Download or read book A Transcendent Madness written by D. Nord and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bizarre true story of spiritual revelation and psychedelic horror associated with the spectre of Hitler and the madness of a world on the brink of a global holocaust. This strangely foreboding testament to the inherent danger and transcendental propensity of the psychedelic experience contains a detailed exposition of the (RNA shutter mechanism) interface between the organic matrix of the brain and the spiritual matrix of the human soul. The author's treatment of that receptor matrix interface includes the correlation between Jungian psychology and the correlative derivative of the Hindu Sutras that obviously provided Jung with the inspiration for the development of his principles of psychic functioning. The author's treatment of the internal dynamics and historical continuity of the psychedelic experience also includes a very important reference in the Christian Bible and is interlaced in a 30 year autobiography that includes a very long and very intense nightmare/conspiracy about the reincarnation of Hitler.
Download or read book A Transcendent Madness written by D. Nord and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bizarre true story of spiritual revelation and psychedelic horror associated with the specter of Hitler and the madness of a world on the brink of a global holocaust. This strangely foreboding testament to the inherent danger and the transcendental propensity of the psychedelic experience contains a detailed exposition of the (RNA shutter mechanism) interface between the organic matrix of the brain and the spiritual matrix of the human soul. The author's treatment of that receptor matrix "interface" includes the correlation between Jungian psychology and the correlative derivative of the Hindu Sutras that obviously provided Jung with the inspiration for the development of his principles of psychic functioning. The author's treatment of the internal dynamics and historical continuity of the psychedelic experience also includes a very important reference in the Christian Bible and is interlaced in a 30 year autobiography that includes a very long and very intense nightmare about the reincarnation of Hitler.
Download or read book A Transcendent Madness written by D. Nord and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bizarre true story of spiritual revelation and psychedelic horror associated with the specter of Hitler and the madness of a world on the brink of a global holocaust. This strangely foreboding testament to the inherent danger and the transcendental propensity of the psychedelic experience contains a detailed exposition of the (RNA shutter mechanism) interface between the organic matrix of the brain and the spiritual matrix of the human soul. The author's treatment of that receptor matrix "interface" includes the correlation between Jungian psychology and the correlative derivative of the Hindu Sutras that obviously provided Jung with the inspiration for the development of his principles of psychic functioning. The author's treatment of the internal dynamics and historical continuity of the psychedelic experience also includes a very important reference in the Christian Bible and is interlaced in a 30 year autobiography that includes a very long and very intense nightmare about the reincarnation of Hitler.
Download or read book Mysticism Madness Myth and Mania written by Robert Laynton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a person has a Clear, Vivid, ecstatic, transcendent religious or spiritual experience where they sense that they are being 'caught up' to God, or Spirit? Do they really encounter an unseen, intangible 'spiritual realm' that is Ultimate Reality and the Ground of existence? Why do some people who are diagnosed as 'mentally ill' claim to have such experiences? If a person persists in these kinds of beliefs, are they deluded, or even mad? Are they actually suffering from 'religious mania'? Are atheists correct in dismissing these experiences as merely 'psychological'? Or is it the atheists who are blind and deaf when it comes to Ultimate Reality? Drawing from personal experience and from over forty years of practical and theoretical engagement with spirituality and religion, as well as from approaches within psychology, author Robert Laynton explores these questions, not as a defense of religion or spirituality but as an exploration of experience on the edge of reason.
Download or read book The Madness of Crowds written by Douglas Murray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Updated with a new afterword "An excellent take on the lunacy affecting much of the world today. Douglas is one of the bright lights that could lead us out of the darkness." – Joe Rogan "Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues" – Jordan B. Peterson Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive. One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.
Download or read book Transcendent written by Katelyn Detweiler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Transcendent Child written by Lillian B. Rubin and published by . This book was released on 1996-03-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do some people overcome a horrible childhood? What personal traits make such transcendence possible? Using real-life accounts of people who have gained satisfying adulthoods by overcoming terrible childhood torments, the bestselling author of Worlds of Pain and Intimate Strangers shows how to triumph in life by refusing to be labeled as a victim.
