Dispel Illusion

Author : Mark Lawrence
Publisher : 47North
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Gifted persons
ISBN : 1542094011

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Dispel Illusion by Mark Lawrence Pdf

Sometimes being wrong is the right answer. Nick Hayes's genius is in wringing out the universe's secrets. It's a talent that's allowed him to carve paths through time. But the worst part is that he knows how his story will end. He's seen it with his own eyes. And every year that passes, every breakthrough he makes, brings him a step closer. Mia's accident is waiting for them both in 2011. If it happens then he's out of choices. Then a chance 1992 discovery reveals that this seeker of truth has been lying to himself. But why? It's a question that haunts him for years. A straw he clings to as his long-awaited fate draws near. Time travel turns out not to be the biggest problem Nick has to work on. He needs to find out how he can stay on his path but change the destination. Failure has never been an option, and neither has survival. But Nick's hoping to roll the dice one more time. And this new truth begins with a lie.

Author : Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226308098

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Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty Pdf

"Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . . . weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . In her creative hands, enchanting Indian myths and stories illuminate and are illuminated by authors as different as Aeschylus, Plato, Freud, Jung, Kurl Gödel, Thomas Kuhn, Borges, Picasso, Sir Ernst Gombrich, and many others. This richly suggestive book challenges many of our fundamental assumptions about ourselves and our world."—Mark C. Taylor, New York Times Book Review "Dazzling analysis. . . . The book is firm and convincing once you appreciate its central point, which is that in traditional Hindu thought the dream isn't an accident or byway of experience, but rather the locus of epistemology. In its willful confusion of categories, its teasing readiness to blur the line between the imagined and the real, the dream actually embodies the whole problem of knowledge. . . . [O'Flaherty] wants to make your mental flesh creep, and she succeeds."—Mark Caldwell, Village Voice

Author : Edmund Mendelssohn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781503636644

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White Musical Mythologies by Edmund Mendelssohn Pdf

In a narrative that extends from fin de siècle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "pure sound." Pairing Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida, White Musical Mythologies offers an ambitious critical history of the ontology of sound, suggesting that the avant-garde ideal of "pure sound" was always an expression of western ethnocentrism. Each of the musicians studied in this book re-created or appropriated non-European forms of expression as they conceived music ontologically, often thinking music as something immediate and immersive: from Satie's dabblings with mysticism and exoticism in bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s to Varèse's experience of ethnographic exhibitions and surrealist poetry in 1930s Paris, and from Boulez's endeavor to theorize a kind of musical writing that would "absorb" the sounds of non-European musical traditions to Cage, who took inspiration from Eastern thought as he wrote about sound, silence, and chance. These modernist artists believed that the presence effects of sound in their moment were more real and powerful than the outmoded norms of the European musical past. By examining musicians who strove to produce sonic presence, specifically by re-thinking the concept of musical writing (écriture), the book demonstrates that we cannot fully understand French theory in its novelty and complexity without music and sound.

Author : Carolyn N. Biltoft
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226766560

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A Violent Peace by Carolyn N. Biltoft Pdf

The newly born League of Nations confronted the post-WWI world—from growing stateless populations to the resurgence of right-wing movements—by aiming to create a transnational, cosmopolitan dialogue on justice. As part of these efforts, a veritable army of League personnel set out to shape “global public opinion,” in favor of the postwar liberal international order. Combining the tools of global intellectual history and cultural history, A Violent Peace reopens the archives of the League to reveal surprising links between the political use of modern information systems and the rise of mass violence in the interwar world. Historian Carolyn N. Biltoft shows how conflicts over truth and power that played out at the League of Nations offer broad insights into the nature of totalitarian regimes and their use of media flows to demonize a whole range of “others.” An exploration of instability in information systems, the allure of fascism, and the contradictions at the heart of a global modernity, A Violent Peace paints a rich portrait of the emergence of the age of information—and all its attendant problems.

Author : Alice Bailey,Djwhal Khul
Publisher : Lucis Publishing Companies
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780853304098

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Glamour: a World Problem by Alice Bailey,Djwhal Khul Pdf

World Glamour, the sum total of human ignorance, fear and greed, can dissipate through the clear, inclusive thinking of those in whom the soul (Christ) principle is awakening. Glamour results from a negative emotional focus. The dissipation of glamour depends on 'illumined thinking'.

Author : Elizabeth Cronkhite
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781846946424

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Message Of A Course In Miracles: A Trans by Elizabeth Cronkhite Pdf

The Message of A Course in Miracles is the first volume of a paragraph-by-paragraph translation of A Course in Miracles into plain, everyday language which brings its loving message to the surface so that you can attain a deeper understanding of it faster. It is for anyone seeking a simple and clear means for attaining lasting inner peace.

Author : C. Calabi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230365292

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Perceptual Illusions by C. Calabi Pdf

Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions, there is no systematic work in the philosophy of perception and in the psychology of perception with respect to the concept of illusion and the relation between illusion and error. This book aims to fill that gap.

Author : Thomas Roberts
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Compassion
ISBN : 9781572246751

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The Mindfulness Workbook by Thomas Roberts Pdf

"The Mindfulness Workbook" guides readers through ten exercises that enable them to experience mindfulness for themselves, not as a distant experience of enlightenment, but as a practical, attainable state from which they can see their lives more clearly. This book is the perfect resource for anyone who would like to put mindfulness to work in their lives right away to gain perspective and achieve calm. The book guides readers through the experience of spaciousness, thought watching, the CenterPoint[copyright] breathing process, mindful eating, and six other experiences that help readers understand mindfulness on a deeply personal level and fully incorporate its tenets into their lives.

