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Book Dreams  Fantasies  Hallucinations  Truths and Visions

Download or read book Dreams Fantasies Hallucinations Truths and Visions written by Bronco and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each section of this work, is a passageway into your own experience. Dreams, Fantasies, Hallucinations, Truths and Visions. Hopefully, you will take this journey with me, into your own experience of Life! Travel with me. Explore the depths of Your Soul. Your Dreams..... Treasure this Journey. For those around you, who need you. Need you to be Better than you were, before This Journey. With Love. Here is your Adventure! -Bronco

Book The Future of the Nineteenth Century Dream Child

Download or read book The Future of the Nineteenth Century Dream Child written by Amy Billone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter series and in other works that have reached unprecedented levels of popular success today. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Lewis Carroll's Alice and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Billone goes on to examine the recent resurrection of Alice in Tim Burton's Alice, and of Peter Pan in Michael Jackson and in James Bond. Visiting trends that have emerged since the Harry Potter series ended, the book studies revisions of the dream-child in texts and films that have inspired mass fandom in the twenty-first century: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, E.L. James's 50 Shades of Grey and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games. The volume argues that the 21st-century desire to achieve dream-states in relationship to eternal youth results from the way that dreams provide a means of realizing the fantastic yet alarming possibility of escaping from time. This current identification with the dream-child stems from the threat of political unrest and economic and environmental collapse as well as from the simultaneous technophilia and technophobia of a culture immersed in the breathless revolution of the digital age. This book not only explores how the dream-child from the past has returned to reflect misgivings about imagined dystopian futures but also reveals how the rebirth of the dream-child opens up possibilities for new narratives where happy endings remain viable against all odds. It will appeal to scholars in a wide variety of fields including Childhood Studies, Children's/YA Literature, Cinema Studies, Cultural Studies, Cyberculture, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Gothic Studies, New Media, and Popular Culture.

Book Phantasmagoria

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marina Warner
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0199299943
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Phantasmagoria written by Marina Warner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception, and uncovers a host of spirit forms--angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies--that are still actively present in contemporary culture.

Book Blackie s Compact Thesaurus

Download or read book Blackie s Compact Thesaurus written by Blackie and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 20,000 words, including the most common words. Definitions explanatory and presented in simple language. Sentences for almost all words to clearly understand the usage of the word. Parts of speech clearly mentioned

Book Oxford American Writer s Thesaurus

Download or read book Oxford American Writer s Thesaurus written by Christine A. Lindberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much more than a word list, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a browsable source of inspiration as well as an authoritative guide to selecting and using vocabulary. This innovative thesaurus eatures real-life example sentences, usage notes, literary quotations, and thought-provoking reflections on favorite (and not-so-favorite) words by over two dozen renowned contemporary writers. The third edition revises and updates this innovative reference, enhancing it with new features and adding hundreds of new words, senses, and phrases to the more than 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms.

Book Journey Into Truth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kent Sayler
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2010-09-20
  • ISBN : 0557498791
  • Pages : 620 pages

Download or read book Journey Into Truth written by Kent Sayler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the amazing spiritual journey made by the author after a series of misfortunes took him from a happy life into an abyss filled with grief and aching loss. He thus began questioning everything about life, faith, truth, and God. In frustrated desperation, he started a five-year quest for answers to the melancholy and pain. The author writes of powerful hidden knowledge discovered during his fight back to wholeness. Through these secrets, he ultimately attained a deep, genuine sense of peace, joy, and purpose. The book shares personal details of his significant insight-filled journey, as well as the hidden formula for happiness that he uncovered along the way. His references to long-lost ancient wisdom make it easy for readers to quickly find their own pathway to profound peace and joy. They are also led to discover the means by which they can personally experience a life of true contentment, coming to understand their life's unique purpose and thereby achieving deep personal fulfillment.

Book Georges Rouault and Material Imagining

Download or read book Georges Rouault and Material Imagining written by Jennifer Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while numerous landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint. Rouault's work explodes the genre of painting, drawing upon the residue of Gustave Moreau's symbolism, the extremities of Fauvism, and the radical theatrical experiments of Alfred Jarry. The repetitions and re-workings at the heart of Rouault's process defy conventional chronological treatment, and place the emphasis upon the coming-into-being of the work of art. Ultimately, the book reveals the process of making as both a search for understanding and a response to the problematic world of the 20th century.

