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The Thief of Time
Philosophical Essays on Procrastination
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
When we fail to achieve our goals, procrastination is often the culprit. But how exactly is procrastination to be understood? It has been described as imprudent, irrational, inconsistent, and even immoral, but there has been no sustained philosophical debate concerning the topic. This edited volume...
Plato versus Parmenides
The Debate over Coming-into-Being in Greek Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Plato versus Parmenides investigates the concept of genesis, or coming into being, a problem that has absorbed the greatest philosophical thinkers. Robert J. Roecklein explores two philosophical giants who tackled this issue: Plato and Parmenides from Elea. Particularly interesting to Roecklein is...
by Robert Sokolowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1999
This book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, memory, language, and reference, and shows how human thinking arises from experience. It also studies...
by Philip Goff
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of fundamental reality in contemporary analytic philosophy is physicalism, the view that the world is fundamentally...
by James C. Klagge
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
A new way of looking at Wittgenstein: as an exile from an earlier cultural era.
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) and Philosophical Investigations (1953) are among the most influential philosophical books of the twentieth century, and also among the most perplexing....
The Sacred History
How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This collection of stories and illustrations—all about the wonders of the spiritual realm—takes you on a captivating ride from the great myths of ancient civilization to astounding discoveries of the modern era.
Written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret History of the...
The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians
The World's Most Mysterious Secret Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
The first complete historical and philosophical investigation into the “invisible fraternity” of the Rosicrucians
• Contains the latest research on the origins of the Rosicrucian movement
• Presents the ties between Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and the Templars
• Written...
The Secret Source
The Law of Attraction and its Hermetic Influence Throughout the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The Secret Source reveals the actual occult doctrines that gave birth to “The Law of Attraction” and later inspired the media phenomenon known as The Secret. Follow the trail into ancient Egypt to uncover where the law of attraction was first recorded, and how it was brought back to America to...
Michael
Communicating with the Archangel for Guidance & Protection
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Michael is considered the greatest angel in the Christian, Judaic, and Islamic traditions. Throughout the ages, he has appeared as a protector, a messenger, a guide, a warrior, and a healer. In Michael, Richard Webster presents a thorough history of this famous archangel and offers simple techniques...
Jesus Through Pagan Eyes: Bridging Neopagan Perspectives with a Progressive Vision of Christ
Bridging Neopagan Perspectives with a Progressive Vision of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
“Compelling and provocative . . . a major contribution to freeing Jesus for the interreligious and the non-religious world that is emerging.”—John Shelby Spong, author of Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World
Townsend, a former vicar of the Church of England, offers an historically...
Walkers Between the Worlds
The Western Mysteries from Shaman to Magus
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
A comprehensive overview of the Western perennial tradition--the hermetic tradition and the ancient earth wisdom of shamanic indigenous peoples
• Provides practical exercises to reawaken mystical awareness and reconnect with the ancient mystery traditions of our ancestors
• Reveals...
by Dion Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2000
Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah remains a classic in the field. She explores all aspects of the Qabalah-whose disciplines include the esoteric sciences of astrology and tarot, and forms the basis of the Western Mystery Tradition. Her thorough explanation of the Tree of Life, which lies at the heart...
Cracking the Symbol Code
The Heretical Message within Church and Renaissance Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Expanding on issues touched on in The Da Vinci Code, this thought-provoking study explores the real story of Christianity—a story told by men and women condemned by the traditional, orthodox church, and one long hidden in mysterious codes and symbols. In medieval times, dissenters believed the established...
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus
Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
"Perhaps Hermeticism has fascinated so many people precisely because it has made it possible to produce many analogies and relationships to various traditions: to Platonism in its many varieties, to Stoicism, to Gnostic ideas, and even to certain Aristotelian doctrines. The Gnostic, the esoteric,...