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Mountains Of The Mind
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Author : Robert Macfarlane
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-09-09
Mountains Of The Mind written by Robert Macfarlane and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-09 with Nature categories.
The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip the Western imagination—and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to symbolize the heroic ideals of his day. Macfarlane also reflects on fear, risk, and the shattering beauty of ice and snow, the competition and contemplation of the climb, and the strange alternate reality of high altitude, magically enveloping us in the allure of mountains at every level.
Mountains Of The Mind
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Author : Robert Macfarlane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Mountains Of The Mind written by Robert Macfarlane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Mountaineering categories.
Since they were once avoided at all costs, how have mountains, in the space of three centuries, come to exert such a strange and sometimes fatal hold on the imagination, moving millions every year to risk their lives? The author of this engaging book seeks to answer these questions.
Mountains And Minds
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Author : Robert Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010-11-12
Mountains And Minds written by Robert Wheeler and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-12 with Philosophy categories.
History and psychology indicate that people have inherent needs for stimulation and challenge, meaning and goals, social support, moral authority, explanation of existence, and the possibility of transcendence. Whether these needs result from physical evolution or intelligent design, they produce a concern about ultimate cause, meaning, and purpose for existence known as the “ontological imperative.” Since understanding ultimate concerns is beyond physical science, elusive, and mysterious, people tend to attribute explanation to a metaphysical realm resulting in spirituality. Mountains symbolize obstacles in meeting the needs, and experiences in climbing mountains provide a vehicle both actually and figuratively for exploring associated mechanisms and impacts. Pursuit of the ontological imperative stimulates the attitude of spirituality that becomes conceptualized into personal religious systems forming beliefs that can be shared with others. Shared religions acquire dogma, structure, ritual, faith, and worship that then become institutional religions. As science develops, physical explanations supplant metaphysical explanations that many times conflict with religion. Faith in established belief competes with science producing a “great dilemma.” A “great paradox” is that both are needed despite the conflict. The first chapter relates a personal experience climbing Mount Fuji that nearly ended in disaster, with the question of why people do such things. Chapter 2 is a brief summary of research supporting the human need of stimulation and challenge. Subsequent chapters alternate between mountain climbing experiences and brief summaries of research about why people continue to pursue difficult tasks, progressing from stimulation & challenge to goal accomplishment; emotions & awe; consciousness & cognition involving brain, mind, spirit, and soul; search for ultimate reality involving ontological imperative, spirituality, personal religion, and institutional religion; and finally to pragmatic reality involving science-religion dilemma and need-for-both paradox. This bottom-up approach leads to the final chapter’s proposal for ameliorating conflict and dilemma caused by some religious beliefs: by accepting the great paradox and pursuing a seemingly unattainable goal; recognizing personal characteristics of spirituality exemplified in the five-factor model of personality; abopting an attitude of “nognosticism” whereby the limitations of present knowledge are acknowledged; and accepting “ecumenical humanism” whereby alternate beliefs are tolerated. Such an approach might be classified as “pragmatic pluralism.” A basic theme is that for life to be meaningful and manageable, people need a sense of purpose and coherence that is best met by having a belief about the unknown and doubt of its validity. Contact author at [email protected] .
The Wild Places
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Author : Robert Macfarlane
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2009-07-02
The Wild Places written by Robert Macfarlane and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-02 with Nature categories.
Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
Mountains Of The Mind
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Author : Robert Macfarlane
language : en
Publisher: Granta
Release Date : 2009-07-02
Mountains Of The Mind written by Robert Macfarlane and has been published by Granta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-02 with Nature categories.
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places.
The Mountains Of The Mind
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Author : Andreas Feininger
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Release Date : 1977
The Mountains Of The Mind written by Andreas Feininger and has been published by Penguin Putnam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Photography categories.
Mountains Minds
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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The Mountains Of The Mind
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Author : Andreas Feininger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Mountains Of The Mind written by Andreas Feininger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Nature photography categories.
Hunger Mountain
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Author : David Hinton
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2012-11-13
Hunger Mountain written by David Hinton and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with Nature categories.
Come along with David Hinton on a series of walks through the wild beauty of Hunger Mountain, near his home in Vermont—excursions informed by the worldview he’s imbibed from his many years translating the classics of Chinese poetry and philosophy. His broad-ranging discussion offers insight on everything from the mountain landscape to the origins of consciousness and the Cosmos, from geology to Chinese landscape painting, from parenting to pictographic oracle-bone script, to a family chutney recipe. It’s a spiritual ecology that is profoundly ancient and at the same time resoundingly contemporary. Your view of the landscape—and of your place in it—may never be the same.
Mind Over Mountains Sometimes The Toughest Climbs Are In Our Minds
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Author : Máirtin Óg Mac Donagh
language : en
Publisher: Book Hub Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12
Mind Over Mountains Sometimes The Toughest Climbs Are In Our Minds written by Máirtin Óg Mac Donagh and has been published by Book Hub Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"I've known Máirtín Óg for over 20 years. We cycled coast to coast USA over 3,000 miles in 25 days which is no mean feat! You get the measure of a man when you do a challenge like that together, the resilience, the mindset, his energy and commitment and, above all, someone you can depend on when the going gets tough. Since that time we enjoyed many cycles throughout Europe and the roads of Ireland, a strong friendship and understanding has been the outcome of our shared journeys. I admire his integrity and optimism. I was delighted when he told me he was writing this book. Like his Life Coaching Career and his business, Mind Over Mountains, through all his trials and tribulations, mistakes and achievements, ups and downs, his mission is to help others and share what he has learned, providing inspiration and hope to those who read his story". Sean Kelly (former professional road cyclist and widely noted as one of the most successful road cyclists of all time, Sean is celebrated as one of the finest ever classics riders). "Adversity in life is universal; it is how we react to adversity that determines the narrative. Martín Óg has had his fair share of challenges. His big generous heart, literal and metaphorical, has seen him through. That same heart helped push, pace and cajole me over high mountains during our epic US transcontinental cycle two decades ago. And, more recently, I had the opportunity to return the favour when I saw the same heart from the inside during cardiac surgery. That inner strength will ensure that whatever challenges lie ahead, Martín Óg will prevail ". Professor Declan Sugure (Cardiac Consultant at Mater Private Hospital and keen cyclist).