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Inner Space: Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation and Prophecy by Aryeh Kaplan
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Time Enough At Last
Lyn Venable - 1953
Remember the classic Twilight Zone episode in which a man only wants peace and quiet so he can read - and then a global event seems to finally provide him with the opportunity? Written by Lyn Venable and published in the magazine IF: Worlds of Science Fiction for January 1953, "Time Enough at Last" served as the basis for the now classic teleplay written by none other than Twilight Zone creator and host Rod Serling.
The Marching Morons
C.M. Kornbluth - 1959
Satirical, witty, startling - a delight to read lo these fifty years after his demise.CONTENTS:The Marching Morons; Dominoes; The Luckiest Man in Denv; The Silly Season; Ms. Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie; The Only Thing We Learn; The Cosmic Charge Account; I Never Ast No Favors; The Remorseful
Quantum Lyrics
A. Van Jordan - 2007
Van Jordan re-creates the lives of his subjects: Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, comic-book superheroes (The Green Lantern, The Atom), along with aspects of himself revealed in poems of recollection and loss. With lyric intensity he suggests that contemporary physicists are also metaphysical poets.
Hallucination
Isaac Asimov - 1985
It first appeared in Boys' Life in 1985,[1] and was collected in Gold. Its storyline is similar to that of his novel Nemesis.Hallucination takes place at a time in the future although the exact date or era is not specific. The action takes place on Energy Planet, a rocky earth-like planet orbiting a neutron star in the Milky Way. Part of the Multivac series.
The Cat's Quizzer
Dr. Seuss - 1976
Seuss! Do fish sleep with one eye open? What do they call one-eyed eyeglasses? Are snails faster than turtles? How many will you get right? (The Zozzfozzels got them ALL wrong!) Featuring a mixture of picture puzzles, logic tricks, and silly questions, The Cat's Quizzer will keep readers fascinated with a wide array of facts and fun!Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.
Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad
Mark W. Muesse - 2010
Now, this 36-lecture series takes you deep into the life stories and legacies of these four iconic figures, revealing the core teachings, and thoughts of each, and shedding light on the historical processes that underlie their phenomenal, enduring impact.Speaking from multilevel personal experience with these teachings, Professor Muesse leads you in an inquiry with a dynamic double thrust.First, you'll get the chance to reflect in depth on the most essential values of spirituality and the art of living, seen from four archetypal perspectives. Second, you'll delve into the historical contexts and individual lives of the four sages, and how the religious and philosophical traditions we associate with them came into being. The lectures serve as a unique window on the origins of these traditions, through their focus on the teachings, actions, and historical roles of the sages who inspired them. In uncovering the original wisdom and practices of each sage, you'll grapple with key questions. How did each man understand the nature of the universe? How did each envision the human self? What did they each see as the path to true self-realization? In words reflecting profound and compassionate insight, these lectures bring the teachings vividly alive as they speak to their essential purpose and as they shed light on the choices we all face, moment by moment, in living deliberately and savoring life to the fullest.
Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs
Jacques Derrida - 1967
His critique of Husserl attacks the position that language is founded on logic rather than on rhetoric; instead, he claims, meaningful language is limited to expression because expression alone conveys sense. Derrida's larger project is to confront phenomenology with the tradition it has so often renounced--the tradition of Western metaphysics.
Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation: In Theory and Practice
Anonymous
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has therefore translated the Sefer Yetzirah the oldest and most mysterious of all kabbalistic texts, and now brings its theoretical, meditative and magical implication to light. He expounds on the dynamics of the spiritual domain, the worlds of the Sefirot, souls and angels. When properly understood, the Sefer Yetzirah becomes the instruction manual for a very special type of meditation meant to strengthen concentration, and to aid the development of telekinetic and telepathic powers. These powers were meant to help initiates perform feats that outwardly appeared magical. The magical kabbalah is closely related to the meditative kabbalah, and uses various signs, incantations, and divine names by which initiates could influence or alter natural events. This translation includes the meditation in five dimensions, the transition from Binah to Chakhmah consciousness, the point of infinity, kabbalistic astrology, Ezekiel's vision according to the Sefer Yetzirah, and the mystery of the 231 gates.Also included is a digest of all major commentaries on the text of Sefer Yetzirah and a bibliography of many of the major kabbalistic works that discuss it, as well as extensive notes regarding various aspects of the translation, Rabbi Kaplan's translation is based on the Gra version, which has been thought to be the most authentic. Also included is the short version, the long version, and the Saadia version, making this volume the most complete work on the Sefer Yetzirah in English.
The Dark Messiah
Michael Anderle - 2016
Michael, the Archangel himself, has returned after a hundred and fifty years rejuvenating in the Etheric Dimension. Now, the most powerful male Vampire the world had ever known is back. The problem? The world went through an Apocalypse and what little honor and justice that previously existed, is gone. Further, his love has left to the stars somewhere, fighting for those on Earth. Now, Michael has to figure out where he is, where he needs to go, help those who need help and figure out how to follow in his love's path. Because if there is one thing that Honor Demands, it is that he make good on his promise to Bethany Anne. Those feeding themselves on the backs of others have very little time to realize an important fact. This Dark Messiah has little compunction about killing. ** As noted in other series set in the Kurtherian Universe, there IS cursing in this book, occasionally, it's funny, too. ** Kurtherian Gambit Series Titles Include: First Arc Death Becomes Her (01) - Queen Bitch (02) - Love Lost (03) - Bite This (04) Never Forsaken (05) - Under My Heel (06) Kneel Or Die (07) Second Arc We Will Build (08) - It’s Hell To Choose (09) - Release The Dogs of War (10) Sued For Peace (11) - We Have Contact (12) - My Ride is a Bitch (13) Don’t Cross This Line (14) Third Arc (Due 2017) Never Submit (Jan) (15) - Never Surrender (16) - Forever Defend (17) Might Makes Right (18) - Ahead Full (19) - Capture Death (20) Life Goes On (21) **New Series** The Second Dark Ages The Dark Messiah (01) The Darkest Night (02) Mar 2017 Darkest Before The Dawn (03) July 2017 Light Is Breaking (04) Nov 2017 The Boris Chronicles * With Paul C. Middleton * Evacuation Retaliation Revelation Dec 2016 Restitution 2017 Reclaiming Honor * With JUSTIN SLOAN * Justice Is Calling (01) Claimed By Honor (02) Jan 2017 The Etheric Academy * With TS PAUL * ALPHA CLASS (01) Dec 2016/Jan 2017 ALPHA CLASS (02) Feb/Mar 2017 ALPHA CLASS (03) May/June 2017 Terry Henry “TH” Walton Chronicles * With Craig Martelle * Book 1 – Nomad Found (Out) Book 2 – Nomad Redeemed (Jan 2017) Book 3 - Nomad Unleashed (2017) Book 4 - Nomad Supreme(2017) SHORT STORIES Frank Kurns Stories of the Unknownworld 01 (7.5) You Don’t Mess with John’s Cousin Frank Kurns Stories of the Unknownworld 02 (9.5) Bitch’s Night Out Frank Kurns Stories of the Unknownworld 03 (13.25) * With Natalie Grey * BELLATRIX Anthologies Glimpse Honor in Death (Michael’s First Few Days) Beyond the Stars: At Galaxy's Edge Tabitha’s Vacation
Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language
Esther Schor - 2015
The result was Esperanto, a utopian scheme full of the brilliance, craziness, and grandiosity that characterize all such messianic visions.In this first full history of a constructed language, poet and scholar Esther Schor traces the life of Esperanto. She follows the path from its invention by Zamenhof, through its turn-of-the-century golden age as the great hope of embattled cosmopolites, to its suppression by nationalist regimes and its resurgence as a bridge across the Cold War. She plunges into the mechanics of creating a language from scratch, one based on rational systems that would be easy to learn, politically neutral, and allow all to speak to all. Rooted in the dark soil of Europe, Esperanto failed to stem the continent's bloodletting, of course, but as Schor shows, the ideal continues draw a following of modern universalists dedicated to its visionary goal.Rich and subtle, Bridge of Words is at once a biography of an idea, an original history of Europe, and a spirited exploration of the only language charged with saving the world from itself.
Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt - 2009
And he enjoys baffling his readers with enigmas like why, after so many years of listening with no results, would a SETI director hear an artificial signal and keep it quiet? Why might an astronomer at a space station, facing imminent death from a solar radiation blast, send off a frantic message that he had discovered a Clyde Tombaugh Special? Tombaugh, of course, was the discoverer of Pluto.What really happened to Christopher Sim, the George Washington of the war against the Ashiyyur? Why had a beloved artist at the top of his profession, with everything to live for, killed himself? Why had a brilliant young biologist discovered how life got started on Earth, but neglected to tell anyone?And there are of course other anomalies to be encountered in McDevitt's work: A computer threatens the literary world, while a time traveler worries the churches. One artificial intelligence runs for president, and another claims to be a Catholic and demands access to the sacraments. Two friends discover that whenever they get together, shuttles crash, wars break out, or tidal waves hammer a coastline.A researcher watches endless fighting on another world and finally rebels against the Academy's hands-off doctrine. Meantime, a crewman stranded light-years from Earth, entertains himself by intercepting radio broadcasts from home, originally transmitted during World War II.Among other questions these tales will answer: What might happen when people in a research lab literally try to play God. Why you don't ever, ever, want to turn out the lights at Bolton's Tower in the Dakotas. Why someone might want to blow up a star. And why it would be a really good idea if Hatch kept his hands off the mallet. These, and twenty-three other cosmic rides, await the reader.Contents:Cryptic (1983)The Fort Moxie Branch (1988)Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City (2001)Tweak (2007)Melville on Iapetus (1983)Lighthouse (2006) by Jack McDevitt and Michael SharaCool Neighbor (2007) by Jack McDevitt and Michael SharaWhistle (1989)In the Tower (1987)Ignition (2005)Indomitable (2008)Last Contact (1988)Never Despair (1997)Windows (2004)Dutchman (1987)The Tomb (1991)Promises to Keep (1984)To Hell with the Stars (1987)The Mission (2004)Report from the Rear (1998)Black to Move (1982)The Far Shore (1982)Sunrise (1988)Kaminsky at War (2006)Fifth Day (2007)Deus Tex (1996)Gus (1991)Welcome to Valhalla (2008) by Jack McDevitt and Kathryn LanceTyger (1991)Auld Lang Boom (1992)Cruising through Deuteronomy (1995)The Candidate (2006)Act of God (2004)Ellie (1995)Time's Arrow (1989)Dead in the Water (1999)Henry James, This One's for You (2005)Time Travellers Never Die (1996)
The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens
Michael Ward - 2010
S. Lewis’s famed Chronicles of Narnia, but why? What is it about these seven books that makes them so appealing? For more than half a century, scholars have attempted to find the organizing key—the “secret code”—to the beloved series, but it has remained a mystery. Until now. In The Narnia Code, Michael Ward takes the reader through each of the seven Narnia books and reveals how each story embodies and expresses the characteristics of one of the seven planets of medieval cosmology—Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Luna, Mercury, Venus and Saturn—planets which Lewis described as “spiritual symbols of permanent value.” How does medieval cosmology relate to the Christian underpinnings of the series? How did it impact Lewis’s depiction of Aslan, the Christlike character at the heart of the books? And why did Lewis keep this planetary inspiration a secret? Originally a ground-breaking scholarly work called Planet Narnia, this more accessible adaptation will answer all the questions.