Author: John Baird, Jr.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1683486501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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Beyond The Mystic
Author: John Baird, Jr.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1683486501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1683486501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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The Ringing Ear
Author: Nikky Finney
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820329260
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
More than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to the South in this collection of poems, which features contributions by Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Young, Cornelius Eady, Sonia Sanchez, and other notables. Simultaneous.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820329260
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
More than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to the South in this collection of poems, which features contributions by Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Young, Cornelius Eady, Sonia Sanchez, and other notables. Simultaneous.
Mysticism
Author: Bruno Borchert
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9780877287728
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Mystical experience is not really understood in our modern Western culture, but we have a rich history and traadition that can be traced from remote ages to the present day. It is a phenomenon common to all religions and races, differing in manifestation, but sharing a similar foundation#8212the realization from personal experience that all things are interdependent, that the source is One. The mystical experience is often brief, immediate, maybe mysterious#8212a last experience that rbings all-embracing emotion (love) into the bounds of concrete reality. Bruno Borchert brings mysticism into sharp focus by exploring ideas and concecpts from world religions and explaining Christian mystics in history, in perspective, and through art. He takes us from Zoroaster to European alchemists, explores the Hellenistic world, the feminine world-view, and the experience of God shard by saints and well-known mystics such as St. Theresa and St. Francis. Modern approaches explored by psychologists like Jung and Maslow, and the contemporary search for mystical love make this a necessary book for people who want to understand the spiritual path.
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9780877287728
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Mystical experience is not really understood in our modern Western culture, but we have a rich history and traadition that can be traced from remote ages to the present day. It is a phenomenon common to all religions and races, differing in manifestation, but sharing a similar foundation#8212the realization from personal experience that all things are interdependent, that the source is One. The mystical experience is often brief, immediate, maybe mysterious#8212a last experience that rbings all-embracing emotion (love) into the bounds of concrete reality. Bruno Borchert brings mysticism into sharp focus by exploring ideas and concecpts from world religions and explaining Christian mystics in history, in perspective, and through art. He takes us from Zoroaster to European alchemists, explores the Hellenistic world, the feminine world-view, and the experience of God shard by saints and well-known mystics such as St. Theresa and St. Francis. Modern approaches explored by psychologists like Jung and Maslow, and the contemporary search for mystical love make this a necessary book for people who want to understand the spiritual path.
Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors
Author: Sudhir Kakar
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307831795
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Shamans, Mystics and Doctors is a detailed and thoroughly fascinating account of the many ways in which the ancient healing traditions of India—embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda—diagnose and treat emotional disorder. Drawing on three years of intensive fieldwork and his own psychoanalytic training and experience, Sudhir Kakar takes us into a world of Islamic mosques and Hindu temples, of assembled multitudes, and dingy, out-of-the-way consultation rooms… a world where patients and healers blame evil spirits for emotional disturbances… where dreams and symptoms that would be familiar to Freud are interpreted in terms of a myriad of deities and legends… where trance-like “dissociation states” are induced to bring out and resolve the conflicts of repressed anger, lust and envy… where proper grooming, diet, exercise and conduct are (and have been for centuries) seen as essential to the preservation of a healthy mind and body. As he witnesses the practitioners and their patients, as he elucidates the therapeutic systems on which their encounters are based, as he contrasts his own Western training and biases with evidence of his eyes (and the sympathies of his heart), Kakar reveals the universal concerns of these individuals and their admittedly foreign cultures—people we can recognize and feel for, people (like their Western counterparts) trying to find some balance between the pressures and rewards of the external world and the fantasies and desires of the internal. This is a major work of cultural interpretation, a book that challenges (and should enhance) our understanding of therapy, mental health and individual freedom.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307831795
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Shamans, Mystics and Doctors is a detailed and thoroughly fascinating account of the many ways in which the ancient healing traditions of India—embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus and the precepts of the school of medicine known as Ayurveda—diagnose and treat emotional disorder. Drawing on three years of intensive fieldwork and his own psychoanalytic training and experience, Sudhir Kakar takes us into a world of Islamic mosques and Hindu temples, of assembled multitudes, and dingy, out-of-the-way consultation rooms… a world where patients and healers blame evil spirits for emotional disturbances… where dreams and symptoms that would be familiar to Freud are interpreted in terms of a myriad of deities and legends… where trance-like “dissociation states” are induced to bring out and resolve the conflicts of repressed anger, lust and envy… where proper grooming, diet, exercise and conduct are (and have been for centuries) seen as essential to the preservation of a healthy mind and body. As he witnesses the practitioners and their patients, as he elucidates the therapeutic systems on which their encounters are based, as he contrasts his own Western training and biases with evidence of his eyes (and the sympathies of his heart), Kakar reveals the universal concerns of these individuals and their admittedly foreign cultures—people we can recognize and feel for, people (like their Western counterparts) trying to find some balance between the pressures and rewards of the external world and the fantasies and desires of the internal. This is a major work of cultural interpretation, a book that challenges (and should enhance) our understanding of therapy, mental health and individual freedom.