Author : Saree Makdisi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521586046

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Romantic Imperialism by Saree Makdisi Pdf

The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over a hundred and fifty million people brought under British imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernisation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with and contested in Romanticism. Saree Makdisi argues that this process has to be understood in global terms, beyond the British and European viewpoint, and that developments in India, Africa, and the Arab world (up to and including our own time) enable us to understand more fully the texts and contexts of British Romanticism. New and original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Scott emerge in the course of this searching analysis of the cultural process of globalisation. Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1998.

Author : W. Timothy Gallwey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780679778271

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Inner Skiing by W. Timothy Gallwey Pdf

Change the way you ski with this accessible, step-by-step classic skiing guide—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold! “Tim Gallwey is one of the great teachers of our time.”—Peter M. Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization Have you been searching for a way to overcome your fear, trust your instincts, and ski to your greatest potential? Inner Skiing will help you do all this and more. In this updated edition of the skiing classic, W. Timothy Gallwey and Robert Kriegel offer advice on and examples of how to gain the “inner” self-confidence needed to ski well and have fun on the slopes. From understanding basic terminology and learning how to fall to nailing black diamond runs, Inner Skiing will help you: • Focus on each step of a particular technique—like the parallel turn—then put it all together so the motion seems effortless. • Analyze your fears to distinguish between healthy fear and unnecessary fear that you can overcome. • Achieve “breakthrough” runs in which you experience natural and coordinated movements. • Move to the next level in your skiing ability and feel in control on the slopes. Gallwey and Kriegel are two of the leading innovators in sports, and this revised edition refines the techniques they have perfected over their long careers. Their easy-to-follow examples and anecdotes will help skiers of all abilities—from beginner to expert.

Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Christianity
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3MIX

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The Kernel and the Husk by Edwin Abbott Abbott Pdf

Author : Judith Moore
Publisher : Light Technology Publishing
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781622335893

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Song of Freedom by Judith Moore Pdf

Judith Moore knew she had bene brought up by loving parents. Before age 40 she had no memory of childhood trauma, although she knew she had bene sick a lot mor ethan most peoople -- but it wasn't until she joinged an incest survivors' group to help her adopted daughter that the memories began surfacing. In this brave and groundbreaking work, Judith Moore shares her shattering revelations of the reality of HIGH-LEVEL MIND CONTROL. She opens the pages of her journal and the innermost feelings of her heart to share with the reader her JOUNREY TO WHOLENESS and to healing. Her early environment, rich in NATIVE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE, helps her in her quest. With the help of caring prefessionals, she researces, travels, investigates and meditates in an effort to set herself free, to reclaim her very sense of herself a sa person. Her search leads her into terrifying, unknown territory and ILLUMINATING DISCVOERIES about her own psyche and that of today's society as a whole.

Author : Robert Rosenthal, M.D.
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781722521875

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From Fear to Eternity by Robert Rosenthal, M.D. Pdf

“The journey back to God and our true Self—the journey from fear to eternity—is the only journey worth taking.” A Course in Miracles may be the greatest and most powerful spiritual text of our time. First published in 1975, this self-study course in healing the mind and achieving inner peace has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Let Dr. Rosenthal guide you through the Course’s truths so that you may live more joyously and peacefully as you discover that the root cause of all fear, attack, and illness is a sense of separation from God and our fellow humans. There is another way of seeing, other than through your eyes. This vision reveals what the Course calls “the real world.” Its loveliness far surpasses anything you have known. Discover: The spiritual journey leads away from the past, where judgment rules, into a pure unbound present moment, when we remember love and holiness. Real freedom comes from the choice to awaken. The only journey worth taking is the one from a false and limited ego-self to the one Self that God created whole and wholly loving. Join Dr. Rosenthal on this journey. Discover the powerful and transformative masterwork that is A Course in Miracles. DR. BOB ROSENTHAL is the co-president of the Foundation for Inner Peace, original publisher of A Course in Miracles. A psychiatrist and psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience helping individuals and couples, he is also the author of From Loving One to One Love, and From Never-Mind to Ever-Mind.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780691259147

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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

An authoritative English translation of one of the most important works in the history of the novel Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795–1796), Goethe’s second novel, is a foundational work in the history of the genre—perhaps the first Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story focusing on the growth and self-realization of the main character. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free from the restrictive bourgeois world of his upbringing and seek fulfillment as an actor and playwright. Goethe’s novel had a huge impact on the Romantics. Hegel, Schelling, Novalis, and Schopenhauer considered it one of the most important novels yet written. Schlegel famously called it one of the “three tendencies of the age,” along with the French Revolution and the philosophy of Fichte. And Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann set poems from the novel to music. It also had a major influence on nineteenth-century British writers, including Thomas Carlyle, who was its first English translator, and George Eliot. Drawn from Princeton’s authoritative collected works of Goethe, and featuring a new introduction by David Wellbery, this is the definitive English version of a landmark of world literature.

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300231427

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Last Works by Mark C. Taylor Pdf

A powerful consideration of the lessons imparted in the final works of essential writers and philosophers For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive and personal exploration of last works, Mark C. Taylor poignantly explores the final reflections of writers and thinkers from Kierkegaard to David Foster Wallace. How did they either face or avoid ending and leaving? What do their lessons in ending teach us about living in the time that remains for us? Some leavings brought relief, even joy, while others brought pain and suffering. Whether the cause was infirmity, impending death, or simply exhaustion and ennui, the ways these influential voices fell silent offer poignant examples of people withdrawing from the world’s stage. Throughout this learned and moving book, Taylor probes how the art of living involves learning to leave gracefully.