Best of
Metaphysics

1969

The Logic of Sense


Gilles Deleuze - 1969
    Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' where sense and nonsense collide.Written in an innovative form and witty style, The Logic of Sense is an essay in literary and psychoanalytic theory as well as philosophy, and helps to illuminate such works as Anti-Oedipus.

Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds


Jacques F. Vallée - 1969
    That long-out-of-print book--which discussed the most interesting reports of more than 1,000 apparently reliable witnessess--has become an underground classic and is now being reissued.

Living the Science of Mind


Ernest Shurtleff Holmes - 1969
    In effect, this book is Holmes' own commentary on his classic Science of Mind textbook.

Eckankar: The Key to Secret Worlds


Paul Twitchell - 1969
    In it, the author outlines the fundamental steps for preparing one's spiritual consciousness and explores six specific techniques for Soul Travel.

Lord Of The Horizon


Joan Marshall Grant - 1969
    It is the sequel to Eyes of Horus.Lord of the Horizon is the story, told in the first person, of Ra-ab, heir to the Nomarch of the Oryx. Ra-ab is twenty-one as the story begins. The dawn for which Ra-ab and the Watchers of the Horizon fought in Eyes of Horus has come, but to 'Send Fear into Exile', as the Watchers' password promised, proves difficult. The new Pharaoh, Amenemhet, marries the daughter of the Pharaoh he deposed, thereby enabling her mother, a Babylonian by birth, to retain influence. Like a spider, she spins a web of intrigue and manipulation which threatens to plunge Egypt back into darkness. Her prize is Amenemhet's son Senusert, who will one day be Pharaoh himself. Finally, Pharaoh realizes what has occurred, and calls on his friend Ra-ab Hotep, hero of the revolution, to take Senusert to his home in the Oryx and help him grow up properly, so he will be ready to fulfill his duties as Pharaoh. But the Babylonian is not yet defeated. She continues to challenge Amenemhet's rule and authority, leading inexorably to the final showdown.As a child growing up in Edwardian England, Joan Grant became aware of an astonishing ability to remember previous lifetimes, and as an author professed her seven novels to be based on her personal recollections of other incarnations, male and female, in ancient civilisations."Ra'ab, the Warrior, heir of the Peace of God... speaks with a voice that those who today are seeking illumination may welcome as the voice of a friend." TLS

Ennead 1/On the Life of Plotinus


Plotinus - 1969
    His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads). Plotinus regarded Plato as his master. His own philosophy is an original development of the Platonism of the 1st two centuries of the Christian era & the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle & his followers & the Stoics, whose writings he knew well but used critically. He's a unique combination of mystic & Hellenic rationalist. His thought dominated later Greek philosophy & influenced both Christians & Moslems, & is continues today owing to its union of rationality & intense religious experience. In his edition of Plotinus, Armstrong provides excellent introductions to each treatise. His invaluable notes explain obscure passages & give reference to parallels in Plotinus & others.

Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus


Jeffrey Furst - 1969
    Furst's book lies in the fact that he quotes at great length from the Cayce readings, and this should please the people who have been tantalized by brief quotations in other, earlier books."--Nashville Tennessean