Download or read book Wasting Time Illusions Versus Reality written by Ruby Larry and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana needs a reality check. Her cunning and ruthless way of living traps her in a illusion, making her unaware of what's real. She doesn't realize she is creating her own misery. Dana's life is filled with friends who think they have gained in life through drugs, murder, lying and cheating. Some of these friends escape the illusion while others remain trapped, victims to their lifestyles and the time they have wasted. In order to return to reality, Dana needs to change her way and thought process, not knowing exactly how much time she has left.
Download or read book Collision written by Ron Bruguiere and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden in a theater's orchestra-level wall is the pass door. Step through it, and you will enter the backstage area, but beware, once you enter, you will encounter the realities dwelling in the kingdom of make-believe. In this seriocomical look at life, with a who's who in the theater during the 1960s and 70s, attend the final days of the Golden Age of Theater and the beginnings of its new sounds - Hair and Company. You will read about Carol Channing prior to her acclaim in Hello, Dolly! Liza Minnelli's stage debut and Judy Garland's final stage appearance. Be a spectator during Hair's first year. Reach for something other than a glass of Remy Martin as you watch cognac shatter a relationship with Maggie Smith. Observe a coterie of distinguished Broadwayites destroy a gift from the United States Government. Be a witness to Deborah Kerr's strength knowing that she's in a failed play, and Billy Dee Williams, the then hot-hunk with the chiseled body, take on the role of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Also appearing (in order of appearance) are Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Barbra Streisand, Barbara Cook, Stan Getz, Ethel Merman, Fred Astaire, Elaine Stritch, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, James Baldwin, Kim Stanley, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, Fidel Castro, Doris Day, and Mae West. Fly to 1960s Havana; drive through France; experience the London of 1974, and visit Venice Beach, CA before it became an in-place. You'll see reality warp into illusion, then comprehend how a young boy, whose own family turned to illusion during World War II, spiraled to drugs and alcohol at adulthood. You'll also view that young gay man, who ignored reality in favor of illusion, immerse himself into a dark hole whose force of gravity was so intense that escape seemed improbable.
Download or read book The Reality Illusion written by Ralph Strauch and published by . This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look around you. Notice your surroundings. What you see seems solid and real, a fixed objective reality existing "out there" separate from you. But it's not, Ralph Strauch argues in this provocative exploration of perception, reality, and the mechanisms that link them. What you perceive are images you create, part of a grand illusion that you participate in and support. The external world is a "rich reality" -- offering far wider possibilities than most of us realize. THE REALITY ILLUSION explores the mechanisms you use to to bring the particular world you experience into focus, and explores the benefits of more fully understanding the collective illusion we call reality.
Download or read book Illusion and Reality written by David Smail and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer. Instead, anxiety and depression are described as perfectly rational responses to difficulties in the sufferer's world, experienced subjectively by that person. An essential contrast is drawn between objective conceptions of normality (what reality ought to be as per commercial and other objectifying sources) and the reality of the individual's subjective experience of the world (abuse, unemployment, and so on). Chapters include tackling the myth of normality; examining shyness; and analysing the way in which assumptions behind the use of language can foster anxiety and depression. The book's primary purpose is to explain the meaning of anxiety as experienced by the sufferer. These insights also lead to a view, by way of secondary purpose, that the role of the therapist is not in 'curing' the individual, but rather to negotiate demystification and to provide insight into the effects of the problems in the sufferer's world, based on the sufferer and the therapist's shared subjective understanding.
Download or read book The Mathematical Reality written by Alexander Unzicker and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Unzicker is a theoretical physicist and writes about elementary questions of natural philosophy. His critique of contemporary physics Bankrupting Physics (Macmillan) received the 'Science Book of the Year' award (German edition 2010). With The Mathematical Reality, Unzicker presents his most fundamental work to date, which is the result of years of study of natural laws and their historical development.The discovery of fundamental laws of nature has influenced the fate of Homo sapiens more than anything else. Has modern physics already understood these laws? Many puzzles formulated by Albert Einstein or Paul Dirac are still unsolved today, in particular the meaning of fundamental constants. In this book, Unzicker contends that a rational description of nature must do without any constants.A methodological and historical analysis shows, however, that the underlying problem of physics is deep, unexpected and fatal: the concepts of space and time themselves, the basis of science since Newton, could be fundamentally inappropriate for the description of reality, although-or precisely because-they are so easily accessible to human perception.A new understanding of reality can only arise from mathematics. By exploring the three-dimensional unitary sphere, which could replace the concepts of space and time, the author presents a mathematical vision that points the way to a new understanding of reality.
