Urban Mystic, Discovering the Transcendent Through Everyday Life
Title | Urban Mystic, Discovering the Transcendent Through Everyday Life PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Mellor |
Publisher | Strategic Book Publishing |
Pages | 678 |
Release | 2009-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1606938231 |
When meditation master and author Ken Mellor had a life-changing experience at 13, he had no idea where it would take him. In Urban Mystic: Discovering the transcendent through everyday life, he describes his amazing journey to spiritual awakening. Mellor's story takes you from Melbourne, Australia to the United States, India, England, Switzerland, and Germany. You'll meet psychotherapists, healers, astrologers, and many others. You will participate in fantastic experiences with masters of meditation and spiritual enlightenment-a Siddha Master, Tantric Master, Vedic Master, and a "Divine Mother." Mellor's intriguing and compelling narrative prompts self-discovery, and offers inspiration to dwell in the moment in order to awaken the soul to extraordinary transformations. Your reading will encourage you to embrace living, to cope with life's ups and downs, and to advance your own spiritual awakening. Learn to celebrate how new beginnings, hopes, dreams, successes, mistakes, and challenges are all part of your unique destiny. "An amazing odyssey from the everyday to the spirit - and back again! - that reads like the true adventure it is. I was glad to be part of it and you will be too." -Stephen Karcher, prolific author in the fields of comparative mythology, divination, and religious experience.
Candyman
Title | Candyman PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Towlson |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 135 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1800347154 |
Jon Towlson considers how Candyman might be read both as a "return of the repressed" and as an example of nineties neoconservative horror. He traces the film's origins as a Clive Barker short story; discusses the importance of its real-life Cabrini-Green setting; and analyzes its appropriation and interrogation of urban myth.
A History of Islamic Societies
Title | A History of Islamic Societies PDF eBook |
Author | Ira M. Lapidus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1004 |
Release | 2002-08-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521779333 |
Ira Lapidus' classic history of the origins and evolution of Muslim societies, revised and updated for this second edition, first published in 2002.
The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Charles Olson
Title | The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Charles Olson PDF eBook |
Author | R. Bruce Elder |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Pages | 585 |
Release | 2011-08-26 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0889208166 |
Since the late 1950s Stan Brakhage has been in the forefront of independent filmmaking. His body of work — some seventy hours — is one of the largest of any filmmaker in the history of cinema, and one of the most diverse. Probably the most widely quoted experimental filmmaker in history, his films typify the independent cinema. Until now, despite well-deserved acclaim, there has been no comprehensive study of Brakhage’s oeuvre. The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition fills this void. R. Bruce Elder delineates the aesthetic parallels between Brakhage’s films and a broad spectrum of American art from the 1920s through the 1960s. This book is certain to stir the passions of those interested in artistic critique and interpretation in its broadest terms.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Daedalian Mythmaker
Title | Leonardo da Vinci: The Daedalian Mythmaker PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780271040738 |
This study is the first to consider the whole body of Leonardo's works with an eye to a comprehensive interpretation that combines both cultural history and the history of ideas. According to Maiorino, Leonardo's was a mythmaking mode of activity that had a Daedalian range and affected art and technology alike. As both artist and inventor, Leonardo did not separate reason from experience, empiricism from abstraction, an attitude Maiorino characterizes as "Anti-Humanism". Rather than accepting the earlier view that the culture of the Renaissance was divided against itself or that it came to be divided, he argues that anti-Humanism was present from the start in such founders as Petrarch and Alberti and continued to be a current in later authors and artists; hence the significance of Leonardo to Humanism and to Baroque and Renaissance culture at large.
The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg
Title | The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Simon |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2016-03-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317036816 |
Katherine of Alexandria was a major object of devotion within medieval Europe, ranking second only to the Virgin Mary in the canon of female saints. Yet despite her undoubted importance, relatively little is known about the significance and function of her cult within the German-speaking territories that stood at the heart of Europe. Anne Simon's study adds a welcome new interdisciplinary perspective to the study of Saint Katherine and the wider ecclesiastical landscape of a medieval Europe poised on the edge of religious change. Taking as a case study the wealthy and politically influential merchant city of Nuremberg, this book draws on a wide variety of textual and visual sources to explore interrelated themes: the shaping of urban space through the cult of Saint Katherine; her role in the moulding and advertising patrician identity and alliances through cultural patronage; and patrician use of the saint to showcase the city's political, economic, cultural and religious importance at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. Further , the book reveals the construction of exemplarity in Saint Katherine's legend and miracles and their resonance within the context of the city and the Dominican Convent of Saint Katherine, whose nuns came from the same status-aware, confident patrician elite that so loyally supported successive Emperors. Filling a significant gap in current research, the work has much to offer scholars of medieval history, hagiography, art history, German studies, cultural and urban studies. Hence it not only expands our understanding of Saint Katherine's importance in German-speaking territories, but also adds to the picture of her cult in its European perspective.
The Mystic Heart
Title | The Mystic Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne Teasdale |
Publisher | New World Library |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2010-10-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 157731316X |
Drawing on experience as an interreligious monk, Brother Wayne Teasdale reveals the power of spirituality and its practical elements. He combines a profound Christian faith with an intimate understanding of ancient religious traditions.