Download or read book Sufi Therapy of the Heart written by David Heinemann and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By defining the nature of the genuine mystic experience -- in contrast to superstition, charlatanism and madness -- and in restoring belief in Transcendence as a real and necessary part of healthy living, this book breaks new ground and is likely to become a classic in the study of 'mysticism and psychology of religion'.
Download or read book On Poe written by Louis J. Budd and published by Best from American Literature. This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. The journal has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of the discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.
Download or read book From Violence to Speaking Out written by Leonard Lawlor and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a career-long exploration of 1960s French philosophy, Leonard Lawlor seeks a solution to 'the problem of the worst violence'. The worst violence is the reaction of total apocalypse without remainder; it is the reaction of complete negation and death; it is nihilism. Lawlor argues that it is not just transcendental violence that must be minimised: all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He offers new ways of speaking to best achieve the least violence, which he creatively appropriates from Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze and Guattari as 'speaking-freely', 'speaking-distantly' and 'speaking-in-tongues'.
Download or read book Philosophy and Psychiatry written by Thomas Schramme and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and psychiatry share many topics and problems. For example, the "solutions" of the psychiatry of the philosophical body-soul problem have direct effects on the self-image of the discipline. Despite these obvious overlappings, and unlike the English-speaking countries, interdisciplinary research on "philosophical psychopathology" has been scarce in Germany. The current anthology closes these gaps, because the authors - renowned experts as well as young scientists, whose new approaches open promising perspectives - come from both disciplines. The individual contributions deal with philosophical debates as they arise within the context of psychiatric theory and practice.
Download or read book Manifest Madness written by Arlie Loughnan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together previously disparate discussions on criminal responsibility from law, psychology, and philosophy, this book provides a close study of mental incapacity defences, tracing their development through historical cases to the modern era.
Download or read book Understanding Foucault Understanding Modernism written by David Scott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault remains to this day a thinker who stands unchallenged as one of the most important of the 20th century. Among the characteristics that have made him influential is his insistent blurring of the border separating philosophy and literature and art, carried out on the basis of his confronting the problem of modernism, which he characterizes as a permanent task. To that end, even his most explicitly historical or strictly epistemological and methodological enquiries, which on their surface would seem not to have anything to do with literature, are full of allusions to modernist writers and artists like Mallarme, Baudelaire, Artaud, Klee, Borges, Broch-sometimes fleetingly, sometimes more extensively, as is the case with Foucault's life-long devotion to Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot, and de Sade. Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism shows, on the one hand, that literature and the arts play a fundamental structural role in Foucault's works, while, on the other hand, it shifts to the foreground what it presumes to be motivating Foucault: the interrogation of the problem of modernism.
Download or read book Divine Madness written by Mark William Lee and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word "madness" evokes an almost endless number of questions concerning human belief, behavior and experience. The same might be said about the word "religion." This thesis is concerned with both. Specifically, it is concerned with religious forms of madness in eighteenth-century England. The eighteenth century was an important period of transition for both religion and madness. Subjects such as social abnormality, mental suffering, human physiology, religious experience, and the human relationship to the divine were increasingly being negotiated within what Charles Taylor has called "the immanent frame" -- a social and intellectual milieu within which human experience can be understood without reference to the transcendent. Yet eighteenth-century England remained a deeply religious society wherein religious forms of mental suffering and social abnormality were common. This thesis explores three such cases in eighteenth-century England: Christopher Smart (1722-1771), William Cowper (1731-1800) and Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Smart, best known for his poem A Song to David (1753), was confined to an asylum for his religious exuberance, which famously culminated in his habit of praying out loud "in the street, or in any other unusual [public] place." Cowper, best known for The Task (1785), likewise spent a term in an asylum, although his affliction was not one of religious ecstasy, but religious melancholia, and eventually led to his poetic self-portrayal as a spiritual "castaway" who was "Damn'd below Judas." Johnson, the most famous of the three, author of the famous dictionary that bears his name, spent most of his adult life worrying that he would become uncontrollably insane. His affliction was bound up with his religious "scruples" of conscience and his doubts about the truth of religion, both of which ever threatened his death-obsessed mind with the twin possibilities of hellfire and annihilation. This thesis explores the relationship between the afflictions of these people and their early modern English context. It argues that their sufferings reflected in distinct ways the cultural transition from an integrated and spiritualized pre-modern worldview to an early modern worldview that was becoming intellectually and spiritually "splintered." Thus, their sufferings reflect the social, psychological and spiritual challenges that faced religious minds in the so-called Age of Reason. Moreover, they raise provocative questions about the role of eighteenth-century English society -- a society which was itself, in a sense, "mad" with Reason -- in fashioning unique forms of madness vis-à-vis its own "reasonable" presuppositions and prejudices. Most provocatively of all, the mental and spiritual lives of Smart, Cowper and Johnson, replete as they were not only with hardship but also with intermittent comforts, point beyond their culturally located sufferings to a transcendent possibility which extends, in the face of mad selves and mad societies, hope for ultimate healing and wholeness.
