Download or read book Insanity and Divinity written by John Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How close is spirituality to psychosis? Covering the interrelation of psychosis and spirituality from a number of angles, Insanity and Divinity will generate dialogue and discussion, aid critical reflection and stimulate creative approaches to clinical work for those interested in the connections between religious studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology and hagiography. Bringing together an international range of contributors and covering many different types of religious experience, this book presents its theme in three parts: Psychoanalysis, belief and mysticism Anthropology, history and hagiography Psychology, psychosis and religious experience. Each section includes discussion of the hinterland between madness and religious experience from the perspective of a number of religions, autobiographical accounts of those who have experienced a psychosis in which spirituality played a key part and a comprehensive review of the position of psychology research into the meaning and function of spirituality in relation to the psychoses. Insightful, enlightening and wide-ranging, Insanity and Divinity is ideal for clinicians, academics and chaplains working in clinical settings.
Download or read book Insanity and Divinity written by John Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How close is spirituality to psychosis? Covering the interrelation of psychosis and spirituality from a number of angles, Insanity and Divinity will generate dialogue and discussion, aid critical reflection and stimulate creative approaches to clinical work for those interested in the connections between religious studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology and hagiography. Bringing together an international range of contributors and covering many different types of religious experience, this book presents its theme in three parts: Psychoanalysis, belief and mysticism Anthropology, history and hagiography Psychology, psychosis and religious experience. Each section includes discussion of the hinterland between madness and religious experience from the perspective of a number of religions, autobiographical accounts of those who have experienced a psychosis in which spirituality played a key part and a comprehensive review of the position of psychology research into the meaning and function of spirituality in relation to the psychoses. Insightful, enlightening and wide-ranging, Insanity and Divinity is ideal for clinicians, academics and chaplains working in clinical settings.
Download or read book Insanity written by Jonah F. Haddad and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have you seen such men--peculiar, raving, foam-mouthed, and straitjacketed--throwing themselves mercilessly at white padded walls . . . ?" Such men are said to be insane. But there is more to insanity than the images depicted in film and planted in our minds by popular media. Insanity is a condition that affects us all. Unsoundness of mind disrupts our ability to think clearly and to form knowledge about the world. Our understanding is dangerously incomplete and our minds are corrupt. We are all insane. How then can we ever hope to know our world? Is it possible to form justified true beliefs about anything? What possibility, if any, do we have of escaping this condition of madness that keeps us from the light of knowledge? In Insanity, Jonah Haddad explores these very questions by introducing the main problems of the theory of knowledge and by offering a response to our madness--a response grounded in God, the ultimate Knower.
Download or read book The Quantity Theory of Insanity written by Will Self and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new flats, new jobs, and their own telephone directory? These are the sort of truths that emerge in this collection of stories by one of England's most gifted writers. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self tips over the banal surfaces of everyday existence to uncover the hideous, the hilarious, and the bizarre. Psychiatry, anthropology, theology—and literature—will never be the same.
Download or read book Insanity and Divinity Vol One written by Pasquale DI RAGO and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Book in Insanity & Divinity SeriesFrom the Blog Book of Throes. An exploration of ideas, from Philosophy, Psychology, Art, Religion, Mysticism & Life. Guaranteed to amuse, bemuse and abuse, your senses, intellect, feelings & intuition. But with the best of intentions!!! Be warned this vol, is not an easy read, but if you heed the call, then it will reveal more than conceal. Enjoy.
Download or read book Christianity Without Insanity written by Boyd C. Purcell, Ph.D. and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Without Insanity: For Optimal Mental/Emotional/Physical Health, by Boyd C. Purcell, Ph.D., is about love-based vs. fear-based Christianity [includes a chapter on other major religions]. This book, per the subtitle, is based on the truth of holistic health inherent in psychopathology which Dr. Purcell has taught at a university graduate college. Dr. Lewis Whaley, an oncologist, endorsed this author's previous book, Spiritual Terrorism, with this statement. "As a physician, I can validate Dr. Purcell's understanding of psychopathology. The anxiety which religion, or any other factor, generates has the potential to depress the human immune system, affect every organ, and impair bodily functions." The apostle John captured the essence of the dynamics of psychopathology in these comforting, encouraging, and inspiring words: "Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers" (III John 2). No person's soul can prosper and, therefore, no one can be in optimal holistic health if one is living in fear of eternal torture in hell for oneself and/or loved ones. Do you know the symbolic meaning of the mixed metaphor, "salted with fire," of which few people have even heard? If not, you owe it to yourself to read this solidly Biblically-based book. One can believe in Christian Universalism (CU), not in spite of what The Holy Bible teaches, but because of exactly what The Holy Bible teaches about sin, salvation, and hell. Based on Biblical and historical facts, Jesus clearly taught CU—both implicitly and explicitly—just as surely as the grass is green, the sky is blue, God is in heaven, and Christ is Lord!
