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Author : Carl Ernst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901383140
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Words of Ecstasy (revised Edition) written by Carl Ernst and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of Shakspere, Revised from the Original Editions. With Historical and Analytical Introductions to Each Play, Also Notes Explanatory and Critical, and a Life of the Poet. By J. O. Halliwell, and Other Eminent Commentators. (The Doubtful Plays of Shakspere ... Revised. Accompanied with ... Introductions ... and Notes ... by H. Tyrrell.). written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Gardella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190609427
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Innocent Ecstasy, Updated Edition written by Peter Gardella and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though they disagree on virtually everything else, evangelicals and gays, Catholics and agnostics all agree that sex should be innocent and ecstatic. For most of Western history people have not had such expectations. Innocent Ecstasy shows how Christianity led Americans to hope for so much from sex. The book explains how the sexual revolution could have occurred in a nation so deeply imbued with Christian ethical values. Tracing our strange journey from the hands of Jonathan Edward's angry Puritan God to the loving embrace of Marabel Morgan's Total Woman, Gardella draws his surprising evidence from widely disparate sources, ranging from Catholic confessionals to methodist revival meetings, from evangelical romances to The Song of Bernadette. He reveals the sexual messages of mainstream Protestant theology and the religious aspirations of medical texts found at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. He sheds new light on such well-known figures as Henry Adams, Margaret Sanger, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and introduces us to such fascinating, lesser-known characters as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Sylvester Graham, inventors of corn flakes and Graham crackers, who devised their products as anti-aphrodisiacs. While detailing the development of moral obligations to pursue sexual pleasure and to follow certain patterns of sexual practice, Gardella incidentally provides one of the few books to bring together the liberal Protestant, Roman Catholic, and evangelical perspectives on any aspect of American culture. Gardella attributes the American ethic of sexual pleasure to the eagerness of Americans to overcome original sin. This led to a quest for perfection, or complete freedom from guilt, combined with a quest for ecstatic experience. The result, he maintains, is an attitude that looks to sex for what was once expected from religion. In this new edition, a new conclusion explores how popular music, gay liberation, and recovery from sexual abuse have substantially expanded innocent ecstasy during the past thirty years while continuing the Christian themes of redemption and mission. A new afterword deals with contemporary developments in popular culture and offers thoughts about the future
Author : Lynn Davis
Publisher : White Wolf Games Studio
ISBN 13 : 9781565044494
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tradition Book written by Lynn Davis and published by White Wolf Games Studio. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality is a lie invented by a technocratic enemy who has written history to it's liking. The truth is magic'ae the universe can be crafted with a simple working of your will. Mages have taught this truth throughout the ages, but the proponents of technology have crushed the mystic masters. Join the last stand in the war for reality. Mage: The Ascension places you in the midst of supernatural intrigues and inner struggles. The more secrets you learn, the more important your wisdom and power become. Mage drags spirituality and metaphysics screaming through the streets of a postmodern nightmare. Tradition Books contain vital character information for players and Storytellers.
Author : Carl W. Ernst
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873959179
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Words of Ecstasy in Sufism written by Carl W. Ernst and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth study in English of the import and impact of ecstatic utterances (shathiyat) in classical Islamic mysticism. It makes available an important body of mystical aphorisms and reveals not only the significance of these sayings in the Sufi tradition, but also explains their controversial impact on Islamic law and society. This study descrives the development and interpretation of shathiyat in classical Sufism and analyzes the principal themes and rhetorical styles of these sayings, using as a basis the authoritative Commentary on Ecstatic Sayings by Ruzbihan Baqli of Shiraz. The special topic of mystical faith and infidelity receives particular emphasis as a type of ecstatic expression that self-reflectively meditates on the inadequacy of language to describe mystical experience. The social impact of ecstatic sayings is clarified by an analysis of the political causes of Sufi heresy trials (Nuri, Hallaj, and 'Ayn al-Qudat) and the later elaboration of Sufi martyrologies. This study also examines the attitudes of Islamic legal scholars toward shathiyat, and concludes with a comparison of Sufi ecstatic expressions with other types of inspired speech.
Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770481680
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Leviathan - Revised Edition written by Thomas Hobbes and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. Beginning with premises that were sometimes controversial, such as that every human action is caused by the agent’s desire for his own good, Hobbes derived shocking conclusions, such as that the civil government enjoys absolute control over its citizens and that the sovereign has the right to determine which religion is to be practiced in a commonwealth. Hobbes’s contemporaries recognized the power of arguments in Leviathan and many of them wrote responses to it; selections by John Bramhall, Robert Filmer, Edward Hyde, George Lawson, William Lucy, Samuel Pufendorf, and Thomas Tenison are included in this edition. Leviathan is divided into four parts: In the first part, Of Man, Hobbes presents a view of human beings and of the natural world in general that is materialistic and mechanistic. In the second part, Of Commonwealth, he defends the theory of absolute sovereignty, the view that the government has all the political power and has the right to control any aspect of life. In the third part, Of a Christian Commonwealth, he critiques concepts like revelation, prophets, and miracles in such a way that it becomes doubtful whether they can be rationally justified. In the fourth part, Of the Kingdom of Darkness, he explains various ways in which priestly religion has corrupted religion and transgressed the rights of the sovereign.
Author : St Teresa of Avila
Publisher : ICS Publications
ISBN 13 : 1939272491
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Interior Castle: Study Edition / Second Edition, Revised written by St Teresa of Avila and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Interior Castle is considered St. Teresa of Avila’s masterpiece. She wrote this last work in just a few months in 1577, five years before her death. At this point in her life she had been granted the highest mystical graces; this book is the fruit of her lived experience and a deep-felt praise of God for it. More than a book, The Interior Castle is a powerful image of the mystery of the human person. It is, in a very real sense, Teresa’s soul. Using the image of a castle, Teresa describes the soul’s progressive inner journey through seven dwelling places, until finally reaching the center where, now transformed, it is united with God. Reading the works of Teresa herself is indispensable. This second, revised study edition has been completely redesigned as a springboard to reading and understanding Teresa’s text. The book presents a chapter of The Interior Castle itself, followed by a review of the development of her thought and the principal ideas in each chapter. Interpretive notes after each chapter cover doctrine, history, and sociology. Expanded questions for reflection and/or discussion conclude each chapter. A glossary of terms offers definitions as well as their specific and sometimes unique meaning in Teresa’s writings. Comprehensive indexes of key themes and figures, castle imagery, and biblical references make this volume an indispensable reference resource.
Author : Jim DeKorne
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583942904
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Psychedelic Shamanism, Updated Edition written by Jim DeKorne and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychedelic Shamanism presents the spiritual and shamanic properties of psychotropic plants and discusses how they can be used to understand the structure of human consciousness. Author Jim DeKorne offers authoritative information about the cultivation, processing, and correct dosages for various psychotropic plant substances including the belladonna alkaloids, d-lysergic acid amide, botanical analogues of LSD, mescaline, ayahuasca, DMT, and psilocybin. Opening with vivid descriptions of the author’s personal experiences with psychedelic drugs, the book describes the parallels that exist among shamanic states of consciousness, the use of psychedelic catalysts, and the hidden structure of the human psyche. DeKorne suggests that psychedelic drugs allow us to examine the shamanic dimensions of reality. This worldview, he says, is ubiquitous across space, time, and culture, with individuals separated by race, distance, and culture routinely describing the same core reality that provides powerful evidence of the dimensional nature of consciousness itself. The book guides the reader through the imaginal realm underlying our awareness, a world in which spiritual entities exist to reconnect us with ourselves, humanity, and our planet. Accurate drawings of plants, including peyote, Salvia divinorum, and San Pedro, enhance the book’s usefulness.
Author : James Hogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd. A New Edition, Revised ... by T. Thomson ... With Illustrative Engravings written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Turner
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN 13 : 1568549814
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Understanding the Revised Mass Texts, Second Edition written by Paul Turner and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
