Welcome to Sleepy Time Travels. Epic sagas, folk tales, mystic wisdom, spiritual evolution, these forgotten texts are the perfect balm for your fevered brain, soothing it away from whatever ridiculousness the day has wrought. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/russell-stamets/support
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In the Reign of Coyote - Folklore From the Pacific Coast
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Links for audiobook, print and kindle editions. Russell's audiobook catalog. There was a rivalry among these three storytellers, for they came from different tribes, and the legends of their people were not the same. Tecla was from Baja, or Lower, California, where Juanita and Antonio's mother had once lived. Old Klayukat's tribal home was to the f…
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I HAVE seen the God Pan and it was in this manner: I heard a bewildering and pervasive music moving from precision to precision within itself. Then I heard a different music, hollow and laughing. Then I looked up and saw two eyes like the eyes of a wood-creature peering at me over a brown tube of wood. Then someone said: Yes, once I was playing a f…
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This epic narrative poem focuses on the days after the end of the Civil War through the fall of 1877, describing the leaders and events of the Indian Wars, including Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Dull Knife, Spotted Tail, the Fetterman Massacre, the Wagon Box Incident, and the Battle of Little Big Horn. Audiobook, Kindle and Print Editions …
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An account of the Tulsa race riot of 1921 in which White people attacked and murdered Black residents in the Greenwood neighborhood burning and looting. Includes a collection of shorter witness testimonials. Audiobook, Kindle and print editions --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/russell-stamets/messageSupport this …
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This overlooked work of Lawrence contains both beautiful descriptions of his travels in Italy during this period as well as a thoroughly engrossing portrait of a man, M, who he meets and can't quite get away from for months until the end. This true story grabs at you on several levels. Originally published as the introduction to M's work, Memoirs o…
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I want to put before you, if I can in these three lectures, a certain view of the world, and of the way in which that world is guided and directed. As this meeting is a public meeting, there is one statement I think that I ought to make, which it would not be necessary to make, if it were composed of members of the Theosophical Society. It is impor…
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Personality - My School - Rabindranath Tagore
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We are face to face with this great world, and our relations to it are manifold. One of these is the necessity we have to live, to till the soil, to gather food, to clothe ourselves, to get materials from nature. We are always making things that will satisfy our needs, and we come in touch with nature in our efforts to meet these needs. Thus, we ar…
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Dialogues in Limbo - George Santayana
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Who reads philosophy books? Not many. Maybe that's why George Santayana hid the medicine in sweeter wrappers. His The Last Puritan is an example. This week's episode is a selection from another venerable literary form, the dialog. It reminds me of the show from decades ago where a group of famous people from history were in a Sunday morning talk sh…
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The Old Man in the Corner Solves 6 Mysteries - The Mystery of the Russian Prince
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Mysteries are, of course, perennial favorites, and come in a variety of flavors. This weeks' hundred year old sample is in the british tradition, one of a series of tales featuring armchair sleuth, The Old Man in The Corner, a curious fellow that our author, the narrator, consults whenever she's curious about some case in the news. The old man is a…
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Among the numerous sciences pursued by the well-disciplined army of earnest students of the present century, none has had less honors or more scoffing than the oldest of them—the science of sciences, the venerable mother-parent of all our modern pigmies. Anxious in their petty vanity to throw the veil of oblivion over their undoubted origin, the se…
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Kiss Me - Confessions of a Bare-Footed Leper
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Renown for his plays depicting the socio-cultural context of modern society after the fall of Communism, popular playwright Vlad Zografi invites listeners to consider contemporary theater from multiple and mutually enriching and dramatic perspectives. The brilliance of his plays reflect a liberated and live theater in which audiences are drawn into…
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In 1989 Dave Bricker set off across the Gulf Stream, in a small sailboat, with $30 in his pocket. His voyages aboard The Blue Monk, through the Bahamas and across the Atlantic to Gibraltar, are recounted in vivid prose. The Blue Monk is a journey of self-discovery set in a world of saturated colors, remarkable people, hazardous reefs, and transcend…
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The Message of New Thought - the basis for the Law of Attraction
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New Thought is largely a restatement of old thought, vitalized with new life and meaning from the discoveries of modern psychology and the latest deductions of science. The reader must bear in mind, however, that the Old Thought was suppressed in the Western Hemisphere for nearly two thousand years; for the first time it is sending its illuminating…
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You Can Receive Whatsoever You Desire - Law of Attraction Fundamentals
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This law, as illustrated by many live experiences, is to me, by no means an untried theory. Rather, I have, each and every time, found it so practical and reliable in solving the many difficult problems coming to me for solution that it is with the utmost confidence and gladness that I pass it on to others likewise desirous of finding a safe and su…
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Perfect Whole by Horatio Dresser - The Basis of Belief in a Spiritual Reality
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Life is wonderfully simple. One efficient energy or spirit permeates all that exists. A few universal laws characterise this energy in all phases of its infinitely varied manifestation. To feel this spirit as a living reality within, to understand these simple laws and adapt life to wise obedience to them - this it is to possess the greatest peace,…
