbidden-Infernal-Dictionary/dp/1454906243
But it's not a tarot deck, more like a set of baseball cards but for demons. The booklet that comes with it has pretty interesting descriptions of them, but doesn't add much in terms of divinatory meanings
Can I suggest that you re-post together with an explanation as to why you think this particular book is important and what you hope to achieve with its promulgation. Why, for instance, this book rather than Barbara Walker's "Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets"? Otherwise it just looks like you're trying to sell the book.
Seeking political power is the antithesis of moldbuggian thought. A better alternative looks like this.
I’m inclined to believe that the two guys who were in the middle of making a fake Bigfoot documentary, probably faked the Bigfoot sighting. They rented a professional grade suit and asked how to modify it, were told how to make it look more realistic and hired a guy to wear it. Either that is the craziest coincidence ever or the infinitely more like explanation is they faked the thing.
Check out this link to the John Hopkins Study music playlist on Spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/user/1213299007/playlist/6eD2isTqIlgmoywT4ie3LR?si=4uTUTQLFSuu1e2SJKXvfRg
They put eyeshades on the person and they listen to this for the entire duration. Here is a good book on the subject: