Author : Kaja Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317795970
In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies.
Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1602060525
In 16 concise chapters, Rudolf Steiner reveals how we can look through the material veil of this world and glimpse the world of the spirit. With meditation and concentrated thought we can develop our intuition and clairvoyance and even our powers of ESP. Written "to be of use to those who are really in earnest in seeking knowledge of the spiritual world," this book continues to inspire today. Austrian scholar, philosopher and spiritual researcher RUDOLF STEINER (1861-1925) has written dozens of books, including Philosophy of Freedom, Theosophy, An Outline of Occult Science, and Knowledge of the Higher Worlds.
Author : Christopher M. Moreman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742565521
Beyond the Threshold is the first book to seriously consider the interplay between traditional world religions and metaphysical experiences in exploring the timeless question of what happens when we die. Christopher M. Moreman examines and compares the beliefs and practices of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, as well as psychic phenomena such as mediums and near-death experiences. While ultimately the afterlife remains unknowable, Moreman's unique, in-depth exploration of both beliefs and experiences can help readers reach their own understanding of the afterlife and how to live.
Author : Rob Doyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1526607042
'A wild, sleazy, drug-filled odyssey ... Doyle's maverick novel deserves the accolades coming its way' Independent 'The best work to date from a writer who gets better and better with each release' Irish Indepdendent 'A masterclass in what not to do' New Statesman 'His best book so far: riddling, irreverent, fearless' TLS Rob has spent most of his confusing adult life wandering, writing, and imbibing literature and narcotics in equally vast doses. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, between exaltation and despair, his travels have acquired a de facto purpose: the immemorial quest for transcendent meaning. On a lurid pilgrimage for cheap thrills and universal truth, Doyle's narrator takes us from the menacing peripheries of Paris to the drug-fuelled clubland of Berlin, from art festivals to sun-kissed islands, through metaphysical awakenings in Asia and the brink of destruction in Europe, into the shattering revelations brought on by the psychedelic DMT. A dazzling, intimate, and profound celebration of art and ageing, sex and desire, the limits of thought and the extremes of sensation, Threshold confirms Doyle as one of the most original writers in contemporary literature.
Author : Waldo Heinrichs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 1990-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199879044
As the first comprehensive treatment of the American entry into World War II to appear in over thirty-five years, Waldo Heinrichs' volume places American policy in a global context, covering both the European and Asian diplomatic and military scenes, with Roosevelt at the center. Telling a tale of ever-broadening conflict, this vivid narrative weaves back and forth from the battlefields in the Soviet Union, to the intense policy debates within Roosevelt's administration, to the sinking of the battleship Bismarck, to the precarious and delicate negotiations with Japan. Refuting the popular portrayal of Roosevelt as a vacillating, impulsive man who displayed no organizational skills in his decision-making during this period, Heinrichs presents him as a leader who acted with extreme caution and deliberation, who always kept his options open, and who, once Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union stalled in July, 1941, acted rapidly and with great determination. This masterful account of a key moment in American history captures the tension faced by Roosevelt, Churchill, Stimson, Hull, and numerous others as they struggled to shape American policy in the climactic nine months before Pearl Harbor.
Author : Paul O. Wieland Pe
Publisher :
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780982512715
We are on the cusp of a 21theCrossing the ThresholdRocket Boys/October SkyThe Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global ProblemsAugustine's LawsThe Exploration of the Solar System
Author : Tamika Y. Nunley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 146966223X
The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city's Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender. At the Threshold of Liberty reveals how these women--enslaved, fugitive, and free--imagined new identities and lives beyond the oppressive restrictions intended to prevent them from ever experiencing liberty, self-respect, and power. Consulting newspapers, government documents, letters, abolitionist records, legislation, and memoirs, Tamika Y. Nunley traces how Black women navigated social and legal proscriptions to develop their own ideas about liberty as they escaped from slavery, initiated freedom suits, created entrepreneurial economies, pursued education, and participated in political work. In telling these stories, Nunley places Black women at the vanguard of the history of Washington, D.C., and the momentous transformations of nineteenth-century America.
Author : Lisa Smartt
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1608684601
What Our Last Words Reveal About Life, Death, and the Afterlife A person’s end-of-life words often take on an eerie significance, giving tantalizing clues about the ultimate fate of the human soul. Until now, however, no author has systematically studied end-of-life communication by using examples from ordinary people. When her father became terminally ill with cancer, author Lisa Smartt began transcribing his conversations and noticed that his personality underwent inexplicable changes. Smartt’s father, once a skeptical man with a secular worldview, developed a deeply spiritual outlook in his final days — a change reflected in his language. Baffled and intrigued, Smartt began to investigate what other people have said while nearing death, collecting more than one hundred case studies through interviews and transcripts. In this groundbreaking and insightful book, Smartt shows how the language of the dying can point the way to a transcendent world beyond our own.
Author : Sara Douglass
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312876874
As the Threshold, the massive pyramid constructed by the Magic of Ashdod to propel themselves into infinity, nears completion, a glassworker slave becomes the key in preventing an evil force from spreading its malevolence over Ashdod.
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1919
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