Download or read book The Arboreal Alchemist written by Somsubhra Banerjee and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the gentle embrace of nature, we often find moments that elude our hurried gaze, secrets that only the patient observer can truly grasp. “The Arboreal Alchemist: Poetry through Nature’s Eyes”” is a poetry collection that invites readers to slow down, to listen closely, and to feel deeply the voices of nature. In these verses, I seek to personify the elements of the natural world, giving voice to the silent wonders that surround us daily. With humility and reverence, I present this collection, a humble offering to the eternal beauty of the Earth. The verses within these pages breathe life into the seemingly mundane. They celebrate the rustle of leaves as they gossip with the wind, the shimmering dance of sunlight on water, and the ancient wisdom of towering oaks. The poems are born from moments when I, like all of us, have failed to truly see the world around me, moments when I yearned to perceive nature as she perceives us. The tone of this collection is one of reverence and humility. Nature, in her infinite wisdom, serves as both the muse and the mentor. The words flow gently, like a babbling brook, as I strive to capture the profound beauty and wisdom that lies within every rock, tree, cloud and gust of wind. It is a humble endeavour to offer gratitude to the silent forces that shape our world. As you immerse yourself in these poems, you will find that they evoke a sense of wonder and introspection. They encourage the reader to reflect on the small miracles that often go unnoticed—the delicate intricacy of a spider’s web, the steadfast endurance of a mountain, or the relentless cycle of seasons. Each poem reminds us that the world is alive with stories waiting to be heard. There are some surprises in the form of humour and nostalgia as well strewn across the collection.
Download or read book Alchemist of the Avant Garde written by John F. Moffitt and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledged as the "Artist of the Century," Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) left a legacy that dominates the art world to this day. Inventing the ironically dégagé attitude of "ready-made" art-making, Duchamp heralded the postmodern era and replaced Pablo Picasso as the role model for avant-garde artists. John F. Moffitt challenges commonly accepted interpretations of Duchamp's art and persona by showing that his mature art, after 1910, is largely drawn from the influence of the occult traditions. Moffitt demonstrates that the key to understanding the cryptic meaning of Duchamp's diverse artworks and writings is alchemy, the most pictorial of all the occult philosophies and sciences.
Download or read book The Alchemist s Tree written by Gregory Vershbow and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature written by Victoria Bladen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature explores the vital motif of the tree of life and what it meant to early modern writers who drew from its long histories in biblical, classical and folkloric contexts, giving rise to a language of trees, an arboreal aesthetics. An ancient symbol of immortality, the tree of life was appropriated by Christian ideology and iconography to express ideas about Christ; however, the concept also migrated beyond religious doctrine. Ideas circulating around the tree of life enabled writers to imagine and articulate ideas of death and rebirth, loss and regeneration, the condition of the political state and personal states of the soul through arboreal metaphors and imagery. The motif could be used to sacralise landscapes, such as the garden, orchard or country estate, blurring the lines between contemporary green spaces and the spiritual and poetic imaginary. Located within the field of environmental humanities, and intersecting with ecocriticism and critical plant studies, this volume outlines a comprehensive history of the tree of life and offers interdisciplinary readings of focus texts by Shakespeare, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Aemilia Lanyer, Andrew Marvell and Ralph Austen. It includes consideration of related ideas and motifs, such as the tree of Jesse and the Green Man, illuminating the rich histories and meanings that emerge when an understanding of the tree of life and arboreal aesthetics are brought to the analysis of early modern literary texts and their representations of green spaces, both physical and metaphysical.
