Download or read book The Loom of God written by Clifford A. Pickover and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A marvelously entertaining, historical romp through the unexpected connections between mathematics and mysticism” (Paul Hoffman, Discover). From the mysterious cult of Pythagoras to the awesome mechanics of Stonehenge to digitally generated “gargoyles” and fractals, mathematics has always been a powerful, even divine force in the world. In a lively, intelligent synthesis of math, mysticism, and science fiction, Clifford Pickover explains the eternal magic of numbers. Taking a uniquely humorous approach, he appoints readers “Chief Historian” of an intergalactic museum and sends them, along with a quirky cast of characters, hurtling through the ages to explore how individuals used numbers for such purposes as predicting the end of the world, finding love, and winning wars.

Download or read book The Infinite Book written by John D. Barrow and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place where things happen that don't. All manner of strange paradoxes and fantasies characterize an infinite universe. If our Universe is infinite then an infinite number of exact copies of you are, at this very moment, reading an identical sentence on an identical planet somewhere else in the Universe. Now Infinity is the darling of cutting edge research, the measuring stick used by physicists, cosmologists, and mathematicians to determine the accuracy of their theories. From the paradox of Zeno’s arrow to string theory, Cambridge professor John Barrow takes us on a grand tour of this most elusive of ideas and describes with clarifying subtlety how this subject has shaped, and continues to shape, our very sense of the world in which we live. The Infinite Book is a thoroughly entertaining and completely accessible account of the biggest subject of them all–infinity.

Download or read book Kabbalistic Wisdom written by Conrad Riker and published by Conrad Riker. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of feeling lost and unfulfilled on your spiritual journey? Are you seeking a path towards enlightenment that honors the divine masculine? Kabbalistic Wisdom: Embracing Limitations for Spiritual Growth is here to guide you towards a profound understanding of the Kabbalah, limitations, and the interplay of God and human existence. This book addresses essential questions, such as: 1. How can limitations in our spiritual path lead to true enlightenment and understanding of God? 2. What does Kabbalah teach us about the role of suffering and struggle in our journey? 3. How can we embrace individual limitations as a means to develop our personal traits and spiritual growth? By exploring these questions, you'll discover: - The significance of God's limited form in Jewish mysticism - The psychological aspects of embracing personal limitations as a spiritual path - The role of limitations in maintaining the balance of confinement and freedom in Kabbalistic teachings - How to apply Kabbalistic wisdom in your everyday life - The dual nature of limitations as both confinement and a path towards spiritual freedom - The critical role of humanity in maintaining divine limitations - The counter to cultural Marxism and modern heresies found in Kabbalistic doctrine - The masculine power in Kabbalistic spirituality - The importance of embracing suffering and struggle as a test of limitations If you're a redpilled, rational man seeking a sensible and pragmatic approach to spiritual growth, Kabbalistic Wisdom: Embracing Limitations for Spiritual Growth is the essential guide for understanding the Kabbalah, limitations, and the divine masculine on your path to enlightenment. Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your spiritual connection and enhance your personal development. Buy the book today!

Download or read book Awakening The Path to Transformation and Divine Union written by C. P. Kumar and published by C. P. Kumar. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Awakening: The Path to Transformation and Divine Union" is a transformative guide that unravels wrong thinking as the root of life's problems and unlocks the power of right knowledge as the ultimate solution. It explores selflessness as a path to progress and prosperity, transforming everyday actions into acts of prayer. Embracing infinity and letting go of individuality leads to true bliss, while daily connections nurture higher consciousness. The book emphasizes the value of blessings, divine reflections, and surrendering to truth for liberation. It advocates for immersing in spiritual awakening, detaching from illusion, and aligning lifestyle with a higher purpose. It highlights the intrinsic reward of being good, choosing right for growth, and letting go to embrace divine union. This enlightening guide offers profound insights and practical wisdom for a transformative journey.

