Download or read book Popular Music Music and society written by Simon Frith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agenda. This is a multi-volume resource for this area of study

Download or read book Ramtha the White Book written by Ramtha (the enlightened one (Spirit)) and published by Ramtha's School of the Mind. This book was released on 2004 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The general introduction to Ramtha and his teachings now revised and expanded with a foreword by JZ Knight, a glossary of terms and concepts used by Ramtha, a detailed index and a commentary essay showing the significance of Ramtha's teachings. It addresses questions on the Source of all existence, our forgotten divinity, life after death, evolution, love, the power of consciousness and the mind, lessons from nature, and Ramtha's ascension"--Publisher's website.

Download or read book Spacecruiser Inquiry written by A. H. Almaas and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past twenty-five years A. H. Almaas—widely recognized as a leader in integrating spirituality and psychology—has been developing and teaching the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that integrates the insights of Sufism, Buddhism, Gurdjieff, and other wisdom traditions with modern psychology. In this new work, Almaas uses the metaphor of a "spacecruiser" to describe a method of exploring the immediacy of personal experience—a way of investigating our moment-by-moment feelings, thoughts, reactions, and behaviors through a process of open-ended questioning. The method is called the practice of inquiry, and Spacecruiser Inquiry reveals what it means to engage with this practice as a spiritual path: its principles, challenges, and rewards. The author explores basic elements of inquiry, including the open-ended attitude, the focus on direct knowledge, the experience of not-knowing, and the process of questioning. He describes the experience of "Diamond Guidance"—the inner wisdom that emerges from our true nature—and how it can be realized and applied. In this process Almaas looks at many of the essential forms of Diamond Guidance, including knowing, clarity, truth, love, intelligence, compassion, curiosity, courage, and determination. Also included are exercises and questions and answers from the original talks by Almaas on which the book is based.

Download or read book The Mass Image written by G. Beegan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It demonstrates how photomechanical reproduction allowed the illustrated press to envisage modern life on a much more intense scale than ever before.

Download or read book Poetry and Pragmatism written by Richard Poirier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Poirier, one of America's most eminent critics, reveals in this book the creative but mostly hidden alliance between American pragmatism and American poetry. He brilliantly traces pragmatism as a philosophical and literary practice grounded in a linguistic skepticism that runs from Emerson and William James to the work of Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens, and on to the cultural debates of today. More powerfully than ever before, Poirier shows that pragmatism had its start in Emerson, the great example to all his successors of how it is possible to redeem even as you set out to change the literature of the past. Poirier demonstrates that Emerson--and later William James--were essentially philosophers of language, and that it is language that embodies our cultural past, an inheritance to be struggled with, and transformed, before being handed on to future generations. He maintains that in Emersonian pragmatist writing, any loss--personal or cultural--gives way to a quest for what he calls "superfluousness," a kind of rhetorical excess by which powerfully creative individuals try to elude deprivation and stasis. In a wide-ranging meditation on what James called "the vague," Poirier extols the authentic voice of individualism, which, he argues, is tentative and casual rather than aggressive and dogmatic. The concluding chapters describe the possibilities for criticism created by this radically different understanding of reading and writing, which are nothing less than a reinvention of literary tradition itself. Poirier's discovery of this tradition illuminates the work of many of the most important figures in American philosophy and poetry. His reanimation of pragmatism also calls for a redirection of contemporary criticism, so that readers inside as well as outside the academy can begin to respond to poetic language as the source of meaning, not to meaning as the source of language.

Download or read book Knowingness written by La Fayette Ron Hubbard and published by Bridge Publications (CA). This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Pull from Beyond written by Kajal Milani and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PULL FROM BEYOND: The sequel to DEPTH "Timeless Poetry" is the second book from Kajal Milani's Timeless Poetry collection. It is essentially a work of grace, bought to you by grace. Poetry, that beckons you, to return to your true self. A loving reminder coming from beyond to gently awaken you from deep slumber of ignorance. It is grace that pulls you out from the darkness, into the light of your awareness. In your awareness you are one with every being and one with all that is. It is grace bringing you to the understanding of who you are, and grace that shall transport you from the timebound mind into the timeless heart. Soak yourself into the silence beneath these words and arrive, to your original innocence within the silence of your being. Grace has bought you here, open your heart to be touched by it and get ready to welcome yourself back to your true home. Poetry, when it comes from the depth of heart, becomes an expression of love and beauty. A PULL FROM BEYOND is an expression of loving presence, that will take you to the place of love and beauty within you.

Download or read book With Love from Your Angels written by Laura Elliott and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel like life is out of your control? Are you searching for tools to live a more heart-centered life? Are you questioning what your Higher Purpose is? The book With Love, From Your Angels contains material channeled directly from our Angels, giving tools, knowledge, and actionable steps to access our inner guidance, find clarity, and be in control of our lives. The Angels explain: • Meditation • Cleansing your energy • Healing your aura • Choosing a polarity • Detachment from outcomes • Unconditional Love, Forgiveness, and Non-Judgment • Finding your higher purpose This book is for those who seek change, for those who seek to understand why they were born, and for those who desire to reconnect with their True Selves that still reside in the Spirit World. The Angels say, “Welcome! Put up your feet and find yourself within.”