Download or read book Illusion vs Reality written by Shri Ranjit Maharaj and published by Sadguru Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a new slightly revised edition of spiritual dialogues with Shri Ranjit Maharaj, guru brother of Nisargadatta Maharaj. Originally, the talks in this book were available only from India in two separate volumes. Here the two previously released volumes of Illusion vs. Reality are now available inside one cover. All of the talks in this book were originally transcribed by Robert Wolff from recordings dating from 1996 to the year 2000. In this book the reader will find the clear and direct spiritual instruction given by Shri Ranjit Maharaj on Non-Dualitly, Self-Knowledge, and Final Reality. Ranjit Maharaj's message is refreshingly simple and easy for the western mind to comprehend. Like a modern day Zen Master, his words tear down the veil of Illusion and guide the devotee to Self-realization. This book can truly be a valuable aid to any serious spiritual aspirant for gaining the knowledge of one's True Self. Reading Maharaj's timeless words in this book and reflecting on them in the immediacy of the moment is truly the same as sitting at the feet of the Master. Maharaj always spoke in simple terms and gave very clear and penetrating instruction so that you can easily realize your True Nature. Contemplate on the immediacy of the teaching contained herein and awaken to your True Nature.
Download or read book China Misperceived written by Steven W. Mosher and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this historical overview, the author, one of the first Westerners permitted to live in rural China, argues that the USA has consistently misinterpreted China for many years. He traces the distortions that led the US first to cringe at the "Yellow Peril", then to acclaim the new "Maoist Man".
Download or read book Choices and Illusions written by Eldon Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the workings of the human mind and how its power can be used to change the world and realize full potential.
Download or read book Wisdom Collection The Book of Illusion and Reality written by Sorin Cerin and published by Amazon. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is reality than an illusion? Sorin Cerin a modern guru of contemporary thinkers brings a new vision about love, life, truth,death and more.Famous quotes about illusions and reality, motivational and inspirational quotes. Life quotes, love quotes, death quotes, all about illusions and reality.
Download or read book G rard de Nervals Sylvie illusion versus reality written by Rebecca Steltner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Didactics for the subject French - Literature, Works, grade: A, University of Canterbury (School of European Culture and Languages), course: Seminar, language: English, abstract: Gérard de Nerval’s Sylvie. Souvenirs du Valois, published in 1853, is an exploration of time and memory, dream and reality. The first person narrator is also the main character, who is indecisive and cannot commit himself to any of the three women in his life: Aurélie, Sylvie and Adrienne. The narrator of Sylvie is unreliable because his perspective is severely distorted. Sometimes his memory fails him and he does not understand his own motives and behaviour, which is both passive and impulsive at the same time. The story he tells us is about himself and only himself, because he has little understanding of the people around him. It is obvious that the narrator of Sylvie is indeed lost in illusions – this is partly symbolised by the colour descriptions and the fact that most of the novella is set at night and in ‘a dark forest’ – but does that really mean that he actually prefers the state of illusion or reverie to that of clear-headedness and rationality? In order to find an answer, first we have to look at the specific aspects that he is deluded about. This will certainly reveal the narrator’s character and we can then go on and with the help of such psychological concepts as the of the ego’s mechanisms of defence determine whether it is possible to say, that the narrator of Sylvie positively prefers illusion to reality. [...]