Download or read book The Beauty of the Infinite written by David Bentley Hart and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beauty of the Infinite is a splendid extended essay in "theological aesthetics." David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence -- both philosophical and literal -- characteristic of the postmodern world. The book begins by tracing the shifting use and nature of metaphysics in the thought of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lyotard, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Levinas, and others. Hart pays special attention to Nietzsche's famous narrative of the "will to power" -- a narrative largely adopted by the world today -- and he offers an engaging revision (though not rejection) of the genealogy of nihilism, thereby highlighting the significant "interruption" that Christian thought introduced into the history of metaphysics. This discussion sets the stage for a retrieval of the classic Christian account of beauty and sublimity, and of the relation of both to the question of being. Written in the form of a dogmatica minora, this main section of the book offers a pointed reading of the Christian story in four moments, or parts: Trinity, creation, salvation, and eschaton. Through a combination of narrative and argument throughout, Hart ends up demonstrating the power of Christian metaphysics not only to withstand the critiques of modern and postmodern thought but also to move well beyond them. Strikingly original and deeply rewarding, The Beauty of the Infinite is both a constructively critical account of the history of metaphysics and a compelling contribution to it.

Download or read book Literary Infinities written by Baylee Brits and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences. Literary Infinities analyses the connection between the late 19th-century revolution in the mathematics of the infinite and the literature of 20th-century modernism, opening up a novel path of influence and inquiry in modernist literature. Baylee Brits considers the role of numbers and the concept of the infinite in key modernists, including James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee. She begins by recuperating the difficult and rebellious German mathematician, Georg Cantor, for the broader artistic, cultural and philosophical project of modernism. Cantor revolutionized the mathematics of the infinite, creating reverberations across the numerical sciences, philosophy, religion and literary modernism. This 'modernist' infinity is shown to undergird and shape key innovations in narrative form, creating a bridge between the mathematical and the literary, presentation and representation, formalism and the tactile imagination.

Download or read book Depths As Yet Unspoken written by Roland Faber and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitehead’s thought continues to attract attention in mathematics and metaphysics, but few have recognized with Roland Faber, the deeply mystical dimensions of his philosophy. “If you like to phrase it so,” Whitehead states, “philosophy is mystical. For mysticism is direct insight into depths as yet unspoken.” Where, however, do these unspoken depths speak in Whitehead, and what are their associated themes in his philosophy? For the first time, Depths As Yet Unspoken gathers together Faber’s most compelling writings on Whitehead’s mutually immanent themes of mysticism, multiplicity, and divinity. In dialogue with a diversity of voices, from process philosophers and theologians, to mystical and poststructuralist thinkers, Faber creatively articulates Whitehead’s “theopoetic” process cosmogony in its relevance to metaphysics, cosmology, everyday experience, religious pluralism, and interreligious violence, spirituality, and longstanding concerns of the theological tradition, including creation, the Trinity, revelation, religious experience, and divine mystery. Although Whitehead’s mystical inclinations may not be obvious at first, they in fact constitute the apophatic backdrop to his entire philosophical corpus. Through Faber’s work, Whitehead’s philosophy is revealed to be nothing short of a remarkable endeavor to speak to the unfathomable depth of things.

Download or read book Naturalizing Badiou written by Fabio Gironi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing the boundaries between 'continental' and 'analytic' philosophical approaches, this book proposes a naturalistic revision of the mathematical ontology of Alain Badiou, establishing links with structuralist projects in the philosophy of science and mathematics.

Download or read book Endarkenment New Age Fake Enlightenment written by Jack Tanner and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Enlightenment" is a scam. You know it is. Meditation is useless. You know it is. Mindfulness is actually Mindlessness. You know it is. Here's the message that you definitely don't want to hear. Reason and logic explain reality. The Principle of Sufficient Reason and Occam's Razor are the instruments necessary to understand reality, not meditation, not mindfulness, not yoga, not perception, not empiricism. If you are opposed to the Principle of Sufficient Reason, you are thereby a defender of irrationalism. Irrational answers are not answers. Unreason is endarkenment. Reason is the enlightenment, the TRUE enlightenment. The light of reason shows you the way to the Absolute Answer.

Download or read book Imaginationland A Self Help Book written by Aaron Wayno and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chapbook filled with short stories, micro-fiction, homilies, tall tales, futuristic fairy tales, journal entries, anecdotes, life coaching, imagination, dream interpretation, and as an added bonus 99 trivia questions about old Nintendo games.

Download or read book German Expressionism in the Audiovisual Culture Der deutsche Expressionismus in den Audiovisuellen Medien written by Paloma Ortiz-de-Urbina and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts machte zeitgleich mit dem Expressionismus eine neue Kunstform ihre ersten Schritte, die Bild, Sprache und Musik in sich vereinte: der Kinofilm. In Deutschland hatte die expressionistische Ästhetik einen enormen Einfluss auf dieses neue Medium, der sich in Filmen wie Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), Der Golem (1920), Nosferatu (1922) oder Metropolis (1927) zeigt und bis heute seine Spuren hinterlassen hat. Dieser Band analysiert, wie Themen, Motive, Mythen und Ästhetik des expressionistischen Kinos der 1920er Jahre in den audiovisuellen Medien bis ins 21. Jahrhundert fortwirken und welchen Einfluss sie auf Myth Criticism oder auf populäre Gattungen wie Fantasy, Horror oder Science Fiction nach wie vor ausüben.

