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Encounters with Paul

Author : Ben Witherington

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 133 pages

File Size : 34,87 MB

Release : 2024-01-19

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1666734527

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As a New Testament character of note, the Apostle Paul is second only to Jesus. In this companion volume to Encounters with Jesus, Ben and Ann Witherington draw on the biblical text and deep knowledge of historical context to bring alive the reactions of several contemporaries to the famous apostle and his words and deeds. Here we hear from friends and companions as well as passing acquaintances and outright enemies of Paul. Including many photos and illustrations, this book helps us to see Paul from many vivid points of view that all up add to a compelling and revealing portrait.



Mystical Encounters with the Natural World

Author : Paul Marshall

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 16,95 MB

Release : 2005-07-07

Category : Religion

ISBN : 019153546X

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Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love. This is the first detailed study of these intriguing phenomena. Paul Marshall explores the circumstances, characteristics, and after-effects of this important but relatively neglected type of mystical experience, and critiques explanations that range from the spiritual and metaphysical to the psychoanalytic, contextual, and neuropsychological. The theorists discussed include R. M. Bucke, Edward Carpenter, W. R. Inge, Evelyn Underhill, Rudolf Otto, Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, R. C. Zaehner, W. T. Stace, Steven Katz, and Robert Forman, as well as contemporary neuroscientists. The book makes a significant contribution to current debates about the nature of mystical experience.



Encounters

Author : Paul Gottfried

Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 41,82 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Conservatism

ISBN : 9781933859996

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Paul Gottfried has spent a lifetime asking politically incorrect questions, untimely questions that have made him more unpopular among some timid "movement" conservatives than among critical theorists, Central European Marxists, and assorted other debating and dining partners. But in Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers, Gottfried puts past political battles aside in order to recount his varied associations and friendships with a host of fascinating figures, including his father, Herbert Marcuse, Paul Piccone, Christopher Lasch, Richard Nixon, and Patrick J. Buchanan. Gottfried's memoir emphasizes the Forrest Gump-like quality of his often accidental relationships with these celebrities and stimulating personalities, the benefits of which were not social or professional but personal. He insists that his life would be of little general interest were it not for the fortuitous encounters that have raised it out of the ordinary. The result is a unique, enthralling narrative that makes a signal contribution to American intellectual history. - Publisher.



Fortuitous Encounters

Author : Paul Davis

Publisher : Paulist Press

Page : 103 pages

File Size : 35,84 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0809148056

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We have all experienced fortuitous encounters--those moments in our lives--where a person, place, or thing caused our lives to change in a more positive direction. Our lives are full of what some have called serendipity, strange acts of fortune or causeless miracles. A favorite teacher inspires our choice of career, a chance encounter develops into love, marriage, and a new family. At the time we are most in need of a friend, one appears in our lives. We look at a mountain or the ocean and find meaning and peace, we read a book and an idea is planted in our brains that provides the wisdom we seek. The ability to experience fortuitous encounters is key to learning and growth. The more fortuitous encounters someone has, the better the odds are the person is successful and happy. While fortuitous encounters are by their very nature a product of chance that is beyond our ability to control, Davis and Spears strongly believe, as did Pasteur, that "chance favors only the prepared mind." The intention is not to try to explain chance, or divine intervention in this book, but simply to help the reader, whatever their core beliefs, to understand the power of fortuitous encounters. In this book, you will read firsthand reports of fortuitous encounters of many kinds. These true stories can help you to learn how to prepare yourself to experience your own fortuitous encounters, and experience a lifetime of learning and growth. This wise book will serve as a great companion to help you stay awake to the fortuitous people, places, and things that ultimately shape your days and your life. +



Encounters with Paul Celan's Poetry

Author : Pajari Räsänen

Publisher :

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 29,41 MB

Release : 2021

Category :

ISBN : 9781793632555

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Encounters with Paul Celan's Poetry: The Other's Time consists of encounters: with poetry, with its readers, and with the other that poetry seeks to encounter. What does it mean, when Celan insists that every real encounter, every true encounter happens in memory of the poetic encounter, the secret of the encounter? This book presents close readings of various poems, often attempting textual and intellectual dialogue with philosophers who read Celan or who were read by Celan, such as Jacques Derrida, Werner Hamacher, Edmund Husserl, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.