Download or read book Illusion and Reality written by John Raymond Dugan and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dreams Illusion and Other Realities written by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . . . weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . In her creative hands, enchanting Indian myths and stories illuminate and are illuminated by authors as different as Aeschylus, Plato, Freud, Jung, Kurl Gödel, Thomas Kuhn, Borges, Picasso, Sir Ernst Gombrich, and many others. This richly suggestive book challenges many of our fundamental assumptions about ourselves and our world."—Mark C. Taylor, New York Times Book Review "Dazzling analysis. . . . The book is firm and convincing once you appreciate its central point, which is that in traditional Hindu thought the dream isn't an accident or byway of experience, but rather the locus of epistemology. In its willful confusion of categories, its teasing readiness to blur the line between the imagined and the real, the dream actually embodies the whole problem of knowledge. . . . [O'Flaherty] wants to make your mental flesh creep, and she succeeds."—Mark Caldwell, Village Voice
Download or read book Models Behaving Badly written by Emanuel Derman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, “a compelling, accessible, and provocative piece of work that forces us to question many of our assumptions” (Gillian Tett, author of Fool’s Gold). Quants, physicists working on Wall Street as quantitative analysts, have been widely blamed for triggering financial crises with their complex mathematical models. Their formulas were meant to allow Wall Street to prosper without risk. But in this penetrating insider’s look at the recent economic collapse, Emanuel Derman—former head quant at Goldman Sachs—explains the collision between mathematical modeling and economics and what makes financial models so dangerous. Though such models imitate the style of physics and employ the language of mathematics, theories in physics aim for a description of reality—but in finance, models can shoot only for a very limited approximation of reality. Derman uses his firsthand experience in financial theory and practice to explain the complicated tangles that have paralyzed the economy. Models.Behaving.Badly. exposes Wall Street’s love affair with models, and shows us why nobody will ever be able to write a model that can encapsulate human behavior.
Download or read book The Atheist s Guide to Reality Enjoying Life without Illusions written by Alex Rosenberg and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for nonbelievers who embrace the reality-driven life. We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them—all of them. His bracing and ultimately upbeat book takes physics seriously as the complete description of reality and accepts all its consequences. He shows how physics makes Darwinian natural selection the only way life can emerge, and how that deprives nature of purpose, and human action of meaning, while it exposes conscious illusions such as free will and the self. The science that makes us nonbelievers provides the insight into the real difference between right and wrong, the nature of the mind, even the direction of human history. The Atheist's Guide to Reality draws powerful implications for the ethical and political issues that roil contemporary life. The result is nice nihilism, a surprisingly sanguine perspective atheists can happily embrace.
Download or read book Across the Great Barrier written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an alternate frontier America, Eff must travel beyond the Great Barrier and come to terms with her magic abilities--and those of her twin brother--to stop the newest threat encroaching on the settlers.
Download or read book Mastery and Lost Illusions written by Wlodzimierz Borodziej and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights the specific experiences and challenges of modernity in twentieth-century Eastern and Central Europe. Contributors ask how spatial and temporal conditions shaped the region’s transformation from a rural to an urban, industrialized society in this period and investigate the state’s role in the mastery of space, particularly in the context of state socialism. The volume also sheds light on the ruralization of cities and mutual perceptions of the rural and urban populations in this region.
Download or read book The Art of Spatial Illusion written by Richard Koeck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-12-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary art, entertainment, and architecture cultures offer a growing amount of digitally mediated spatial experiences, situated either in the metaverse (e.g. VR) or location-based in physical realms (e.g. AR), increasingly powered by generative systems (e.g. AI). Are such spatially “immersive experiences” a new phenomenon and dependent on digital innovation? The Art of Spatial Illusion: Immersive Encounters between People, Media, and Place is an insightful exploration of the evolving relationship between humans, media, and spatial environments, tracing their progression from the Renaissance, via Modernity and Postmodernity, to today’s digital age. The author offers a compelling reading and re-evaluation of architectural history and media theory, drawing connections between historical practices, technological innovations, and contemporary immersive experiences. Inspired by scholars such as Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, the book discusses how technological advancements have transformed our situatedness in “image-spaces”, highlighting the shift from material authenticity to digital reproductions. The book is structured into four parts – The Surface, The Stage, The Interface, and The Hybrid – each exploring different aspects of spatial illusions and their implications. It offers a critical perspective on the creation of architectural, immersive environments, examining the motivations behind them and their broader cultural and political contexts. Richly illustrated and deeply researched, The Art of Spatial Illusion is an essential reading for anyone interested in architecture and art as well as media archaeology, history, and theory. Seeing new, thought-provoking architectural propositions emerging on our horizon, the author provides a comprehensive understanding of how immersive experiences shape our perception of reality.