Download or read book Voices written by Skye Thomas and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us talk to ourselves, but do you ever hear a voice in your head that you know isn't yours? It's that small quiet spirit voice that guides, warns, protects, and inspires you to take action when you otherwise might not have. It's the guardian angel that warns you not to get on the airplane before it crashes. It's the spirit guide that whispers the name of an old friend you haven't talked to in years - just before the telephone rings and it's that same friend on the other line. Some would call it the voice of God, angels, fairies, spirit guides, your higher consciousness, intuition, or whatever else. There have always been reports of those fairy spirits that whisper to us telling us of ourselves and our future. Use whichever name you like to describe those little whispering spirits.
Download or read book Insanity and Divinity Vol One written by Pasquale DI RAGO and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Blog Book of Throes. An exploration of ideas, from Philosophy, Psychology, Art, Religion, Mysticism & Life. Guaranteed to amuse, bemuse and abuse, your senses, intellect, feelings & intuition. But with the best of intentions. Be warned this vol, is not an easy read, but if you heed the call, then it will reveal more than conceal. Enjoy.
Download or read book Guilty By Reason of Insanity written by David Limbaugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today’s Democrats are pushing policies that are simply insane, and David Limbaugh proves it in his terriffic, and tremendously important, new book, Guilty by Reason of Insanity." — MARK LEVIN "Few pundits can match David Limbaugh for research, depth of knowledge, and political insight, and in this book, perhaps his best political book, he shows how the Democrat Party has completely lost its mind." — SEAN HANNITY The left has truly lost its mind. The party out of power used to be “the loyal opposition.” No longer. Now it’s “the Resistance.” The left, abandoning any pretense of fairness and decency, has declared political war on President Trump. Waged by a stunningly broad array of militants—the Democratic Party, countless left-wing interest groups, radical academics, the liberal mainstream media, Antifa shock troops, Hollywood, and the tech oligarchs—this political war is aimed not only at conservative ideas but also at Trump supporters, even teenagers wearing MAGA hats. In his shocking new book, Guilty by Reason of Insanity, national #1 bestselling author David Limbaugh explains how the left lost its mind—and the threat it now poses to us all. No book you read this year could be more important.
Download or read book Insanity and Divinity Vol One written by Pasquale DI RAGO and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my First book, and I must say it has been a bit of an adventure. Sometimes I felt like Ulysses and other times I felt like Dante. I was privy to all manner of insights and secrets that I tried to capture over the better part of ten years.Although the journey really began for me in March 1990, when I had an experience, that left me shattered and broken, enlightened and reborn.I don't say this lightly or in jest, it was what it was, an awakening and a call from a force I knew was outer worldly.But as this is a book of musings, observations and insights. It is rather disjointed, but gives a flavor of the process from innocence and naivety to understanding and acceptance.Not so much from the world, but from myself and my divine feminine.I leave it to you Gentle Reader, to make do what you will of these musings. But I hope that you can come away with a little knowledge a little entertainment and a little awareness, of just how wonderful Life is.I remain forever, your faithful servant
Download or read book The Contemplations Vol Two written by Les Yemm and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book of Contemplations, that I wish to present to amuse, bemuse and abuse, your senses, thinking, feelings & intuition.The material was written over a period of several years and does not necessarily reflect where I am at the moment, but the essence I believe is very much true to my own internal process.I hope that you will find some value in these Contemplations. And I ask you to read them carefully, meditate on them, recite or put them into your own words, and then and only then contemplate them. For extra points, see if you can apply them to your daily lives. This is a big request, but I do believe, that it is only through the application of information, that it becomes, Knowledge which leads to wisdom, and ultimately understanding. From there it is anyone's guess.If I have any real hope for this book, it is that perhaps it will stimulate you, into looking and seeing, listening and hearing, and feeling & thinking, about yourself, your relations and the world around you, in a better way.