Book Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming

Download or read book Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming written by Catherine Shainberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-02-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic exposition of the powerful, ancient Sephardic tradition of dreaming passed down from the renowned 13th-century kabbalist Isaac the Blind • Includes exercises and practices to access the dream state at will in order to engage with life in a state of enhanced awareness • Written by the close student of revered kabbalist Colette Aboulker-Muscat In Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming Catherine Shainberg unveils the esoteric practices that allow us to unlock the dreaming mind's transformative and intuitive powers. These are the practices used by ancient prophets, seers, and sages to control dreams and visions. Shainberg draws upon the ancient Sephardic Kabbalah tradition, as well as illustrative stories and myths from around the Mediterranean, to teach readers how to harness the intuitive power of their dreaming. While the Hebrew Bible and our Western esoteric tradition give us ample evidence of dream teachings, rarely has the path to becoming a conscious dreamer been articulated. Shainberg shows that dreaming is not something that merely takes place while sleeping--we are dreaming at every moment. By teaching the conscious mind to be awake in our sleeping dreams and the dreaming mind to be manifest in daytime awareness, we are able to achieve revolutionary consciousness. Her inner-vision exercises initiate creative and transformative images that generate the pathways to self-realization.

Book Bewilderments of Vision

Download or read book Bewilderments of Vision written by Oliver Tearle and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Oscar Wilde, 'the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often unusual readings, this book endeavours to develop Wilde's remark into a detailed and creative theory of reading. It focuses on a series of neologisms from writing of the period.

Book Transcendental Magic

Download or read book Transcendental Magic written by Éliphas Lévi and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding Apocalyptic Terrorism

Download or read book Understanding Apocalyptic Terrorism written by Frances L. Flannery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a cross-cultural worldview called 'radical apocalypticism' that underlies the majority of terrorist movements in the twenty-first century. Although not all apocalypticism is violent, in its extreme forms radical apocalypticism gives rise to terrorists as varied as members of Al Qaeda, Anders Behring Breivik, or Timothy McVeigh. In its secular variations, it also motivates ideological terrorists, such as the eco-terrorists Earth Liberation Front or The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. This book provides an original paradigm for distinguishing between peaceful and violent or radical forms of apocalypticism and analyses the history, major transformations, and characteristics of the apocalyptic thought system. Using an inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural approach, this book discusses the mechanisms of radicalization and dynamics of perceived oppression and violence to clarify anew the self-identities, motivations, and goals of a broad swath of terrorists. As conventional counter-terrorism approaches have so far failed to stem the cycle of terrorism, this approach suggests a comprehensive "cultural" method to combating terrorism that addresses the appeal of radical apocalyptic terrorist ideology itself. This book will be of much interest to students of apocalypticism, political violence, terrorism and counter-terrorism, intelligence studies, religious studies, and security studies.

Book Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature

Download or read book Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature written by Raul Moncayo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature considers the psychoanalytic applications of three classic works of nineteenth-century literature, applying Lacanian concepts throughout. Moncayo imports the dynamisms and texture of three English and American stories with the aim of developing psychoanalytic theory, rather than simply confirming or applying previously adopted psychoanalytic concepts and theory. The author begins with The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, assessing the differences between Derrida and Lacan’s analysis of this famous story. The book then considers The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, using James’ text for an in-depth analysis of Lacan’s Seminar on the Logic of the Fantasy, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, considering "passage à l'acte," and the objet a as the Wind and Heart of the Signifier. The authors use Lacan’s later theories to cast a new interpretative light on the stories, much as Lacan himself did with the work of James Joyce. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature will be of interest to academics and scholars of literary studies, psychoanalytic and Lacanian studies and Philosophy.

