The Art Of Stealing Fire
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The Art Of Stealing Fire
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Author : Liz Greene
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Art Of Stealing Fire written by Liz Greene and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Astrology categories.
Stealing Fire
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Author : Steven Kotler
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-02-21
Stealing Fire written by Steven Kotler and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-21 with Business & Economics categories.
National Bestseller CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the Year It’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk, Special Operators like the Navy SEALs and the Green Berets, and maverick scientists like Sasha Shulgin and Amy Cuddy have turned everything we thought we knew about high performance upside down. Instead of grit, better habits, or 10,000 hours, these trailblazers have found a surprising short cut. They're harnessing rare and controversial states of consciousness to solve critical challenges and outperform the competition. New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler and high performance expert Jamie Wheal spent four years investigating the leading edges of this revolution—from the home of SEAL Team Six to the Googleplex, the Burning Man festival, Richard Branson’s Necker Island, Red Bull’s training center, Nike’s innovation team, and the United Nations’ Headquarters. And what they learned was stunning: In their own ways, with differing languages, techniques, and applications, every one of these groups has been quietly seeking the same thing: the boost in information and inspiration that altered states provide. Today, this revolution is spreading to the mainstream, fueling a trillion dollar underground economy and forcing us to rethink how we can all lead richer, more productive, more satisfying lives. Driven by four accelerating forces—psychology, neurobiology, technology and pharmacology—we are gaining access to and insights about some of the most contested and misunderstood terrain in history. Stealing Fire is a provocative examination of what’s actually possible; a guidebook for anyone who wants to radically upgrade their life.
Stealing Fire From Heaven
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Author : Nevill Drury
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
Stealing Fire From Heaven written by Nevill Drury and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Despite the dramatic expansion of modern technology, which defines and dominates many aspects of contemporary life and thought, the Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. In this overview of the modern occult revival, Drury traces the rise of various forms of magical belief and practice.
Stealing Fire From Heaven
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Author : Nevill Drury
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-02
Stealing Fire From Heaven written by Nevill Drury and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-02 with Religion categories.
The Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. In Stealing Fire from Heaven, Nevill Drury offers an overview of the modern occult revival and seeks to explain this growing interest in ancient magical belief systems. Gnosticism and the Hermetica, the medieval Kabbalah, Tarot and Alchemy, and more recently, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, collectively laid the basis for the modern magical revival, which first began to gather momentum in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Western magic has since become increasingly eclectic, drawing on such diverse sources as classical Greco-Roman mythology, Celtic cosmology, Kundalini yoga and Tantra, shamanism, chaos theory, and the various spiritual traditions associated in many different cultures with the Universal Goddess. Drury traces the rise of various forms of magical belief and practice, from the influential Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn to the emergence of Wicca and Goddess worship as expressions of contemporary feminine spirituality. He also explores Chaos Magick and the occult practices of the so-called Left-Hand Path, as well as twenty-first-century magical forays into cyberspace. He believes that the rise of modern Western magic stems essentially from the quest for personal spiritual transformation and direct experience of the sacred--a quest which the trance occultist and visionary artist Austin Osman Spare once referred to as "stealing fire from heaven." Considered in this light, Drury argues, modern Western magic can be regarded as a form of alternative spirituality in which the practitioners seek direct engagement with the mythic realm.
Art Of Stealing Fire
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Author : Liz Greene
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Art Of Stealing Fire written by Liz Greene and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
Stealing The Mystic Lamb
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Author : Noah Charney
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2010-10-05
Stealing The Mystic Lamb written by Noah Charney and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-05 with Art categories.
Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is also the most frequently stolen artwork of all time. Since its completion in 1432, this twelve-panel oil painting has been looted in three different wars, burned, dismembered, forged, smuggled, illegally sold, censored, hidden, attacked by iconoclasts, hunted by the Nazis and Napoleon, used as a diplomatic tool, ransomed, rescued by Austrian double-agents, and stolen a total of thirteen times. In this fast-paced, real-life thriller, art historian Noah Charney unravels the stories of each of these thefts. In the process, he illuminates the whole fascinating history of art crime, and the psychological, ideological, religious, political, and social motivations that have led many men to covet this one masterpiece above all others.
Luka And The Fire Of Life
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Author : Salman Rushdie
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-09-30
Luka And The Fire Of Life written by Salman Rushdie and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through the Magic World, encountering a slew of phantasmagorical obstacles along the way, to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task. With Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie proved that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables, and it proved to be one of his most popular books with readers of all ages. While Haroun was written as a gift for his first son, Luka and the Fire of Life, the story of Haroun's younger brother, is a gift for his second son on his twelfth birthday. Lyrical, rich with word-play, and with the narrative tension of the classic quest stories, this is Salman Rushdie at his very best.
The Art Of The Steal
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Author : Christopher Mason
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-08
The Art Of The Steal written by Christopher Mason and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08 with categories.
The only narrative to tell the whole truth about one of the most fascinating big-business trials of the new century: the proceedings that grew out of the price-fixing scandal that rocked the auction world & put one of the richest men in Amer. behind bars. This book offers an unprecedented look inside this secretive, glamorous industry, describing how Sotheby's & Christie's grew from clubby, aristocratic businesses into slick international corp. And it shows how the groundwork for the most recent illegal activities was laid decades before the perpetrators were caught by fed. prosecutors. Here, all the key players, such as Alfred Taubman, Dede Brooks & Christopher Davidge (& hundreds of others) spill the beans! Photos & illustrations.
Stealing The Mona Lisa
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Author : Darian Leader
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2004-09-30
Stealing The Mona Lisa written by Darian Leader and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-30 with Art categories.
When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, it was twenty–four hours before anyone knew it was missing. Afterward, thousands of people flocked to see the empty space where it had once hung, many of them having never seen the painting in the first place. In Stealing the Mona Lisa, Darien Leader takes the intriguing story of the theft of the Mona Lisa and the public's reaction to it as a starting point to explore the psychology of looking at visual art. What do we hope to see in paintings, and what do they hide from us? Why should some artists feel compelled to live lives that are more colorful than their works? And why did the police bungle their long investigation into the theft of Leonardo's masterpiece? Leader combines anecdote, observation, and analysis with examples taken from classical and contemporary art to create a surprising and fearless interrogation of what we see in art and what we might hope to find.