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StormIt is an independent publication for writing that begins with something real: lived experience, an obsession, or a question carried for years.
Health and the body, history and myth, the mind, music, society — its essays and guides are researched, edited, and designed to be kept, not skimmed. Each article carries its own editorial credit.
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350 piecesThe Seal in Your Hands: What a Mudra Really Is
Mudras are stranger, more varied and less tested than most wellness writing admits. What the tradition teaches, what practitioners report, what research can actually say — and how this series keeps those three apart.
Not From Here
Ancient astronaut claims and the evidence for human builders.
The Occult Honestly
Séances and the search for hidden knowledge.
Senses Before Seven: Seeing, Hearing, Touch and the Edited World
The brain does not receive the world raw. It edits. Some of that editing can be protected. Some of it has a clock.
The House That Would Not Stay Empty
Sleep paralysis and the evidence behind haunted rooms.
Boys, Girls and Individual Development
What research on play, language and the brain can tell us.
Why everyone should learn the science of cooking
Understanding the food we make, and the people we feed.
I Have Been Here Before
Childhood memory and consciousness near death
Written Before It Happened
Prophecy calendars and the evidence for foreknowledge
Children From Four to Five Years
Early literacy and honesty as school approaches
The Hidden Hand
Secret societies and the evidence behind claims of hidden power.
The Missing Chapter
Lost lands and what archaeology can establish about the past.