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Continuum announces a new series of classic works of mysticism with
representative texts from all the major world religions:
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
A mix of familiar texts with proven sales potential and less
familiar works with untapped readerships will introduce the
committed of all faiths to key contemplative texts from outside
their traditions. Each volume will be bound with lavish, full-color
covers, and illustrated throughout.
The Book of Concealed Mystery is a book of the key text of the
Kabbalah, a work known as the Zohar ("Splendour"). The Zohar is a
commentary on the Torah and although it is sometimes ascribed to a
second-century rabbi, Simon Bar-Yochai, the form in which it is
most widely known originates with Moses of Leon, a native of
Granada, who died in 1305.
The kabbalists believe that the undefinable origin of all things
is Ein Sof -- the cause of causes, the infinite, that which
underlies everything. The universe emanates from the divine in
successive layers called esefiroti. Everything exists in God, but
God extends infinitely beyond existence. All we know and are is
linked together, pervaded and maintained by the divine. According
to The Book of Concealed Mystery, the light of God must be
concealed in order to be revealed to creation. Even though the
kabbalists believe that ultimately Ein Sof is beyond expression or
understanding, the contemplation of God's presence in all things
causes our thoughts to be purified
These three journeys take theater critic Margaret Croyden to a
Polish forest retreat devised by experimental theater director
Jerzy Grotowski, through intensive sessions at a Catskills ashram
with Hindu guru Baba Muktananda, and, finally, to a spiritual
teacher in an Israel divided by both the metaphor and the reality
of war. Each experience, powerfully evoked, arouses memories of
Croyden's past - her long forgotten childhood with her Jewish
family in Brooklyn, her youthful dreams and aspirations, and her
adult search for fulfillment and spiritual transendence. Each
experience brings her closer to her identity as a woman, a Jew, and
a writer. Croyden's quest turns up no easy answers, no doctrinaire
catharses. The struggle for self-knowledge is slow and painful,
requiring both a remembering and a forgetting. Croyden's
perceptions may sometimes shock - especially those of the
relationship between sexuality and religious ecstasy and of the
Arab-Israeli conflict. This memoir - moving, thought-provoking, and
daringly honest - tells a brave tale of a modern woman's discovery
of her authentic self.
i could feel pulses of energies emanating from the light tutoring
my being coercing measure for measure my breath and beat for beat
my heart a corporeal bypass keeping kilter of my anatomy against
the siege of my endocrine system preventing me from going into
shock which was very important if i went into shock mytelepathic
sense would shut down i knew that i knew that in the same
astonishing way that i knew where i was who these people were what
the blue lights did and ... what was about to happen next
i could feel pulses of energies emanating from the light tutoring
my being coercing measure for measure my breath and beat for beat
my heart a corporeal bypass keeping kilter of my anatomy against
the siege of my endocrine system preventing me from going into
shock which was very important if i went into shock mytelepathic
sense would shut down i knew that i knew that in the same
astonishing way that i knew where i was who these people were what
the blue lights did and ... what was about to happen next
Now in its 37th edition, and compiled in association with the
Publishers Association, this is the most authoritative, detailed
trade directory available for the United Kingdom and the Republic
of Ireland, listing over 900 book publishers. Comprehensive entries
include, where available: - full contact details including
addresses and websites - details of distribution and sales and
marketing agents - key personnel - listing of main fields of
activity - information on annual turnover, numbers of new titles
and numbers of employees - ISBN prefixes including those for
imprints and series - details of trade association membership -
information on overseas representation - details of associated and
parent companies. In addition to the detailed entries on
publishers, the Directory offers in-depth coverage of the wider UK
book trade and lists organizations associated with the book trade:
packagers, authors' agents, trade and allied associations and
services. The directory is also available to purchase as an online
resource, for more information and a free preview please visit
www.continuumbooks.com/directoryofpublishing
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