Ordinary Ecstasy

Author : John Rowan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317724575

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Humanistic Psychology ranges far and wide into education, management, gender issues and many other fields. Ordinary Ecstasy, first published in 1976, is widely regarded as one of the most important books on the subject. Although this new edition still contains much of the original material, it has been completely rethought in the light of postmodern ideas, with more emphasis on the paradoxes within humanistic psychology, and takes into account changes in many different areas, with a greatly extended bibliography. Ordinary Ecstasy is written not only for students and professionals involved in humanistic psychology - anyone who works with people in any way will find it valuable and interesting.

Author : Luke Carman
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922725509

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An Ordinary Ecstasy by Luke Carman Pdf

A new collection of stories by the award-winning author of An Elegant Young Man and Intimate Antipathies. The seven stories that make up An Ordinary Ecstasy explore the lives of people whose days are awash with enigma, wonder, and epiphany: a musician who rides the winding railway up into the mountains at dusk, the lost retiree who walks the streets of his suburb at dawn, the new lovers who take to their balcony to watch surfers make their incisions in the surging waves. There are middle-aged men in need of connection, journalists who dream of wild fancies while smiling and nodding through the drudgery of interviews, young couples whose losses are raw, and pass the time in ten-pin bowling. Carman’s new collection is founded on a principle observed by the novelist Joseph Conrad: ‘There is not a place of splendour or a dark corner of the earth that does not deserve, if only in passing, a glance of wonder.’ In stories of desire, grief, and exaltation, the collection reflects, as its title suggests, on life at its most ordinarily ecstatic — life, in other words, such as it is. Praise for Luke Carman: ‘Carman’s writing is characterised by verbal inventiveness, sitting somewhere between swagger and sincerity…street poetry for contemporary Australia.’ — Sydney Morning Herald ‘Brings a vast suburban emptiness to brilliant life.’ — The Australian

Author : Luke Carman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Australia
ISBN : 192272551X

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Author : Peter Kwasniewski
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645851066

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The Ecstasy of Love in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas by Peter Kwasniewski Pdf

Those interested in the concept of ecstasy would be forgiven for assuming that a sober scholastic like St. Thomas Aquinas had little place for the idea. Yet in this groundbreaking study, sure to refine our understanding of the Angelic Doctor, Peter Kwasniewski shows that St. Thomas contemplates the nature of ecstasy at key stages in the development of his thought and that it plays a crucial role in his doctrine of love. After a stimulating study of treatments of ecstasy in ancient philosophy, Sacred Scripture, and the medieval tradition prior to Aquinas, Kwasniewski finds that he can be seen as breathing new life into the concept. While his contemporary, St. Bonaventure, for example, tended to restrict ecstasy to the soul’s union with God, St. Thomas admitted the place of ecstasy in a variety of human activities. Furthermore, St. Thomas recognized that all love involves ecstatic transcendence, whether it be the creature’s self-oblation to the Creator, the reverence of an inferior for a superior, a superior’s generosity toward an inferior, or the mutual affection and help of equals joined in friendship. Love of persons for their own sake generates an ecstatic love in which the self is borne as a gift to another subject by sharing a common life aspiring to common goods. Kwasniewski also examines Aquinas on the question of whether or not God experiences ecstasy, and if so, in what ways. The Ecstasy of Love in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the doctrine of love and to the interpretation of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. It is more than an analysis of key texts; it is an illuminating guide to the grammar of ecstasy.

Author : John Rowan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Humanism.
ISBN : 0415001900

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Ordinary Ecstasy by John Rowan Pdf

Humanistic Psychology ranges far and wide into education, management, gender issues and many other fields. Ordinary Ecstasy, first published in 1976, is widely regarded as one of the most important books on the subject. Although this new edition still contains much of the original material, it has been completely rethought in the light of postmodern ideas, with more emphasis on the paradoxes within humanistic psychology, and takes into account changes in many different areas, with a greatly extended bibliography. Ordinary Ecstasy is written not only for students and professionals involved in humanistic psychology - anyone who works with people in any way will find it valuable and interesting.

Author : June McDaniel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319927718

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Lost Ecstasy by June McDaniel Pdf

This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance of religious and mystical ecstasy has declined in the modern West. June McDaniel examines how the search for ecstatic experience has migrated into such areas as war, terrorism, transgression, sexuality, drug use, and anti-institutional forms of spirituality. She argues that the loss of religious and mystical ecstasy, as both a religious goal and as a topic of academic study, has had wide-ranging negative effects. She also proposes that the field of religious studies must go beyond criminalizing, trivializing and pathologizing ecstatic and mystical experiences. Both religious studies and theology need to take these states seriously as important aspects of lived human experience.

