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Timeless Knowledge, Free for All. Get instant access to 3 free audiobooks every month, hand-picked from a growing library of over 150 masterpieces—and counting. We’re bringing you some of the most important and transformative books ever written—works that have shaped civilizations, challenged dogmas, and awakened minds. From ancient philosophy and mysticism to revolutionary manifestos and modern classics, this is the essential archive of human thought—read aloud and made accessible for free. Whether you’re seeking hidden wisdom, personal growth, or the raw truth buried in forgotten pages, Adultbrain Publishing is your portal to the ideas that matter most.
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The Effect of Adrenochrome and Adrenolutin on the Behavior of Animals and the Psychology of Man by The University of Saskatchewan Psychiatric Services Branch

Psychiatric Services Branch, Department of Public Health, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan I. Introduction . II. Biochemistry of Adrenochrome III. Action of Adrenochrome on Cells IV. Effect of Adrenochrome on Fish V. Effect of Adrenochrome on Spiders VI. Effect of Adrenochrome on Pigeons VII. Effect of Adrenochrome on Mammals A. Mice . B. Rats . C. Rabbits D. Cats . E. Dogs . F. Monkeys VIII. Effect of Adrenochrome on Electrograms IX. Effect of Ad...

Aug 31, 2023

The Science of Immortality by D.N. Dunlop

The Science of Immortality, by D.N. Dunlop The contents of this volume consist of addresses delivered at various times before Lodges of the Theosophical Society and selected for their reference to the subject of immortality. Some of them were published in The Path, Vol. II. In order to make the chapters more or less coherent, the matter has been slightly rearranged, but certain repetitions will be noticed which are unavoidable, owing to the inter-relation of the subjects discussed and to the fac...

Aug 31, 2023

The Open Conspiracy – Blue Prints for a World Revolution by H.G. Wells

This version of The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution was published in 1928. Apparently Wells knew this would be a temporary version and would stop printing after a year or so. It was rewritten a couple of times between then and 1933 under various other subtitles. The book is, in Wells’ words, a “scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries. It proposes that largely as the ...

Aug 31, 2023

The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean by Doreal

The history of the tablets translated in the following pages is strange and beyond modern scientists’ comprehension. Their age is astounding, dating back 36,000 years B.C. Thoth is an Atlantean Priest-King who established a colony in ancient Egypt after the mother country was sunk. He was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which has been incorrectly attributed to Cheops. He included his knowledge of ancient wisdom as well as securely hidden records and instruments from ancient Atlantis. F...

Aug 30, 2023

The Symbolism of the Tarot. P.D. Ouspensky

On Youtube Soon to be on Audible The Symbolism of the Tarot. P.D. Ouspensky No study of occult philosophy is possible without an acquaintance with symbolism, for if the words occultism and symbolism are correctly used, they mean almost one and the same thing. Symbolism cannot be learned as one learns to build bridges or speak a foreign language, and for the interpretation of symbols a special cast of mind is necessary. One who understands the use of symbolism in the arts, knows, in a general way...

Aug 30, 2023

IN THEIR OWN WORDS – Testimony from the Students of Canada’s Indigenous Residential School Program. Darren Grimes

On Youtube: IN THEIR OWN WORDS – Testimony from the Students of Canada’s Indigenous Residential School Program. You can find a free ebook of this book and Darren’s other two books at the link below. What is the cost of an education? Is education an additive process, or a reductive one? How does one weigh the benefits of tradition against the threat of being at odds with the future? How does one refuse the offer of a better life for their children? What if the offer is compulsory? What happens wh...

Aug 30, 20231 hr 34 min

What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of its Disciples by Manly P. Hall

What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of its Disciples This early work by Hall is devoted to the study of the ancient Mystery Schools and the work they have done in the world throughout the various ages. There is also a treatise on the path of discipleship. The listener of this audiobook is equipped to discriminate between the various so-called spiritual organizations and is protected against unfortunate involvement. True comprehension and temperance of our lower natures all combine to lead us to a be...

Aug 30, 2023

ETIDORHPA, or, the End of the Earth. John Uri Lloyd

On Youtube: John Uri Lloyd’s Cult Classic from 1901! ETIDORHPA, or, the End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey. PART 1 to Chapter 30 only For a great hard copy visit NightTimeEditions https://nighttimeeditions.wordpress.com/ and they have many amazing old cult classics on Inner Earth and Occult Fiction. This Extended Edition is the most complete version you will find. First published in 1895, this work has survived as a cult book. It s...

Aug 30, 2023

Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical, and literary sources, the authors argue that...

Aug 26, 2023

The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

“ONE of the dam-dest in our whole saturnalia of the accursed Because it is hopeless to try to shake off an excommunication only by saying that we’re damned by blacker things than ourselves; and that the damned are those who admit they’re of the damned. Inertia and hypnosis are too strong for us. We say that: then we go right on admitting we’re of the damned. It is only by being more nearly real that we can sweep away the quasi-things that oppose us. Of course, as a whole, we have considerable am...

