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Love, Life & Enlightenment or Just another Story

Author : George Newman
Publisher : George Newman
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798227584267

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This novel was written within the period of 14 years. The beginning was born in 2010, then another part came in 2018 and the whole novel was completed in 2024. The story is based on true events that did happen in four different countries during the period of 8 years. Names of the people involved and places were deliberately changed. The author decided to record the events and write this novel as he considered the experience that the main character went through was truly extraordinary and can be very inspirational as well as helpful for those who might have experienced or are going through similar situations right now in their lives. Still, the structure of the novel, its style and presentation were well thought through and carefully designed by G. Newman to influence the reader's imagination and to trigger certain sensations and feelings during the reading. The author wants you to embark on a very special, unimaginable journey, unlike anything you have ever experienced before!

Anne Carson: Antiquity

Author : Laura Jansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350174771

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Anne Carson: Antiquity by Laura Jansen Pdf

From her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carson's engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers, both inside and outside of academia. One reason for her success is the versatile scope of her classically-oriented oeuvre, which she rethinks across multiple media and categories. Yet an equally significant reason is her profile as a classicist. In this role, Carson unfailingly refuses to conform to the established conventions and situated practices of her discipline, in favour of a mode of reading classical literature that allows for interpretative and creative freedom. From a multi-praxis, cross-disciplinary perspective, the volume explores the erudite indiscipline of Carson's classicism as it emerges in her poetry, translations, essays, and visual artistry. It argues that her classicism is irreducible to a single vision, and that it is best approached as integral to the protean character of her artistic thought. Anne Carson/Antiquity collects twenty essays by poets, translators, artists, practitioners and scholars. It offers the first collective study of the author's classicism, while drawing attention to one of the most avant-garde, multifaceted readings of the classical past.

Reflections of the One Life

Author : Scott Kiloby
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781626257641

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Reflections on the One Life is a book of daily expressions or pointers to spiritual awakening—one pointer for each day of the year. The clarity is astounding. This demystifies spiritual awakening, strips it of all fundamentalism, and presents it in a clear and easy-to-read way. This is about the timeless presence that you already are. Each pointer peels away beliefs, positions, and ideas about spirituality, including the idea that you exist as a separate self, only to reveal—in the end—that nothing is excluded. Its central message is that there is only One Life appearing in a myriad of forms. You are that One Life. This is when the distinctions between absolute and relative, form and formlessness, timelessness and time, no self and self, One and many, and all other boundaries collapse into a great and loving mystery that Scott calls 'This’.

Reading the French Enlightenment

Author : Julie Candler Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139426336

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Reading the French Enlightenment by Julie Candler Hayes Pdf

In this 1999 book, Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightenment thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse. Taking issue both with traditional liberal and contemporary critical accounts of the Enlightenment, she analyses the writings of Denis Diderot, Emilie Du Châtelet, the Abbé de Condillac, Buffon, d'Alembert and numerous others, to argue for a new understanding of 'systematic reason' as complex, paradoxical and ultimately liberating. Hayes examines the tensions between freedom and constraint, abstraction and materialism, linear and synoptic order, that pervade not only philosophic and scientific discourse, but also epistolary writing, fiction and criticism. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of theorists from Adorno, Habermas and Foucault to Deleuze and Derrida, she offers a dialogue between the eighteenth century and our own, an ongoing exploration of the question, 'what is Enlightenment?'.

The Four Noble Truths of Love

Author : Susan Piver
Publisher : Lionheart Press, a division of the Open Heart Project
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781732277618

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"Susan Piver consistently offers what so many of us seek: A generous, caring, loving teacher, someone with an open heart and a clear mind, eager to help us find our own way forward." —Seth Godin, author of Linchpin Broken hearts, resentment, affairs, divorce. Why is it so hard to make relationships work? New York Times bestselling author and mindfulness expert Susan Piver applies classic Buddhist wisdom to modern romance, including her own long-term relationship, to show that ancient philosophies have timeless—and unexpected—wisdom on how to love. The Four Noble Truths of Love will challenge the expectations you have about dating, sex, and romance, liberating you from the habits, traumas, and expectations that have been holding back your relationships. This mindful approach toward love will help you open your heart fearlessly, deepen communications with your partner, increase your compassion and resilience, and lead you toward a path of true happiness. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain: expansive, real love for yourself and others.

