Reliving The Past

Author : Olivier Zunz,Charles Tilly,David William Cohen,William B. Taylor,William T. Rowe
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469611235

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Reliving the Past by Olivier Zunz,Charles Tilly,David William Cohen,William B. Taylor,William T. Rowe Pdf

Five historians uncover the ties between people's daily routines and the all-encompassing framework of their lives. They trace the processes of social construction in Western Europe, the United States, Latin America, Africa, and China, discussing both the historical similarities and the ways in which individual history has shaped each area's development. They stress the need for a social history that connects individuals to major ideological, political, and economic transformations.

Author : Helen Wambach
Publisher : White Crow Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1786771497

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Reliving Past Lives: The Evidence Under Hypnosis by Helen Wambach Pdf

In Reliving Past Lives, psychologist Helen Wambach, PhD, shares the fascinating results of her large-scale past-life group hypnotherapy sessions. In an effort to rule out false memory, fantasy and wishful thinking often associated with past life hypnosis, Wambach devised a protocol where she chose time-specific periods from 2000 BC to the twentieth century and asked respondents where they were and what they were doing during that specific period. Race, social class, occupation, types of money used and gender were all explored. Mundane questions were asked such as: "What types of utensils are being used?" "Describe weaving techniques that are being used." "What foodstuffs are commonly in use during this time?" "What color is the brickwork of the houses?" As expected, when taken to a specific period some respondents reported experiences while others reported nothing, prompting the question, did they report nothing because they were between lives? Wambach reasoned that if she asked a large number of subjects questions about a specific time and place and received a sizable percentage of similar answers from subjects who weren't consciously aware of the information they were reporting, that was something worth investigating further. Together with her book, Life before Life, the data is compelling reading for anyone pondering the validity of reincarnation and life beyond physical death.

Author : T.C. Boyle
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062673404

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The Relive Box and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle Pdf

While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating social consciousness to produce raucous, poignant, and expansive short stories defined by an inimitable voice. From the collection's title story, featuring a Halcom X1520 Relive Box that allows users to experience anew almost any moment from their past to "The Five-Pound Burrito," the tale of a man aiming to build the biggest burrito in town, the twelve stories in this collection speak to the humor, the pathos, and the struggle that is part of being human while relishing the whimsy of wordplay and the power of a story well told. In stories that span a variety of styles and genres, Boyle addresses the enduring concerns of the human mind and heart while taking on timely social concerns. The Relive Box is an exuberant, linguistically dazzling effort from a "vibrant sensibility fully engaged with American society." (The New York Times)

Author : Leo Whyte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 183805460X

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Reliving the Past to Release the Present by Leo Whyte Pdf

Author : Melissa Dahl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780735211643

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Cringeworthy by Melissa Dahl Pdf

New York magazine's "Science of Us" editor explains the compelling psychology of awkwardness, and asks: what if the moments that make us feel most awkward are actually valuable? Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your brain in the middle of a presentation? Or accidentally liked an old photo on someone's Instagram or Facebook, thus revealing yourself to be a creepy social media stalker? Melissa Dahl, editor of New York magazine's "Science of Us" website, has. After a lifetime of cringing, she became intrigued by awkwardness: a universal but underappreciated emotion. In this witty and compassionate book, Dahl explores the oddest, cringiest corners of our world. She chats with strangers on the busy New York City subway, goes on awkward friend dates using a "Tinder-for-friendship" app, takes improv comedy lessons, and even reads aloud from her (highly embarrassing!) middle school diary to a crowd of strangers. After all of that, she realizes: Awkward moments are opportunities to test yourself. When everyone else is pretending to have it under control, you can be a little braver and grow a little bigger--while remaining true to your awkward self. And along the way, you might find that awkward moments unite us in our mutual human ridiculousness.

Author : Ian Stevenson, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780786450879

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Children Who Remember Previous Lives by Ian Stevenson, M.D. Pdf

This is the revised edition of Dr. Stevenson's 1987 book, summarizing for general readers almost forty years of experience in the study of children who claim to remember previous lives. For many Westerners the idea of reincarnation seems remote and bizarre; it is the author's intent to correct some common misconceptions. New material relating to birthmarks and birth defects, independent replication studies with a critique of criticisms, and recent developments in genetic study are included. The work gives an overview of the history of the belief in and evidence for reincarnation. Representative cases of children, research methods used, analyses of the cases and of variations due to different cultures, and the explanatory value of the idea of reincarnation for some unsolved problems in psychology and medicine are reviewed.

