Author: Ba Han (Maung)
Publisher:
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Category : Mysticism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: William Blake
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Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Author: Helen Constance White
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Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Alexander Gilchrist
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Author: William Blake
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Samuel Foster Damon
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Category : Symbolism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Author: Colin Wilson
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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The mystic's moment of illumination shares with great poetry the liberating power of the deepest levels of consciousness. In the words of William Blake, "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to a man as it is, infinite." Poetry, Wilson argues, is a contradiction of the habitual prison of daily life and shows the way to transcend the ordinary world through an act of intense attention-and intention. The poet, like the mystic, is subject to sudden ""peak experiences"" when ""everything we look upon is blessed."" W.B. Yeats, Dostoevsky, Gautama Buddha, Kazantzakis, Van Gogh, Rupert Brooke, Arunja, Nietzsche, A.L. Rouse, Jacob Boehme, Suzuki, Edgar Allan Poe: their visionary understanding can generate an awareness in each of us of our potential to open the floodgates of inner energy that creates mystic experience. Colin Wilson first received international acclaim in 1956 for The Outsider. ""Ever since I was thirteen, I have been obsessed by the question of the nature of mystical experience,"" he writes, and from that time he has been on a quest of the mystical in poetry, religion, and psychology.

Author: G K 1874-1936 Chesterton
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015795655
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: John Higgs
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781474614368
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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'Fascinating' The Times 'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman 'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times 'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland 'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary Supplement Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work - and, crucially, his mind. Taking the reader on wild detours into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into context and shows us how Blake can help us better understand ourselves.

Author: Jacomina Korteling
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Category : Mysticism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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