Coming To The Edge Of The Circle

Author : Nikki Bado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198037252

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Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo. Suddenly you hear the sounds of far-off singing and chanting, drums booming, rattles "snaking," voices raised in harmony. The casting of the Circle is complete. You are led to the edge of the Circle, where Death, your challenge, is waiting for you. With the passwords of "perfect love" and "perfect trust" you enter Death's realm. The Guardians of the four quarters purify you, and you are finally reborn into the Circle as a newly made Witch. Coming to the Edge of the Circle offers an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in Ohio. As a High Priestess within the coven as well as a scholar of religion, Nikki Bado is in a unique position to contribute to our understanding of this ceremony and the tradition to which it belongs. Bado's analysis of this coven's initiation ceremony offers an important challenge to the commonly accepted model of "rites of passage." Rather than a single linear event, initiation is deeply embedded within a total process of becoming a Witch in practice and in community with others. Coming to the Edge of the Circle expands our concept of initiation while giving us insight into one coven's practice of Wicca. An important addition to Ritual Studies, it also introduces readers to the contemporary nature religion variously called Wicca, Witchcraft, the Old Religion, or the Craft.

Author : Nikki Bado-Fralick
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780195166453

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Offering an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches in Ohio, this text contributes to an understanding of the ceremony and the tradition to which it belongs.

Author : Delwyn McPhun
Publisher : Circle's End
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782953670103

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Circle's End by Delwyn McPhun Pdf

Crop circles: Hundreds of these strange patterns appear in our fields each year, their vast beauty inspiring awe and wonder. A sudden increase in their number throws Matt Lancing, maths student and amateur symbologist, into a world of intrigue. What is creating them? What is their message? Matt deciphers crop circles for a secret military group led by the mysterious Ember, a determined redhead with strange spiritual beliefs. Uncovering what makes the circles is just the beginning of his journey to a terrifying discovery. Warning: This well documented enigma will question your deepest illusions.

Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345808608

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The Circle by Dave Eggers Pdf

LONGLISTED 2015 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

Author : Franklin K. Mathiews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Sports stories
ISBN : OSU:32435058011024

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Coming Through! by Franklin K. Mathiews Pdf

Author : Mary Ann Bin-Sallik
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004421741

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Aboriginal Women by Degrees by Mary Ann Bin-Sallik Pdf

From a unique personal perspective, thirteen woman tell of their journeys towards the significant goal of a university degree. Although from different backgrounds, language groups and experiences, these woman share the common thread of Aboriginal heritage. Some faced the added challenge of family responsibilities while others pursued academic degrees as younger students. From Bachelor to Masters to LL B degrees, their chosen paths led them to universities across Australia and even to prestigious Harvard University in the US.

Author : Christina Baldwin
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307418593

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Calling the Circle by Christina Baldwin Pdf

The original small-press edition of Calling the Circle has become one of the key resources for the rapidly-growing "circle" movement. This newly revised edition brings Christina Baldwin's groundbreaking work to an even broader audience ranging from women's spirituality groups to corporate development teams. 50,000 years ago, women and men gathered around campfires to decide the key issues in their lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering a new form of this ancient ritual for communication, mutual support, teamwork, and social change. Now, in a book as consciousness-changing as Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade or Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity. In this simple, profound practice, participants sit in a circle, pass a talking piece from person to person, and speak and listen from the heart. Christina Baldwin gives detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving disagreements safely and respectfully. She also offers inspiring examples of circles in action: a women's spirituality group, a father and son in crisis, a PTA group that averts a school strike and a work project team that accesses a new level of creativity and caring.

