Are some of your friends confident, happy, healthy and fit? Do you wish you were like them? Do you want to lift yourself up from unhappiness and confusion? It’s easy. Once you learn how to use the inner powers which you already possess, you will be able to open the locked door of fear and enter into the glorious life you desire.

This book will teach you the basics of the laws of mind and the foundations of positive thinking that can help you move towards relaxation and self-confidence, health and well-being, wealth and success, and harmonious relationships. Repeat the affirmations and let your subconscious mind absorb them and guide you into a state of calmness and relaxation so you will be able to bring about the changes you are longing for so you can become the master of your life.

Harness the power of your own mind and the infinite resources surrounding you to be, do, and receive whatever you desire, imagine, and believe. Allow this to be your personal guide to leading a happier, wealthier, and more fulfilling life as you learn to:

• Unleash your mind power
• Tell your subconscious mind what to do through autosuggestion and other techniques
• Read real-life stories of mind power in action
• Repair the damage and overcome self-limiting thoughts Implanted in your mind
• Get healthy and fit
• Make lots of money
• Be confident: overcome shyness and fear
• Excel at school and work
• Get others to respect you
• Make friends
• Find your soulmate
• Have more fun
• Travel the world
• Learn a new skill
• Make the world a better place
• Develop your psychic powers

A KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

No other book in history has done more to clarify the Esoteric, mystical, and occult traditions of the world than Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Now, historian Mitch Horowitz provides the first companion work to Hall’s opus. The Secret Teachings of All Ages helps twenty=first-century readers enter and experience (or re-experience) Hall’s hallowed pages and also clarifies and expands on some of the book’s key themes and topics.

Mitch explores developments and historical discoveries since hall published his “Great Book” nearly a century ago and adds fresh dimensions to subjects including:

• The antiquity and legacy of Ancient Egypt.
• The mystical origins of the world’s major faiths.
• Strange beasts and anomalies in history and today.
• The origins and esotericism of Tarot.
• Secret Societies in Myth and Fact.
• The enduring relevance of astrology.

Authorized by Manly P. Hall’s Philosophical Research Society, The Secret Teachings of All Ages is a feast of esoteric exploration on its own and a worthy companion to history’s unparalleled encyclopedia arcana.

“Mitch is a fantastic tour guide to the fringes of reason, high weirdness, deep esoterica, secret societies, and mystery religions.” –BoingBoing

“Has the rare gift of making the esoteric accessible to discerning masses.” –HuffPost

Charles Fort’s founding classic of the paranormal
newly introduced by esoteric scholar Mitch Horowitz
The Book of the Damned shot like a comet—or something unknown in the sky—across the horizon of a complacent industrial world and its new faith in orthodox science in post-World War I America.

Author Charles Fort (1874-1932) curated a registry of damned data: reports that philosophical materialism had excluded, such as strange airships in an era before UFOs; unknown beasts; blood, frogs, fishes, and stones falling to earth; floating islands; meteorites containing fossils; tools dropping from the skies; fairy coffins; lights on the moon; and strange figures moving across the sun.

Fort revealed how dogmas and orthodoxies once associated with religion were reemerging within triumphant science itself. Whatever authorities could not explain, they condemned, ridiculed, or ignored. But philosopher-compiler Fort illuminated enduring nether-realms that modern man, secure in his manufactured certainties, insisted did not exist.

With a new introductory essay, “Philosopher of the Damned,” historian of the esoteric Mitch Horowitz situates Fort in literary history as a figure who, like Edgar Allan Poe, defined a genre—one so unclassifiable, yet omnipresent, that it bears the author’s name: Fortean.

Mitch further explores how Fort’s insights into categories that physicalist science rejected presaged our own era—one of both new mysteries and new modes of insight. “Fort’s work,” he writes, “has not only endured into our age, but the outcast intellect influenced our quantum-entangled, binary-coded, multiversed conceptions of reality.”

A ROLLICKING GOOD TIME!

Love and marriage take center stage in this rough and tumble farce by William Shakespeare. It is a battle of the sexes filled with bawdy humor, witty dialogue and fast-paced action. The play features an unconventional romance between a fortune-hunter, Petruchio and Katherina, a beautiful heiress, who is also a headstrong bitter shrew.

Petruchio arrives in Padua to hear of Katharina, who has thus far repelled all attempts at courtship. Since Katherina must marry before her sister by her father’s decree, Petruchio arranges a dowry with her father and is ready to marry Katherina, even against her will. Professing to admire a woman of spirit, Petruchio immediately sets about his wooing and their first meeting is one of impassioned exchanges of blows as well as jests. After a madcap wedding Kate is whisked away to be reborn as a loving wife.

One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, it is rife with subplots, disguise and mistaken identity. It’s vivid language, elaborate puns and wonderful wordplay combine with slapstick humor to delight readers and afford them a rollicking good time!

The Taming of the Shrew has been adapted numerous times for stage, screen, opera, ballet, and musical theatre. The most famous adaptations were the 1967 film of the play, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter.

“IT GIVES ME A SENSE OF FREEDOM TO KNOW THAT A DEED OF DELIBERATE COURAGE IS STILL POSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD--A DEED OF SPONTANEOUS BEAUTY.”

Hedda Gabler, a classic play set in the late nineteenth century, was written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890. Blending comedy and tragedy, the work was universally condemned when it was first written. Today, however, Hedda Gabler is one of Ibsen's most performed and studied plays. It is considered a masterpiece, combining literary realism, timeless themes, and thought-provoking drama. Ibsen explores the hidden anxieties and thwarted ambitions of his characters against a backdrop of current social norms and deception.

Hedda, the beautiful daughter of a general, is a young socialite, whose life is filled with endless boredom and longing. Evan as she struggles to find her place in society, she is too scared of scandal to become involved with the man she loves, a brilliant writer. So instead, she is trapped in a marriage and a house that she does not want and overwhelmed by her own powerlessness..

Hedda's inner turmoil is reflected in her desperate attempts to break free of the societal norms that bind her and her emotional journey is filled with drama and suspense as she realizes her choices will shape her destiny. When her first love threatens her husband’s career, Hedda takes drastic and fatal action as she begins to manipulate the fates of those around her. Written as one of the great dramatic roles in the theater, she has been described as a female version of Hamlet. Hedda Gabler is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking plays of all time.