The Culture of Love in China and Europe

Author : Paolo Santangelo,Gábor Boros
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004397835

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The Culture of Love in China and Europe by Paolo Santangelo,Gábor Boros Pdf

In The Culture of Love in China and Europe Paolo Santangelo and Gábor Boros offer a survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and early 19th century. They describe parallel evolutions within the two cultures, and how innovatively these independent civilisations developed their own categories and myths to explain, exalt but also control the emotions of love and their behavioural expressions. The analyses contain rich materials for comparison, point out the universal and specific elements in each culture, and hint at differences and resemblances, without ignoring the peculiar beauty and attractive force of the texts cultivating love.

Buddhist Thought

Author : Paul Williams,Anthony Tribe,Alexander Wynne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136520877

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This book serves as an accessible and reliable survey for students wishing to gain familiarity with the basic ideas of Buddhist philosophical and religious thought, and with some of the recent research in the field. It guides readers towards a richer understanding of the central concepts of classical Indian Buddhist thought, from the time of Buddha to the latest scholarly perspectives and controversies. Abstract and complex ideas are made understandable by the authors' clear and engaging style. The second edition has been fully revised in light of new scholarship, in particular on Mahāyāna Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism, an often neglected and inadequately understood topic. As well as a detailed bibliography this authoritative resource now includes recommended further reading, study questions, a pronunciation guide and extensive glossary of terms, all aimed at helping students to develop their knowledge and appreciation of Buddhist thought.

A Death on Diamond Mountain

Author : Scott Carney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780698186293

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An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, was struck by how Thorson’s death echoed other incidents that reflected the little-talked-about connection between intensive meditation and mental instability. Using these tragedies as a springboard, Carney explores how those who go to extremes to achieve divine revelations—and undertake it in illusory ways—can tangle with madness. He also delves into the unorthodox interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism that attracted Thorson and the bizarre teachings of its chief evangelists: Thorson’s wife, Lama Christie McNally, and her previous husband, Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University, where Thorson died. Carney unravels how the cultlike practices of McNally and Roach and the questionable circumstances surrounding Thorson’s death illuminate a uniquely American tendency to mix and match eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces in a quest to reach an enlightened, perfected state, no matter the cost. Aided by Thorson’s private papers, along with cutting-edge neurological research that reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain and stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals, and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes, A Death on Diamond Mountain is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger.

Llewellyn's 2018 Magical Almanac

Author : Sandra Kynes,Monica Crosson,Ember Grant,Mireille Blacke,Najah Lightfoot,Michael Furie,Lupa,Melanie Marquis,James Kambos,Blake Octavian Blair,Charlie Rainbow Wolf,Elizabeth Barrette,J. Variable x/o,Tiffany Lazic,Deborah Blake,Charlynn Walls,Raven Digitalis,Susan Pesznecker,Natalie Zaman,Suzanne Ress,Estha K. V. McNevin,Jason Mankey,Tess Whitehurst,Ellen Dugan,Dallas Jennifer Cobb,Justine Holubets,Stacy M Porter,Barbara Ardinger,Deborah Castellano,Llewellyn
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738753140

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Llewellyn's 2018 Magical Almanac by Sandra Kynes,Monica Crosson,Ember Grant,Mireille Blacke,Najah Lightfoot,Michael Furie,Lupa,Melanie Marquis,James Kambos,Blake Octavian Blair,Charlie Rainbow Wolf,Elizabeth Barrette,J. Variable x/o,Tiffany Lazic,Deborah Blake,Charlynn Walls,Raven Digitalis,Susan Pesznecker,Natalie Zaman,Suzanne Ress,Estha K. V. McNevin,Jason Mankey,Tess Whitehurst,Ellen Dugan,Dallas Jennifer Cobb,Justine Holubets,Stacy M Porter,Barbara Ardinger,Deborah Castellano,Llewellyn Pdf

Discover unique perspectives on the magic of life’s journey with Llewellyn’s 2018 Magical Almanac. Inspiring all levels of magical practitioners for more than twenty-five years, this almanac features nearly three dozen compelling articles, exploring a variety of topics, such as creating a well-stocked magical cupboard, dealing with invasive spirits, evolving a ritual circle, and using keys and handkerchiefs as magical objects. Also included is a helpful calendar section—shaded for easy “flip to” reference—featuring world festivals, holidays, and the 2018 sabbats. Filled with practical spells, rituals, astrological information, and incense and color correspondences, this almanac will empower your magical work all year long. Explore the history and lore of garden creatures? • ?Use dowsing in your daily practice to divine helpful information and find items •? Fuel your inner fire by working with the Goddess of the Eternal Flame? • ?Connect with nature and transform spiritually through a ritual for inner healing

Enlightenment Now

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780525427575

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.

