Download or read book Follow the Ecstasy written by John Howard Griffin and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, one year after Thomas Merton's tragic (and suspicious) death, John Howard Griffin was invited to write a biography of America's most famous monk, a monk who strangely had become a best-selling theologian. The result was Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton (1983). Both Merton and Griffin were converts to Catholicism, and they had become fast friends during Griffin's occasional retreats to the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani where Merton was cloistered. As Robert Bonazzi writes in his Foreword, "With natural humility and intense spirituality, they taught each other by example and silence." Merton and Griffin were both photographers as well as writers. Griffin wrote about Merton's painting and photography in A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton (1970). They also shared a fascination with the French theologian Jacques Maritain, as well as French modernists Pierre Reverdy, George Braque, and Albert Camus. Griffin fell ill before he could finish his biography of Merton, and the mantle of official biographer passed to Michael Mott, author of The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, an essential compendium of the monk's life. Yet Follow the Ecstasy gets closer to the man--a portrait made by one who shared not only personal histories and interests with Merton, but an "intuitive perspective of solitude."
Download or read book Ecstasy written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestsellig romance author suffers a paralyzing stroke and her philandering husband wonders how this will affect his gambling and whoring budget; two young lovers must come to terms with their chemically induced deformity; Lloyd from Leith transfigures his passion for an unhappily married woman. These three tales confirm Irvine Welsh's position as a master of the "chemical" romance genre.
Download or read book Mountain Ecstasy written by Penny Slinger and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Listening to Ecstasy written by Charles Wininger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal narrative and guide to the safe, responsible use of MDMA for personal healing and social transformation • Details the author’s 50 years of responsible experimentation with mind-altering substances and how Ecstasy has helped him become a better therapist • Explains how he and his wife found Ecstasy to be the key to renewing and enriching their lives and marriage as they entered their senior years • Describes what the experience actually feels like and provides protocols for the safe, responsible, recreational, and celebrational use of MDMA for individuals and groups In a world that keeps us separate from each other, MDMA is the chemical of connection. Aptly known in popular culture as “Ecstasy,” MDMA helps us rediscover our own true loving nature, often obscured by the traumas of life. On its way to becoming a prescription medication due to groundbreaking research on its use to treat PTSD, Ecstasy can offer benefits for all adult life stages, from 20-somethings to seniors. In this memoir and guide to safe use, Charles Wininger, a licensed psychoanalyst and mental health counselor, details the countless ways that Ecstasy has helped him become a better therapist and husband. He recounts his coming of age in the 1960s counterculture, his 50 years of responsible experimentation with mind-altering substances, and his immersion in the new psychedelic renaissance. He explains how he and his wife found Ecstasy to be the key to renewing and enriching their lives as they entered their senior years. It also strengthened the bonds of their marriage. Countering the fearful propaganda that surrounds this drug, Wininger describes what the experience actually feels like and explores the value of Ecstasy and similar substances for helping psychologically healthy individuals live a more “optimal” life. He provides protocols for the responsible, recreational, and celebrational use of MDMA, including how to perfect the experience, maximize the benefits and minimize the risks, and how it may not be for everyone. He reveals how MDMA has revitalized his marriage, both erotically and emotionally, and describes how pleasure, fun, and joy can be profound bonding and transformative experiences. Revealing MDMA’s versatility when it comes to bringing lasting renewal, pleasure, and inspiration to one’s life, Wininger shows that recognizing the transformative power of happiness-inducing experiences can be the first step on the path to healing.
Download or read book Follow the Ecstasy written by John Howard Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Black Like Me takes readers inside the world of Thomas Merton, presenting an intimate look at the last critical years of his life--the period that coincided with the monk's long-sought permission to withdraw to a hermitage on the monastery grounds of Gethsemani. This edition includes a rare selection of Griffin's photographs of Merton and his hermitage.
Download or read book Education and Ecstasy written by George Leonard and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Education and Ecstasy" was originally written as a call for reform in America's school systems. Published in the 60s, and then revised in the 80s, this book reveals the deep-rooted structural problems in American schools--problems which still plague the system. (Education/Teaching)
Download or read book Master of Ecstasy written by Nina Bangs and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her trademark humor and sizzling love scenes, Nina Bangs brings us to the Scottish Highlands to meet her sexiest hero yet, a mysterious and seductive vampire.
Download or read book In Ecstasy written by Kate McCaffrey and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia and Sophie have been best friends forever — but that's all about to change. Experimenting with alcohol, flirting with boys, and dabbling in drugs, their lives quickly spiral out of control. There is little currently available for young readers — and their parents — that accurately reflects both the appeal and the consequences of drug use from a teenage perspective, making this an important and valuable novel.
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.
Download or read book Follow the Ecstasy Thomas Merton the Hermitage Years written by John Howard Griffin and published by Latitudes Press. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadows of Ecstasy written by Charles Williams and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with an invasion of Europe from Africa and a kind of superman who denies that he is Antichrist, but who looks uncommonly like him.
Download or read book Maps to Ecstasy written by Gabrielle Roth and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised edition of Maps to Ecstasy, Gabrielle Roth expands on the themes that have guided her — ways of transforming daily life into sacred art. Her work in teaching movement has been described as a marriage of art and healing. Each chapter initiates readers into one of the five sacred powers necessary for survival and reveals the five life cycles that lead to enlightenment. The creative process brings readers in touch with these five sacred powers by freeing the body to experience the power of being, expressing the heart to experience the power of loving, emptying the mind to experience the power of seeing, and embodying the spirit to experience the power of healing.
Download or read book Ecstasy written by Nicholas Saunders and published by Ed Rosenthal. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international bestseller with over 100,000 copies in print - one of the first sources of information about the drug and its correspondent dance culture.
Download or read book Erasmus written by Michael Andrew Screech and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19/8/87--5000X89PX$4.95/$5.95(6000X77P). B FORMAT.288PP.OFFSET.
Download or read book Lost Ecstasy written by June McDaniel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance of religious and mystical ecstasy has declined in the modern West. June McDaniel examines how the search for ecstatic experience has migrated into such areas as war, terrorism, transgression, sexuality, drug use, and anti-institutional forms of spirituality. She argues that the loss of religious and mystical ecstasy, as both a religious goal and as a topic of academic study, has had wide-ranging negative effects. She also proposes that the field of religious studies must go beyond criminalizing, trivializing and pathologizing ecstatic and mystical experiences. Both religious studies and theology need to take these states seriously as important aspects of lived human experience.
Download or read book Ecstasy and Terror written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.
Download or read book Mariette in Ecstasy written by Ron Hansen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy.