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Taoist Teachings - The Yellow Emperor and The Questions of Qe Tang
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The history of Taoist philosophy may be conveniently divided into three stages: the primitive stage, the stage of development, and the stage of degeneration. The first of these stages is only known to us through the medium of a single semi-historical figure, the philosopher Lao Tzu, whose birth is traditionally assigned to the year 604 BC. Some wou…
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The Gift of the Spirit by Prentice Mulford - New Thought, Law of Attraction Origins
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A supreme power and wisdom govern the universe. The supreme mind is measureless and pervades endless space. The supreme wisdom, power, and intelligence are in everything that exists from the atom to the planet. The supreme power and wisdom are more than in everything. The supreme mind is everything. The supreme mind is every atom of the mountain, t…
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Three Paths and Dharma - "Evolution" by Annie Besant
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This little book appeals, perhaps, to the Eastern rather than to the Western type of mind, but so many souls trained in the East are now being reincarnated in the West that it may find friendly [listeners] away from the land of its birth. Addressed to a purely Hindu audience, the lectures contain many common Sanskrit words, familiar to every Hindu,…
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The Only True History of the Life of Frank James - as written by himself
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"To those in whose hands this book finds it way, I wish to convey my greetings, and to assure you that it has been a great pleasure to me to be spared, and able to write the only authentic history that has ever been written by a member of the noted, or as some might express it, 'notorious' James Brothers gang, whose operations extended over a time,…
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Key Truths of Occult Philosophy - The Perspective of Life in Time
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The investigator who seeks to develop exact and careful conception of realities in a realm as temperamental as the occult faces from the beginning unsuspected difficulties. Every defining term as well as every accepted teaching and doctrine is variously interpreted by the different groups of students. Here is a field in which the most sincere teach…
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"Youth" was not my first contribution to Maga. It was the second. But that story marks the first appearance in the world of the man Marlow, with whom my relations have grown very intimate in the course of years. The origins of that gentleman (nobody as far as I know had ever hinted that he was anything but that) - his origins have been the subject …
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A Magician Among the Spirits - Houdini on Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have spent a goodly part of my life in study and research. During the last 30 years, I have read every single piece of literature on the subject of spiritualism that I could. I have accumulated one of the largest libraries in the world on psychic phenomena, spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, demonology, evil spirits, etc - some of the material goin…
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The Solar Logos - Studies in Arcane Mysticism
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This book on Audible, kindle & print. Russell's audiobook catalog This new old study of the Logos manifest in the macrocosm is awakening man to a principle of knowledge and a revelation of Providence. It is a priceless treasure, for in its study life becomes a beautiful stream of interpretation and an enjoyment of light. The Logos is and interprets…
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Mark Twain's Europe and Elsewhere - Down the Rhone
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Europe and Elsewhere on Audible, kindle, and print editions "Down the Rhone," written some twenty years later, is a chapter from another book that failed of completion. Mark Twain, in Europe partly for his health, partly for financial reasons, had agreed to write six letters for the New York Sun, two of which those from Aix and Marienbad appear in …
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Studies in Murder - Lizzie Borden Axe Murders
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Get the audiobook, kindle, or print The Borden case is without parallel in the criminal history of America. It is the most interesting and, perhaps, the most puzzling murder which has occurred in this country. There are in it all the elements which make such an event worth knowing more about since, in the first place, it was a mysterious crime in a…
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The Essential Mysticism on Audible, Kindle and Print THERE are two reasons why one cannot see to the bottom of a well: it may be very deep, or it may be muddy. Most people, consoling themselves for a spiritual myopia, prefer to think that super-sensuous experiences are abnormal and unworthy the consideration of a healthy mind. Thus they dispose ver…
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Russian and Bulgarian Folklore Stories - Not All There
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This book on Audible, Kindle, or Print The present small volume completes the translation of Karel Erben’s“A Hundred Genuine Popular Slavonic Fairy Stories.” The first volume, “Segnius Irritant,” maps out, so lo say, the primitive folk-lore weather myth, of which nearly the whole of the succeeding ninety-two stories are wholly or in part reproducti…
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Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel and Exploration - Guidebook to Mecca
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Audible Link: Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel and Exploration Kindle & Print Finding from my own personal experience how troublesome it is to hunt through piles of dusty old volumes, I have decided to make a small selection of these papers which I consider are not only rare and very interesting, but which also give an insight into the varie…
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The Soul - Whence and Whither: Sufi Mysticism
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THE word. Akasha in the language of the Hindus is expressive of a meaning that explains its object. Akasha means accommodation ; not necessarily what man calls the sky, although the sky is an accommodation. On the model of the Akasha the whole creation has been based. The organs of the senses—the ears, the eyes, the nostrils, the mouth—all are diff…
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Tales From Ariosto - The Story of Princess Angelica
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Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many side plots. Audible, Kindle, Paperback,…
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