Subtle Bodies

Author : Norman Rush
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400077133
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subtle Bodies written by Norman Rush and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK** In a sophisticated romp through the tribulations and joys of marriage and friendship, a group of college friends reunites two decades after graduation. After the sudden death of Douglas, once the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits, his four best friends are summoned to his Catskills estate to mourn his passing. Responding to a mysterious sense of emergency in the call, Ned flies in from San Francisco with his wife Nina in furious pursuit; they’re at a critical point in their attempts to conceive and she won’t let a funeral get in the way. It is Nina who gives us a pointed, irreverent commentary as the men reconvene, while Ned tries to understand what it was that made this clutch of souls his friends to begin with—before time, sex, work, and the brutal quirks of history reshaped them. Filled with unexpected, funny, telling aperçus, Norman Rush’s Subtle Bodies is also a deeply moving exploration of the meanings of life.

Author : Stephen Sturgess
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780286821
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Chakras & Subtle Bodies written by Stephen Sturgess and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape the humdrum of daily life and reawaken your true essential Self with Stephen Sturgess’ sensational Yoga and meditation techniques. Learn about fascinating subtle bodies, chakras, nadis, and kundalini with the in-depth section on Yoga philosophy, then follow Stephen’s variety of practices and techniques for removing any obstacles that may be standing in the way of you uniting with your true nature. The book includes a wealth of Hatha Yoga techniques using asanas, mudras, bandhas, pranayama, and kriya purification, as well as Raja and kriya Yoga techniques – mantras, concentration and meditation.

Author : Glenn Peers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520925130
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subtle Bodies written by Glenn Peers and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-02-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This book describes the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defense of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. Glenn Peers demonstrates that these problems of representation provide a unique window on Late Antique thought in general.

Author : David V. Tansley
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500810149
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subtle Body written by David V. Tansley and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1977 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the mythological properties assigned to geometric forms, and covers the Golden Section, gnomonic spirals, music, and the squaring of the circle.

Author : Jay Alfred
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1698703325
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Invisible Bodies written by Jay Alfred and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has Dark Matter got to do with your Afterlife? In 2006 Jay proposed that dark matter (which comprises about 85 per cent of the matter in the universe) could include self-interacting dark plasma. Subsequently, this proposal received support in the scientific literature. This has significant implications not only for the universe as a whole, but also planet Earth and its inhabitants. In recent years, scientists have pointed out to the life-like characteristics of plasma. How has this life-like dark plasma participated in human evolution? Does dark plasma provide the physical basis for your afterlife? Do we have dark plasma bodies which co-evolved with our ordinary matter bodies but are currently invisible to us? This book explores this in detail, while adhering to experimental data, with some surprising conclusions.

Author : Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136766472
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West written by Geoffrey Samuel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a variety of perspectives, and includes both studies of these practices in Asian and Western contexts. The book discusses how subtle-body practices assume a quasi-material level of human existence that is intermediate between conventional concepts of body and mind. Often, this level is conceived of in terms of an invisible structure of channels, associated with the human body, through which flows of quasi-material substance take place. Contributors look at how subtle-body concepts form the basic explanatory structure for a wide range of practices. These include forms of healing, modes of exercise and martial arts as well as religious practices aimed at the refinement and transformation of the human mindbody complex. By highlighting how subtle-body practices of many kinds have been introduced into Western societies in recent years, the book explores the possibilities for new models of understanding which these concepts open up. It is a useful contribution to studies on Asian Religion and Philosophy.

Author : Tias Little
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834829762
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga of the Subtle Body written by Tias Little and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his expert teachings, philosophical insights, and pragmatic imagery, world-class yoga instructor Tias Little turns the anatomy of the physical body into a tool for navigating the subtle body If you spend considerable time doing yoga, you begin to see that it is about much more than just the body—the practice of yoga in fact reveals that the body is in no way separate from the psychospiritual forces that animate it. Here, Tias Little provides a way to understand these forces as they relate to an integrated yoga of body, mind, and spirit. He unites somatic concepts and wisdom teachings in this practical guide to the anatomy of the physical, mental, emotional, and subtle (or energetic) body. Little is a master teacher who offers us a guided tour of the body’s structure and physical anatomy, then uses this new structural awareness as the basis for exploring the subtle body. In a meaningful and pragmatic way, the book maps the connection between the body and the rich symbolism that pervades the yogic imagination, including the chakras, nadis, and koshas. Further, Little offers readers clear, insightful yoga, pranayama, and meditation exercises that apply these body-mind principles.

Author : Christine Göttler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004163964
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits Unseen written by Christine Göttler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the meanings and uses of "spiritus" in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields - natural philosophy, theology, music, literature and the visual arts - this book revisits the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change.

Author : Jan Esmann Ma
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781797630175
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Subtle Bodies and the Aura: A Short and Illustrated Introduction written by Jan Esmann Ma and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has several subtle bodies that can be seen clairvoyantly as colored light. An etherical body, an astral body, a mental body and a causal body. They radiate out beyond the physical body where they can be seen as a colorful aura. This book has several colored illustrations of various auras. It explains their meaning. The meaning of the various colors are also explained.The book goes into detail about the astral body and the astral world. It then proceeds to explain how the mental body and mental world differ from the astral and what characterizes the mental level. Finally the causal body is briefly described, At the end of the book there are instruction on how to meditate

Author : Osho
Publisher : Osho Media International
ISBN 13 : 0880509945
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chakra Book written by Osho and published by Osho Media International. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and in-depth discussion of the human energy centers known as chakras. The book offers a unique understanding of how these centers, also referred to as “subtle bodies” can be identified and experienced, along with how they are related to personal transformation and health. In this volume, Osho gives an overview of the Eastern science of the subtle energy centers in the human body that are sometimes known as “chakras.” It is a science that underlies traditional Chinese medicine, Indian Ayurveda, and the practice of kundalini yoga, among other disciplines that recognize the deep connection between mind and body. Osho also shows how these same principles apply to human psychological growth and maturation, and the evolution of consciousness. Self-help, Spirituality, Psychology, Meditation, Esoteric, New Age, Health, Yoga. The title will especially of interest to the large group of people involved with Yoga, as the book describes in simple terms, using everyday experiences as examples, what underlies the Kundalini Yoga approach to the human energy system. The Chakra Book delivers the ‘esoteric science’ and understanding in the context of personal growth and transformation.