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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems
These true life stories have been happening throughout each of our
lives and we are honored to share our uniqueness, as an individual
and as a family entity, with you. We want everyone to know that you
can and do have the exact type of life experiences that we have
shared, and all you need to do is open yourselves up to listening
to the quietness around you. You are loved and are important to our
world. Go and be aware of your surroundings?do not be afraid of
what is out there waiting for you. Live in that place where you can
find your own uniqueness in this incredible life we have been given
to live. We all need that special place where we love, laugh, and
live without enduring ridicule or others? opinions. We should
realize by now that no one can hurt us except ourselves, when we
listen to closed-minded people. This is your time, and our world is
growing in a rapid direction with the veil opening for our souls
here in our earthly experiences.
There's more to life than working forty hours a week to survive in
our society. And that's what this book is all about.
"Americas Awakening" shows where humanity stands and what it
must do to fulfill its potential. Join the author as he Analyzes
the American lifestyle through clear eyes, to outline problems, and
explain solutions. Presents earthly truths and wisdom, encouraging
readers to think and awaken so they can change themselves and the
world. Tells his own story of how he left his life as an average,
middle-class man to pursue the truth and reshape his life. This
story is for the employee tired of the status quo, the college
student questioning societies norms, and the thinker searching for
answers. It's for anyone who wants to find wisdom and open their
eyes to a better world with Americas Awakening.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature,
television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and
wizard have become staples of entertainment industries, and many of
these figures have received extensive critical attention. But one
figure has remained in the shadows - the female ghost. Inherently
liminal, often literally invisible, the female ghost has
nevertheless appeared in all genres. Subversive Spirits: The Female
Ghost in British and American Popular Culture brings this figure
into the light, exploring her cultural significance in a variety of
media from 1926 to 2014. Robin Roberts argues that the female ghost
is well worth studying for what she can tell us about feminine
subjectivity in cultural contexts. Subversive Spirits examines
appearances of the female ghost in heritage sites, theater,
Hollywood film, literature, and television in the United States and
the United Kingdom. What holds these disparate female ghosts
together is their uncanny ability to disrupt, illuminate, and
challenge gendered assumptions. As with other supernatural figures,
the female ghost changes over time, especially responding to
changes in gender roles. Roberts's analysis begins with comedic
female ghosts in literature and film and moves into horror by
examining the successful play The Woman in Black and the legend of
the weeping woman, La Llorona. Roberts then situates the canonical
works of Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison in the tradition of
the female ghost to explore how the ghost is used to portray the
struggle and pain of women of color. Roberts further analyzes
heritage sites that use the female ghost as the friendly and
inviting narrator for tourists. The book concludes with a
comparison of the British and American versions of the television
hit Being Human, where the female ghost expands her influence to
become a mother and savior to all humanity.
This new edition of Magick from Aiwass Books includes annotations
shedding light on this challenging text. First published in Liber
ABA (Part II), Aleister Crowley's dark masterpiece Magick is
essential reading for students of Thelema and the occult. This
guide to the principle tenets of black magic is a concise version
of the more dense four-book magnum opus Liber ABA or 'Book 4' and
is recommended to initiates.
Caught in the grip of savage religious war, fear of sorcery and the
devil, and a deepening crisis of epistemological uncertainty, the
intellectual climate of late Renaissance France (c. 1550-1610) was
one of the most haunted in European history. Although existing
studies of this climate have been attentive to the extensive body
of writing on witchcraft and demons, they have had little to say of
its ghosts. Combining techniques of literary criticism,
intellectual history, and the history of the book, this study
examines a large and hitherto unexplored corpus of ghost stories in
late Renaissance French writing. These are shown to have arisen in
a range of contexts far broader than was previously thought:
whether in Protestant polemic against the doctrine of purgatory,
humanist discussions of friendship, the growing ethnographic
consciousness of New World ghost beliefs, or courtroom wrangles
over haunted property. Chesters describes how, over the course of
this period, we also begin to see emerge characteristics
recognisable from modern ghost tales: the setting of the 'haunted
house', the eroticised ghost, or the embodied revenant. Taking in
prominent literary figures including Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne,
d'Aubigne, as well as forgotten demonological tracts and
sensationalist pamphlets, Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France
sheds new light on the beliefs, fears, and desires of a period on
the threshold of modernity. It will be of interest to any scholar
or student working in the field of early modern European history,
literature or thought.
