The Ecstatic Adventure
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The Ecstatic Adventure
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Author : Ralph Metzner
language : en
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Release Date : 1968
The Ecstatic Adventure written by Ralph Metzner and has been published by New York : Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Hallucinogenic drugs categories.
The Ecstatic Adventure
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Author : Ralph Metzner
language : en
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Release Date : 1968
The Ecstatic Adventure written by Ralph Metzner and has been published by New York : Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Ecstasy categories.
The Ecstatic Imagination
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Author : Dan Merkur
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1998-01-22
The Ecstatic Imagination written by Dan Merkur and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-22 with Psychology categories.
Presents the first comprehensive survey of the varieties of psychedelic experience since 1975.
The Adventure Of Self Discovery
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Author : Stanislav Grof
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1988-01-31
The Adventure Of Self Discovery written by Stanislav Grof and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-31 with Psychology categories.
Here Grof presents a useful model of the psychea model extended by his thirty years of studying non-ordinary states of consciousness. It is useful for understanding such phenomena as shamanism, mysticism, psychedelic states, spontaneous visionary experiences, and psychotic episodes. The model is also useful in explaining the dynamics of experiential psychotherapies and a variety of sociopolitical manifestations such as war and revolution. This book might have been entitled Beyond Drugs. The second part describes the principles and process of the non-pharmacological technique developed by the author and his wife, Christina, for self-exploration and for psychotherapy. Grof explores in detail the components of this technique. He describes its method, its effective mechanisms, as well as its goals and potential. Its practice is simple, since it utilizes the natural healing capacity of the psyche.
The Ecstatic Whitman
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Author : George Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Ecstatic Whitman written by George Hutchinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
Alan Watts Here And Now
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Author : Peter J. Columbus
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-06-13
Alan Watts Here And Now written by Peter J. Columbus and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-13 with Religion categories.
Considers the contributions and contemporary significance of Alan Watts. Alan Watts—Here and Now explores the intellectual legacy and continuing relevance of a prolific writer and speaker who was a major influence on American culture during the latter half of the twentieth century. A thinker attuned to the spiritual malaise affecting the Western mind, Watts (1915–1973) provided intellectual and spiritual alternatives that helped shape the Beat culture of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s. Well known for introducing Buddhist and Daoist spirituality to a wide Western audience, he also wrote on psychology, mysticism, and psychedelic experience. Many idolized Watts as a guru-mystic, yet he was also dismissed as intellectually shallow and as a mere popularizer of Asian religions (the “Norman Vincent Peale of Zen”). Both critical and appreciative, this edited volume locates Watts at the forefront of major paradigmatic shifts in Western intellectual life. Contributors explore how Watts’s work resonates in present-day scholarship on psychospiritual transformation, Buddhism and psychotherapy, Daoism in the West, phenomenology and hermeneutics, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, mysticism, and ecofeminism, among other areas. Peter J. Columbus is Administrator of the Shantigar Foundation in Rowe, Massachusetts. Donadrian L. Rice is Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia. They are also the coeditors of Psychology of the Martial Arts.
The Ecstatic Quotidian
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Author : Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11
The Ecstatic Quotidian written by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Philosophy categories.
Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei examines the ways in which modern art and literature enable a study of how we experience quotidian life. She shows that modernism, while exhibiting many strands of development, can be understood by investigating how its attentions to perception and expectation, to the common quality of things, or to childhood play gives way to experiences of ecstasis&—the stepping outside of the ordinary familiarity of the world. While phenomenology grounds this study (through Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Bachelard), what makes this book more than a treatise on phenomenological aesthetics is the way in which modernity itself is examined in its relation to the quotidian. Through the works of artists and writers such as Benjamin, C&ézanne, Frost, Klee, Newman, Pollock, Ponge, Proust, Rilke, Robbe-Grillet, Rothko, Sartre, and Twombly, the world of quotidian life can be seen to harbor a latent ecstasis. The breakdown of the quotidian through and after modernism then becomes an urgent question for understanding art and literature in its capacity to further human experience, and it points to the limits of phenomenological explications of the everyday.
