Download or read book The Tragedy of Doctor Gnosis written by Steve Cirrone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragedy of Doctor Gnosis reveals that even the most learned of men can fall prey to the desires for love and superficial beauty. Author Steve Cirrone reveals his passion for Renaissance drama in his first full-length play. A modern interpretation of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustas, Cirrone's work carefully adheres to the dramatic principles of the Renaissance period. Skillfully crafted, the language and literary devices used throughout the text reflect the dynamics of dramatists writing during the Elizabethan era. The Tragedy of Doctor Gnosis explores the force of cosmic destiny in the world today by compelling us to examine the human desire for everlasting life against modern concepts of love, superficial beauty, and the divine. As in Marlowe's play, the central conflict in The Tragedy of Doctor Gnosis shows us that self-delusion mixed with exorbitant pride can lead to one's tragic end. The play's powerful drama is rooted in the protagonist's absolute devotion to a young lover--despite its cost to his reputation and his life. The Tragedy of Doctor Gnosis challenges readers and audiences alike to think deeply about consequences when boundaries between self and the divine are erased by a misguided will.
Download or read book Pharmako Gnosis Revised and Updated written by Dale Pendell and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving deep into the world of psychoactive plants, including ayahuasca, Pharmako/Gnosis serves as a comprehensive and standalone guide. Celebrated by readers as a modern classic, this is a must-have for anyone interested in the science, history, and lore of psychoactive substances. In this third and final volume of the Pharmako trilogy, Dale Pendell embarks on a captivating journey through the botanical and cultural landscapes of a diverse array of mind-altering "teachers." From plant-based psychedelic substances to their synthetic derivatives, Pendell illuminates each with an erudition and playful wit uniquely his own. He delves into the worlds of traditional use and modern interpretations of substances such as: Amanita muscaria Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi) Blowfish/Puffer Fish (Tetradontidae) Bufo alvarius Iboga (Tabernanthe iboga) Jurema (Mimosa hostilis) Ketamine Kratom (Mitragynia speciosa) Mescal Bean (Sophora secundiflora) Morning Glory (Ipomoea, Rivea spp.) Peyote Psilocybe (Teonanacatl) San Pedro Cactus Tropane alkaloids Peganum harmala Pharmako/Gnosis offers more than a mere historical or pharmacological background of these substances. Pendell delves into the nuances of each substance's effect on consciousness with a poetic finesse, bringing to life our profound and intricate relationship with these potent compounds. He approaches the topic with genuine curiosity, acknowledging the transformative power these substances wield over individuals, societies, and cultures. The narrative, enriched by a wealth of quotations from acclaimed writers, is as intoxicating as the substances it explores, brewing a unique literary concoction. Taking the reader beyond the confines of traditional scientific discourse, Pendell's distinctive narrative style weaves in personal experiences, anecdotal evidence, and a profound sense of the sacred, resulting in a reading experience that is as deeply engaging as it is informative.
Download or read book Introduction to Gnosis written by Samael Aun Weor and published by Glorian Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient times, the Gnostics sought for salvation through personal, experiential knowledge of the Divine. Their methods of self-reliance and their sublime knowledge profoundly impacted society, such that the dominant powers felt threatened and the tradition was forced to disappear from public view. Now, after centuries of obscurity, the Gnostics have re-emerged, still carrying their profound message of Gnosis: knowledge of self and the Divine. In a simple and elegant way, Samael Aun Weor explains the basic methodology for people in today's world to begin to approach the greater mysteries of the Gnostics. In this basic and practical guide, Samael Aun Weor offers a breadth of exercises guiding the reader to discover within themselves a wealth of insight and understanding. Gnosis, after all, is Greek for knowledge, and the seeker is told, "Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe and its Gods." "A great author deduced that the human being needs eight important things in life: health and the conservation of life, nourishment, sleep, money and the things money can buy, life in the beyond, sexual satisfaction, the well-being of his children, and a sense of proper importance. We synthesize these eight things into three: 1. Health 2. Money 3. Love "If you really want to acquire these three things, you should study and practice everything that this course teaches you. We will show you the path of success." - Samael Aun Weor Includes the lecture "How to Make Light Within" and the pamphlet "Marriage, Divorce, and Tantra." Topics include: An Exercise to Control Your Anger; The Power of Thought; Mental Force; Concentration of the Mind; The Law of Karma; Favorable Circumstances; The Descent of Cosmic Vibration; Prana; The Names of the Tattvas; Properties of the Tattvas; Money; Clairvoyance; Alcoholism; Meditation and Intoxication; Osmotherapy; Mental Relaxation; Concentration; Meditation; Contemplation; The Universal Mind; Imagination and Will; Mental Action; Mental Epidemics; Mental Hygiene; Vegetarian Diet; Self-observation; Chatter; “I’s” in the Five Centers; Matrimony, Divorce, and Tantra; and more.