Author : John J. Thatamanil
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451411375

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The Immanent Divine by John J. Thatamanil Pdf

While traditional Christian thought and spirituality have always affirmed the divine presence in human life, Thatamanil argues we have much to learn from non-dualistic Hindu thought, especially that of the eighth-century thinker Sankara, and from the Christian panentheism of Paul Tillich. Thatamanil compares their diagnoses and prognoses of the human predicament in light of their doctrine of God or Ultimate Reality. What emerges is a new theology of God and human beings, with a richer and more radical conception of divine immanence, a reconceived divine transcendence, and a keener sense of how the dynamic and active Spirit at work in us anchors real hope and deep joy.Using key insights from Christian and Hindu thought Thatamanil vindicates comparative theology, expands the vocabulary about the ineffable God, and arrives at a new construal of the problems and prospects of the human condition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11519972

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The Open court by Anonim Pdf

Author : Madison Margolin
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781401973544

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Exile & Ecstasy by Madison Margolin Pdf

Through the perspective of having grown up among "HinJews" in the Ram Dass community and cannabis legalization movement, journalist Madison Margolin takes the reader on a journey inside New York's Jewish counterculture and the Hasidic underground, reconciling her roots, tackling ancestral Jewish trauma, and finding intersectionality between the Jewish and psychedelic experience. Exile and Ecstasy sets out to explore the psychedelic path that occupies the crossroads between the Ram Dass movement and Hasidism. It's a path of seeking and escape, rebellion and return, medicine and magic. Bridging the polar ends of the Jewish and psychedelic worlds, while buttressing the experience with expert reportage, Madison Margolin prods at Be Here Now to find its relevance and utility in a new generation, facing different issues than those Ram Dass faced as a generally well-to-do boomer. In doing so, she looks at solutions to our lack of presence and offers practices that help us integrate our psychedelic experiences in mundane life, as well as in the context of our roots and religious identities. This book is for anyone looking to feel spiritually kindled, to make peace with where they come from, and to reconcile seemingly disparate experiences of spirituality and psychedelics, with traditional religion.

Author : Jason Ditton,Richard Hammersley,Furzana Khan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135137656

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Ecstasy and the Rise of the Chemical Generation by Jason Ditton,Richard Hammersley,Furzana Khan Pdf

This book about ecstacy users' lives is based on one of the biggest government-funded projects ever undertaken and gives voice to the chemical generation for the first time. In the UK, where the study was conducted, over fifty per cent of young people use drugs, a quarter of them regularly. The people in this book are ordinary, decent, family-loving people, with normal lives, normal problems and normal aspirations. Through their own words we hear how they first started using ecstasy, how they use it in different ways, why clubbing and raving are so important, how good sex is on ecstasy, how they chill out, how they come down, what problems they encountered and why they quit. This path-breaking book ends by trying to answer the questions on the lips of every member of the chemical generation: what are the long-term effects of ecstasy? Because we can't answer them, the authors claim, we are failing in our duty to our children: telling them not to take ecstasy is alienating and pointless.

Author : Thomas Moore Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:39015010788605

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Bibliotheca Platonica by Thomas Moore Johnson Pdf

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468307771

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Ecstasy by Sudhir Kakar Pdf

Ram Das Baba, as his devotees call him, is the son of a devout Brahmin family. He spends a lifetime seeking spiritual knowledge and his journey is filled with illuminating visions, severe tribulations, and an unwavering faith. His destiny as a highly evolved Sadhu is fulfilled through ordeals of monastic bliss, tantric awakening, madness, and transexuality. But as his life nears its end he meets a young man who belongs to a very different India and a profound relationship develops.

Author : Eisner
Publisher : Ronin Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781579511456

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Ecstasy by Eisner Pdf

The history of ecstasy, its discovery and use and social implications.

Author : Julie Holland
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0892818573

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Ecstasy: The Complete Guide by Julie Holland Pdf

Written by the world's leading experts on MDMA, "Ecstasy: The Complete Guide" takes the first unbiased look at the risks and the benefits of this unique drug, including the science of how it works; its promise as a treatment for depression, post-traumatic stress disorders, and other mental illnesses; and how to minimize the risks of use.

Author : Théodule Ribot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503314788

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The Psychology of attention by Théodule Ribot Pdf