Death Is Blind

Author : George Henderson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469660792
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blind Joe Death's America written by George Henderson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939–2001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music. Mythologizing himself as Blind Joe Death, Fahey crudely parodied white middle-class fascination with African American blues, including his own. In this book, George Henderson mines Fahey's parallel careers as essayist, notorious liner note stylist, musicologist, and fabulist for the first time. These vocations, inspired originally by Cold War educators' injunction to creatively express rather than suppress feelings, took utterly idiosyncratic and prescient turns. Fahey voraciously consumed ideas: in the classroom, the counterculture, the civil rights struggle, the new left; through his study of philosophy, folklore, African American blues; and through his experience with psychoanalysis and southern paternalism. From these, he produced a profoundly and unexpectedly refracted vision of America. To read Fahey is to vicariously experience devastating critical energies and self-soothing uncertainty, passions emerging from a singular location—the place where lone, white rebel sentiment must regard the rebellion of others. Henderson shows the nuance, contradictions, and sometimes brilliance of Fahey's words that, though they were never sung to a tune, accompanied his music.

Author : Kenneth Ring
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595878246
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mindsight written by Kenneth Ring and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the astonishing claim that blind persons, including those blind from birth, can actually "see" during near-death or out-of-body episodes. The authors present their findings in scrupulous detail, investigating case histories of blind persons who have actually reported visual experiences under these conditions. There is fascinating evidence that the blind do "see" in these moments, but it is not sight as we think of it. Ring and Cooper suggest a kind of "transcendental awareness" they refer to as Mindsight. It involves seeing in detail, sometimes from all angles at once, with everything in focus, and a sense of "knowing" the subject, not just visually, but with multisensory knowledge. Human beings may be more talented than we think, gifted with amazing abilities of perception. This book is an opportunity to assess the evidence for yourself.

Author : Joe McGinniss
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101608641
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blind Faith written by Joe McGinniss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sordid, #1 New York Times bestselling true crime story of adultery, addiction, gambling debt, and murder in a privileged suburban town—from author and journalist Joe McGinniss. The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream and seemingly in possession of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall, a successful insurance broker, was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was his stunningly beautiful wife and the perfect mom to their three great kids. Then one night while the couple drove home from Atlantic City, Rob, his head bloodied, reported Maria had been brutally slain. Sympathy poured in—until disquieting facts began to surface…and the true story of adultery, gambling, drugs and murder tore the mask off Rob Marshall and the blinders off the town that thought he could do no wrong.

Author : Brian Knight
Publisher : Tulpa Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death is Blind written by Brian Knight and published by Tulpa Books. This book was released on 2020-06-06 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the shattered remnants of a planet killing meteor called The Fist of God hits earth, death and destruction threaten to end human civilization, but The Fist of God is only the beginning of Earth’s tribulation. A terrible Pale Rider leads the dead against survivors in the small town of Orofino, Idaho, killing and converting them. One teenage girl is the key to humanity’s survival, but first she must survive the Pale Rider and his army of the dead.

Author : Likky Lavji
Publisher : Healy Quinn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781777632205
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death by BS written by Likky Lavji and published by Healy Quinn Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating through our blind spots shouldn't be all that difficult naturally, or at least we would like to think so. That's why it's our BS . There are things we like to believe about ourselves, when in the perception of others, we may be something completely different entirely. At times, we can find ourselves thinking we are already better than we are or have gone further than we actually have. This is unfortunately why many do not reach their full potential. These Blind Spot behaviors only sabotage our own steps in progress, and sadly, the cost of this can be an unfulfilled life or business, and needless failed relationships over time. Once you're aware of your own BS, the world will open up to you in a whole new way . If you're ready to move beyond the limiting narrative of your own BS and would like to navigate through to a better life and more fulfilled relationships, this book is for YOU !