Download or read book The American Journal of Insanity written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychology Knowledge of the Soul written by Pasquale Di Rago and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As someone who has been diagnosed with a mental illness, and who has suffered from chronic depression, punctuated by regular psychotic episodes, and who has been through the mental illness machinery on more than one occasion, I feel that I am well placed to write about a topic and a school of thought, that affects one in five people in the world. In fact, the figure could be much higher, given the state of play in the world, our relationships and the very poor choices we make in trying to deal with it all.But there is always hope, so long as we are prepared to work on ourselves and with each other. Of course, it doesn't help much that the powers that be have an agenda, which can be summed up, as keeping us confused, distracted, sick and at each other's throats, while they merrily make off with the bulk of the world's wealth and resources.But as this Book is about Psychology, I will try to limit my exploration to matters more in keeping with the founders of the Art/Science, and leave the conspiracy stuff to those with a thirst for it.What you have here are the musings, observations and ideas that have been generated over a 28-year period, commencing in 1991, when I had my breakdown (or awakening, I'm not sure which), and the experiences subsequently.I hope that the essays speak for themselves, and pray that they maybe of practical use to not only people diagnosed, but for those who also participate in the healing process.In the end I guess it is a journey, and the destination is Home. So please accept these offerings in the spirit they are offered. And if Good is served all the better.
Download or read book The Psychosis of God written by Jeff Hood and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychosis has taken over. God's brain is gone. There is no cure. There is only God. There is only us. The Psychosis of God is about exploring the divine through the mentally ill amongst us. The image of our creator is the only tool we have for liberating God. The prison of our normative expectations steals our capacity for divine connection. Wake up! The mentally ill God is here to set the captives free. Think right! Perfection is now found in defection. Look out! Crazy is the only way out of this world alive.
Download or read book Insanity and Divinity Psychology written by Pasquale DI RAGO and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insanity & Divinity PsychologyKnowledge of the SoulFrom the Blog Book of Throes. Essays, Ideas, Observations, Thoughts & Suggestions on Psychology.Guaranteed to amuse, bemuse and abuse, your senses, intellect, feelings & intuition. But with the best of intentions. Be warned this vol, is not an easy read, but if you heed the call, then it will reveal more than conceal. Enjoy.
Download or read book Divine Madness written by Harry Eiss and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lila is Sanskrit for play, the play of the gods. It is the self-generating genesis of Bliss, created by Bliss for the purpose of Bliss. It is the uninhibited, impulsive sport of Brahman, the free spirit of creation that results in the spontaneous unfolding of the cosmos to be found in the eternity of each moment. It is beyond the confining locks and chains of reason, beyond the steel barred windows looking out from the cages of explanation, beyond the droning tick-tick-tick of the huge mechanical clocks of time. Come, let us enter the realm of the madman and the finely wrought threads of Clotho as they are measured out by Lachesis and cut by Atropos to create the great tapestry of life, including the intricate, intertwining designs of dementia with the trickster, the shaman, the scapegoat, the shadow, the artist and the savior. Come, let us join in the divine madness of the gods.
Download or read book Insanity and Divinity the Contemplations Vol Two written by Pasquale DI RAGO and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book of Contemplations, that I wish to present to amuse, bemuse and abuse, your senses, thinking, feelings & intuition.The material was written over a period of several years and does not necessarily reflect where I am at the moment, but the essence I believe is very much true to my own internal process.I hope that you will find some value in these Contemplations. And I ask you to read them carefully, meditate on them, recite or put them into your own words, and then and only then contemplate them. For extra points, see if you can apply them to your daily lives. This is a big request, but I do believe, that it is only through the application of information, that it becomes, Knowledge which leads to wisdom, and ultimately understanding. From there it is anyone's guess.If I have any real hope for this book, it is that perhaps it will stimulate you, into looking and seeing, listening and hearing, and feeling & thinking, about yourself, your relations and the world around you, in a better way.As always, I remain your humble servant.Pasquale DI RAGO