Author : Josephine Townsend Lees,Betty Shellenberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Field hockey
ISBN : UCAL:B3053225

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Field Hockey by Josephine Townsend Lees,Betty Shellenberger Pdf

Author : Nikoli
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1402757530

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Hitori and Sudoku by Nikoli Pdf

Puzzle fans will love hitori. Instead of filling in numbers on a grid, they have to black them outlike playing sudoku backwards! Hitori is a new brainchild of Nikoli, publisher of Japan s very first puzzle magazine and a superpower in the puzzle world. The rules are simple: 1) No number may appear more than once in any row or column. 2) Starting with a fully filled grid, the solver has to decide which duplicate numbers to knock out. And 3) all numbers remaining at the end have to be connected together. It s a whole new kind of mind-bending fun."""

Author : Mary Jo Hiney
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0806972831

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Sewing for the First Time by Mary Jo Hiney Pdf

By anticipating beginners' questions, this illustrated guide teaches everything needed to fashion beautiful hand-crafted goods. Create a table runner; make buttonholes; stitch a handbag, throw pillows, curtains, and more. "A boon to learning...Large photos and ample illustrations accompany step-by-step instructions."--"Sew News." "A fantastic guide for first-time sewers and those looking to brush up on the basics."--"Butterick Home Catalog."

Author : Zhenghan Wang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789812819116

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Topology and Physics by Zhenghan Wang Pdf

This unique volume, resulting from a conference at the Chern Institute of Mathematics dedicated to the memory of Xiao-Song Lin, presents a broad connection between topology and physics as exemplified by the relationship between low-dimensional topology and quantum field theory.The volume includes works on picture (2+1)-TQFTs and their applications to quantum computing, Berry phase and YangOCoBaxterization of the braid relation, finite type invariant of knots, categorification and Khovanov homology, GromovOCoWitten type invariants, twisted Alexander polynomials, Faddeev knots, generalized Ricci flow, CalabiOCoYau problems for CR manifolds, Milnor''s conjecture on volume of simplexes, Heegaard genera of 3-manifolds, and the (A, B)-slice problem. It also includes five unpublished papers of Xiao-Song Lin and various speeches related to the memorial conference

Author : Wallace Jackson
Publisher : Apress
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781484209738

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Pro Java 9 Games Development by Wallace Jackson Pdf

Use Java 9 and JavaFX 9 to write 3D games for the latest consumer electronics devices. Written by open source gaming expert Wallace Jackson, this book uses Java 9 and NetBeans 9 to add leading-edge features, such as 3D, textures, animation, digital audio, and digital image compositing to your games. Along the way you’ll learn about game design, including game design concepts, genres, engines, and UI design techniques. To completely master Java 3D game creation, you will combine this knowledge with a number of JavaFX 9 topics, such as scene graph hierarchy; 3D scene configuration; 3D model design and primitives; model shader creation; and 3D game animation creation. With these skills you will be able to take your 3D Java games to the next level. The final section of Pro Java 9 Games Development puts the final polish on your abilities. You’ll see how to add AI logic for random content selection methods; harness a professional scoring engine; and player-proof your event handling. After reading Pro Java 9 Games Development, you will come away with enough 3D expertise to design, develop, and build your own professional Java 9 games, using JavaFX 9 and the latest new media assets. What You’ll Learn Design and build professional 3D Java 9 games, using NetBeans 9, Java 9, and JavaFX 9 Integrate new media assets, such as digital imagery and digital audio Integrate the new JavaFX 9 multimedia engine API Create an interactive 3D board game, modeled, textured, and animated using JavaFX Optimize game assets for distribution, and learn how to use the Java 9 module system Who This Book Is For Experienced Java developers who may have some prior game development experience. This book can be for experienced game developers new to Java programming.

