The Visionary State

Author : Erik Davis
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811848353
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visionary State written by Erik Davis and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a rich cultural history and Hollywood stars publicly attesting to a wide range of faiths, it's no surprise that California's spiritual landscape is as diverse as its natural surroundings. The Visionary State weaves text and image into a compelling narrative of religion, architecture, and consciousness in California, from neopaganism to televangelism, UFO cults to austere Zen Buddhism. Acclaimed culture critic Erik Davis brings together the immigrant and homegrown religious influences that have been part of the region's character from its earliest days, drawing connections between seemingly unlike traditions and celebrating the diversity of California's spiritual composition. Michael Rauner's evocative photographs depict the sites and structures where these traditions have taken root and flourished. The Visionary State is a landmark look at what is likely the most varied locale for religious activity anywhere.

Author : Lee Irwin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438407602
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visionary Worlds written by Lee Irwin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-03-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary Worlds examines the role and significance of imagination and the myth-making processes that engage human beings in constructing a viable, living world of meaningful relations, beliefs, and social interactions. In this process of "world-building," we each draw on a wide variety of ideologies--religious, philosophical, aesthetic or scientific--which often conflict and clash with one another in the struggle to evolve a coherent and meaningful worldview. This unpredictable and fallible process often requires considerable readjustment or revisions as the complexities of an increasingly pluralistic society impinge upon us with greater divergence and multiplicity. This work examines the ways in which we all make and unmake our reality as part of the challenge of seeking greater spiritual maturity and relatedness to others.

Author : Christian K. Kleinbub
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271037042
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vision and the Visionary in Raphael written by Christian K. Kleinbub and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Studies Raphael's images of supernatural phenomena, including apparitions and prophetic visions, within their contemporary artistic and religious contexts. Asks how a fundamentally naturalistic style of painting like that of the Italian Renaissance can accommodate representations of the supernatural without self-contradiction"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Paul Maltby
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791488462
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visionary Moment written by Paul Maltby and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Visionary Moment, Paul Maltby draws on postmodern theory to examine the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment, or "epiphany," in twentieth-century American fiction. Engaging critically with the works of Don DeLillo, Jack Kerouac, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and William Faulkner, Maltby explains how the literary convention of the visionary moment promotes the myth that there is a superior level of knowledge that can redeem or regenerate the individual. He contends that this common-sense assumption is a paradigm that needs to be confronted and critiqued.

Author : Christine Siebeneck Swayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visionary, and Other Poems written by Christine Siebeneck Swayne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John M. Pontius
Publisher : CFI
ISBN 13 : 9781462128433
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Glory written by John M. Pontius and published by CFI. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Weir Perry
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791439876
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trials of the Visionary Mind written by John Weir Perry and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive summary of the author's revolutionary approach to psychosis.

Author : Erik Davis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1907222871
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Weirdness written by Erik Davis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson. A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality—but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? In High Weirdness, Erik Davis—America's leading scholar of high strangeness—examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America's West Coast at a time of radical technological, political, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality.

Author : Erik Davis
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583949305
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TechGnosis written by Erik Davis and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TechGnosis is a cult classic of media studies that straddles the line between academic discourse and popular culture; it appeals to both those secular and spiritual, to fans of cyberpunk and hacker literature and culture as much as new-thought adherents and spiritual seekers How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? In TechGnosis—a cult classic now updated and reissued with a new afterword—Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication. Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as electricity and alchemy; online roleplaying games and religious and occult practices; virtual reality and gnostic mythology; programming languages and Kabbalah. The final chapters address the apocalyptic dreams that haunt technology, providing vital historical context as well as new ways to think about a future defined by the mutant intermingling of mind and machine, nightmare and fantasy.

Author : Alex Grey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620552698
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Mirrors written by Alex Grey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique series of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. From anatomically correct rendering of the body systems, Grey moves to the spiritual/energetic systems with such images as "Universal Mind Lattice," envisioning the sacred and esoteric symbolism of the body and the forces that define its living field of energy. Includes essays on the significance of Grey's work by Ken Wilber, the eminent transpersonal psychologist, and by the noted New York art critic, Carlo McCormick.