Download or read book Alchemy with Zeus and the Red Book written by Doris Fabian and published by Doris Fabian. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the practice of 20 years of Carl Gustav Jung's active imagination, I came to know Zeus. In this book I talk about what Zeus said about Jung's Red Book. He gave me a task. I should feel the images in the Red Book, because for Zeus, Jung used the same technique that I use in my art and therefore, Jung's images should create the active imagination again, because all his art comes from the active imagination. He also compared these images to his 10 attributes. I wrote about the active imaginations I made sensing the images in the Red Book. Elsewhere in this book, you'll find Zeus's attributes in symbols, and you'll get to know him, too, by touching those parts of his symbol. Jung also participates in these dialogues and talks about man's life in our present time. Know now the attributes of Zeus and interact with his symbols contained in this book. Message from Zeus; Confrontation with Images from Jung's Red Book; Jung's drawings from the Red Book and Zeus; Exiting the state of suffering in Tiphareth; 1st confrontation with image no. 36 from Jung's Red Book; 2nd confrontation with image no. 36; 1st confrontation with image no. 45 from Jung's Red Book; 1st confrontation with image no. 53; 1st confrontation with image no. 55; Confrontation with image no. 59; Confrontation with image no. 63; Confrontation with image no. 69; Confrontation with image no. 71; Confrontation with the drawing on page 72 of Jung's Red Book; Confrontation with many images from the Red Book; Confrontation with image no. 89; Characters of the reconciliation of opposites; Zeus and Demeter; Zeus; Impressions of Zeus' 10 fragments in oil; 1 - I am a divine being; 2 - Guidance; 3 - Becoming a cosmic being; 4 - Health; 5 - Acting in other dimensions; 6 - The elements; 7 - Ethical doubts; 8 - Uncomplicated relationships; 9 - Financial support; 10 - Continuous progress; Order of the creams and their colors; Another moment with Zeus' fragments; Demeter; 1st impression of Demeter's cream; 2nd impression of Demeter's cream; 3rd impression of Demeter's cream; 4th impression of Demeter's cream; 5th impression of Demeter's cream; Ascension through the balance of the masculine and feminine; Reconciliation of opposites; The opposites and the spiritual Partzuf; Zeus in cream 10 times in a row; Meditation with Zeus and Demeter in creams; Zeus and Hecate; Zeus and the goddess Durga - Let there be...; Meditating with the system of creating the equivalence of opposites (1, 10, 2, 9, 3, 8, 4, 7, 5, and 6); Uniting Heaven and Earth through Zeus and Demeter; Zeus next to the Goddess Demeter; 1st Series - Kether; 2nd Series - Chokmah; 4th Series - Chesed; 5th Series - Geburah; 6th Series - Tiphareth; 7th Series - Netsach; 8th Series - Hod; 9th Series - Yesod; 10th Series - Malkut; Meditation with Zeus and Demeter; Zeus on the Tree of Life and its attributes; Cream "I am a divine being"; Becoming a cosmic being; Acting in other dimensions; The elements; Uncomplicated relationships; Ethics; Guidance; Health; Financial support; Continuous progress; Zeus and the reconciliation of opposites; The combination of the opposites of the 10 Spheres with their angels; All spheres together in Zeus' order; Visualization of the entire chain of manifestation. The original copyright of the images printed in this book are © 2009 Stiftung der Werke von C.G. Jung, Zurich. First published by W.W. Norton & Co. This book contains images from the Red Book provided by the Jungian Institute of Zurich through PAUL & PETER FRITZ AG, Literary Agency. The original copyright of the images printed in this book are © 2009 Stiftung der Werke von C.G. Jung, Zurich. First published by W.W. Norton & Co.
Download or read book Darke Hierogliphicks written by Stanton J. Linden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers—including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramus, Sidney, Greene, Lyly, and Shakespeare—were familiar with alchemy, and references to it appear in a wide range of genres. Yet the purposes it served in literature from Chaucer through Jonson were narrowly satirical. In literature of the seventeenth century, especially in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton, the functions of alchemy changed. Focusing on Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton—in addition to Jonson and Butler—Linden demonstrates the emergence of new attitudes and innovative themes, motifs, images, and ideas. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing. This new tradition did not continue, however, and Butler's return to satire was contextualized in the antagonism of the Royal Society and religious Latitudinarians to philosophical enthusiasm and the occult. Butler, like Shadwell and Swift, expanded the range of satirical victims to include experimental scientists as well as occult charlatans. The literary uses of alchemy thus reveal the changing intellectual milieus of three centuries.
