Wide Awake and Dreaming
Wide Awake and Dreaming

Author: Julie Flygare

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 9780988314900

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Julie Flygare was on an ambitious path to success, entering law school at age 22, when narcolepsy destroyed the neurological boundaries between dreaming and reality in her brain. She faced terrifying hallucinations, paralysis and excruciating sleepiness - aspects of dream sleep taking place while wide awake. Yet, narcolepsy was a wake-up call for Julie. Her illness propelled her onto a journey she never imagined - from lying paralyzed on her apartment floor to dancing euphorically at a nightclub; from the classrooms of Harvard Medical School to the start line of the Boston Marathon. Wide Awake and Dreaming is a revealing first-hand account of dreams gone wrong with narcolepsy. It's the brave story of one woman trampling over barriers and finding light in the darkest of circumstances.

The Second Book of Samuel
The Second Book of Samuel

Author: William Garden Blaikie

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-04-11

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781511694605

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"The Second Book of Samuel" from William Garden Blaikie. Scottish divine, writer, biographer, and temperance reformer (1820-1899).

War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible
War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible

Author: Jacob L. Wright

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-07-23

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1108574300

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The Hebrew Bible is permeated with depictions of military conflicts that have profoundly shaped the way many think about war. Why does war occupy so much space in the Bible? In this book, Jacob Wright offers a fresh and fascinating response to this question: War pervades the Bible not because ancient Israel was governed by religious factors (such as 'holy war') or because this people, along with its neighbors in the ancient Near East, was especially bellicose. The reason is rather that the Bible is fundamentally a project of constructing a new national identity for Israel, one that can both transcend deep divisions within the population and withstand military conquest by imperial armies. Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, Wright shows how biblical authors, like the architects of national identities from more recent times, constructed a new and influential notion of peoplehood in direct relation to memories of war, both real and imagined. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Metaphysical Bible Dictionary
Metaphysical Bible Dictionary

Author: Charles Fillmore

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-07-17

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 0486316092

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A key to Charles Fillmore's original form of religious expression, this volume is a core text of the Unity movement and interprets the hidden meanings of the Bible's names, places, and events.

African American Music
African American Music

Author: Mellonee V. Burnim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1317934423

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American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.

An Intimate Rebuke
An Intimate Rebuke

Author: Laura S. Grillo

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1478002638

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Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women—the Mothers—make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse and expel the forces of evil. In An Intimate Rebuke Laura S. Grillo draws on fieldwork in Côte d’Ivoire that spans three decades to illustrate how these rituals of Female Genital Power (FGP) constitute religious and political responses to abuses of power. When deployed in secret, FGP operates as spiritual warfare against witchcraft; in public, it serves as a political activism. During Côte d’Ivoire’s civil wars FGP challenged the immoral forces of both rebels and the state. Grillo shows how the ritual potency of the Mothers’ nudity and the conjuration of their sex embodies a moral power that has been foundational to West African civilization. Highlighting the remarkable continuity of the practice across centuries while foregrounding the timeliness of FGP in contemporary political resistance, Grillo shifts perspectives on West African history, ethnography, comparative religious studies, and postcolonial studies.

Stripping the Gurus
Stripping the Gurus

Author: Geoffrey D. Falk

Publisher:

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9780973620313

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"Armed with wit, insight, and truly astonishing research, Falk utterly demolishes the notion of the enlightened guru who can lead devotees to nirvana.--John Horgan, author of "Rational Mysticism."

The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health
The International Handbook of Black Community Mental Health

Author: Richard J. Major

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2020-06-03

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1839099666

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This international handbook addresses classic mental health issues, as well as controversial subjects regarding inequalities and stereotypes in access to services, and misdiagnoses. It addresses the everyday racism faced by Black people within mental health practice.

Mahatma I and II
Mahatma I and II

Author: Brian Grattan

Publisher: Light Technology Publishing

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780929385778

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What all of mankind have learned in the past about creation is the way that existence isn't -- a paradox! Awaken and realize that all of mankind will create their "body for Ascension," whether they accomplish this now or later, and that this is not the exclusive domain of Christ or Buddha or many others who have ascended -- this is your birthright. You are not relegated to worshipping those who have already done this very basic initiation called Ascension. Christ and Buddha would be the first to acknowledge that they are just beginners on their eternal journey. When mankind lifts the veils of their unworthiness and recognize that the are the Sons of God, that there is divine equality and no one is greater than another, then you will have begun our journey in the way that it was intended. In your near future your Planetary Hierarchy will release the world from theology, ecclesiasticism and the wrathful Jehovah and return humanity to its rightful journey into spiritualizing matter, not worshipping it! The Mahatma is for those who are motivated to search for the answers that can respond to their mental and spiritual bodies. In the past, mankind?s choices of beliefs and religions have supported only the emotional body and the darker, material side of life. And truly, if one is going to remain on Earth, very drastic shifts of consciousness will be required to have mankind remain in Earth?s new fourth-dimensional reality. No matter how contrary to your current beliefs, this book contains methods for creating your spiritual Lightbody for Ascension, and it also explains your eternal journey in a way that was never before available to mankind.