Product Description: Darklore is a journal of exceptional observations, hidden history, the paranormal and esoteric science. Featuring contributions from Daniel Pinchbeck, Loren Coleman, Nick Redfern, Robert Schoch, Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince and many others.
A wonderful treat for students of "fringe" phenomena Darklore is one of those books that will both challenge and delight you with the quality of its essays, written by some of the most important and respected reasearchers of paranormal events.
Darklore is an anthology compilated and edited by Greg Taylor, the creator of the news website Daily Grail (www.dailygrail.com). In it Greg has asked the contribution of notable figures such as Daniel Pinchbeck, Michael Prescott, Loren Coleman, Nick Redfern, Robert Schoch and others; if you are a person with a deep interest in topics that are considered "heretic" by mainstream science an orthodox Academia, these names are surely familiar to you. This "forbidden" nature of the issues discussed in the essays is the very reason behind the name of the book (if you thought you will find in it magick potions or spells that your "potterian" friends are not familiar with, this is probably NOT the book for you).
Ranging from cryptozoology and the search of unknown hairy hominids, to UFOs and other more complex events, like the astounding simmilarities in the sounds described by the experimenters of different paranormal experiences --such as NDEs, OBEs, Marian apparitions and Close Encounters of the Third Kind-- Darklore will force you to stop viewing all these "weird" cases as isolated and with nothing in common; but in fact you will slowly begin to understand that deep down what we perceive and interpret as our "normal" reality, is nothing but a flimsy exterior layer that, should we dare to peel through it, reveals deeper and astounding levels, all fascinating and interconnected in ways we are just barely capable of glimpsing. Levels that are NOT absent of serious dangers, mind you, as Michael Prescott reminds to the paranormal enthusiast with his article "Hungry Ghosts".
Pick a copy of Darklore... I DARE YOU :-)
PS: And while you're at it, be sure to pay a visit to the Daily Grail website, but be cautious: exposure to its content can cause a severe level of addiction!
very informational I didn't know what it was going to be about when i bought it. I found out about from the tool(band) website, because of the guy who runs the site wrote an essay in the book. If your into ThInGs the Daily News does not report about, im sure you will dig it....
Food for thought The essays in this anthology will have you questioning basic assumptions or at least get you thinking a little differently.
The selections are fairly brief but filled to the brim with interesting insights and histories generally ignored by the media.
Kudos to editor Greg Taylor for getting the best of his contributors including Pinchbeck, Tymn and Redfern. The chapter on Terrance McKenna was an eye-opener.
I think this is a promising start to a regular journal or anthology series.
Dark Lore Brings Light Having contributed one of the 18 stories in this anthology of the paranormal, I admit to be being a bit biased in giving it five stars, but I believe I can honestly say that I would give it five stars even if I had not contributed to it.
The book touches upon many aspects of the paranoral, including spirit communication and influence,deathbed visions, apparations of the dead, templar revelations, UFO's, near-death experiences, the Great Sphinx, and even "Big Foot." Each story is by a different author, nearly all of them well known in the field. They include Michael Grosso, Paul Devereux, Michael Prescott, and Mitch Horowitz.
The various stories are just the right length for a good bedside book. Before seeing this book, I was wondering what to give several friends for Christmas. Now I have the perfect gift for them.
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