This title features new translations of primary documents of a
crucial period in the development of attitudes to witchcraft. In
1901, a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to
witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - "Hexenwahns und
der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter" - was published. Most of the
original documents are in Latin, with some in medieval German and
French, and it has been left largely untranslated, making the
material inaccessible, and neglected. This new translation of the
key documents will enable students and scholars to look afresh at
this crucial period in the development of attitudes towards
witchcraft. Through the translated extracts we can see the beliefs
and activities which had been formally condemned by ecclesiastical
and secular authorities, but which had not yet become subject to
widespread eradicating pogroms, start to be allied with heresy and
with changing conceptions of demonic activity. The extensive
introductory essay gives the reader the historical, theological,
intellectual and social background and contexts of the translated
documents. The translations themselves will all have introductory
notes. This volume will contribute significantly to our
understanding of the witchcraft phenomenon in the Middle Ages.
In this mini-guide, Daemonolatress S. Connolly shares tips and
ideas for ritual and practice modification geared toward
Daemonolaters living with disabilities or debilitating illness.
Included: Working without tools (props), working in the astral
temple, and how to build a daily practice.
The Book that has been awaited for 54 years is now finally
published. The spiritual communiques, issued from the Plan of
Sublime Duty and named 'Onder Pioneer]' in 1959, were compiled by
Bedri Ruhselman. Since then they have been preserved in the safes
of notaries and banks. Now that their time has arrived after 54
years, they have now been published. The book in your hands is the
faithfully translated version of the original Turkish text. In The
Divine Order and The Universe you will find: * The unending rain of
knowledge starting from spirit and matter... * The true
comprehension of love; the advance from love towards the essence...
* Discovering existential freedom and planetary awakening... * The
implications of global warming, floods and earthquakes... * The
lessons we learn from natural events... * Spiritual preparation
through predicted facts about inevitable natural events...
Whispers of a Heart from the Other Side is an amazing story
about a girl named Betsabe, who made contact with her closest
family and friends after she left her earthly life
unexpectedly.
Author Maria Rosario Rowan has since been visited by her
departed niece and an accompanying spirit of light, daily, for
several months, to share beautiful messages that reveal truth about
life here on earth, and in the hereafter.
"Spiritual Snake Oil" shows that the same fallacies that plague
religious apologetics also infect virtually all "new age" and
"spiritual" writing. Author Chris Edwards does this by dissecting
the arguments and assertions of the most prominent "new age" icons
and "spiritual" writers. They include Robert Pirsig ("Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"), James Redfield ("The Celestine
Prophecy"), Deepak Chopra ("Life After Death"), Dinesh D'Souza
("Life After Death"), Francis Collins's ("The Language of God"),
Rhonda Byrne ("The Secret"), and even Michael Crichton (a
surprising defender of New Age thinking). As Edwards shows, the
same fallacies, the same errors in argument, show up time after
time in the writings of these--and virtually all other--"new age"
and "spiritual" writers. In addition to explaining these fallacies
in the chapters devoted to the individual authors, Edwards devotes
a final chapter, "A Compendium of Fallacies," to outlining the
tricks and deceptive practices common to illogical arguments.
New Light on Manichaeism provides the latest discoveries and
insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one
thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and
thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice
in the religion's North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and
Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions from the
leading scholars in the field, offering new reconstructions of
Manichaean literary and artistic productions, and innovative
analyses of the religious, social, and political dynamics that
shaped the rise and fall of this world religion.
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