Hsin-Hsin Ming

Author : Anonim
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 189399614X

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"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences."--Seng-t'san The Hsin Hsin Ming, Verses on the Faith-Mind by Seng-t'san, the third Chinese patriarch of Zen, is considered to be the first Chinese Zen document. Lucidly translated here by Richard B. Clark, it remains one of the most widely-admired and elegant of Zen writings, and is as relevant today as it was when it was written. In a world where stress seems unavoidable, Seng-t'san's words show us how to be fully aware of each moment.

White Enlightenment

Author : Paul Longhetti
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781504305570

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White Enlightenment invites its readers to embark on a journey, a quest, a pilgrimage of sorts. The terrain to be travelled lies in the country of ones own internal reality. The journey seeks to uncover the truth that resides at the roots of the readers existence. The author, Paul Longhetti, writes from the perspective of one who has madeand continues to makehis own internal journey. At the outset, White Enlightenment counsels its readers to prepare for the journey. The author writes, We shall all go deeper within our core to the essence of our universal illusive state of being, where reality stops and the truth of what we are begins. The moment is now to surrender all that you think you areto fully know yourself. You will reawaken your memory to the beginning of what you were before you chose to separate from your own oneness of enlightenment, which is the state of your own divinity, the greatness of I am. Do you have a deeply rooted and unshakeable feeling that something deeper, something profound, something more awaits you, lying just beyond your reach, but beckoning to you? If you do, then White Enlightenment offers to serve as your trusted guide as you embark on the journey of a lifetime, the journey to the truth of your life.

The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France

Author : Mary McAlpin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000842166

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The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France by Mary McAlpin Pdf

This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a woman’s non-consent a logical impossibility. The Enlightenment promotion of human sexuality as natural and desirable required a secularized narrative for how sexual violence against women functioned. Novel biomedical and historical theories about the "natural" sex act worked to erase the concept of heterosexual rape. McAlpin intervenes in a far-ranging assortment of scholarly disciplines to survey and demonstrate how rape was rationalized: the history of medicine, the history of sexuality, the development of the modern self, the social contractarian tradition, the global eighteenth century, and the libertine tradition in the eighteenth-century novel. This intervention will be essential reading to students and scholars in gender studies, literature, cultural studies, visual studies, and the history of sexuality.

Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality

Author : Brent L. Pickett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538150450

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Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality by Brent L. Pickett Pdf

The history of same-sex attraction and love is relevant to many aspects of history, including its social, religious, and political dimensions. The Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality provides a comprehensive survey of same-sex relations from ancient China and Greece to the contemporary world. The book covers religious traditions that have tolerated or had a role for same-sex relations, to those that have condemned it and called for punishment. The legal treatment of homosexuality, and the development in the modern world of a gay rights movements, are central areas of focus. In addition, there are a number of entries for specific countries and regions that provides concise summaries of how same-sex relations have been understood and treated around the globe. Court decisions and emerging norms in international law are also covered. Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries on important historical figures, philosophic, artistic, and literary treatments of same-sex love, historical terms, and contemporary events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about homosexuality.

Latino/as in the World-system

Author : Ramon Grosfoguel,Nelson Maldonado-Torres,Jose David Saldivar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317256984

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Latino/as in the World-system by Ramon Grosfoguel,Nelson Maldonado-Torres,Jose David Saldivar Pdf

Contributors Immanuel Wallerstein, Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, Agustin Lao, Lewis Gordon, James V. Fenelon, Roberto Hernandez, James Cohen, Santiago Slabosky, Susanne Jonas, and Thomas Reifer. By the mid-twenty-first century, white Euro-Americans will be a demographic minority in the United States and Latino/as will be the largest minority (25 percent). These changes bring about important challenges at the heart of the contemporary debates about political transformations in the United States and around the world. Latino/as are multiracial (Afro-latinos, Indo-latinos, Asian-latinos, and Euro-latinos), multi-ethnic, multireligious (Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, indigenous, and African spiritualities), and of varied legal status (immigrants, citizens, and illegal migrants). This collection addresses for the first time the potential of these diverse Latino/a spiritualities, origins, and statuses against the landscape of decolonization of the U.S. economic and cultural empire in the twenty-first century. Some authors explore the impact of Indo-latinos and Afro-latinos in the United States and others discuss the conflicting interpretations and political conflicts arising from the "Latinization" of the United States.