Download or read book Streaming Mental Health and Illness written by Emily Katseanes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mindfulness in schools to meditation apps, mental health is bursting out of the psychiatrist's chair and into our everyday conversations. As awareness of mental health increases, so does its predominance in popular culture, which makes for a particularly interesting investigation into the representation of these concerns on our most ubiquitous streaming service: Netflix. These eight essays explore how the service's original content jumps into those conversations, creating helpful--or harmful--messaging about the inner workings of our minds. From toxic masculinity to PTSD, adolescence to motherhood, mental health touches our lives in myriad ways. This interdisciplinary collection explores these intersections, examining how representations of mental health on our screens shape our understanding of it in our lives.
Download or read book Abiding Faith written by Scott Cowdell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian theologian Scott Cowdell explores how having faith has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. He returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion to the realm of participating knowing, paradigmatic imagination, and personal transformation where it belongs as a form of life, shaped by encounter with Jesus Christ and worked out through the Eucharistic community. This is shown to have been the typical understanding of faith from Saint Paul to the Fathers to the medieval monastic theologians. Since the rise of nominalism, however, modern individuals reflecting a God newly remote from the world have struggled to maintain this participatory vision of faith as a formative habitat. Mysticism is as close as modernity got, while officially faith was annexed by modern Western culture, coming to share its anxious need for certainty and control--systemic, exclusive, and violent-tending. Scott Cowdell has written a wide-ranging book, bringing together several normally separate debates while tackling the problem from a distinctive perspective. He explores faith against the backdrop of secularization, the collapse of community, and the encroachment of an intentionally destabilizing consumer culture. He expounds the nature of desire in terms of imitation and rivalry, and the violent false-sacred roots of cultural formation evident in the modern West's many victims, all according to the uniquely comprehensive vision of RenŽ Girard. Finally, he dismisses today's growing mood of militant religious skepticism as philosophically outdated and out of its depth before the resilient confidence of a genuine living faith. What Cowdell calls abiding faith emerges as a venerable yet strikingly contemporary possibility. This is good news for today's homeless hearts--there is the gift of a secure identity and a mature spirituality on offer, within a liberating, inclusive, world-affirming, ecclesial form of life.
Download or read book Divine Mania written by Yulia Ustinova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Our greatest blessings come to us by way of mania, provided it is given us by divine gift,’ – says Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus. Certain forms of alteration of consciousness, considered to be inspired by supernatural forces, were actively sought in ancient Greece. Divine mania comprises a fascinating array of diverse experiences: numerous initiates underwent some kind of alteration of consciousness during mystery rites; sacred officials and inquirers attained revelations in major oracular centres; possession states were actively sought; finally, some thinkers, such as Pythagoras and Socrates, probably practiced manipulation of consciousness. These experiences, which could be voluntary or involuntary, intense or mild, were interpreted as an invasive divine power within one’s mind, or illumination granted by a super-human being. Greece was unique in its attitude to alteration of consciousness. From the perspective of individual and public freedom, the prominent position of the divine mania in Greek society reflects its acceptance of the inborn human proclivity to experience alteration of consciousness, interpreted in positive terms as god-sent. These mental states were treated with cautious respect, and in contrast to the majority of complex societies, ancient and modern, were never suppressed or pushed to the cultural and social periphery.
