Best of
Arthurian

2006

ThetaHealing: Go Up and Seek God, Go Up and Work with God


Vianna Stibal - 2006
    A compilation of her former books, Go Up and Seek God, Go Up and Work with God, transcripts of classes as well as new information and experiences, ThetaHealing gives an in-depth insight into this intriguing phenomenon that has spread throughout the world. This is a rare book that ThetaHealing novices and advanced practitioners alike will understand and gain knowledge from. ThetaHealing is your personal guide through many different exercises and concepts that were previously learned only through seminar attendance. In it, Vianna speaks first-hand about her own intuitive experiences leading up to the creation of the ThetaHealing in addition to events in her life that led her to where she is today. Through step-by-step instruction, diagrams, pictures, and real-life examples, you are sure to feel compelled to practice with this interactive book in the quest for improving your life. ThetaHealing once again promises an exciting and fulfilling adventure into Vianna s one of a kind technique, given to her by the Creator of All That Is.

King Arthur's Enchantresses: Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition


Carolyne Larrington - 2006
    Yet there is an aspect to this myth which has been neglected, but which is perhaps its most potent part of all.  For central to the Arthurian stories are the mysterious, sexually alluring enchantresses, those spellcasters and mistresses of magic who wield extraordinary influence over Arthur's life and destiny, bestriding the Camelot mythology with a dark, brooding presence. Echoing the search for the Grail, Carolyne Larrington takes her readers on a quest of her own - to discover why these dangerous women continue to bewitch us.  Her journey takes in the enchantresses as they appear in poetry and painting, on the Internet and TV, in high culture and popular culture.  She shows that whether they be chaste or depraved, necrophiliacs or virgins, the Arthurian enchantresses  are manifestations of the feared, uncontainable Other, frightening and fascinating in equal measure.

Tropic of Fear


Ron Terpening - 2006
    Walter Stanek, a hydrogeologist from Arizona, was in country for what he thought was a disaster-prevention project in Asunción and an environmental impact study for the proposed Corpus dam on the Paraná river. So how did they get caught between rebel forces and the secret police under Colonel Hector Ibarras, a man with designs on power? It all started with an encounter at the Club Bahia Negra and a late night attack on the dusty, unpaved road of a nearby shantytown—and it ended with the two Americans struggling to survive while forced to play a pivotal role in a plot to overthrow the government of General Enrico Zancon.

The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature


Glyn S. Burgess - 2006
    Principally focused on the production, dissemination, and evolution of Arthurian material from the twelfth to fifth centuries, this volume covers writing in both verse and prose, and addresses such classics as the Tristan legend, the Vulgate Cycle, and the Grail Continuations.

Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival


G. Ronald Murphy - 2006
    Of these, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German Parzival (c. 1210) is generally recognized as the most complex and beautiful. Strangely, in Parzival, the Grail is identified as a stone rather than a cup or dish. This oddity is usually seen as just another mystery, further evidence of the difficulty of discerning the true sources of the Grail legend. In this groundbreaking study, G. Ronald Murphy seeks to illuminate this mystery and to enable a far better appreciation of Wolfram's insight into the nature of the Grail and its relationship to the Crusades. The Grail, container of the sacred body and blood of Christ, Wolfram was saying, was where God said it would be: on the altar at the consecration of the Mass. Wolfram's "sacred stone" was none other than a consecrated altar, precious by virtue of the sacrament but also, Murphy argues, by virtue of the material from which it was made: a green gem, one of the precious stones associated with the rivers of Paradise. Murphy explores what it signifies for the Grail to be a translucent gemstone and an altar made portable only by a woman. Wolfram's stone is a sacramental reference to the stone the Crusaders fought to obtain - the Holy Sepulchre. Parzival, Murphy believes, was intended as an argument against continued efforts by Latin Christians to recover the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by force of arms. In Wolfram's story, warring Christian and Muslim brothers are brought together in peace by the power of Wolfram's Holy Grail--a stone Murphy believes still exists. Murphy's investigation of the spiritual nature and meaning of the Grail is thus accompanied by his quest for and wondrous discovery of the actual altar stone that inspired Wolfram's work. Offering an entirely original reading of Wolfram's famous text, this engrossing and accessible book appeals not only to scholars and students of medieval literature but to anyone who is drawn to the lasting mystery of the Holy Grail.

A History of Arthurian Scholarship


Norris J. Lacy - 2006
    The chapters, each written by an expert in the area under discussion, present scholarly trends and evaluate major contributions to the study of the numerous different strands which make up the Arthurian material: origins, Grail studies, editing and translation of Arthurian texts, medieval and modern literatures (in English and European languages), art and film. The result is an indispensable resource for students and a valuable guide for anyone with a serious interest in the Arthurian legend. Contributors: NORRIS LACY, TONY HUNT, KEITH BUSBY, JANE TAYLOR, CHRISTOPHER SNYDER, RICHARD BARBER, SIAN ECHARD, GERALD MORGAN, ALBRECHT CLASSEN, ROGER DALRYMPLE, BART BESAMUSCA, MARIANNE E. KALINKE, BARBARA MILLER, CHRISTOPHER KLEINHENZ, MURIEL WHITAKER, JEANNE FOX-FRIEDMAN, DANIEL NASTALI, KEVIN J. HARTY NORRIS J. LACY is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

The Legends of Arthur


Heather Dale - 2006
    This 2 hour audio book tells the tales of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Yvain's magic ring, the quest of Sir Gareth of the Kitchen, the tragic love of Tristan and his Isolt, noble Culhwch's efforts to marry the daughter of an evil giant, Merlin's end at the hands of a young sorceress, and many others, as well as the tragedy that unfolded around Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot and Morgan.In the background of each story plays an instrumental version of one of Heather Dale's Celtic-style Arthurian songs, each related to the tale being told.