Author : John C. Hagan
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826273688
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science of Near-Death Experiences written by John C. Hagan and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to consciousness during the act of dying? The most compelling answers come from people who almost die and later recall events that occurred while lifesaving resuscitation, emergency care, or surgery was performed. These events are now called near-death experiences (NDEs). As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have traveled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. Physicians and healthcare professionals must learn how to appropriately treat patients who report an NDE. It is estimated that more than 10 million people in the United States have experienced an NDE. Hagan and the contributors to this volume engage in evidence-based research on near-death experiences and include physicians who themselves have undergone a near-death experience. This book establishes a new paradigm for NDEs.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811203227
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stand Still Like the Hummingbird written by Henry Miller and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1962 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which have gone out of print. Miller's genius for comedy is at its best in "Money and How It Gets That Way"--a tongue-in-cheek parody of "economics" provoked by a postcard from Ezra Pound which asked if he "ever thought about money." His deep concern for the role of the artist in society appears in "An Open Letter to All and Sundry," and in "The Angel is My Watermark" he writes of his own passionate love affair with painting. "The Immorality of Morality" is an eloquent discussion of censorship. Some of the stories, such as "First Love," are autobiographical, and there are portraits of friends, such as "Patchen: Man of Anger and Light," and essays on other writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Sherwood Anderson and Ionesco. Taken together, these highly readable pieces reflect the incredible vitality and variety of interests of the writer who extended the frontiers of modern literature with Tropic of Cancer and other great books.

Author : Pim van Lommel
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061777269
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness Beyond Life written by Pim van Lommel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a cardiologist, Pim van Lommel was struck by the number of his patients who claimed to have near-death experiences as a result of their heart attacks. As a scientist, this was difficult for him to accept: Wouldn't it be scientifically irresponsible of him to ignore the evidence of these stories? Faced with this dilemma, van Lommel decided to design a research study to investigate the phenomenon under the controlled environment of a cluster of hospitals with a medically trained staff. For more than twenty years van Lommel systematically studied such near-death experiences in a wide variety of hospital patients who survived a cardiac arrest. In 2001, he and his fellow researchers published his study on near-death experiences in the renowned medical journal The Lancet. The article caused an international sensation as it was the first scientifically rigorous study of this phenomenon. Now available for the first time in English, van Lommel offers an in-depth presentation of his results and theories in this book that has already sold over 125,000 copies in Europe. Van Lommel provides scientific evidence that the near-death phenomenon is an authentic experience that cannot be attributed to imagination, psychosis, or oxygen deprivation. He further reveals that after such a profound experience, most patients' personalities undergo a permanent change. In van Lommel's opinion, the current views on the relationship between the brain and consciousness held by most physicians, philosophers, and psychologists are too narrow for a proper understanding of the phenomenon. In Consciousness Beyond Life, van Lommel shows that our consciousness does not always coincide with brain functions and that, remarkably and significantly, consciousness can even be experienced separate from the body.

Author : Kristin Smedley
Publisher : Thriving Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781732066403
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thriving Blind written by Kristin Smedley and published by Thriving Publications. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of blind people who use creativity and determination to live the life of their dreams. Also includes lists of resources for advocacy, rehabilitation, recreation, and support systems for the blind.

Author : ANDREW LARDNER
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619117193
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blind Joe Death written by ANDREW LARDNER and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fahey transformed the world of acoustic flat-top steel-string guitar by bringing it to the concert stage as a respected, solo instrument. Blind Joe Death: Volume 1 looks at the important people and genres that shaped him as acomposer. This volume focuses on Side 1 of the original 1967 Blind Joe Death LP, a collection of mostly traditional music that was adapted for solo guitar. Hints of Fahey's early influences endured throughout his career as a composer, yet early on, and in Blind Joe Death, a unique voice is coming into focus-one that is not afraid to explore the avant-garde with journeys into collage and expressionism. Six extensively edited solos from Blind Joe Death are included in Volume 1: "On Doing an Evil Deed Blues," "St. Louis Blues," "Poor Boy a Long Ways from Home," "Uncloudy Day," "John Henry" and "In Christ There Is No East or West." Within these transcriptions, Andrew Lardner has provided admirers of John Fahey's body of work with the essential keys to launch their own journeys into replicating the sounds and style of Fahey's landmark solos from Blind Joe Death.