Download or read book The Book of Night written by Daniel Kemp and published by Westgate Co. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am of that group of souls who sit forever apart. We are outcast, unfit; the lonely and the lost. We are the ugly, the strange, the introspective. We love darkness, for the darkness is a great equaliser. To lover Her one must be alone, with Her. She comes to all who cry out within whirling starlight, drunk with the gaseous vapour of nebulae. Inhaling the vigour of eternity, exhaling the laughter of mad intoxication. The benison of night is open to all.

Download or read book Dogmatic Aesthetics written by Stephen John Wright and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The identification of God with beauty is one of the most aesthetically rich notions within Christian thought. However, this claim is often at risk of becoming untethered from core Christian theological confessions. To avoid a theological account of beauty becoming a mere projection of our wildest desires, it must be reined in by dogmatics. To make this case, this book employs the thought of Robert W. Jenson to construct a dogmatic aesthetics. Jenson’s whole theological program is directed by exploring the systematic potential of the core doctrines of the faith that finally opens out into a vast vision of the beauty of God and creatures: “God is a great fugue . . . the rest is music.” Taking Jenson’s cue, the account of beauty presented in this book is propelled by a core conviction of Jenson’s theology: the sole analogue between God and creatures is not “being” or any other metaphysical concept, but Jesus Christ.

Download or read book Caritas Coaching written by Sara Horton- Deutsch and published by Sigma. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, nurses have been the source of heart and healing in the healthcare system. But today’s care providers have little opportunity to make sense of their own experiences[md]let alone be fully present for others. Nurses and other care providers are often ill-prepared for the heavy toll of their day-to-day workload and find themselves at a crossroads: accept things the way they are or search for a different way. Through stories of caring moments, transpersonal journeys, and ongoing evolution, Caritas Coaching provides nurses and other caregivers a deep, intimate look at how to integrate Caring Science into their practice. Caring Science offers a scientific and philosophical context to explore, describe, and research human healing – ultimately providing a path for bringing care back into healthcare. By integrating Caring Science into their practice, nurses can balance information and technology with the human side of healthcare.

Download or read book Antiquity and the Meanings of Time written by Duncan F. Kennedy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society and contemporary culture seem forever fascinated by the topic of time. In modern fiction, Ian McEwan (The Child in Time) and Martin Amis (Time's Arrow) have led the way in exploring the human condition in relation to past, present and future. In cinema, several cultural texts (Memento, Minority Report, The Hours) have similarly reflected a preoccupation with temporality and human experience. And in the sphere of politics, debates about the 'end of history', prompted by Francis Fukuyama, indicate that how we live is deeply determined by our relationship not only to place but also to the passing of time. But what did the ancients think about time? Is our interest in chronology a relatively recent phenomenon? Or does it go further back? In his major new work, Duncan Kennedy indicates that our own fascination with time-reckoning is by no means unique. Discussing a number of key texts (such as Homer's Odyssey; Sophocles' Oedipus Rex; Virgil's Aeneid; and Ovid's Metamophoses) and imaginatively setting these side-by-side with modern works (such as Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Joyce's Ulysses), he shows that, from era to era, and in different ways, human beings have uniformly striven to understand the unfolding of history and their relationship to it. This sophisticated cross-disciplinary book will appeal not only to classicists, but also to scholars and students in the humanities more broadly, as well as beyond.

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Download or read book The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience written by Clifford A. Pickover and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his most ambitious book yet, Clifford Pickover bridges the gulf between logic, spirit, science, and religion. While exploring the concept of omniscience, Pickover explains the kinds of relationships limited beings can have with an all-knowing God. Pickover's thought exercises, controversial experiments, and practical analogies help us transcend our ordinary lives while challenging us to better understand our place in the cosmos and our dreams of a supernatural God. Through an inventive blend of science, history, philosophy, science fiction, and mind-stretching brainteasers, Pickover unfolds the paradoxes of God like no other writer. He provides glimpses into the infinite, allowing us to think big, and to have daring, limitless dreams.