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Elemental Living

Author : Phaidon Editors

Publisher : Phaidon Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 28,70 MB

Release : 2016-11-07

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9780714873176

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60 stunning works of contemporary architecture, all of which have a special relationship with the natural landscape Elemental Living presents 60 works of architecture from across the 20th and 21st centuries that have a special relationship with the natural world. The book includes a visually breathtaking selection of architect-created houses that have been designed to create unparalleled views of a wide variety of natural landscapes; designed to be almost indistinguishable from the natural landscape; or designed using materials and forms found in the natural landscape. Each house demonstrates a deep concern with the creation of unique living spaces that connect their inhabitants with the forests, mountains, lakes, deserts, and oceans that have attracted humanity for millennia.



An Elemental Thing

Author : Eliot Weinberger

Publisher : New Directions Publishing

Page : 212 pages

File Size : 33,14 MB

Release : 2007-05-17

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0811223701

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Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable. With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in the mountains of New Guinea. Among the thirty-five essays included are a poetic biography of the prophet Muhammad, which was praised by the London Times for its "great beauty and grace," and "The Stars," a reverie on what's up there that has already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Maori.





Elemental

Author : Luther E. Vann

Publisher : Bright Skylark Book Products

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 28,87 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780972114271

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: ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love is the product of two individuals¿ combined creative and spiritual visions. It features some 64 paintings by celebrated artist Luther E. Vann with more than approximately 50 accompanying poems and two essays by award-winning author Aberjhani. The art, spanning the early 1970s to 2007, expresses Vann¿s perception of spiritual principles active in the personal and pubic lives of people in New York and Savannah. Introductory essays comment on Vann¿s life and his art. The poems complement the art with themes that explore issues like war, homelessness, the nature of love, and expanded spiritual consciousness.



Elemental Shaman

Author : Omar W. Rosales

Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 26,3 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Shamanism

ISBN : 0738715018

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This fascinating true story chronicles one man's journey into the mysteries of spiritual consciousness and the indigenous healing practices of four shamanistic traditions: Toltec, Cherokee, Maya, and Buddhist. In his travels around the globe, Rosales witnesses the powerful channeled spirit Niño Fidencio, receives messages and healing from a Toltec shaman, and experiences a dramatic soul retrieval from a Cherokee spiritwalker. Rosales travels to Guatemala, where he meets a Mayan high priestess, or a'j' r'ij, and the secret brotherhoods called cofradias, whose mission is to guard Maximón, the last living Mayan god. Rosales's last journey is to Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon, where he spends time with a holy lama. Praise: "Beautifully written, intriguing and mysterious, a work both of adventure and of serious research."--Graham Hancock, international bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods "Omar's adventures in Elemental Shaman are inspiring and lively, with a lot of useful insight and inspiration."-- Robert A. F. Thurman, professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University and author of Why the Dalai Lama Matters "Superb. A real thriller!"--Carmen Harra, Ph.D., author of Everyday Karma



An Elemental Life

Author : Louis A. Ruprecht

Publisher : Liturgical Press

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 22,8 MB

Release : 2018-11-12

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0879076569

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Father Matthew Kelty was an especially beloved monk at the historic Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Perhaps best known as Thomas Merton's colleague and confessor in the year prior to Merton's death, Father Matthew was also an enormously gifted spiritual writer in his own right, one whose homilies at Gethsemani attracted a wide following. This is the first book-length study of Matthew Kelty's life in relation to his spiritual writings and his profound reflections on the virtues of the monastic life in the modern age.



Sharing the Harvest

Author : Elizabeth Henderson

Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 13,9 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 193339210X

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Looks at partnerships between local small farms and nearby consumers, who become members or subscribers in support of the farm, offering advice on acquiring land, organizing, handling the harvest, and money and legal matters.



Elemental Philosophy

Author : David Macauley

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 458 pages

File Size : 19,8 MB

Release : 2010-09-29

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1438432461

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Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. David Macauley embarks upon a wide-ranging discussion of their initial appearance in ancient Greek thought as mythic forces or scientific principles to their recent reemergence within contemporary continental philosophy as a means for understanding landscape and language, poetry and place, the body and the body politic. In so doing, he shows the importance of elemental thinking for comprehending and responding to ecological problems. In tracing changing views of the four elements through the history of ideas, Macauley generates a new vocabulary for and a fresh vision of the environment while engaging the elemental world directly with reflections on their various manifestations.



Troubled Waters

Author : Sharon Shinn

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 391 pages

File Size : 47,97 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780441019236

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National bestselling author Sharon Shinn introduces a rich new fantasy world, one in which people believe that five essential elements rule all things and guide their lives.



The Path of Elemental Witchcraft

Author : Salicrow

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 521 pages

File Size : 39,89 MB

Release : 2022-05-24

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 1644113376

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• Details hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals paired with personal stories from the author’s decades of magical practice • Presents teachings on working with each element in different ways--such as divination, communication, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment • Explores elemental altars, scrying and reading the bones, undines and fairies, working with runes and crystals, ancestral healing, weather sensing, fire gazing, candle magic, sex magic, and communicating with the Otherworld A Book of Shadows is a witch’s sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells. In this practical guide to elemental witchcraft, Salicrow invites you into her personal Book of Shadows, detailing hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals to work with the magic of the four elements--Water, Earth, Air, and Fire. She presents teachings on each element through the lens of different schools of magic, such as divination, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment. Within each of these elemental teachings is a series of progressive lessons, including a personal story from the author’s lifetime of magical practice paired with a technique for you to explore. For the Water witch, she explores scrying, engaging with undines, weather protection, fairy glamour, and healing with kitchen spells. For the Earth witch, she describes reading the bones, animal messengers, listening to plants, crystal grids, and shadow work. For the Air witch, she looks at communicating with sylphs and crows, divination through clouds and wind, sonic magic and healing, spell accelerants, and smudging. For the Fire witch, she examines the Djinn, the magical hearth, fire divination, candle work, and sex magic. For all the elements, she explores how to build elemental altars and customize the ceremonies and rituals. Sharing intimate examples and practices to help you progressively develop the skills of witchcraft, Salicrow invites you to create your own personal Book of Shadows as you forge a magical relationship with the natural world.