Download or read book The Authentic Dissertation written by Donald Trent Jacobs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Authentic Dissertation is a road map for students who want to make their dissertation more than a series of hoop-jumping machinations that cause them to lose the vitality and meaningfulness of their research. Students and tutors are presented with practical guidance for the kind of alternative dissertations that many educators believe are needed to move Doctoral and Master’s level work beyond the limitations that currently stifle authentic contributions for a better world. Drawing on his Cherokee/Creek ancestry and the Raramuri shamans of Mexico the author explores how research can regain its humanist core and find its true place in the natural order once more. Four Arrows provides a degree of "credibility" that will help graduate students legitimize their ideas in the eyes of more conservative university committees. This inspiring book will also help academics who sincerely want to see these alternative forms but are concerned about the rigor of "alternative" dissertation research and presentation. The featured dissertation stories tap into more diverse perspectives, more authentic experience and reflection, and more creative abilities. They are, in essence, spiritual undertakings that Honour the centrality of the researcher’s voice, experience, creativity and authority Focus more on important questions than on research methodologies per se Reveal virtues (generosity, patience, courage, respect, humility, fortitude, etc.) Regard the people’s version of reality The goal of this book is not to replace the historical values of academic research in the western tradition, but to challenge some of these values and offer alternative ideas that stem from different, sometimes opposing values.

Download or read book Autology written by David Henry Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Knowing Being written by Yellamraju Srinivasa Rao and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: aparokShAnubhUti is a short treatise written by Shankara, the seventh century saint and foremost exponent of Advaita Vedanta, in which he provides the most Direct Path to the realization of the Self on a “here and now” basis. Through the 144 verses of this text, he explains that the means to having the direct and intuitive realization of brahman - the eternal, immutable Beingness-Knowingness, which is our very nature. He declares, up-front, the unreality of the three entities, the Individual-World-Creator, a model commonly invoked by many philosophical systems to explain the genesis of a “me,” the person, and the world that I live in. Srinivasa Rao gave an elaborate commentary on aparokShAnubhUti in a series of talks, over a period of eight days. These audio commentaries have been transcribed, translated into English, edited, and organized into this book to help Non-Dual aspirants understand the intricacies of Shankara’s Direct Path.

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Download or read book Seeking Our Humanity written by Claudia Helt and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exciting News: Seeking Our Humanity received Honorable Mention Award at the 2020 Paris Book Festival Seeking Our Humanity is an opportunity for humankind to save the Earth from her present precarious condition. Her symptoms are obvious: raging storms, warming oceans, sweeping fires, harmful plastics in our food and water. Global pollution of her lands, seas and skies are abuses that she suffers daily. For millennia, we took Earth for granted and believed that she was impervious to our abuses. Now we finally recognize Earth’s vulnerability. We see the existential crisis our choices have caused and we must face the unthinkable reality that life, as we know it, might well end. Thankfully many are taking action to limit the harm of our material waste by refusing, reducing, reusing and recycling. As we strive to reverse the damage already done, one wonders if there is more we can do to help heal Mother Earth? Indeed there is! Earth’s ill health is rooted in the toxicity of human emotions and actions. This is the harsh truth presented in Seeking Our Humanity. But there is more! This book is filled with hope. As it reveals the problem, it also shows us how to address it! Just as our physical and chemical trash poison Earth’s land, sky and waters, our hatred, anger, violence, and harsh judgment poison her life essence. Although this damage is not visible, nor scientifically measurable, it is no less real and threatening to Earth’s survival and ours. As a gentle man from parts unknown illuminates the problem and the solutions to a group of old friends, the readers of Seeking Out Humanity learn the simple steps that they and all people everywhere can take to help heal the Life Being Earth. Most important, they learn that they, that we, are not alone in this commitment.

Download or read book Annoying the Victorians written by James Kincaid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when bad criticism happens to good people? Annoying the Victorians sets the tradition of critical discourse and literary criticism on its ear, as well as a few other areas. James Kincaid brings his witty, erudite and thoroughly cynical self to the Victorians, and they will never read (or be read) quite the same.

Download or read book Speech Is My Hammer written by Max A. Hunter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Speech Is My Hammer, Max Hunter draws on memoir and his own biography to call his readers to reimagine the meaning and power in literacy. Defining literacy as a “spectrum of skills, abilities, attainments, and performances,” Hunter focuses on dispelling “literacy myths” and discussing how Black male artists, entertainers, professors, and writers have described their own “literacy narratives” in self-conscious, ambivalent terms. Beginning with Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage My Freedom, W. E. B. Dubois’s Soul of Black Folks, and Langston Hughes’s Harlem Renaissance–memoir The Big Sea, Hunter conducts a literary inquiry that unearths their double-consciousness and literacy ambivalence. He moves on to reveal that for many contemporary Black men the arc of ambivalence rises even higher and becomes more complex, following the civil rights and the Black Power movements, and then sweeping sharply upward once again during the War on Drugs. Hunter provides rich illustrations and probing theses that complicate our commonsense reflections on their concealed angst regarding Black authenticity, respectability politics, and masculinity. Speech Is My Hammer moves the reader beyond considering literacy in normative terms to perceive its potential to facilitate transformative conversations among Black males.

Download or read book Where No Gods Have Gone Before written by Ola and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last call! The third dimensional earth space/time station is closing! Its time to go find another party, go home, or climb on board the New Earth Galactic Crusader! Your passport is your urge to know what exists beyond your earthly conscious experience, and what ist he nature of this intelligence and energy that created everything in one big bang? Isnt this where your self conscious awareness and your desire to know who you are originate from. This book answers your questions and enlightens you to what it is youve been seeking. It is the emergence of the evolution of humankind into conscious knowing of itself as the source, seeking to know Who am I? same as you. As above, so below! The new birth of ongoing creation to go where no gods have gone before!

Download or read book The Science of Mind The Definitive Edition written by Ernest Holmes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-08-24 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The founder of the United Church of Religious Science, an international religious movement, presents his basic spiritual tenets, showing readers how to get in touch with nature's forces and God's healing power."—Amazon.com.