Survival Manual for the Modern Mystic
Author: Linda Silk
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 9781452561288
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This metaphysical survival guide is a self-help manual that encourages body, mind, and spirit to leap joyfully into the Golden Age of Enlightenment. Survival Manual for the Modern Mystic answers dozens of questions challenging todays thinkers about the predictions of the Mayan Calendarwhich is understood to end on December 21, 2012. Whats next? Will there be survivors? How can you prepare and care for loved ones and yourself during the birthing of the New Age? Are all humans going to be at risk at the end of civilization as we know it? How can you be of service to humanity during the transition from the Kali Yuga Age into the Golden Age of Enlightenment? Survival Manual for the Modern Mystic teaches essential metaphysical survival tools for the twenty-first century. Author Linda Silk shares her own experiences and offers practical and spiritual information, as well as reliable approaches, to help you become a successful participant in the new Golden Age. With each chapter, measure your personal growth of body, mind, and spirit. Implement specific survival toolsand find yourself not merely surviving, but instead vibrating with the realization of how loving and powerful you are as a Modern Mystic. Learn how to become the New World and Golden Age change that you have been waiting for. Now more than ever, the Modern Mystics duty is to: think sustainably, act locally, support globally, and respond universally.
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 9781452561288
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This metaphysical survival guide is a self-help manual that encourages body, mind, and spirit to leap joyfully into the Golden Age of Enlightenment. Survival Manual for the Modern Mystic answers dozens of questions challenging todays thinkers about the predictions of the Mayan Calendarwhich is understood to end on December 21, 2012. Whats next? Will there be survivors? How can you prepare and care for loved ones and yourself during the birthing of the New Age? Are all humans going to be at risk at the end of civilization as we know it? How can you be of service to humanity during the transition from the Kali Yuga Age into the Golden Age of Enlightenment? Survival Manual for the Modern Mystic teaches essential metaphysical survival tools for the twenty-first century. Author Linda Silk shares her own experiences and offers practical and spiritual information, as well as reliable approaches, to help you become a successful participant in the new Golden Age. With each chapter, measure your personal growth of body, mind, and spirit. Implement specific survival toolsand find yourself not merely surviving, but instead vibrating with the realization of how loving and powerful you are as a Modern Mystic. Learn how to become the New World and Golden Age change that you have been waiting for. Now more than ever, the Modern Mystics duty is to: think sustainably, act locally, support globally, and respond universally.
The Mystical Mind
Author: Andrew B. Newberg, Eugene G. D'Aquili
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451403749
Category : Experience (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
How does the mind experience the sacred? What biological mechanisms are involved in mystical states and trances? Is there a neurological basis for patterns in comparative religions? Does religion have an evolutionary function? This pathbreaking work by two leading medical researchers explores the neurophysiology of religious experience. Building on an explanation of the basic structure of the brain, the authors focus on parts most relevant to human experience, emotion, and cognition. On this basis, they plot how the brain is involved in mystical experiences. Successive chapters apply this scheme to mythmaking, ritual and liturgy, meditation, near-death experiences, and theology itself. Anchored in such research, the authors also sketch the implications of their work for philosophy, science, theology, and the future of religion.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451403749
Category : Experience (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
How does the mind experience the sacred? What biological mechanisms are involved in mystical states and trances? Is there a neurological basis for patterns in comparative religions? Does religion have an evolutionary function? This pathbreaking work by two leading medical researchers explores the neurophysiology of religious experience. Building on an explanation of the basic structure of the brain, the authors focus on parts most relevant to human experience, emotion, and cognition. On this basis, they plot how the brain is involved in mystical experiences. Successive chapters apply this scheme to mythmaking, ritual and liturgy, meditation, near-death experiences, and theology itself. Anchored in such research, the authors also sketch the implications of their work for philosophy, science, theology, and the future of religion.
