Thirteen lines. Almost a thousand years of translators disagreeing about what they mean.The Emerald Tablet — The Annotated Edition, by Hermes Trismegistus (attrib.), doesn't pick a side. This is the only edition that walks through every line of the founding text of Western Hermeticism comparing how Isaac Newton and the Arabic tradition each rendered it — and why their readings pull in different directions.Every line moves through five layers: the canonical ...

You wake up and reach for your phone, only to find your news, opinions, and arguments already sorted by algorithms that learned your habits yesterday. The world you see grows narrower with every click, share, and scroll, until opposing views simply vanish and your own beliefs echo back louder than ever.The Unfiltered Mind reveals exactly how filter bubbles and echo chambers form, why your brain welcomes the narrowing through confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, and the backfire...

When one voice becomes a crowd, the truth no longer feels like yours.A single accusation can hurt. A rumor repeated by friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors begins to feel like reality itself. A cold silence from a group can convince you that you are unreasonable, unstable, or unsafe to know. That is the power of the hidden chorus—and it is far more common than most people realize.The Hidden Chorus is a clear-eyed field guide to networked manipulation: how distorted sto...

Your child can spot a stranger. What they cannot yet spot is the friend who says "if you really liked me, you would."Manipulation rarely arrives as a threat. It arrives as a favor, a joke, a test of loyalty, a small guilt that lands somewhere under the ribs and stays there. Children feel it long before they can name it, and what they cannot name, they cannot refuse.Unbreakable gives you the language to hand them.Why capable, well-raised children still get caught...

Troll-ProofA Field Guide to Outsmarting Online Provocateurs, Protecting Your Mental Health, and Reclaiming the InternetA hostile comment can take seconds to post and hours to shake off.You reread it. Draft a reply. Delete it. Check the thread again. Soon a stranger who knows almost nothing about you has taken over your attention, your mood, and the work you meant to finish.Troll-Proof is a practical field guide for breaking that cycle.Hermes Lisandro ...

When Smart Groups Make Dumb DecisionsThe Hidden Psychology of Groupthink — and How Leaders, Teams, and Citizens Build Cultures Where Independent Thought SurvivesSmart people do not become immune to bad decisions when they enter a room together. Sometimes the opposite happens.A respected leader signals a preference. The first confident voice anchors the discussion. Experts soften their warnings. Silence is mistaken for agreement. By the time the group reaches a unanim...

THE DAZZLING SECOND GHOST STORY COLLECTION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON, NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANFeaturing new and original stories from:Bridget CollinsImogen Hermes GowarKiran Millwood HargraveAndrew Michael HurleyJess Kidd

The The Emerald Tablet of Hermes & Kybalion compose two pillars of Hermetic thought. Combined here in one volume, these two works share true wisdom with those ready to receive it. “When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with wisdom.”The Kybalion was first published anonymously in 1908 by “The Three Initiates.” The true authorship of the work is unknown, although theories suggest it was written entirely or in part by William Walker Atkinson...

What if you could unlock the secrets of the cosmos, understand the nature of the divine, and discover your soul's purpose?Corpus Hermeticum is a modern translation of the foundational Hermetic texts, designed to make the profound teachings of Hermes Trismegistus accessible to contemporary readers. These ancient writings explore fundamental truths about creation, the interplay between the material and spiritual realms, and the path to self-discovery and enl...

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In this ground-breaking and seminal work, esteemed Buddhist teacher Rob Burbea lays out an original and comprehensive approach to deepening insight. Starting from simple and easily accessible understandings of emptiness, Burbea presents a unique conception of the path along which he escorts the practitioner gradually, through the careful structure of the work, into ever more mystical levels of insight.Through its precise instructions, illuminating exercises and discussions that add...

The term particularly applies to the Corpus Hermeticum, Marsilio Ficino's Latin translation in fourteen tracts, of which eight early printed editions appeared before 1500 and a further twenty-two by 1641. This collection, which includes Poimandres and some addresses of Hermes to disciples Tat, Ammon and Asclepius, was said to have originated in the school of Ammonius Saccas and to have passed through the keeping of Michael Psellus: it is preserved in four...