Book Dream Talk

Download or read book Dream Talk written by Katrina Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Magician of the Beautiful

Download or read book Magician of the Beautiful written by Mitch Horowitz and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO WAS THE MYSTERIOUS MAN CALLED NEVILLE? In this concise work, PEN Award-winning author and historian Mitch Horowitz explores one of the most radical, finely developed, and intriguing intellects in modern metaphysics: Neville Goddard (1905-1972). Neville issued the ultimate challenge: your imagination is God. He had an ethic of empowering self-responsibility and boundless mental creativity. Neville’s ideas are compelling and beautifully congruent with quantum physics and scholarly psychical research. As Mitch describes, Neville is modern mysticism’s most penetrating voice. In Magician of the Beautiful, Mitch explores the mystic’s background, shows how to put how to put his ideas into action, and considers Neville’s mysterious teacher Abdullah. “Mitch Horowitz is a no-nonsense historian specializing in matters of metaphysics, New Thought, and the occult. His works don’t stop at mere description of these movements but often delve into method and experience, inviting readers to test the transformational potential of these waters for themselves. A trusted voice on esoteric topics...” —Unity Magazine

Book Vita Nova

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dante Alighieri
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2012-03-14
  • ISBN : 0810165090
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Vita Nova written by Dante Alighieri and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recepient, 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Dante’s Vita Nova (circa 1292–1295) depicts the joys and sorrows, the discoveries and conflicts of Dante’s early love for Beatrice—who would achieve later and even greater fame in Commedia—starting with his first sighting of her and culminating in his prevision of Beatrice among the beatified in heaven. Award-winning translator and poet Andrew Frisardi channels the vigor and nuance of Dante’s first masterpiece for a modern audience. The “little book,” as Dante calls it, consists of thirty-one lyric poems—mostly sonnets—embedded in a prose narrative, which both recounts an apparently autobiographical set of events also evoked in the poems and offers analysis of the poems’ construction in the medieval critical tradition of divisio textus, or division of the text. Dante selected poetry he had written before age twenty-eight or so and wrote the prose to shape it into a story. The poems anthologize Dante’s growth as a poet, from the influence of his earliest mentors to the stylistic and thematic breakthroughs of his poetic coming-of-age. The interplay of poetry and prose in Vita Nova, along with the further distinction in the latter between autobiography and critical divisioni, presents a particular challenge for any translator. Frisardi faithfully voices the complex meter and rhyme schemes of the poetry while capturing the tone of each of the prose styles. His introduction and in-depth annotations provide additional context for the twenty-first-century reader.

Book The Silent Vow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary Drewes
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2006-06-19
  • ISBN : 1467819859
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book The Silent Vow written by Gary Drewes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The onset of this Volume explores the life of an adult immature boy. He faces the emotional feelings of encountering an interpersonal relationship. These loving emotions were suppressed through drug abuse during life. Exposed to such feelings he failed to know how to handle this emotional state. Upon his separation from his first real girl friend he suffered a mental breakdown to the hands of an older friend giving him LSD. His trust in reality, his trust in the family, and his faith in mankind were demented. His hallucinating led him to his loss of personal responsibility. Upon breaking the law he was sent to jail and moved to a psychiatric facility to receive help. His therapy was geared to help a hostile and aggressive person. His mental state was one of chemically induced hallucinations and some psychotic fantasy. The imposed force of treatment was going to help him to deal with his aggression. Through therapy thee was hope in guiding the path to a more healthy and productive future. The boy was diagnosed with poor impulse controls. He was character sketched to be a heinous criminal. The preconceived notions were imposed that he was to have the characteristics of a person with aggressive tendencies. All hypothetical situations were leveraged to believe he would act violently. Predetermined behavioral states left him to be treated for a condition of possessing underlying hostilities. He was not to be trusted. Given many chance the boy showed that he could be a model patient. He showed he was able to comply with the rules. His learning about system showed where he was able to manipulate the system for personal gain. He had evolved and progressed in his criminal mentality to repeat his acts of aggression. The recidivism of a hardened criminal was surfacing in light of a potential healing process that was evolving.

Book Dreams  Consciousness  Spirit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernest Lawrence Rossi
  • Publisher : Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781891944994
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Dreams Consciousness Spirit written by Ernest Lawrence Rossi and published by Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Dreams and the growth of personality. 2nd ed. c1985.