Walls of Illusion
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1998-03-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780285634251
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1998-03-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780285634251
Author : Sean MacLeod
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2023-04-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 1912992507
The Beatles brought colour, joy, freedom and love to a grey, post-war world. But the most successful group in popular music history also harboured hidden, sometimes darker worlds and influences that are often downplayed by their biographers. In their career, the Fab Four were to cross paths with many spiritual movements, religious groups, esoteric philosophies and mystical teachings. Inevitably, their thinking was affected by the ideas they encountered. These ideas in turn helped shape their music and – given their vast popularity – the public consciousness. Behind the Wall of Illusion examines the spiritual inspirations that the Beatles brought to the changing cultural landscape of the 1960s. From the popularization of the new religion of rock 'n' roll, Beatlemania (the 'new Cult of Dionysus') and John Lennon's explosive statement that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus', Sean MacLeod takes us on a tour of Indian ashrams, questionable gurus and hallucinatory drugs. He also studies the secreted 'clues' in the Beatles' album covers and films; the growing rumours that Paul had been killed in a car crash and covertly replaced; and the tragic assassination of John Lennon and the unknown perpetrators behind the crime. This is an indispensable book for any lover of the Beatles.
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Psychedelic Retro
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780285634145
Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll--writings from the psychedelic era by the people who lived it.
Author : Kristina Kleutghen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295805528
In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China’s most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas. In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of “scenic illusion paintings” (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City. Produced at the height of early modern cultural exchange between China and Europe, these works have received little scholarly attention. Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong’s world. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/imperial-illusions
Author : Kyle Cease
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1401957463
New York Times best-selling author and comedian-turned-motivational speaker, Kyle Cease, shows how your obsession with money is actually preventing you from living the life of your dreams. "I can't afford that." "Now's not the right time . . . I need to save up." "Quit my job? Are you nuts?!" Sound familiar? Money is one of the biggest excuses we make to not go after what we really want. Our fixation with money--the desire for more of it, and the fear of not having enough of it--is often really just a longing to feel safe. But this obsession with money is coming at a much bigger cost: our sanity, our creativity, our freedom, and our ability to step into our true power. This book is about eliminating the need to seek safety through the illusion of money, and learning to see ourselves for the perfection that we are--so that we can bring our gifts to the world in an authentic way, and allow ourselves to receive massive, true abundance as a result. Kyle Cease has heard excuses like the ones above countless times at his live events, and he has shown people how to completely break through them. In The Illusion of Money, he shares his own experiences as well as practical tools to help readers understand their ingrained beliefs and attachments to money, and how they can tap into our infinite assets and talents. "After 25 years as a successful comedian, actor, transformational speaker, author and junior-league amateur bowler, I've experienced many times how chasing money is not an effective way to create an abundant and fulfilling life. The most alive I've ever felt was after I left my comedy career at its peak to become a transformational speaker. I left tons of guaranteed money and so-called security for a complete unknown. It was terrifying--but what was on the other side of that terror was a completely different life that is not only more abundant financially, but has more freedom, more ease, more passion, more impact and more joy." -- Kyle Cease
Author : Joseph A. Bulko
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781441561121
Author : Joseph A. Bulko
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1462839541
We come into this world surrounded by Walls of Illusion. Some go through their entire lifetime, and die, surrounded by these walls. While for others these walls come crumbling down as a result of lifes experience, knowledge, and the wisdom that comes from both, allowing the sea of reality to come flooding in, and life is different!
Author : Florence De Dampierre
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0847835944
Uses color photographs and text to showcase some of the best decorative wall designs from around the world.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765397668
Worlds of Exile and Illusion contains three novels in the Hainish Series from Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained here. These books, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic, The Left Hand of Darkness. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : J. O. Robinson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486151182
Well-rounded perspective on the ambiguities of visual display emphasizes geometrical optical illusions: framing and contrast effects, distortion of angles and direction, and apparent "movement" of images. 240 drawings. 1972 edition.