Spiritual Sensations

Author : Sarah K. Balstrup
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350130197

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Spiritual Sensations by Sarah K. Balstrup Pdf

The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as the principal case-study and Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void (2009) and Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) as comparative examples, Sarah Balstrup argues that these directors harness the affective properties of film to generate altered states of perception in a manner analogous to religious practice. Powerful feelings of dissociation and indescribable significance typical of mystical testimony appear in viewer responses to these films, demonstrating the continued sacralisation of such states of mind. In their own way, each film confronts the viewer with an apocalyptic revelation of the impersonal forces of the universe, moving away from personhood and the human narrative, into pure sensation. They present a non-deterministic spiritual truth that can be intuited but not explained, mirroring developments in the religious sphere. Investigating the relationship between cinematic technique and religious experience, Spiritual Sensations offers an alternative approach to the study of religion and film that has been principally focused on narrative symbolism and the dramatisation of values. Spiritual Sensations makes a further contribution to the field by analysing films contextually, considering viewers' subjective responses in light of religious and cultural change.

Author : Sarah K. Balstrup
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350130180

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Spiritual Sensations by Sarah K. Balstrup Pdf

The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as the principal case-study and Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void (2009) and Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) as comparative examples, Sarah Balstrup argues that these directors harness the affective properties of film to generate altered states of perception in a manner analogous to religious practice. Powerful feelings of dissociation and indescribable significance typical of mystical testimony appear in viewer responses to these films, demonstrating the continued sacralisation of such states of mind. In their own way, each film confronts the viewer with an apocalyptic revelation of the impersonal forces of the universe, moving away from personhood and the human narrative, into pure sensation. They present a non-deterministic spiritual truth that can be intuited but not explained, mirroring developments in the religious sphere. Investigating the relationship between cinematic technique and religious experience, Spiritual Sensations offers an alternative approach to the study of religion and film that has been principally focused on narrative symbolism and the dramatisation of values. Spiritual Sensations makes a further contribution to the field by analysing films contextually, considering viewers' subjective responses in light of religious and cultural change.

Author : Neville Goddard
Publisher : Neville Goddard
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781304690760

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Spiritual Sensation - Expanded Edition Lecture by Neville Goddard Pdf

SPIRITUAL SENSATIONEXPANDED EDITION LECTUREBASED ON THE LECTURE BY NEVILLE GODDARDWRITTEN BY NEVILLE GODDARDABOUT THIS BOOKThis book is a public domain ebook, enriched with new content that delves into the life and teachings of the original author. The additional material serves as an insightful expansion, designed to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the context surrounding the author's work. By incorporating details about the author's life and the philosophical underpinnings of their teachings, this enhanced edition offers a comprehensive exploration that goes beyond the original text. Readers are invited to engage with a more comprehensive narrative, gaining not only knowledge of the author's literary contributions but also a nuanced perspective on the factors that influenced their work.ABOUT NEVILLE GODDARD:Neville Goddard was a mystic and spiritual teacher who lived from 1905 to 1972. He was born in Barbados and later moved to New York City, where he began to study spiritual and mystical teachings. He also studied the work of psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.Goddard's main teachings focus on the power of the imagination to create one's reality. He believed that everything in our lives, from our circumstances to our health, is a result of our imaginal acts. He taught that by changing our thoughts and beliefs, we can change our lives and manifest our desires.BOOK CONTENT:About This BookBrief Book IntroductionBrief Biography Of Neville GoddardIntroductionEarly Life And AwakeningTeachings And PhilosophyNotable Works And LegacyAbout Neville GoddardLECTURE:SPIRITUAL SENSATIONEXPANDED CONTENT10 LESSONS FROM THE LECTUREKEY THEMES IN NEVILLE GODDARDS TEACHINGSThe Power Of ImaginationConsciousness And AwarenessLiving From The EndRevision And ReimaginingFaith And BeliefInner Conversations And Self-TalkThe Law Of AssumptionGratitude And AppreciationOneness And InterconnectednessPersonal Responsibility And Empowerment

Author : Tanya Tagaq
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143198048

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Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq Pdf

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them. A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this. Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and ravishing world of myth, Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil, animal and human, victim and transgressor, real and imagined lose their meaning, but the guiding power of love remains. Haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq moves effortlessly between fiction and memoir, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and conjures a world and a heroine readers will never forget.

Author : Sally M. Promey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300187359

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Sensational Religion by Sally M. Promey Pdf

The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here ask, How have people used and valued sensory data? How have they shaped their material and immaterial worlds to encourage or discourage certain kinds or patterns of sensory experience? How have they framed the sensual capacities of images and objects to license a range of behaviors, including iconoclasm, censorship, and accusations of blasphemy or sacrilege? Exposing the dematerialization of religion embedded in secularization theory, editor Sally Promey proposes a fundamental reorientation in understanding the personal, social, political, and cultural work accomplished in religion’s sensory and material practice. Sensational Religion refocuses scholarly attention on the robust material entanglements often discounted by modernity’s metaphysic and on their inextricable connections to human bodies, behaviors, affects, and beliefs.

