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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects > Spiritualism
The third and final book in their series contains 132 additional
quatrains written and deciphered by Nostradamus himself, plus the
exposure of bogus quatrains erroneously attributed to the great
psychic Dolores Cannon has pierced the veil of the space/time
continuum by her use of regressive hypnosis, to bring us warnings
of events to come. This volume continues to work through various
subjects and completes the interpretation of all the known
prophecies.
Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters presents a history of Western
ethnography of animism in East Timor during the Portuguese period.
The book consists of ten chapters, each one a narrative of the work
and experience of a particular ethnographer. Part One deals with
colonial ethnography and Part Two with professional anthropology.
Covering a selection of seminal 19th- and 20th-century
ethnographies, the author explores the relationship between
spiritual beliefs, colonial administration, ethnographic interests
and fieldwork experience. It is argued that the presence of
outsiders precipitated a new 'transformative animism' as colonial
control over Portuguese Timor was consolidated. This came about
because increasingly powerful outsiders posed threats and offered
rewards to the Timorese just as the powerful ancestor spirits had
long done; consequently, the Timorese ritualised their dealings
with outsiders following their established model for appealing to
spirits. Bringing colonial and professional ethnography into the
one frame of reference, it is shown that ethnographers of both
types not only bore witness to these processes of transformative
animism, they also exemplified them. The book presents an original
synthesis of East Timor's history, culture and anthropology.
A disturbing portrait of a modern American family 'Imagine Richard
Yates becoming fascinated by Donald Antrim before writing
Revolutionary Road and you'll have some idea of Love Orange. One of
the most satisfying novels you will read this year. This book
rules' Christian Kiefer, author of Phantoms 'I enjoyed every minute
of it' Chris Power, author of Mothers 'A stunningly accurate
portrayal . . . shining with vivid dialogue and observation' Chloe
Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters '[A]n exuberant, comic,
irresistibly dark examination of contemporary anxieties' Vanity
Fair 'An exquisite balance of humour and pathos' Lunate An
extraordinary debut novel by Natasha Randall, exposing the seam of
secrets within an American family, from beneath the plastic
surfaces of their new 'smart' home. Love Orange charts the gentle
absurdities of their lives, and the devastating consequences of
casual choices. While Hank struggles with his lack of professional
success, his wife Jenny, feeling stuck and beset by an urge to do
good, becomes ensnared in a dangerous correspondence with a prison
inmate called John. Letter by letter, John pinches Jenny awake from
the "marshmallow numbness" of her life. The children, meanwhile,
unwittingly disturb the foundations of their home life with forays
into the dark net and strange geological experiments. Jenny's bid
for freedom takes a sour turn when she becomes the go-between for
John and his wife, and develops an unnatural obsession for the
orange glue that seals his letters... Love Orange throws open the
blinds of American life, showing a family facing up to the modern
age, from the ascendancy of technology, the predicaments of
masculinity, the pathologising of children, the epidemic of opioid
addiction and the tyranny of the WhatsApp Gods. The first novel by
the acclaimed translator is a comic cocktail, an exuberant
skewering of contemporary anxieties and prejudices.
"Lost Causes": The Romantic Attraction of Defeated yet Unvanquished
Men and Movements, by George and Karen Grant, is a thoughtful look
at several causes that captured the hearts of people, survived
defeat, and ultimately out-lived their foes.
The purpose of The Transparency of Things is to look clearly and
simply at the nature of experience, without any attempt to change
it. A series of contemplations leads us gently but directly to see
that our essential nature is neither a body nor a mind. It is the
conscious Presence that is aware of this current experience. As
such, it is nothing that can be experienced as an object, and yet
it is undeniably present. However, these contemplations go much
further than this. As we take our stand knowingly as this conscious
Presence that we always already are, and reconsider the objects of
the body, mind, and world, we find that they do not simply appear
to this Presence; they appear within it. And further exploration
reveals that they do not simply appear within this Presence but as
this Presence. Finally, we are led to see that it is in fact this
very Presence that takes the shape of our experience from moment to
moment while always remaining only itself. We see that our
experience is and has only ever been one seamless totality, with no
separate entities, objects, or parts anywhere to be found.
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