Download or read book Unicorn Magic written by Tess Whitehurst and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answer the Unicorn's Call to Wondrously Positive Living This majestic book provides the keys to unlock your personal and spiritual power. Award-winning author Tess Whitehurst presents meditations, rituals, spells, and exercises that help you enter the realm of unicorns and live as they do—uniting fierceness and courage with gentleness and grace. Unicorn Magic uses spiritual insights and techniques to combat the current madness of our culture with the beauty and wonder that is our true legacy and birthright. You'll explore a wide range of topics, including unicorn altars, energy work, dream work, activism, and alchemy. Through this magical guide, you can awaken your intuition and make positive changes in your life and the world.
Download or read book Music Cultures in Sounds Words and Images written by Antonio Baldassarre and published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Music cultures in sounds, words and images", edited by Antonio Baldassarre and Tatjana Markovic, is dedicated to the 60th birthday of the Croatian-American musicologist Zdravko Blažekovic (b. 1956, Zagreb). After his studies of musicology and first working experiences in Zagreb, Blažekovic moved to New York City, where he is since 1996 the executive editor of the RILM - Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, and since 1998 director of the RCMI - Research Center for Music Iconography as well as editor of one of the leading journals for music iconography, "Music in Art", in the framework of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Reserach and Documentation at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In view of Blažekovic's very broad multidisciplinary interests, including historical musicology, music iconography, organology, archeology, lexicography and databases, this book contains 38 studies in six languages (English, German, Italian, Serbian, Croatian, Chinese) organized in six chapters: Sounds of nations, Words on musics, Performance of musical cultures, Images on musics, Organology, and Classifying data on music.
Download or read book Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint written by David Yearsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bach's Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of theological, cultural, social and political meanings attached themselves to the use of complex procedures such as canon and double counterpoint. This book explores the significance of Bach's counterpoint in a range of interrelated contexts: its use as a means of reflecting on death; its parallels to alchemy; its vexed status in the galant music culture of the first half of the eighteenth century; its value as a representation of political power; and its central importance in the creation of Bach's image in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Touching on a wide array of contemporary literary, philosophical, critical, and musical texts, the book includes new readings of many of Bach's late works in order to re-evaluate the status and meaning of counterpoint in Bach's work and legacy.
Download or read book The Alchemy of Empire written by Rajani Sudan and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named 'Top 6' South Asia studies publications of 2016 by the British Association for South Asian Studies The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, as well as forms of knowledge like inoculation. Showing how East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted, Rajani Sudan argues that the Enlightenment was born largely out of Europe’s (and Britain’s) sense of insecurity and inferiority in the early modern world. Plumbing the depths of the imperial archive, Sudan uncovers the history of the British Enlightenment in the literary artifacts of the long eighteenth century, from the correspondence of the East India Company and the papers of the Royal Society to the poetry of Alexander Pope and the novels of Jane Austen.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery written by Lyndy Abraham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary documents alchemical symbolism from the early centuries AD to the late-twentieth century, for use by historians of literary culture, philosophy, science and the visual arts, and readers interested in alchemy and hermeticism. Each entry includes a definition of the symbol, giving the literal (physical) and figurative (spiritual) meanings, an example of the symbol used in alchemical writing, and a quotation from a literary source. There are fifty visual images of graphic woodcuts, copperplate engravings and hand-painted emblems, some reproduced here for the first time.
Download or read book The Alchemist s Handbook written by Frater Albertus and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you really want to learn the basic principles of practical alchemy, Frater Albertus’ Alchemist’s Handbook is literally is worth its weight in gold.”—from the foreword by Israel Regardie, author of The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order The Alchemist's Handbook has long been considered a modern-day classic on the actual practice of alchemy since its first publication in 1960. The book still stands as a groundbreaking work presenting in clear, concise language a practical manual of working knowledge that was formerly handed down only under oath of secrecy. The scope of alchemical work is to provide both a means to synthesize all the other sciences and the necessary training of the intellectual and spiritual faculties. “Hermetic philosophy, with its practical arcanum,” writes Frater Albertus, “repeats itself over and over again in the ancient axiom ‘As above, so below. As below, so above.’" The Alchemist's Handbook discusses in detail: The basic fundamental principles of alchemy. A guide to the formation of an inexpensive home laboratory with illustrations of the necessary equipment. Step-by-step instructions for the work of the Lesser Circulation, the alchemical transformation within the plant kingdom. “The teachings of Frater Albertus are part of a lineage that traces back to Rosicrucian sources and much earlier and The Alchemist’s Handbook is still the best introduction to that lineage. If you feel the call of Alchemy and want real information on the subject, this is definitely the book you will want to read, reread, and read again. It may just turn out to be the book that changes your life.”—From the foreword by Robert Allen Bartlett, author of Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy First published by Weiser Books in 1974, this new Weiser Classics edition includes a new foreword by Robert Allen Bartlett, author of Real Alchemy.