Author : Andrew Joseph Baxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590428359

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The Gospel advocate, for promoting spiritual unity, ed. by A.J. Baxter by Andrew Joseph Baxter Pdf

Author : John Butler
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780856833564

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Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment by John Butler Pdf

A personal account of searching for spiritual understanding initially outside Christian teaching, this book takes the position that there are as many ways to God as there are paths up a mountain. Interpreting his own spiritual breakthroughs, the author describes them as "windows of realization" and likens them to the sensation of being made whole. The book describes his journey from Eastern mantra-style meditation to the Orthodox "prayer of the heart" and details how a love of nature and a desire to do good played an important part in his spiritual unfoldment.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300158410

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Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

This volume contains Edwards' most mature and persistent attempt to judge the validity of the religious development in eighteenth-century America known as the Great Awakening. In developing criteria for such judgment he attacked at the same time one of the fundamental questions facing all religion: how to distinguish genuine from spurious piety? The Awakening created much bitter controversy; on the one side stood the emotionalists and enthusiasts, and on the other the rationalists, for whom religion was essentially a matter of morality or good conduct and the acceptance of properly formulated doctrine. Edwards, with great analytical skill and enormous biblical learning, showed that both sides were in the wrong. He attacked both a ?lifeless morality” as too pale as to be the essence of religion, and he rejected the excesses of a purely emotional religion more concerned for sensational effects than for the inner transformation of the self, which was, for him, the center of genuine Christianity.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1790 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547770244

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IMMANUEL KANT: Philosophical Books, Critiques & Essays by Immanuel Kant Pdf

This eBook edition of "Immanuel Kant" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Introduction: IMMANUEL KANT by Robert Adamson KANT'S INAUGURAL DISSERTATION OF 1770 Three Critiques: THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT Critical Works: PRELOGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSICS FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS Philosophy of Law; or, The Science of Right The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics Pre-Critical Works and Essays: DREAMS OF A SPIRIT-SEER IDEA OF A UNIVERSAL HISTORY ON A COSMOPOLITICAL PLAN Preface to THE METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATURAL SCIENCE PERPETUAL PEACE: A Philosophical Essay OF THE INJUSTICE OF COUNTERFEITING BOOKS Criticism: CRITICISM OF THE KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY by Arthur Schopenhauer Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher, who, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is "the central figure of modern philosophy." Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our understanding, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolved around the earth.

Author : Augustin Poulain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Contemplation
ISBN : UCLA:31158002049749

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The Graces of Interior Prayer (Des Grâces D'oraison) by Augustin Poulain Pdf

Author : Jennifer Jesse
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739177914

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William Blake's Religious Vision by Jennifer Jesse Pdf

Analyzing Blake’s works theologically through a wide-angled lens that encompasses the major religious movements he addressed in his art, Jesse concludes Blake was a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She argues that, once we collate the different messages he constructed for each of his target audiences, we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in character.

Author : Clayten Tylor
Publisher : Clayten Tylor
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781387562930

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The Affection of Love: How to Invoke an Influx of Spiritual Good by Clayten Tylor Pdf

This book is an advanced guide to spiritual regeneration, the transformation of sensual energy to spiritual love, and then into divine, creative power in preparation for the experience of eternal life. It describes the transition from selfish to selflessness with its resulting benefits of an increased feeling of happiness. It prepares the physical body by the process of right-eating in order to perceive the spiritual body as the sensation of being blessed, which is necessary to perceive the sensation of the soul that comes through the benefits of right-thinking. The book takes us on an inner journey from the transition of our selfish sensation of separateness to the birth of conscience with its painful reevaluation of life, into the restitution needed to enter the higher vibrations of Divine love. The journey is not for the weak, but each step strengthens the will-power that increases our affection of love and enables us to forgive and move forward to unite with the higher self in a pulsating feeling of heavenly love. The realization is of our Divine nature in a momentary experience that lasts forever as we learn to transition into our eternal self as a feeling of Oneness. This journey is humankind's destiny, which enables each of us to enter into an inner sanctuary that we create as our testimonial to the Great Work of being more than human, of being Divine.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 4727 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786560377

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Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated) by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Regarded as the central figure of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant produced comprehensive and systematic work in the theory of knowledge, ethics and aesthetics, which greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy. In his major work, ‘The Critique of Pure Reason’, Kant analyses the relationship between reason and human experience, moving beyond the failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics. This comprehensive eBook presents Kant’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Kant’s life and works * Concise introductions to the essays * All the major works, with individual contents tables * Includes rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special criticism section, with 8 essays and books evaluating Kant’s contribution to philosophy * Features two biographies - discover Kant’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Books UNIVERSAL NATURAL HISTORY AND THEORY OF HEAVEN DREAMS OF A SPIRIT-SEER DISSERTATION ON THE FORM AND PRINCIPLES OF THE SENSIBLE AND THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD: INAUGURAL DISSERTATION 1770 THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSICS THAT WILL BE ABLE TO PRESENT ITSELF AS A SCIENCE AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: “WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?" IDEA FOR A UNIVERSAL HISTORY WITH A COSMOPOLITAN PURPOSE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATURAL SCIENCE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT RELIGION WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF BARE REASON PERPETUAL PEACE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW OF THE INJUSTICE OF COUNTERFEITING BOOKS ON EDUCATION The Criticism A COMMENTARY TO KANT’S ‘CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON’ by Norman Kemp Smith SCIENCE AND RELIGION — KANT, LAMBERT, LAPLACE, SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL by Walter Libby THE PHILOSOPHY OF IMMANUEL KANT by A. D. Lindsay IMMANUEL KANT by Elbert Hubbard THE LAST DAYS OF IMMANUEL KANT by Thomas De Quincey AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT SINCE KANT by Edward Caldwell Moore KANT’S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE by H. A. Prichard INTRODUCTION TO KANT by Ralph Barton Perry The Biographies MEMOIR OF KANT by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott IMMANUEL KANT by Robert Adamson The Delphi Classics Catalogue Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Author : Gerald G. May
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780061895883

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Will and Spirit by Gerald G. May Pdf

"A rich book covering many areas of human experience. . . . For the person looking for an intelligent and clear presentation of the relationship between psychological and spiritual growth, this is the book to read.'--America

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020685459

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The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes by Jonathan Edwards Pdf