Download or read book Tragical History of Dr Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Queer Plays written by Steve Cirrone and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected for the first time find three original full-length plays showcasing LGBTQA+ characters and themes. "The Tragedy of Doctor Gnosis," originally published in 2005, retells the Faustian bargain in modern gay terms; Gnosis, a self-absorbed Medieval history and literature professor, risks life and career in order to remain in the glow of Nicholas Bell, an otherworldly young man-with apocalyptic results. "Still the Parade" parodies John Webster's "Duchess of Malfi" and sets Leon and Nick inside a tempestuous and comic war-of-wills that uses satire to insist on the universal sanctity of marriage. And "Who Killed Martini Olive?" is a raucous and raw whodunit drag murder mystery with alternate endings that follows Inspector Bottom as he investigates a gaggle of jealous stage queens for clues in the death of silicon-deep San Francisco nightclub performer Martini Olive, a campy drama that plays out through direct and hilarious interactions with the audience. Steve Cirrone holds a PhD in English from the Claremont Graduate School (1997) and is published in several genres, including fiction (Angel's Trumpet), memoire (Natural Venus) and philosophy (Secular Morality). He has won national awards for his magazine journalism (QSF) in San Francisco where he also bartended regularly in the Castro district. He currently lives with husband Charley and their beloved doodle Isabel in Sacramento where he teaches English literature, composition and creative writing at City College.
Download or read book Marlowe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe and published by Oxford : At the Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1901 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pharmako Gnosis written by Dale Pendell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary alchemist Dale Pendell completes his poetic study of botany, chemistry, spirituality, psychology and history in a volume covering the composition and uses of visionary plants. Chapters including Phantastica, Hypnotica and Telephorica explore the hallucinogenic plants, the bringers of sleep and the bearers of distance.
Download or read book The Search for Roots C G Jung and the Tradition of Gnosis written by Alfred Ribi and published by Gnosis Archive Books. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication in 2009 of C. G. Jung's The Red Book: Liber Novus has initiated a broad reassessment of Jung’s place in cultural history. Among many revelations, the visionary events recorded in the Red Book reveal the foundation of Jung’s complex association with the Western tradition of Gnosis. In The Search for Roots, Alfred Ribi closely examines Jung’s life-long association with Gnostic tradition. Dr. Ribi knows C. G. Jung and his tradition from the ground up. He began his analytical training with Marie-Louise von Franz in 1963, and continued working closely with Dr. von Franz for the next 30 years. For over four decades he has been an analyst, lecturer and examiner of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, where he also served as the Director of Studies. But even more importantly, early in his studies Dr. Ribi noted Jung’s underlying roots in Gnostic tradition, and he carefully followed those roots to their source. Alfred Ribi is unique in the Jungian analytical community for the careful scholarship and intellectual rigor he has brought to the study Gnosticism. In The Search for Roots, Ribi shows how a dialogue between Jungian and Gnostic studies can open new perspectives on the experiential nature of Gnosis, both ancient and modern. Creative engagement with Gnostic tradition broadens the imaginative scope of modern depth psychology and adds an essential context for understanding the voice of the soul emerging in our modern age. A Foreword by Lance Owens supplements this volume with a discussion of Jung's encounter with Gnostic tradition while composing his Red Book (Liber Novus). Dr. Owens delivers a fascinating and historically well-documented account of how Gnostic mythology entered into Jung's personal mythology in the Red Book. Gnostic mythology thereafter became for Jung a prototypical image of his individuation. Owens offers this conclusion: “In 1916 Jung had seemingly found the root of his myth and it was the myth of Gnosis. I see no evidence that this ever changed. Over the next forty years, he would proceed to construct an interpretive reading of the Gnostic tradition’s occult course across the Christian aeon: in Hermeticism, alchemy, Kabbalah, and Christian mysticism. In this vast hermeneutic enterprise, Jung was building a bridge across time, leading back to the foundation stone of classical Gnosticism. The bridge that led forward toward a new and coming aeon was footed on the stone rejected by the builders two thousand years ago.” Alfred Ribi's examination of Jung’s relationship with Gnostic tradition comes at an important time. Initially authored prior to the publication of Jung's Red Book, current release of this English edition offers a bridge between the past and the forthcoming understanding of Jung’s Gnostic roots.
