|
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems
'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure
for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of
The Mars Room A cult classic since its publication in the early
years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's
history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from
the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European
witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the
colonisation of the Americas, it gives a panoramic account of the
often horrific violence with which the unruly human material of
pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable
and controllable mechanisms. It Is a study of indigenous traditions
crushed, of the enclosure of women's reproductive powers within the
nuclear family, and of how our modern world was forged in blood.
'Rewarding . . . allows us to better understand the intimate
relationship between modern patriarchy, the rise of the nation
state and the transition from feudalism to capitalism' Guardian
Everyone needs freedom. Everyone desires freedom. Everyone deserves
freedom. Freedom is not just a passion but a God given right. This
book explores the realms of freedom and discusses some of the
various types of freedom needed in different facets of human lives
and endeavors. It lays hold on the reasons freedom may have been
curtailed in certain environments, and how it can be released and
restored. Freedom is discussed as a case of deliverance in the
realms of the spirit and the natural. Learn how to raise a battle
against the enemy in order to obtain emancipation from all manner
of satanic terrorism and interferences. You need the gift of
freedom. You can be free. This book provides the antidote to your
freedom.
Geraldine Cummins's fourth book, The Road to Immortality written in
1932, is a series of communications allegedly from F. W. H. Myers,
the eminent psychologist and psychical researcher, who departed
from the earth plane in1901. Communicating from the 'other side'
Myers gives us a glorious vision of the progression of the human
spirit through eternity. In the Introduction Beatrice Gibbes
described the method of communication employed by Cummins. "She
would sit at a table, cover her eyes with her left hand and
concentrate on "stillness." She would then fall into a light trance
or dream state. Her hand would then begin to write. In one sitting,
Gibbes stated, Cummins wrote 2,000 words in 75 minutes, whereas her
normal compositions were much slower-perhaps 800 words in seven or
eight hours." Gibbes added that she witnessed the writing of about
50 different personalities, all claiming to be 'dead, ' and all
differing in character and style, coming through Cummins' hand.
Communicating through Cummins, Myers stated: "We communicate an
impression through the inner mind of the medium.... Sometimes we
only send the thoughts and the medium's unconscious mind clothes
them in words." Speaking of God Myers explains; The term God means
the Supreme Mind, the Idea behind all life, the Whole in terms of
pure thought, a Whole within which is cradled the Alpha and Omega
of existence as a mental concept. Every act, every thought, every
fact in the history of the Universes, every part of them, is
contained within that Whole. Therein is the original concept of
all. Now considered a classic in afterlife literature, The Road to
Immortality takes us on a journey we may all repeat some day, and
with Myers as our guide, the journey is spectacular.
The number of non-religious men and women has increased
dramatically over the past several decades. Yet scholarship on the
non-religious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap
in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation
and analytical discussion of existing social scientific research on
the non-religious. The authors present a thorough overview of
existing research, while also drawing on ongoing research and
positing ways to improve upon our current understanding of this
growing population. The findings in this book stand out against the
corpus of secular writing, which is comprised primarily of
polemical rants critiquing religion, personal life-stories/memoirs
of former believers, or abstract philosophical explorations of
theology and anti-theology. By offering the first research- and
data-based conclusions about the non-religious, this book will be
an invaluable source of information and a foundation for further
scholarship. Written in clear, jargon-free language that will
appeal to the increasingly interested general readers, this book
provides an unbiased, thorough account of all relevant existing
scholarship within the social sciences that bears on the lived
experience of the non-religious.
Since WW II, 'channeling' has largely replaced older styles of
mediumship in the movement loosely known as the New Age. Yet the
two are intimately related. As both historical chronicle and
metaphysical critique, The Spiritist Fallacy, together with its
companion volume, Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion, is a
valuable study of New Age origins. Guenon takes the 'spirit
manifestations' of the Fox sisters in Hydesville, New York (in
1847) as his starting-point, but while accepting the reality of
many such 'manifestations', denies that they represent the spirits
of the departed. He sees them, rather, as fostering belief in a
kind of rarefied materialism, as though the 'spirit of the
deceased' were no more than an invisible, quasi-material body, and
death no more than a 'shedding' of the physical body while the
'spirit' remains otherwise unchanged-a belief widespread today in
popular culture. The author demonstrates how various 'spirit
philosophies' are little more than reflections of their own
milieux-'English spirits' being conservative and denying
reincarnation, 'French spirits' accepting reincarnation and
espousing progressivist or revolutionary ideas, etc. antiquity with
haunted houses suddenly, in the 19th century-and within five years
of their appearance-spawned an international pseudo-religious
movement, speculating that certain magicians (possibly from the
Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) may have intentionally produced the
Hydesville phenomena by actively projecting hidden influences upon
the passive psyches of their mediums. The mutual influence of
Spiritism and Theosophy, and the adverse affects of 'spirit
entities' upon many mediums, are also covered in considerable
detail. The Spiritist Error is both an expose of 'unconscious
Satanism' and a highly useful critique of the false ideas of the
afterlife which are so prevalent in our time.
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.
|
You may like...
Egg Egg Egg!
Sarah Finan
Board book
R242
R186
Discovery Miles 1 860
Dear Zoo
Rod Campbell
Paperback
(1)
R220
R198
Discovery Miles 1 980
Baha'i Temple
Candace Moore Hill
Hardcover
R674
Discovery Miles 6 740
|