Author : Kwame Senu Neville Dawes
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Dawes takes an in-depth look at reggae as an artistic form, exploring how reggae is both uniquely Jamaican and a music of world wide appeal. His writing communicates his infectious enthusiasm for his subject.
Author : Paul Marshall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019153546X
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.
Author : Colin Grant
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Reggae musicians
ISBN : 0099526727
The history of the original Wailers - Tosh, Livingstone and Marley - as never before told.
Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374216789
A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry
Author : John C. Robinson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1789044197
In Mystical Activism, we each hold the power to change the world right where we are. To call these "end times" is not hyperbole. We are in trouble and the signs are everywhere: extreme political divisions; xenophobic violence; enormous wealth inequity; poverty and homelessness; racism, sexism, and ageism; arms buildups and unending wars; and, most critical of all, terrifying climate disruption associated with man-made global warming. We are the cause of these dark times. Driven by left-brain beliefs, illusions and obsessions, humanity races headlong toward the collapse of civilization. Fortunately, the solution to these mounting crises also lies in the human psyche, arising from a most surprising source: the right-brain’s natural mystical consciousness. Our survival depends on whether we grasp and resolve this paradox in time.
Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438461208
This work is a comprehensive study of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. Mystics claim to experience reality in a way not available in normal life, a claim which makes this phenomenon interesting from a philosophical perspective. Richard H. Jones's inquiry focuses on the skeleton of beliefs and values of mysticism: knowledge claims made about the nature of reality and of human beings; value claims about what is significant and what is ethical; and mystical goals and ways of life. Jones engages language, epistemology, metaphysics, science, and the philosophy of mind. Methodological issues in the study of mysticism are also addressed. Examples of mystical experience are drawn chiefly from Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, but also from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Daoism.
Author : Alfred Bowyer Sharpe
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Mysticism
ISBN :
Author : Frithjof Schuon
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1933316187
This new edition of Frithjof Schuon's classic work, Gnosis: Divine Wisdom, is a fully revised translation of the most recent French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.
Author : Jason M. Baxter
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493429086
This brief, accessibly written volume introduces key figures, texts, and themes of the mystical tradition and shows how and why the mystics can speak to the church today. Jason Baxter, an expert educator and storyteller, explains that the mystical tradition offers a more robust understanding of God than our current shallow conceptions. Featuring engagement with primary sources and suitable for use in a variety of courses, this book argues that the mystics have much to say to contemporary Christians searching for authentic modes of spirituality.
Author : Ernst Tugendhat
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231542933
In Egocentricity and Mysticism, Ernst Tugendhat casts mysticism as an innate facet of what it means to be human—a response to an existential need for peace of mind. This need is created by our discursive practices, which serve to differentiate us from one another and privilege our respective first-person standpoints. Emphasizing the first person fuels a desire for mysticism, which builds knowledge of what binds us together and connects us to the world. Any intellectual pursuit that prompts us to "step back" from our egocentric concerns harbors a mystic kernel that manifests as a sense of awe, wonder, and gratitude. Philosophy, the natural sciences, and mathematics all engender forms of mystical experience as profound as any produced by meditation and asceticism. One of the most widely discussed books by a German philosopher in decades, Egocentricity and Mysticism is a philosophical milestone that clarifies in groundbreaking ways our relationship to language, social interaction, and mortality.