Aug 26, 2023

The Unabomber Manifesto and Other Essays by Ted Kaczynski

Included in this volume: -Unnamed Essay – 00:00 -Hit Where It Hurts – 6:30 -When Non-Violence is Suicide – 26:44 -Industrial Society and Its Future (aka The Unabomber Manifesto) – 31:50 Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is a United States murderer, mathematician, and neo-Luddite social critic who carried out a campaign of mail bombings. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where, as an intellectual child prodigy, he excelled academically from an early age. A considerable amount of cr...

Aug 26, 2023

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich has been called the “Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature.” It was the first book to boldly ask, “What makes a winner?” The man who asked and listened for the answer, Napoleon Hill, is now counted in the top ranks of the world’s winners himself. The most famous of all teachers of success spent “a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort” to produce the “Law of Success” philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized in this on...

Aug 26, 2023

The Healing Of Nations and The Hidden Sources Of Their Strife by Edward Carpentar

Originally published in 1915 in the middle of World War I, Carpenter explores the effects that the war was having on society and humankind as a whole from firsthand experience. In particular, papers focus on the differences between Germany and England, the causes of the war, and suggestions for restoration and recovery when the war has ended. Carpenter details all of this in a realistic way, drawing on matters such as class to put forward his anti-war stance as well as philosophical approaches t...

Aug 25, 2023

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished Races, by E.A. Allen

Originally published in 1885. The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished Races, by E.A. Allen We are told that in Tartary, each native makes the iron he needs, just as every household would make its own bread. The furnace is a very small affair, not holding more than three pounds of ore. This is filled with ore and charcoal. The bellows are used, and after the charcoal is all burned out, the result is a small piece of spongy iron, which needs only repeated heating and hammering to be made serviceable. ...

Aug 25, 2023

The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity by Rudolf Steiner

The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity – Read by the amazing Owen Hunt @bootsygreenwood Now in Audio, on Audible and everywhere else! Of all of his works, The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity is the one that Steiner himself believed would have the longest life, and the greatest spiritual and cultural consequences. It was written as a phenomenological account of the results of observing the human soul, according to the methods of natural science. This seminal work asserts that free spiritual activi...

Aug 25, 2023

The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries. Vol 1. Charles William Heckethorn

Publisher’s Summary Volume one of the two-volume encyclopedia of Secret Societies. First written in 1875, this University Press edition duplicates the second edition of 1893, which was completely revised and rewritten. A fascinating work, to which any serious researcher of Secret Societies must eventually turn, the modern-day student of history must remember the scholarly and archeological limitations of the day when it was written. 00:00 – Preface 9:42 – Introduction 55:09 – Book I – ANCIENT MY...

Aug 25, 2023

Myths of Pre-Columbian America by Donald MacKenzie

This audiobook contains expert discussions of such myths and mythological figures as the milk goddess and her pot symbol, the jewel-water and mugwort goddess, goddesses of love and food, Tlaloc and the dragon, love and mother deities, Quetzalcoatl, and many more. Also, this audiobook focuses on symbolism, burial customs, and other topics. PREFACE – 00:00 I. The Glamour of Gold – 16:00 II. Growth of New World Civilization – 40:03 III. The Indian Elephant in American Art – 1:05:09 IV. Symbols with...

Aug 25, 2023

Secret Societies and Subversive Movements. Nesta H. Webster

Secret Societies and Subversive Movements – “There is in Italy a power which we seldom mention in this House… I mean the secret societies…. It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe-the whole of Italy and France and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries-is covered with a network of those secret societies, just as the superficies of the earth is now being covered with railroads. And what are their objects? They do not attempt t...

Aug 24, 2023

The Arcane Schools. John Yarker

The Arcane Schools – In this extensive work, John Yarker attempts to trace the history of Masonry and Masonic rites through history, proving its legitimacy through seniority and the power of tradition. Yarker establishes the roots of Masonry in a race he calls the Aryans, a catchall phrase to describe an unknown race of conquerors who developed the early human arts, such as stoneworking, metalworking, and agriculture. Yarker then explains how that civilization gave rise to societies of special k...

Aug 24, 2023

Egyptian Wisdom in the Revelation of John the Divine by Gerald Massey – Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Book 11

[T]he drama opens in Revelation the same as in “the Book of the Dead,” with “the resurrection and the glory” of the coming Son. “Behold He cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see Him.” It is the risen Lord of Resurrection who says: “I was dead, and behold I am alive evermore, and I have the keys of death and of hades” (Ch. i 18). This is Horus of the resurrection risen from Amenta in his triumph over death and hell or Sut and Akar. He proclaims himself to he the all-one, Har-Sum-taui-Neb...

