Metaphysics, Folklore, Spirituality
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Read more: Flat Earth: Satire, Conspiracy, or Modern Folklore
If you travel to the edges of the Earth, you might find the great Ice Wall that holds the oceans in. Beyond it lies the unknown. At least, that’s what some believers in an old-new idea imagine. In a hotel conference room, a charismatic speaker clicks to the next slide of a presentation. The screen…
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Read more: Elves and Nature Spirits of Iceland
A cold wind whistles over the Icelandic lava field as a crew of road builders stands idle, gazing at a hulking boulder in their path. According to local legend, this is no ordinary rock – it is the dwelling of elves, part of the huldufólk or “hidden people” who live unseen alongside humans. The workers…
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Read more: "Demons" From Around the World
How a culture’s “evil” spirits reveal their social values
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Read more: Remote Viewing: History & How-To Guide
Can you really spy on someone using just your mind? This question sounds like something out of a pulp sci-fi novel, yet during the Cold War both the United States and the Soviet Union invested serious time and money searching for an answer. In one notorious 1970 experiment, a Soviet housewife named Nina Kulagina allegedly…
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Read more: Egregores, Tulpas, and the Power of Collective Thought
Do Our Beliefs Take on a Life of Their Own? We’ve all heard the phrase “the power of belief,” but what if belief itself could sprout a kind of imaginary friend? What if an idea, fed by many minds, could take on a life of its own? In occult parlance, such a creature is called…
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Read more: Rhythm of Life: A History of Drums
Let’s travel back before Spotify playlists and stadium concerts – about 7,000 years. A group of early humans gather around a fire… one of them starts hitting a hollow log covered with reptile skin. To our modern eyes it might look like a casual weekend at Burning Man, but to them it was serious business.…
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Read more: The Invincible Art: Indonesia’s Debus and the Power of Pain
In a dusty village square in Banten, a man in a black headband stands calmly as another strikes his back with a rattan rod. The crowd gasps—he doesn’t flinch. Moments later, he’s rolling over a bed of thorny cactus and grinning as if it were a plush mattress. A chorus of drums and chants builds,…