The Wisdom of the Overself

Author : Paul Brunton

Publisher : North Atlantic Books

Page : 457 pages

File Size : 30,3 MB

Release : 2015-05-26

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 1583949143

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Inspired by Paul Brunton's years spent with sages in Asia, The Wisdom of the Overself and its companion volume The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga were written at the request of these remarkable teachers, who recognized that Brunton had a significant role to play in the transmission of traditional wisdom to the West. Here is a profound re-creation of these teachings, brought to life and made accessible by Brunton's insights. In print since the 1940s, Brunton's works are considered to be among the most comprehensive, clear, and practical guides on the path to enlightenment. Brunton unfolds the grand vision for human development by investigating consciousness as the source of all experience; how to move from ego-centered life to the transcendent reality; the interplay of karma, free will, and grace; the nature of evil and suffering; how to awaken intuition and penetrative insight; the passage through death to rebirth; and psychic experiences and mystic visions. He also provides seven ultramystic exercises to open the door to higher consciousness, including a healing meditation on the sun; practices for transforming the future, dream, and sleep; and a meditation on the timeless self. These techniques lead to the deepest spiritual realizations—to the true "Wisdom of the Overself." This new edition has been updated to incorporate Brunton's final revisions. It includes a new foreword plus supplementary reading material selected from the author's archives by the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation. Contents Foreword by the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation 1. Prefatory 2. The Meaning of Mentalism 3. The Birth of the Universe 4. Studies in Dreams 5. The Metaphysics of Sleep 6. The Secret of the "I" 7. The Scorpion of Death 8. The Immortal Overself 9. The Shadows of Evil and Suffering 10. The War and the World 11. The World-Mind 12. The Unveiling of Reality 13. Initiation into Mystical Experience 14. The Yoga of the Discerning Mind 15. The Mystical Phenomena of Meditation 16. Some Fruits of Philosophy Appendix: Additional Resources from The Notebooks of Paul Brunton, Compiled by the Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation Editors



Close Encounters

Author : Laura K. Guerrero

Publisher : SAGE Publications

Page : 553 pages

File Size : 18,42 MB

Release : 2017-03-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1506376738

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A relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships, Fifth Edition helps students better understand their relationships with romantic partners, friends, and family members. Bestselling authors Laura K. Guerrero, Peter A. Andersen, and Walid A. Afifi offer research-based insights and content illustrated with engaging scenarios to show how state-of-the-art research and theory can be applied to specific issues within relationships—with a focus on issues that are central to describing and understanding close relationships. While maintaining the spotlight on communication, the authors also emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of the study of personal relationships by including research from such disciplines as social psychology and family studies. The book covers issues relevant to developing, maintaining, repairing, and ending relationships. Both the "bright" and "dark" sides of interpersonal communication within relationships are explored.



Hellfrost Encounters

Author : Paul Wade-Williams

Publisher : Cubicle 7 Entertainment

Page : 96 pages

File Size : 10,36 MB

Release : 2010-07-01

Category : Games

ISBN : 9780857440037

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BEWARE THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED! Designed with the busy GM in mind, this book contains 50 detailed encounters covering a variety of situations and locales. Whether you're after a random encounter that's more than just a standup fight on featureless terrain, an exciting mini-adventure on the spur of the moment, something to break up the party's travels, or a starting scene for an adventure of your own devising, this book has something for you. To help speed up play, every encounter is designed to fit one or two pages containing all of its pertinent information, so there's no need to flip between pages. Lavishly illustrated with maps, everything you need to play these encounters is within the covers of this fantastic book! Although designed for the Hellfrost setting, each encounter contains the stats required for play, so it can be used in any Savage Worlds fantasy setting! Hellfrost is an heroic fantasy setting by Triple Ace Games and is designed for use with the award-winning Savage WorldsTM RPG.



Seeing Nature

Author : Paul Krafel

Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing Company

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 34,58 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Nature

ISBN :

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Seeing Nature is a series of true stories or parables that offer tools for understanding relationships in the natural world. Many of the stories take the reader to wild landscapes, including canyons, tundra, and mountain ridges, while others contemplate the human-made world: water-diversion trenches and supermarket check-out lines. At one point, Krafel discovers a world in a one-inch-square patch of ordinary ground. Inspiring for parents and teachers seeking to encourage excitement about the positive role of people in nature, Krafel's work harkens to St. Exupery's The Little Prince, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees. As Barbara Damrosch has noted: [This book] is a gift.... With curiosity, wit, and a spare and graceful style, Krafel notes why birds in flocks land as they do, how islands can move upstream in a river, how kelp forests, swaying gently, break the force of the sea's power, how tundra plants create whole ecosystems on bare rock from mere specks of life. Yet there are no long-winded sermons about the woods, or cute anthropomorphizations of animals. The book's economical, unsentimental style is part of its originality. Paul Krafel's years as a park ranger afforded him time to walk and think--his job was to observe the world around him. He is now a teacher, creating a curriculum for young people that is built on a startlingly simple truth: The world around us is an extended conversation between "upward spirals"--nature in regenerative, procreative modes--and downward spirals toward entropy and disintegration. As nature refreshes and rebuilds, the downward spirals are overcome. Nature's process becomes the process of replenishing hope.



Romans

Author : Andrew Wommack

Publisher : Harrison House

Page : 434 pages

File Size : 38,77 MB

Release : 2021-06-15

Category :

ISBN : 9781680318685

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The Gospel as You've Never Seen It Before! "If Romans isn't one of your favorite books, then you do not have a revelation of the true Gospel!" - Andrew Wommack Nowhere besides the book of Romans is there a more comprehensive explanation of the Gospel. It's Paul's masterful letter to every believer revealing God's plan of salvation by grace-not by the Law. In Romans: Paul's Masterpiece on Grace, renown Bible teacher Andrew Wommack has compiled decades of his personal notes and commentary from his Life for Today and Living Commentary. You will find thousands of insightful truths to give you a firm understanding of the Gospel as Andrew shares... The true meaning of salvation The basics of righteousness by faith Vital Bible teaching you probably have never heard in church You will be blessed and enlightened as Andrew walks you through Paul's letter to you. These truths have been changing lives for thousands of years. Yours is next!