Download or read book Moving Spaces written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving Spaces: Creolisation and Mobility in Africa, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean brings new perspectives on issues of creolisation, mobility, and migration of ideas, songs, stories, people, and plants, in parts of Africa, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean worlds.
Download or read book Marlowe s Tragical history of doctor Faustus and Greene s Honourable history of friar Bacon and friar Bungay ed by A W Ward written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metagnosis written by Danielle Spencer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging memoir with key concepts in narratology, philosophy and history of medicine, and disability studies, this book identifies and names the phenomenon of metagnosis: the experience of learning in adulthood of a longstanding condition. It can occur when the condition has remained undetected (e.g. colorblindness) and/or when the diagnostic categories themselves have shifted (e.g. ADHD). More broadly, it can occur with unexpected revelations bearing upon selfhood, such as surprising genetic test results. Though this phenomenon has received relatively scant attention, learning of an unknown condition is often a significant and bewildering revelation, one that subverts narrative expectations and customary categories. How do we understand these revelations? In addressing this topic Danielle Spencer approaches narrative medicine as a robust research methodology comprising interdisciplinarity, narrative attentiveness, and the creation of writerly texts. Beginning with Spencer's own experience, the book explores the issues raised by metagnosis, from communicability to narrative intelligibility to different ways of seeing. Next, it traces the distinctive metagnostic narrative arc through the stages of recognition, subversion, and renegotiation, discussing this trajectory in light of a range of metagnostic experiences-from Blade Runner to real-world mid-life diagnoses. Finally, it situates metagnosis in relation to genetic revelations and the broader discourses concerning identity. Spencer proposes that better understanding metagnosis will not simply aid those directly affected, but will serve as a bellwether for how we will all navigate advancing biomedical and genomic knowledge, and how we may fruitfully interrogate the very notion of identity.
Download or read book Don Juan and Faust in the XXth Century written by Eva Šormová and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ever Changing Sky written by Edward Francisco and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ever Changing Sky: Meditations on the Psalms, a book of lay meditations on the Psalms composed in fits and starts over a thirteen-year period, is for anyone struggling with the challenges of leading an authentic life in what poet John Keats termed an "arena of soul making." Special emphasis is given to the trials and fulfillments the author experienced while journeying to discover the indivisible connections among his roles as husband, father, grandfather, teacher, author, and Catholic. Although this book should appeal to a wide audience of readers seeking to uncover sacramental graces in everyday life, The Ever Changing Sky is especially meaningful for those wishing to contemplate their lives in a spirit of wakefulness.
Download or read book British Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Angel s Trumpet written by Steve Cirrone and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Russo is a comfortable liar trapped in the most difficult decision of his life. Told through haunting memories of a dark and deadly passion let loose in Atlanta and West Hollywood, David wrestles with his conscience as he is forced to accept his role in the death of not just one lover, but two. What will become of this man who continues to run from all that he knows and all that continues to hold him? In the end, will all the black little eyes that follow him throughout the City of Angels pierce deep his soul, or will David find a way to escape their judgment and dissembling desire forever? Author Steve Cirrone holds a PhD in English from the Claremont Graduate School (1997) and is published in several genres, including drama (The Tragedy of Doctor Gnosis), memoire (Natural Venus) and philosophy (Secular Morality). He has won national awards for his magazine journalism (QSF) in San Francisco where he also bartended regularly in the Castro district. He currently lives with husband Charley and their beloved doodle Isabel in Sacramento and teaches English literature, composition and creative writing at City College.
Download or read book Old English Drama written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