Aug 23, 202347 min

The Exodus from Egypt and the Desert of Amenta by Gerald Massey – Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Book 10

When roughly classed, the myths and legends generally show two points of departure for migrations of the human race, as these were rendered in the stellar and solar mythology. One is from the summit of the celestial mount, the other from the hollow underworld beneath the mount or inside the earth. The races that descended from the mount were people of the pole whose starting-point in reckoning time was from one or other station of the pole-star, determinable by its type, whether as the tree, the...

Aug 23, 20231 hr 16 min

The Ark, the Deluge, and the World’s Great Year by Gerald Massey – Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Book 9

After the deluge in “the destruction of mankind” the god Ra establishes a covenant with those who have escaped from the flood. He says that what he commanded is well done, and that the destruction of his enemies removes destruction from themselves. “Said by the majesty of Ra, It is well done, all this. I shall now protect men on account of this. Said by Ra, I now raise my hand that I shall not destroy men” i.e. not again. The making of this covenant after the deluge is followed by the establishm...

Aug 23, 20231 hr 9 min

The Egyptian Wisdom in Other Jewish Writings by Gerald Massey – Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Book 8

When the word Sheol in the Old Testament is rendered in English by “the grave,” it is inadequate times out of number. The Hebrew writers were not always speaking or thinking of the grave when they wrote of Sheol, which has to be bottomed in Amenta, the divine nether-earth, not simply in the tomb. The grave is not identical with hell, nor the pit-hole with the bottomless pit. The pangs and sorrows of Sheol, like the purging pangs of the Romish purgatory, have to be studied in the Egyptian Ritual....

Aug 23, 202354 min

Egyptian Wisdom and the Hebrew Genesis by Gerald Massey – Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Book 7

[I]t was not the genesis of the universe that is imaged in astronomical mythology. The firmament was there; already waiting to be distinguished as upper and lower, and divided into the domains of night and day, or Sut and Horus, or Ansar and Kisar. The constellations were not created from nothing when they were figured out of stars. The firmamental water was not created by being divided into upper and lower. The earth was not created because distinguished from water as ground to go upon…. Heaven...

Aug 23, 202338 min

The Sign-Language of Astronomical Mythology by Gerald Massey – Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Books 5 and 6

The origin of a saviour in the guise of a little child is traceable to Child-Horus, who brought new life to Egypt every year as the Messu of the inundation. This was Horus in his pre-solar and pre-human characters of the fish, the shoot of the papyrus, or the branch of the endless years. In a later stage the image of Horus on his papyrus represented the young god as solar cause in creation. But in the primitive phase it was a soul of life or of food ascending from the water in vegetation, as he ...

Aug 23, 20232 hr

Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Mysteries of Amenta by Gerald Massey – Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Book 4

There is no death in the Osirian religion, only decay and change, and periodic renewal; only evolution and transformation in the domain of matter and the transubstantiation into spirit. In the so-called death of Osiris it is rebirth, not death, exactly the same as in the changes of external nature. At the close of the day the solar orb went down and left the sun god staring blankly in the dark of death. Taht the moon god met him in Amenta with the eye of Horus as the light the was to illuminate ...

Aug 23, 20231 hr 4 min

Elemental And Ancestral Spirits Or The Gods And The Glorified by Gerald Massey – The Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Book 3

The two primary elements were those of darkness and light: Sut was the power of darkness, Horus the power of light. In one representation the two elements were imaged by means of the black bird of Sut and the white bird, or golden hawk, of Horus. Thus we can identify two elemental powers, as old as night and day, which are primeval in universal mythology; and these two powers, or animistic souls, were divinized as the two gods Sut and Horus with the two birds of darkness and light, the black vul...

Aug 23, 20231 hr 9 min

Totemism, Tattoo, and Fetishism as Forms of Sign Language by Gerald Massey – Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Book 2

So ancient was Totemism in Egypt that the Totems of the human Mothers had become the signs of Goddesses, in whom the head of the beast was blended with the figure of the human female. The Totems of the human Mothers had attained the highest status as Totems of a Motherhood that was held to be divine, the Motherhood in Nature which was elemental in its origin. –from “Totemism, Tattoo and Fetishism as Forms of Sign Language” It goes unappreciated by modern Egyptologists, but it is embraced by thos...

Aug 23, 202349 min

Sign-Language and Mythology as Primitive Modes of Representation by Gerald Massey – Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Book 1

“Myth-making Man” did not create the Gods in his own image. The primary divinities of Egypt, such as Sut, Sebek, and Shu, three of the earliest, were represented in the likeness of the Hippopotamus, the Crocodile, and the Lion; whilst Hapi was imaged as an Ape, Anup as a Jackal, Ptah as a Beetle, Taht as an Ibis, Seb as a Goose. So it was the Goddesses. They are the likenesses of powers that were super-human, not human…. A huge mistake has hitherto been made in assuming that the Myth-Makers bega...

Aug 23, 20231 hr 1 min
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