Download or read book Japan s Green Monsters written by Sean Rhoads and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and other monsters, such as Mothra and Gamera, have gained cult status around the world. This book provides a new interpretation of these monsters, or kaiju-ū, and their respective movies. Analyzing Japanese history, society and film, the authors show the ways in which this monster cinema take on environmental and ecological issues—from nuclear power and industrial pollution to biodiversity and climate change.
Download or read book Into the Green written by Jeff Welker and published by Bastion Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Green provides rich detail for four different types of green environments, describing the ecology, terrain, hazards, and resources of each.
Download or read book Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene written by Marek Oziewicz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization. Fantasy and myth have long been humanity's most advanced technologies for collective dreaming. Today they are helping us adopt a biocentric lens, re-kin us with other forms of life, and assist us in the transition to an ecological civilization. Deliberately moving away from dystopian narratives toward anticipatory imaginations of sustainable futures, this volume blends chapters by top scholars in the fields of fantasy, myth, and Young Adult literature with personal reflections by award-winning authors and illustrators of books for young audiences, including Shaun Tan, Jane Yolen, Katherine Applegate and Joseph Bruchac. Chapters cover the works of major fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Prachett, J. K. Rowling, China Miéville, Barbara Henderson, Jeanette Winterson, John Crowley, Richard Powers, George R. R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson. They range through narratives set in the UK, USA, Nigeria, Ghana, Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia. Across the chapters, fantasy and myth are framed as spaces where visions of sustainable futures can be designed with most detail and nuance. Rather than merely criticizing the ecocidal status quo, the book asks how mythic narratives and fantastic stories can mobilize resistance around ideas necessary for the emergence of an ecological civilization.
Download or read book Seeds of Control written by David Fedman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of “forest love,” the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber industrialists, meanwhile, channeled Korea’s forest resources into supply chains that grew in tandem with Japan’s imperial sphere. These mechanisms of resource control were only fortified after 1937, when the peninsula and its forests were mobilized for total war. In this wide-ranging study David Fedman explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea—a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Holding up for scrutiny the notion of conservation, Seeds of Control examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea’s “greenification.” Drawing from sources in Japanese and Korean, Fedman writes colonized lands into Japanese environmental history, revealing a largely untold story of green imperialism in Asia.
Download or read book Discovery written by Ricki Lewis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of Discovery: Science as a Window to the World is to relay the excitement of sciene by exploring selected topics in biology and medicine in a way that reveals the process of discovery. Each chapter will focus on the curiosity and creativity that drives scientists to wonder, observe, question and experiment. One impetus for this project is the recognition of a growing demand among instructors for a book that departs from fact-stuffed textbooks and instead engages students in the discovery process at a personal level. Emphasizes the process of discovery through interviews and key experiments. Written by a best-selling author. Provides an in-depth, conversational look at the science behind several "hot topics" in biology. Each chapter traces the beginnings of the field with stories of how serendipity and scientific inquiry intertwine. Presents the background to a field by including the scientific literature-so the reader does not have to do a literature search or plow through a review article. Many essays introduce the work of overlooked scientists or "unsung heroes." Alexey Olovnikov (telomeres), Leroy Steven (stem cells), to name a few. Also, well-known scientists are interviewed: Stanley Miller, Carl Woese, John Gearhart, and others. The essays show how ideas interact and coalesce from different lines of research. Highlights the role of the media in interpreting science for the public.
