The Smoke of the Gods
Author: Eric Burns
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2006-10-06
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781592134823
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Author: Eric Burns
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2006-10-06
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781592134823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use.
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Total Pages: 214
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Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lynne Hume
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-29
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1000189872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Alice in Wonderland discovered, cave entrances, tunnels, spirals and mirrors can transport people to strange worlds where anything is possible. Portals investigates how we move beyond the conscious and physical world using our senses, into other realities of the spiritual and the divine. Portals looks at the techniques used to alter consciousness practised by shamans, monks and other religious specialists. These include the use of drugs, as well as drumming, chanting and meditation. The book provides a new, anthropologically-grounded perspective on the wide-ranging questions about the realities of human consciousness and mystical, spiritual and religious experience.
Author: Don Little
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2010-03
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 1434997669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lord Dunsany
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Published: 2022-01-11
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 1513223976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Gods of Pegāna (1905) is a short story collection by Lord Dunsany. Published at the beginning of his career, The Gods of Pegāna would influence such writers as J. R. R. Tolkein, Ursula K. Le Guin, and H. P. Lovecraft. Recognized as a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction, Dunsany is a man whose work, in the words of Lovecraft, remains “unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous and languorous world of incandescently exotic vision.” “Whether the season be winter or whether it be summer, whether it be morning among the worlds or whether it be night, Skarl still beateth his drum, for the purposes of the gods are not yet fulfilled.” The Gods of Pegāna, Dunsany’s debut collection of stories, contains some of his finest tales of fantasy and adventure. The Mana-Yood-Sushai created the gods of Pegāna before falling asleep in the middle of Time. The only thing keeping him from creating new gods and worlds is the drummer Skarl, who can never cease his playing. In their creator’s absence, dozens of small gods and a thousand local deities have free reign to create the worlds and realities they want. As they compete to outdo one another, the order and peace of Pegāna hangs in the balance. Humorous and inventive, Dunsany’s tales of high fantasy continue to delight over a century after they first appeared in print. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Lord Dunsany’s The Gods of Pegāna is a classic of Irish fantasy fiction reimagined for modern readers.
Author: Philip C. Almond
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-06-12
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1838608648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this elegant new book, the sequel to his earlier, much praised treatment of the Devil, Philip Almond reveals that - whether in Judaism, Christianity or Islam - God is seen to be at once utterly beyond our world yet at the same earnestly desiring to be at one with it. In the Christian chapter of this story the paradox arguably reaches its improbable zenith: in the fragile form of a human being the infinite became finite, the eternal temporal. The way these and other metaphysical tensions have been understood is, the author demonstrates, the key to unlocking the entire history of religion in the West. Expertly placing the narrative of divine presence within the wider history of ideas, Almond suggests that the notion of a deity has been the single greatest conundrum of medieval and modern civilization. In this rich, nuanced appraisal, 'God' is shown to be more complex and fascinating than ever before.
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 954
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 974
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 970
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