Julian Jaynes, The Origins Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind

Titus Burckhardt, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul

Taxonomies of misdirection overview

When confronted with a magic trick, you first perceive the relevant sensory information, then store key aspects of it in your memory, and then perhaps use this to reason about how the trick was done. A magician can prevent a spectator from discovering the method by simply manipulating any one of these processes.

These categories define misdirection in terms of the psychological mechanisms affected. The first set of principles manipulate your perception, preventing you from perceiving selected parts of the performance.

—Gustav Kuhn, Experiencing the Impossible

A transpersonal psyche with a collective unconscious composed of the sum of all of the archetypes as Jung’s model proposed would have features of a scale-free network structure. His methodology for approaching the unconscious, especially amplification, similarly can be seen to map and understand the psyche as such a network.

—Joseph Cambray, Synchronicity: Nature & Psyche in an Interconnected Universe

David Allen Hulse, The Eastern Mysteries—An Encyclopedic Guide to the Sacred Languages & Magickal Systems of the World

Jules Guérin, {2022} A Shaman's Tale

To reach a true state of unity, all parts of the self must transcend beyond their separate levels. When one can succeed in doing this, he or she will have a connection to a power beyond the self.

Shanddaramon, Self-Initiation for the Solitary Witch

When the boundaries between the inner and the outer dissipate, the ego returns home, back into its original unity. In imagination—phantasy—the thin line between the inner and the outer begins to fade: the I of the abyss is the silent dialogue the soul has with itself. The same is true for the dreaming soul, asleep within its original lost unity, recovered, reconstituted—even if only for a moment—a confluence between the inner and outer is subsumed within the underworld. In imagination—the artist of the dream—there is a contraction of the ego back into its interior, bringing the wealth of its experiences to bear upon the soul.

Jon Mills,  The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel’s Anticipation of Psychoanalysis

A silver talisman from the 6th or 7th century, inscribed with words similar to abracadabra. #magic

Gloves worn by sightless deaf people that allow them to communicate. Talking gloves for the deaf and blind; their value to men injured in the present war. 1917.