Author : Keith Tudor
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781446239278

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Transactional Analysis Approaches to Brief Therapy by Keith Tudor Pdf

`This book, edited by Keith Tudor (who is also one of the ten contributors) is excellent reading for a number of reasons: for those who know nothing about TA, it is a highly informative and readily accessible introduction. For those who read or studied it some time ago, it is an excellent refresher. I am impressed by the diversity of people and applications of TA, and the developments outlined in this book are, certainly for me, cause for hope because, as well as offering frameworks for making 'simple' sense of humans in action – and human inaction – TA is a complex and profound system that offers people a way of solving the problems of the present, re-evaluating the struggles of the past, and reshaping the future with permission and power based on a greater sense of self' - Nurturing Potential `I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all therapists as enriching and interesting reading' - European Association for Transactional Analysis Newsletter `It is a book which would offer helpful introductions to both the practice of transactional analysis, and the attitude needed when planning brief therapy of any kind' - The Jounal of Analytical Psychology Of all the approaches to therapy, transactional analysis is arguably one of those most suited to time-limited work. At a time when short-term therapy is increasingly dominant as a form of practice, Transactional Analysis Approaches to Brief Therapy provides an insightful guide which both informs and challenges. Rather than a single theory, TA has developed as a group of four schools which share a common philosophy, but place different emphasis on what occurs during the therapeutic process. Written by therapists at the leading edge of developments in TA, the book presents and differentiates each of these four approaches. Through transcripts and commentaries, it shows how theory applies to practice, for example in treating post-traumatic stress or in achieving a one-session cure. The book also includes a useful glossary of TA terms, as well as an appendix of Eric Berne's short script-questionnaire. In some ways critical of the zeitgeist of short-termism and the commercial pressures for therapy to be brief, the book seeks a balance between the challenge TA offers as an actionistic approach to quick and efficient therapy and the importance of relationship in therapy which is time-conscious. It will be enlightening reading for all those training and those already trained as therapists and counsellors in TA.

Author : James Gardner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452051024

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On The Edge: Stepping Back From The Brink of Suicide by James Gardner Pdf

James was only five years old and travelling home to Devon after holiday with his family in Scotland in 1986, when tragedy struck. The car was involved in a serious accident just outside Bristol, leaving him fighting for survival on life support. When he emerged from his coma, doctors discovered that he was seriously brain damaged, leaving the left side paralysed. Within the blink of an eye James had been transformed from a gregarious, fun-loving little boy into a rag doll. But with a lot of loving support, he began the long and difficult road to recovery. His attitude was inspirational, and for years he threw himself into rehabilitation. As James grew up he began to feel misunderstood and not able to reach the level of normality he so yearned for. He felt that there was no longer any point to his life. When James asked his doctor for help, the reality of his situation suddenly struck. Suicide would be the ultimate failure. This is the story of James' life and how he fought tooth and nail to stay alive. It is both his autobiography and a guide to personal development. Since making the conscious decision not to give up hope, James has gone on to travel the world and teach English abroad. James is open and honest about the things in which he has found great solace during his darkest hours, and he credits the teachings of Kabbalah, an increasingly popular form of Jewish mysticism, for helping him refocus his life. The singer Madonna, a long term exponent of the spiritual teaching, has been an inspirational figure for James. James is now a picture of good health; despite continued weakness in his left side and a limp, he walks confidently and with a purpose.

Author : Colin Andrews,Synthia Andrews
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781601635402

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On the Edge of Reality by Colin Andrews,Synthia Andrews Pdf

A global expansion of consciousness is underway. As predicted by ancient prophecy, old ways of thinking and of seeing the world are shifting. Mind-stretching new phenomena are challenging current reality. New frontiers of science are disclosing a connection between our consciousness and physical reality. As consciousness changes, so do our perceptions. The door is opening to a new reality. Join Colin and Synthia as they explore what is beyond this door. Examine the multitude of current changes—from the bases of society to the foundations of science—that indicate the unfolding of a new paradigm. Investigate non-ordinary reality and unexplained phenomena as interactions of consciousness. In this fascinating new title, you will explore and learn about: Parallel cases of inexplicable exchanges between lights in the sky and crop circles on the ground Strange sounds in the sky heard and recorded around the world Photographic orbs of light The Norway Spiral, a rotating spiral of light seen by hundreds of people in 2009 Unexplained RADAR interference patterns correlating with weather anomalies