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This is a collection of 15 essays on a variety of occult-themed topics, covering the full spectrum of classic esoteric and related subjects, which include Hermeticism, magic, ancient wisdom and philosophy, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Theosophy, spiritualism, metaphysics, and New Thought by some of the most notable and prominent names in the history of those subjects.

When Harvey Stone is sent undercover to investigate a turf war between the Albanian mafia and two of London's notorious gangs, nobody expected him to be welcomed like a hero. Has Harvey finally slipped into his old ways, or will he bring the carnage and bloodshed to a stop?

After years of killing for the wrong side of the law, ex-hit man Harvey Stone is finally putting his bloody skills to good use. While he's not hunting down bad guys with his dark ops organized crime squad, he's rounding up the men responsible for his sister's murder. His team's mission to retrieve 12 abducted girls gets personal when Stone realizes the ringleader has a prime spot on his revenge hit list. But as his team digs deeper, he's horrified to discover the sex traffickers offer an even more brutal service to satisfy their clients' darkest desires.

Pendulums have been around for centuries and have been used for many purposes. This audiobook, however discusses the particular use of pendulums for dowsing. Pendulum dowsing can be quite useful for anyone who has just begun journeying into the spiritual life. You can use it for anything from finding a lost object to opening your energy centers or chakras. No one knows for sure the exact way dowsing works. Some people believe that the pendulum provides a response that comes straight from a Higher Power. Others believe that it works by picking up on the energies of people and objects around it.

In this hands-on guide to working with the sacred energies of the sun, night sun, and moon, curandera Erika Buenaflor details the rites, rituals, and deities for each part of the day and night and explores the sacred tools and techniques used by ancient Mesoamerican shamans for harnessing solar and lunar energies. She explains how the sun is the source of soul energy that heals, animates, strengthens, and revitalizes us on many levels, while night energies are transformative and conducive for connecting with non-ordinary realms.

Although werewolves are a classic monster standard, The Horror Zine’s Book of Werewolf Stories breathes fresh, terrifying life into the horrifying concept of human-to-wolf transformations. Packed with original, never-before published stories of unique and contemporary takes on lycanthropy, this spine-chilling anthology presents exciting, refreshing new ideas that won’t fail to impress even the most jaded horror fans. Brought to you by the established, award-winning ezine and print magazine, only the best and most suspenseful tales can be found here.

The media is lying to you about the supposed horrible state of the world, and we swallow it - hook, line, and sinker. While the news focuses on homicides, brutal terrorist acts, and warnings about global diseases, they are telling only part of the story. In this meticulously researched audiobook, J.D. King gathers stories, statistics, and relevant data to prove his point that the world is improving.

The Gedri System is at war with Silstrand. As the Alliance reels, Scipio readies its forces, smelling blood in the water. Meanwhile, Kylie awakens aboard a warship captained by her brother. Her family, the peaceful, low-tech Rhoads, have changed. Establishing a line of pure humans is all they care about. Her father, the preacher, is set to rain armageddon down on any system that opposes him. His first stop? Silstrand. Kylie is on a collision course with destiny; to either save her family or avert a war that would cost Silstrand billions of lives.

Facing organizational silos or resistance to change? Stakeholders pulling in different directions? Can’t align, get real buy-in, or jumpstart implementation? The problem is traditional planning no longer guarantees success. Rapid change, uncertainty, new technologies, and a flatter world call for a new approach. The award-winning Strategy-In-Action tells how companies ended the long-standing divorce between planners and implementers.

Who says that only those celebrities are the most influential and most famous persons on Earth? Pablo Escobar is famous not because he is a celebrity, but because he was one of the most notorious and richest Colombian drug lords who has supplied over 80 percent of cocaine that was smuggled into the United States. Pablo Escobar was widely known in the world as the "King of Cocaine" and became a big name in the industry of black market when he became the wealthiest criminal who had ever lived; with an estimated net worth of about 30 billion US dollars way back in the early 1990s.

A mother's relationship with her child is considered to be sacred in many cultures. So, when a mother kills her own flesh and blood, it does send shockwaves through the entire community. This is what happened when two-year-old Caylee Anthony was murdered.

In this short guide, you will get to learn more about Zen, what it is all about and how it will help you to find your way back to your life, how to be mindful of everything around you and finally, how to be happy.

Msgr. Rossetti’s uplifting words are suffused with a spirit of gratitude and joy. He encourages listeners to abandonment to God and a habitual awareness of God’s loving presence. It is precisely this Presence that gives inner peace and radiates God’s joy. This retreat given to the Bishops, focuses on the Divine invitation to a deeper relationship with God. Drawing on a lifetime of ministry to priests and bishops, speaking of such important spiritual topics as prayer, Eucharistic amazement, the Mother of God, hope, facing suffering, thanksgiving, and joy.

As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs - high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and acrobats, punters and thieves. Whole families stream along the Surrey back-roads, towards the greatest race of the year. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air - this is Derby Day.

By using the legal term probable cause the author makes a case that his suspect and Jack the Ripper are the same person.

by Paul F.J. Arañas

Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze, and rich kids who got bored. Friendly cannibals, impossible slashers, and the dead who don’t stay dead…. A museum curator who despises “diasporic inaccuracies.” A sweet girl and her diary of happy thoughts. An old house that just wants friends forever…. These stories are filled with ancient terrors and modern villains, but go ahead, go into the basement, step onto the old plantation, and open the magician’s mystery box because this time, the white guy dies first.

Au Canada, les coûts de santé engendrés par les maladies cardiovasculaires et le diabète de type 2 ne cessent d’augmenter et frôlent désormais les 30 milliards de dollars annuellement. La cause principale : l’obésité. Pour lutter contre ce fléau, la pédiatre et lipidologue Julie St-Pierre a créé en 2014 le Réseau d’action en santé cardiovasculaire (RASC), un organisme à but non lucratif entièrement consacré à la lutte contre l’obésité infantile et à la prévention cardiovasculaire chez les jeunes.

Famous, three-time Grand Slam winner, Arthur Ashe, pointed out that many in sport fall victim to, “paralysis by analysis”. Athletes on any level can experience the pain of overthinking and sabotaging their performance. Blame many traditional methods of teaching and training.

Dillon Mackey has always wanted to travel the stars. When brilliant scientist and inventor Sherisza Rousilarru offers him an apprenticeship aboard her starship, he leaps at the chance to escape a boring future in the law. But she's not the last of her kind for no reason. Dillon finds himself caught up in intrigue and adventure across systems, empires, and alien worlds he'd only dreamt of ever seeing.