Black Terror White Soldiers
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Author : David Livingstone
language : en
Publisher: David Livingstone
Release Date : 2013-06-16
Black Terror White Soldiers written by David Livingstone and has been published by David Livingstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-16 with History categories.
Far too ignorant of the histories of the rest of the world, being aware of only the accomplishments of Greece, Rome and Europe, Westerners have been made to believe that their societies represent the most superior examples of civilization. However, the Western value system stems from a misconception that, as in nature, human society too is evolving. The idea derives from the hidden influence of secret societies, who followed the belief in spiritual evolution of the Kabbalah, which taught that history would attain its fulfillment when man would become God, and make his own laws. Therefore, the infamous Illuminati gave its name to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, which claimed that human progress must abandon "superstition," meaning Christianity, in favor of "reason." Thus the Illuminati succeeded in bringing about the French and American revolutions, which instituted the separation of Church and State, and from that point forward, the Western values of Humanism, seen to include secularism, human rights, democracy and capitalism, have been celebrated as the culmination of centuries of human intellectual evolution. This is the basis of the propaganda which has been used to foster a Clash of Civilizations, where the Islamic world is presented as stubbornly adhering to the anachronistic idea of "theocracy." Where once the spread of Christianity and civilizing the world were used as pretexts for colonization, today a new White Man's Burden makes use of human rights and democracy to justify imperial aggression. However, because, after centuries of decline, the Islamic world is incapable of mobilizing a defense, the Western powers, as part of their age-old strategy of Divide and Conquer, have fostered the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, to both serve as agent-provocateurs and to malign the image of Islam. These sects, known to scholars as Revivalists, opposed the traditions of classical Islamic scholarship in order to create the opportunity to rewrite the laws of the religion to better serve their sponsors. Thus were created the Wahhabi and Salafi sects of Islam, from which were derived the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been in the service of the West ever since. But, the story of the development of these Islamic sects involves the bizarre doctrines and hidden networks of occult secret societies, being based on a Rosicrucian myth of Egyptian Freemasonry, which see the Muslim radicals as inheritors of an ancient mystery tradition of the Middle East which was passed on to the Knights Templar during the Crusades, thus forming the foundation of the legends of the Holy Grail. These beliefs would not only form the cause for the association of Western intelligence agencies with Islamic fundamentalists, but would fundamentally shape much of twentieth century history.
Psychedelic Mysticism
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Author : Morgan Shipley
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-11-12
Psychedelic Mysticism written by Morgan Shipley and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-12 with Social Science categories.
Although commonly celebrated as a distinct manifestation of Americana, hippies and psychedelics are routinely de-emphasized in favor of direct political activism, a phenomenon that constrains the full telling of the hippie counterculture as it relates to a radical religiosity defined by mutuality and altruism. Psychedelic Mysticism reevaluates the religious significance of the 1960s psychedelic counterculture, tracing how psychedelics became entheogenic, leading sixties figures to transition personal moments of enlightenment into everyday projects of social justice.
Seeking The Sacred With Psychoactive Substances
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Author : J. Harold Ellens
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-10-28
Seeking The Sacred With Psychoactive Substances written by J. Harold Ellens and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with Religion categories.
Can drugs be used intelligently and responsibly to expand human consciousness and heighten spirituality? This two-volume work presents objective scientific information and personal stories aiming to answer the question. The first of its kind, this intriguing two-volume set objectively reports on and assesses this modern psycho-social movement in world culture: the constructive medical use of entheogens and related mind-altering substances. Covering the use of substances such as ayahuasca, cannabis, LSD, peyote, and psilocybin, the work seeks to illuminate the topic in a scholarly and scientific fashion so as to lift the typical division between those who are supporters of research and exploration of entheogens and those who are strongly opposed to any such experimentation altogether. The volumes address the history and use of mind-altering drugs in medical research and religious practice in the endeavor to expand and heighten spirituality and the sense of the divine, providing unbiased coverage of the relevant arguments and controversies regarding the subject matter. Chapters include examinations of how psychoactive agents are used to achieve altered states in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism as well as in the rituals of shamanism and other less widely known faiths. This highly readable work will appeal to everyone from high school students to seasoned professors, in both the secular world and in devoted church groups and religious colleges.