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Author : Georg Feuerstein
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Holy Madness written by Georg Feuerstein and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Zamoyski
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781474615211
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1871 written by Adam Zamoyski and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life. Holy Madness probes into the psyche that was responsible for so many of the founding events of our modern world, and into the instincts that inspired its most generous and most murderous impulses. It explains how the Enlightenment dislodged Christianity from its central position in the life of European societies and how man's quest for ecstasy and transcendence flooded into areas such as the arts, spawning the Romantic movement. This dramatic journey which begins in America in 1776 and goes right up to the last agony of the Paris Commune in 1871, takes in the French revolution, the Irish rebellion, the Polish risings, the war of Greek liberation, the Russian insurrection, the Hungarian struggles for freedom, the liberation of South America, and the Italian Risorgimento. 'An ambitious and in many ways brilliant book' Hilary Mantel
Author : Georg Feuerstein
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935387596
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Holy Madness written by Georg Feuerstein and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the shadowy tradition of “holy madness/crazy wisdom” from the Holy Fools of early Christianity, through the great adepts of India and Tibet, up to the controversial gurus of today. In our day, when even the Dalai Lama has warned Western seekers to choose their teachers carefully, Feuerstein provides an intelligent and cautionary guidebook to the guru-disciple relationship, plus a comprehensive analysis of the principles of authentic spirituality.
Author : Robert N. Linrothe
Publisher : Serindia Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781932476262
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Holy Madness written by Robert N. Linrothe and published by Serindia Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an examination of the art and legends of some of the most colourful figures in South Asian and Himalayan culture. Containing contributions from ten prominent world scholars, this book provides a survey of the Mahasiddhas in art, as well as essays on associated themes: iconographic, canonical, literary, historical, and sociological. This is a groundbreaking examination of the art and legends of some of the most colourful figures in South Asian and Himalayan culture. With contributions from ten prominent world scholars, it provides both an exhaustive survey of the
Author : Mark Salzman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400077753
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lying Awake written by Mark Salzman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith. Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.
Author : Jeffrey A. Kottler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787982326
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Divine Madness written by Jeffrey A. Kottler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-12-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Madness can afford the individual certain resources and abilities that are not available to others. The fantasy life, free flight of ideas, distortions of reality, and heightened senses . . . offer a unique perspective on the world." —From the Introduction Why do some extraordinary individuals overcome mental anguish and produce brilliant creative artistry that is often enhanced by their madness? New York Times best-selling author and noted psychologist Jeffrey Kottler explores this fascinating question in Divine Madness. His book is filled with the compelling stories of emotional turmoil that many great artists have undergone as they struggle for success and survival. Jeffrey Kottler writes about the dramatic and tragic lives of cultural icons Sylvia Plath, Judy Garland, Mark Rothko, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Charles Mingus, Vaslav Nijinsky, Marilyn Monroe, Lenny Bruce, and Brian Wilson. In this riveting book, Kottler highlights the personal story of each of these extraordinary individuals and analyzes how they struggled to overcome their emotional hardships. Divine Madness clearly differentiates between those who surrendered to their illness, often taking their own lives, and those who managed to endure and even recover. Kottler details how their profound psychological issues affected their lives and work, their great productivity and success, and how they strove to achieve some kind of personal stability. The fascinating and brilliantly told stories in Divine Madness help us to find meaning in the incredible lives of these artists. They also serve as an inspiration for those who are grappling to rise above their own challenges and limitations and express themselves more productively and creatively.
Author : James A. Haught
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615922539
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Holy Horrors written by James A. Haught and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1583 in Vienna, a 16-year-old girl suffered stomach cramps. A team of Jesuits exorcized her for eight weeks. The priests announced that they had expelled 12,652 demons from her, demons that her grandmother had kept as flies in glass jars. The grandmother was tortured into confessing that she was a witch who had engaged in sex with Satan. She was then burned at the stake. This was one of perhaps one million such executions during three centuries of witch-hunts. In 1989 in Moradabad, India, a pig caused hundreds of people to kill one another when the animal walked through a Muslim holy ground. Muslims, who think pigs are an embodiment of Satan, accused Hindus of driving the pig into the sacred spot. Members of both faiths went on a rampage, stabbing and clubbing. The pig riot spread to a dozen cities and left two hundred dead. A squad of armed Islamic zealots raided a Christian church at Behawalpur, Pakistan, on October 28, 2001, killing the minister, fourteen worshipers, and the church's police guard. It is said that there is never enough religion in the world to make people love one another--just enough to make them hate one another. Incendiary blends of fundamentalist religion, politics, nationalism, and ethnic zealotry engender countless examples of atrocity in the name of faith and orthodoxy. If anything, religious persecution is more savage now than everbefore in the history of mankind. HOLY HORRORS chronicles the grim spectrum of religious persecution from ancient times to the present. Fully illustrated with drawings, woodcuts, and photographs, the book recounts such historic religious persecution as the Crusades, the Islamic jihads, the Catholic wars against heretics, the Inquisition, witch-hunts, and the Reformation. It also chronicles modern-day atrocities, including the Holocaust, the seemingly insoluble Catholic-Protestant schism in Northern Ireland, religious tribalism in in Lebanon, and the barbaric cruelty of the theocracy in Iran.
Author : Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Publisher : The Battle Cry Christian Ministries
ISBN 13 : 9788424015
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Holy Madness or Horrible Disgrace written by Dr. D. K. Olukoya and published by The Battle Cry Christian Ministries. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly prophetic book from the pen of a globally respected prophet. The book undertakes an incisive analysis of the present day dilemma as far as the thermometer of spiritual vitality is concerned. The author posits that it is either holy madness or horrible disgrace. This is a challenge to our generation. Dr. Daniel Olukoya has, in the pages of this book, spoken passionately to a generation that is fast missing out on the cutting edge of spiritual currency. The pages of Holy Madness or Horrible Disgrace sound an alarm to the careless, warn the lukewarm and awake the dying conscience of believers who have lost touch with divine reality. This book will introduce far reaching changes into your life. The content will challenge you to reject every form of disgrace.
Author : Richard Noll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674047397
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Madness written by Richard Noll and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of the American alienist, 1896 -- Adolf Meyer brings dementia praecox to America -- Emil Kraepelin -- The American reception of dementia praecox and manic depressive insanity, 1896-1905 -- The lost biological psychiatry -- The rise of the mind-twist men, 1903-1913 -- Bayard Taylor Holmes and radically rational treatments -- The rise of schizophrenia in America, 1912-1927.
Author : Theresa McCracken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Holy Rollers written by Theresa McCracken and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press When Edmund Creffield and his "Holy Roller" religious cult made headlines in 1903, it was page one news - not just in the Pacific Northwest, but around the nation. Yet few people in the region today have heard Creffield's name or his story. In fact, the descendants of the people who were involved still refuse to discuss those events of a century ago.
