Download or read book Borges Swedenborg and Mysticism written by William Rowlandson and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorge Luis Borges was profoundly interested in the traditions of mysticism, especially the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). This book examines the relationship between Borges' own mystical experiences and his appraisal of Swedenborg and other mystics, as well as his engagement with scholarly writings on and responses to mysticism by figures such as William James and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Download or read book Imaginal Landscapes written by William Rowlandson and published by Swedenborg Foundation. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Rowlandson offers a brief but deep-reaching study of Argentine short story writer Jorge Luis Borges's appreciation of Emanuel Swedenborg, showing the Swedish visionary's influence on Borges's writing.
Download or read book Solomon s Secret Arts written by Paul Kleber Monod and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVThis illuminating book reveals the surprising extent to which great and lesser knownthinkers of the Age of Enlightenment embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult./div/div
Download or read book Testimony to the Invisible written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays describes the influence of Swedish scientist-turned-seer Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) on religion, psychology, and literature. Contributors include Jorge Luis Borges, Czeslaw Milosz, poet Kathleen Raine, and Zen scholar D. T. Suzuki.
Download or read book Emerson on Swedenborg written by R. W. Emerson and published by The Swedenborg Society. This book was released on 2003 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of a collection of seven lectures first published by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 1850, entitled Representative men." (Inside back cover.)
Download or read book Swedenborg written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Swedenborg Foundation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of a collection of seven lectures first published by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 1850, entitled Representative men." (Inside back cover.).
Download or read book Heaven Hell and Other Places written by Gary Lachman and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Filmed on location in Stockholm, Uppsala and London this new documentary is a perfect introduction to the man Jorge Luis Borges described as 'the most extraordinary man in recorded history'" (container).
Download or read book Seven Nights written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.
Download or read book Conversations written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina s master fabulist, was also an extraordinary conversationalist. There s not a subject he doesn t throw surprising new light on, whether it s to do with Kipling or tango. In fact, there s an impish element in his thinking. In these dialogues with a receptive Osvaldo Ferrari, he covers Buddhism, love, Henry James, Dante and much more as he circles round and digresses at whim. One cannot be sure where the 84-year-old blind man s wit will lead him, except that it s his form of freedom. Even if he s covered the subject before, this time round there s a new flash of insight. He s an optimist. There s always more to say. As with his written work as a whole, these dialogues configure a loose autobiography of a subtle, teasing mind. Looking back on his long life, it s no surprise that time and dreaming become topics, but these dialogues are not a memoir for all time is now. As in his tale The Other, where two Borges meet up on a bench beside the river Charles, we have a dialogue between a young poet and the elder teller of tales where all experience floats in a frightening miracle that defies linear time."
Download or read book The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daimonic Imagination written by Patrick Curry and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the artistic genius to the tarot reader, a sense of communication with another order of reality is commonly affirmed; this ‘other’ may be termed god, angel, spirit, muse, daimon or alien, or it may be seen as an aspect of the human imagination or the ‘unconscious’ in a psychological sense. This volume of essays celebrates the daimonic presence in a diversity of manifestations, presenting new insights into inspired creativity and human beings’ relationship with mysterious and numinous dimensions of reality. In art and literature, many visual and poetic forms have been given to the daimonic intelligence, and in the realm of new age practices, encounters with spirit beings are facilitated through an increasing variety of methods including shamanism, hypnotherapy, mediumship and psychedelics. The contributors to this book are not concerned with ‘proving’ or ‘disproving’ the existence of such beings. Rather, they paint a broad canvas with many colours, evoking the daimon through the perspectives of history, literature, encounter and performance, and showing how it informs, and has always informed, human experience.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges written by Edwin Williamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, Borges has been accessible in English only through a number of anthologies drawn mainly from his work of the 1940s and 1950s. The primary aim of this Companion is to provide a more comprehensive account of Borges's oeuvre and the evolution of his writing. It offers critical assessments by leading scholars of the poetry of his youth and the later poetry and fiction, as well as of the 'canonical' volumes of the middle years. Other chapters focus on key themes and interests, and on his influence in literary theory and translation studies.
Download or read book This Craft of Verse written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcribed from recently discovered tapes, this work stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the life of literature. 1 halftone.
Download or read book Swedenborg s Journal of Dreams 1743 1744 written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by Chrysalis Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of Dreams, with its accompanying interpretation by psychologist Wilson Van Dusen, provides an intimate view of the spiritual awakening of Swedish scientist-turned-seer Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772).
Download or read book Sartre in Cuba Cuba in Sartre written by William Rowlandson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Sartre’s engagement with the Cuban Revolution. In early 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir accepted the invitation to visit Cuba and to report on the revolution. They arrived during the carnival in a land bursting with revolutionary activity. They visited Che Guevara, head of the National Bank. They toured the island with Fidel Castro. They met ministers, journalists, students, writers, artists, dockers and agricultural workers. Sartre spoke at the University of Havana. Sartre later published his Cuba reports in France-Soir. Sartre endorsed the Cuban Revolution. He made clear his political identification. He opposed colonialism. He saw the US as colonial in Cuban affairs from 1898. He supported Fidel Castro. He supported the agrarian reform. He supported the revolution. His Cuba accounts have been maligned, ignored and understudied. They have been denounced as blind praise of Castro, ‘unabashed propaganda.’ They have been criticised for ‘clichés,’ ‘panegyric’ and ‘analytical superficiality.’ They have been called ‘crazy’ and ‘incomprehensible.’ Sartre was called naïve. He was rebuked as a fellow traveller. He was, in the words of Cuban author Guillermo Cabrera Infante, duped by ‘Chic Guevara.’ This book explores these accusations. Were Sartre’s Cuba texts propaganda? Are they blind praise? Was he naïve? Had he been deceived by Castro? Had he deceived his readers? Was he obligated to Castro or to the Revolution? He later buried the reports, and abandoned a separate Cuba book. His relationship with Castro later turned sour. What is the impact of Cuba on Sartre and of Sartre on Cuba?
Download or read book The Book of Imaginary Beings written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition-The compilation and translation of this volume have given us a great deal of such pleasure; we hope the reader will share some of the fun we felt when ransacking the
Download or read book Out of This World written by I.P. Couliano and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader on a fantastic journey through a wide range of cultures and traditions to examine the phenomenon of ecstatic visionary experiences—from Sumerian Gilgamesh and the Taoist Immortals to the imaginative fiction of Jorge Luis Borges. The author provides a comprehensive tour of otherworldly journeys common from immemorial times among shamans, magicians, and witches, and illustrates their connection with such modern phenomena as altered states of consciousness, out-of-body experiences, and near-death experiences.