Monkeys & Mystics No More
Author: Daniel Barwell
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452059039
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Finally a book that delivers the creation account that meshes with the facts of actual history. Mysticism melts away leaving the pure truth of the events as Holy Scripture is viewed properly. This is done without confining the Almighty's function to the shadows and variations of times turning. Those that innocently attribute the creation date to roughly 6000 years ago, are shown their error of imagining the Almighty as a "genie", through a balanced view of the early Bible. Just as stated by the Apostle James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning". Refusal to view the truth is revealed for the dogmatic astigmatism it is. Revealing the surrounding issues and proper textual origins the reader is shown the true timeline of geneaologies, and then led in a verse by verse expose of the first three chapters of Genesis. The result is that sight is granted from the intended perspective and this totally aligns with all long earth facts!
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452059039
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Finally a book that delivers the creation account that meshes with the facts of actual history. Mysticism melts away leaving the pure truth of the events as Holy Scripture is viewed properly. This is done without confining the Almighty's function to the shadows and variations of times turning. Those that innocently attribute the creation date to roughly 6000 years ago, are shown their error of imagining the Almighty as a "genie", through a balanced view of the early Bible. Just as stated by the Apostle James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning". Refusal to view the truth is revealed for the dogmatic astigmatism it is. Revealing the surrounding issues and proper textual origins the reader is shown the true timeline of geneaologies, and then led in a verse by verse expose of the first three chapters of Genesis. The result is that sight is granted from the intended perspective and this totally aligns with all long earth facts!
Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers
Author: Stephanie Wellen Levine
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814751970
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A look at young Jewish women who are typecast as pious and reserved but have as much imagination and similar desires as other young women.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814751970
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A look at young Jewish women who are typecast as pious and reserved but have as much imagination and similar desires as other young women.
Mystics and Commissars
Author: Alexandre Bennigsen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055766
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055766
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In My Hands
Author: Sathya Achia
Publisher: Ravens & Roses Publishing
ISBN: 1737299852
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Chandra S. Chengappa, a competitive classical dancer, passes for an average American teenager. But she has a monster of a secret: She can see evil in the form of the rakshasi-a demon supposed to exist only in South Asian folklores. After discovering a glowing disc hidden among a collection of ancient Indian artifacts in her mother's yoga studio, Chandra starts having strange visions of a past she cannot remember, and the kind of future she does not want. The ruthless rakshasi wants what Chandra does not realize she has-a map to the Golden Trishula, a powerful, celestial weapon once wielded by the Hindu Goddess Durga-that controls the past, present, and future. When tragedy strikes, Chandra and her sister are forced to leave their hometown in Virginia and travel to India to live in a remote jungle village devastated by the rakshasi. With the help of a cunning fortune teller, a fashion-forward Lambadi historian, a handsome daredevil, and a kind-hearted cow herder, Chandra must forge ahead into the unknown and prepare for the fight of her life before the people and the jungle she has fallen in love with are plunged into a supernatural darkness forever.
Publisher: Ravens & Roses Publishing
ISBN: 1737299852
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Sixteen-year-old Chandra S. Chengappa, a competitive classical dancer, passes for an average American teenager. But she has a monster of a secret: She can see evil in the form of the rakshasi-a demon supposed to exist only in South Asian folklores. After discovering a glowing disc hidden among a collection of ancient Indian artifacts in her mother's yoga studio, Chandra starts having strange visions of a past she cannot remember, and the kind of future she does not want. The ruthless rakshasi wants what Chandra does not realize she has-a map to the Golden Trishula, a powerful, celestial weapon once wielded by the Hindu Goddess Durga-that controls the past, present, and future. When tragedy strikes, Chandra and her sister are forced to leave their hometown in Virginia and travel to India to live in a remote jungle village devastated by the rakshasi. With the help of a cunning fortune teller, a fashion-forward Lambadi historian, a handsome daredevil, and a kind-hearted cow herder, Chandra must forge ahead into the unknown and prepare for the fight of her life before the people and the jungle she has fallen in love with are plunged into a supernatural darkness forever.