Author : Richard C. Trexler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0674010647

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Reliving Golgotha by Richard C. Trexler Pdf

In Reliving Golgotha, Richard Trexler brings an important new perspective to religious spectacle in an engrossing exploration of the annual passion play at Iztapalapa, the largest and poorest borough of Mexico City. After tracing the history of European passion theater, Trexler examines the process by which representations of the passion were established in the Americas, especially in New Spain. Indeed, the Iztapalapan pageant can only be understood in the full historical context of Mexican church and state relations. Originally, this passion was a quintessential means by which the increasingly marginalized indigenous population marked its own culture from the mestizo ruling class. Early twentieth-century reenactments offered a tenaciously traditional spectacle, featuring Nahuatl-speaking actors, for a local audience who embraced it as a living protest against the pervasive power of the Church. A century later, political disorder and a suspicious church hierarchy often forced the suspension of the play in the aftermath of the Revolution. But by the middle of the century, political and religious authorities encouraged its development as a tourist event, and changes wrought by media coverage and the impact of government funding have further fractured the play's local identity. In addition to offering valuable insights into the political, social, and psychological meanings of religious spectacle, Trexler illuminates the strong cultural forces that have helped provide a voice for some of Mexican society's most powerless members.

Author : Cretien van Campen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191509292

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The Proust Effect by Cretien van Campen Pdf

The senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both positive and negative emotions. The smell or taste of a long forgotten sweet can stimulate a rich emotional response connected to our childhood, or a piece of music transport us back to our adolescence. Sense memories can be linked to all the senses - sound, vision, and even touch can also trigger intense and emotional memories of our past. In The Proust Effect, we learn about why sense memories are special, how they work in the brain, how they can enrich our daily life, and even how they can help those suffering from problems involving memory. A sense memory can be evoked by a smell, a taste, a flavour, a touch, a sound, a melody, a colour or a picture, or by some other involuntary sensory stimulus. Any of these can triggers a vivid, emotional reliving of a forgotten event in the past. Exploring the senses in thought-provoking scientific experiments and artistic projects, this fascinating book offers new insights into memory - drawn from neuroscience, the arts, and professions such as education, elderly care, health care therapy and the culinary profession.

Author : Julianne Pachico
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385694810

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The Anthill by Julianne Pachico Pdf

A wildly original blend of social horror and razor-sharp satire, The Anthill is a searing exploration of privilege, racism and redemption in the Instagram age. In the end, it's much easier to not look at the screaming feeling. To not examine it. Better to just keep on rushing on. . . . Lina has come home to the country of her childhood. Sent away from Colombia to England after her mother's death twenty years before, she's searching for the one person who can tell her about their shared past. She's never forgotten Matty--her childhood friend and protector who now runs The Anthill, a daycare refuge for the street kids of Medellín. Lina begins volunteering there, but her reunion with Matty is not what she hoped for. She no longer recognizes Medellín, now rebranded as a tourist destination, nor the person Matty has become: a guarded man uninterested in reliving the past she thought they both cherished. As Lina begins to confront her memories and the country's traumatic history, strange happenings start taking place at The Anthill: something is violently scratching at the inside of the closet door, the kids are drawing unsettling pictures, and there are mysterious sightings of a small, dirty boy with pointy teeth. Is this a vision of the boy Lina once knew, or something more sinister? Did she bring these disturbances with her? And what will her search for atonement cost Matty? A visceral, hallucinatory ride by an author who has been called "blunt, fresh and unsentimental" (The New York Times Book Review) and "remarkably inventive" (The Atlantic), The Anthill is a ghost story unlike any other, a meditation on healing--for both a person and a country--in the wake of horror.

