Faery Initiations of the Thirteen Dreamers: A Green Fire Folio

Faery Initiations of the Thirteen Dreamers: A Green Fire Folio
Author: Coleston Brown
Publisher: Le Brun Publications
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780986591259

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In the first few weeks following the publication of my book: Secrets of a Faery Landscape: new light on the Glastonbury Zodiac (Green Fire Publications, May 2012), I had a series of powerful dreams apparently generated by my magical connections to the land around Glastonbury Somerset. These DreamVisions came in the form of a magical journey and culminated in a final DreamVision in which I was given, almost word-for-word, a Faery Oath of Friendship. The DreamVisions and Oath have since become an important component of my magico-spiritual practice.... It occurs to me that others might also benefit from this work. Green Fire Folios The Green Fire Folios Series of full-colour chapbooks was founded in 2013 by Coleston Brown. Destined to be to become collectors' items, each volume combines succinct, insightful text with appealing, meaningful illustrations. Much more than introductory essays on important themes, Green Fire Folios are condensed, profound, practical guides to the essential teachings of the Magical Way and the Faery Tradition.

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
Author: William James
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-09-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1681950898

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The Best Nonfiction Masterpiece of the 20th Century? “There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.” - William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is not a book about a specific religion. The author, psychologist Williams James does not try to convince the reader one religion is better than the other. He doesn’t even make a case for atheism and the scientific approach. The book is in fact about human nature and how we experience religion at a psychological level. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Clothing Sacred Scriptures

Clothing Sacred Scriptures
Author: David Ganz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018-12-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110558602

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According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.

The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity

The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity
Author: Aby Warburg
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 872
Release: 1999
Genre: Art, Renaissance
ISBN: 9780892365371

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A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.

The Longest Holiday

The Longest Holiday
Author: Paige Toon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2013-04-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147111340X

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Don’t wait for the storm to pass; learn to dance in the rain…’ If you feel like everything is falling apart, sometimes the only thing to do is escape to the summer. Laura has been married to the man of her dreams for seven months. But, she now discovers, a week before the wedding Matthew made a terrible mistake … Escaping the heartache and humiliation, Laura is whisked off to Florida's Key West by her best friend Marty. A carefree holiday full of cocktails and fun, surrounded by gorgeous, tanned men, is exactly what the doctor ordered. Distraction comes in the form of sexy Cuban scuba diver Leo. As the end of the holiday approaches, Laura doesn't want to go home. Is it time to face the music? Or is there more to Key West than a holiday romance? THE ONE WE FELL IN LOVE WITH was selected for the Zoella Book Club and Paige Toon's novels have been published across the world. Praise for The Longest Holiday: ‘Will bring a smile to the face of anyone who has been unlucky in love’ DAILY EXPRESS ‘Pure, sun-drenched escapism… the perfect summer holiday read’ HEAT ‘My heart was actually racing… had me longing to pack my bags and escape’ ONE MORE PAGE ‘Paige Toon is the word… Absolutely pure enjoyment – I loved every page of it!’ I HEART CHICK LIT

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Author: Carl G. Jung
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2011-01-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0307772713

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An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. "An important, firsthand document for readers who wish to understand this seminal writer and thinker." —Booklist In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materials. Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961, making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life. Fully corrected, this edition also includes Jung's VII Sermones ad Mortuos.

Lucy in the Sky

Lucy in the Sky
Author: Paige Toon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 9781407451619

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Settling down for a flight from England to Australia, Lucy finds a message on her phone - from a woman claiming to have slept with her boyfriend. But when she finally calls him he reassures her: it was only his mates playing a silly joke. So why, at her best friend's wedding in Sydney, does Lucy continue to have niggling doubts..?

Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory

Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
Author: Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1991
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780253350046

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In this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fiction directly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automatic story generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrative and to fiction, her book maintains a solid basis in literary theory and makes the formal models developed by AI researchers accessible to the student of literature. By combining the philosophical background of possible world theory with models inspired by AI, the book fulfills a pressing need in narratology for new paradigms and an interdisciplinary perspective.

Kissed By A Deer

Kissed By A Deer
Author: Margi Gibb
Publisher: Transit Lounge
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1921924993

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Prepare to be swept away by a story that is intimate, true, and utterly compelling. Margi Gibb’s much-loved father dies and, with her immediate family largely gone, her life is changed irrevocably. Immersing herself more deeply in art and music, she travels to America to study the sacred art of the mandala, exploring the wisdom traditions of Indigenous Indian peoples in the process. Then after a serendipitous encounter back in Australia she travels to Dharamsala to care for children in an after school program at a Tibetan women's handicraft cooperative. Her underlying passion is to initiate guitar lessons for Tibetan refugees. What follows is unexpected. Margi’s developing bonds with two very different Tibetan men, Tenzin and Yonten, change her life in complex and enduring ways. Eventually she journeys to Tibet. Kissed by a Deer is a book about East and West. It is a passionate quest for the personal and intellectual truth that only comes through lived experience. Gibb’s story gives us amazing places, and wonderful characters, people we come to love and care about despite their failings. In its pages, wisdom searchingly finds its humble roots in the connections of heart, imagination and mind; in the midst of the act of living.

The Invention of Tradition

The Invention of Tradition
Author: Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1992-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521437738

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This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.