Author : David Richo
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0834823179

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When the Past Is Present by David Richo Pdf

In this book, psychotherapist David Richo explores how we replay the past in our present-day relationships—and how we can free ourselves from this destructive pattern. We all have a tendency to transfer potent feelings, needs, expectations, and beliefs from childhood or from former relationships onto the people in our daily lives, whether they are our intimate partners, friends, or acquaintances. When the Past Is Present helps us to become more aware of the ways we slip into the past so that we can identify our emotional baggage and take steps to unpack it and put it where it belongs. Drawing on decades of experience as a psychotherapist, Richo helps readers to: • Understand how the wounds of childhood become exposed in adult relationships—and why this is a gift • Identify and heal the emotional wounds we carry over from the past so that they won't sabotage present-day relationships • Recognize how strong attractions and aversions to people in the present can be signals of own own unfinished business • Use mindfulness to stay in the present moment and cultivate authentic intimacy

Author : Dominick LaCapra
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0801484960

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History and Memory After Auschwitz by Dominick LaCapra Pdf

Dominick LaCapra focuses on the interactions among history, memory, and ethicopolitical concerns as they emerge in the aftermath of the Shoah. Particularly notable are his analyses of Albert Camus's novella The Fall, Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah, and Art Spiegelman's "comic book" Maus. LaCapra also considers the Historians' Debate in the aftermath of German reunification and the role of psychoanalysis in historical understanding and critical theory.

Author : Keith D. Markman,William M. P. Klein,Julie A. Suhr
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136678097

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Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation by Keith D. Markman,William M. P. Klein,Julie A. Suhr Pdf

Over the past thirty years, and particularly within the last ten years, researchers in the areas of social psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience have been examining fascinating questions regarding the nature of imagination and mental simulation – the imagination and generation of alternative realities. Some of these researchers have focused on the specific processes that occur in the brain when an individual is mentally simulating an action or forming a mental image, whereas others have focused on the consequences of mental simulation processes for affect, cognition, motivation, and behavior. This Handbook provides a novel and stimulating integration of work on imagination and mental simulation from a variety of perspectives. It is the first broad-based volume to integrate specific sub-areas such as mental imagery, imagination, thought flow, narrative transportation, fantasizing, and counterfactual thinking, which have, until now, been treated by researchers as disparate and orthogonal lines of inquiry. As such, the volume enlightens psychologists to the notion that a wide-range of mental simulation phenomena may actually share a commonality of underlying processes.

Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101601105

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How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil Pdf

The bold futurist and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential—and often controversial—futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization—reverse engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines. Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges from the brain, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence in addressing the world’s problems. He thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating. Certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books of the year, How to Create a Mind is sure to take its place alongside Kurzweil’s previous classics which include Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and The Age of Spiritual Machines.

Author : Leo Lafferty-Whyte
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973354241

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Reliving the Past to Release the Present by Leo Lafferty-Whyte Pdf

Leo seems to be a cheery successful man. He has risen to a senior management level in his career at a relatively young age, has a happy family life and hobbies. What people don't know is the darkness that torments him every day underneath it all.This is a chronological collection of traumatic memories from Leo's young to middle aged life in north east Scotland. At the end of each section Leo writes a letter to himself at that time with the intent of helping himself look at things differently. He also provides key reflections and lessons learned that are applicable to anyone in similar situations. Please note that these situations and memories may be distressing for some.Not intended as a self-help book per se but instead a light in the tunnel for those in darkness themselves. Showing that you are not alone, others have been there too and providing some words of perspective in the letters. A great source of inspiration for anyone looking to perform a similar exercise themselves or are looking to learn life lessons from others and prevent them making the same mistakes.Also an ideal text for students, councillors, GPs and mental health professionals looking for real life examples of patient problems.

Author : Aaron Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : Gay men
ISBN : 0997050101

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Growing Up Twice by Aaron Kirk Douglas Pdf

In this groundbreaking memoir, an award-winning mentor explores the emotional risks and rewards of being a gay man mentoring a Latino boy."Growing up Twice is surprisingly funny, melancholy and hopeful. Aaron Douglas has a novelist's eye for small but telling details, and his insight into the messy task of being a human being is impressive. More than a memoir, it's a guided tour of two Americas barely covered by the so-called mainstream." -- Frank M. Young, Award-winning author, artist and musician"This story made me want to call everyone I love and somehow make them understand what this book made me understand: that our relationships of love transcend everything else." -- Jennifer Brandlon, former AP Newswoman and Correspondent, The Oregonian"Written in a contemporary American voice that's clear, easy to read, and engaging." -- Arthur Manzi, Writer/Editor