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Beyond Supernature

Author : Lyall Watson
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307816524
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Supernature written by Lyall Watson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking look at the world of the supernatural that shows how many paranormal events can be explained by what we already know—or don’t know—about the natural world. Scientist and rationalist Lyall Watson, the author of the million-copy bestseller Supernature, reveals the inconsistencies, blank spots, and “soft edges” in current scientific theory that make the existence of the supernatural not only an intriguing possibility—but a necessary and perfectly logical part of our explanation of the workings of the universe. Examining breakthroughs in science from biology to biofeedback, from quantum physics to paraphysics, the author proposes a revolutionary synthesis of nature and supernature. He offers surprising insights into such “unexplainable” phenomena as telepathy, reincarnation, synchronicity, poltergeists, evolutionary intelligence, and other mind-bending questions challenging science today. Beyond Supernature is a groundbreaking new chapter in the never-ending search for reality. It is a book for anyone who can still look at the world with both common sense and a sense of wonder.

Beyond Nature and Culture

Author : Philippe Descola
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614500X
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Nature and Culture written by Philippe Descola and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French edition Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Culture—as a collective human making, of art, language, and so forth—is often seen as essentially different from nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Philippe Descola shows this essential difference to be not only a Western notion, but also a very recent one. Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, he formulates a sophisticated new framework, the “four ontologies” —animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism—to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature. By thinking beyond nature and culture as a simple dichotomy, Descola offers a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh. “A compelling and original account of where the nature-culture binary has come from, where it might go—and what we might imagine in its place.” —Somatosphere “The most important book coming from French anthropology since Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Anthropologie Structurale.” —Bruno Latour, author of An Inquiry into Modes of Existence “Descola’s challenging new worldview should be of special interest to a wide range of scientific and academic disciplines from anthropology to zoology . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice

Humans and Their Environment, Beyond the Nature/Culture Opposition

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Transnational Press London
ISBN 13 : 1801351856
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Humans and Their Environment, Beyond the Nature/Culture Opposition written by Claude Calame and published by Transnational Press London. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern concept of “nature” appeared during the 17th Century: nature as a mechanical object to be submitted to reason man. A long tradition refers to the concept of nature in the Greek phusis. It is referring to a dynamic process that engages in criticizing the modern paradigm of nature as opposed to culture. As it is, the principle of the domination and exploitation by humans of what we consider as nature is at the heart of the ideological, economic and financial models imposed by neoliberal capitalism. Based on the objective of growth, this model shapes and destroys human communities as well as the environment on which they rely and sustain. The climatic urgency as well as the limited capacity of the resources of the earth, require a transition towards an ecosocialism for another world. The anthropological confrontation with the Greek phusis invites to a break with capitalism based on a large scale and speedy use of technologies and with the only objective of financial gain. The result has been destructive productivism. Instead, we have to take into account the complexity of and interactions between human societies and their technical practices in their environment. The survival of one or the other is at stake. In sum, nature is culture. Contents Preface to the English Edition. 3 Introduction. 9 Between Nature and Culture. 15 I. Humans and Their Milieu in Ancient Greece. 19 II. From the Enlightenment Philosophers to Modern Anthropologists 37 III. Beyond Anthropological Determinisms: Permeabilities 47 IV. The Human Being and its Environment: Interactive Relationships 57 V. For an Ecosocialist Understanding of Humans and their Milieu. 65

Supernature

Author : Lyall Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Supernature written by Lyall Watson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Supernature

Author : Lyall Watson
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Supernature written by Lyall Watson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1973 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outlines of Dogmatic Theology

Author : Sylvester Joseph Hunter
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1033 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlines of Dogmatic Theology written by Sylvester Joseph Hunter and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 1895 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE writer of this work proposes to present in three volumes, in English, an outline of a three year course of Dogmatic Theology, such as is offered to students for the priesthood in Catholic Seminaries. No attempt is made to give more than the merest outline; but it is hoped that it will satisfy the needs of some who are not professional students, especially by showing the nature of the questions dealt with in each Treatise, and their proportionate importance, as indicated by the space allowed to them. Aeterna Press

Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell

Author : Lyall Watson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244938
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell written by Lyall Watson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-04-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is more memorable than a smell. So why do we persist in dismissing the nose as a blunt instrument? Smell is our most seductive and provocative sense, invading every domain of our lives. We can identify our relatives, detect the availability of a potential mate, sniff out danger, and distinguish between good and bad food just with our noses. In this surprising and delightful book, Lyall Watson rescues our most unappreciated sense from obscurity. He brings to light new evidence concerning Jacobson's Organ: an anatomical feature discovered high in the nose in 1811 and dismissed for centuries as a vestigial ghost. Yet recent research has shown Jacobson's Organ to be an incredibly influential pheromonal mechanism that feeds the area of the brain affecting our awareness, emotional states, and sexual behavior. Following the seven classes of smell devised by the pioneering botanist Carolus Linnaeus in his Odores Medicamentorum, Watson examines the roles of smell and pheromones in humans, plants, and animals. He reveals the curious ways in which trees communicate their distress, the olfactory abilities of feral children, the bond we have with our offspring, the psychosexual effects of perfume, and the link between smell and memory formation. Jacobson's Organ unlocks the door to the strange world of this mysterious sense.

Nature and Grace

Author : Matthias Joseph Scheeben
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725226618
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Grace written by Matthias Joseph Scheeben and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passing years, which bury so many once-famous names under deep layers of forgetfulness, are raising Matthias Joseph Scheeben to an eminence reached by very few scholars. Time is the judge of all achievements, and has pronounced its verdict that Scheeben is the greatest theologian who has written in the German language. The reason for his importance is not hard to find. Scheeben is the chief theologian of the supernatural economy of the world. The intellectual blight known as rationalism had spread widely in the nineteenth century and had made disastrous inroads even in Christian circles. Although preliminary battles waged by Catholics who were turning back the unholy invasion, Scheeben was the champion who finally and decisively drove the enemy out of theology. From the very outset of his theological career, Scheeben had cherished the ambition of making the drab naturalistic world glow again in the light and beauty of grace, of bringing back to the awareness of men the glorious truth that they are God's children. In the first of his major books, Nature and Grace, he describes the supernatural as a sharing in the nature of God. This same theme, the splendor of our supernatural life, is the leading idea of all his works. He thought that a deep appreciation of the mysteries revealed by God was so important that he consecrated the tireless powers of his genius to the task of bringing out their beauty and force, and of emphasizing their meaning for the daily life of man. He insisted that these mysteries are the richest treasure of our spiritual inheritance and that theology is the inspiration of the fullest lie open to use-supernatural life with Christ and in Christ. Scheeben's masterly theological synthesis is best proposed in The Mysteries of Christianity, his most original work, but was clearly formulated from the beginning of his literary activity in Nature and Grace, the book of his energetic youth.

Ecclesiastical Review ...

Author : Herman Joseph Heuser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesiastical Review ... written by Herman Joseph Heuser and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philosophy of the Supernatural

Author : William Henry Platt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of the Supernatural written by William Henry Platt and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature

Author : Greg S. Nyquist
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595196330
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature written by Greg S. Nyquist and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No American philosopher has sold more books to the general public than Rand—over thirty million at last count, with over a half million being sold on a yearly basis. Rand’s legacy is widespread and enduring. Yet, despite the extent of her influence, her ideas have not received much attention from scholars and critics. Her philosophical views, many of which are extremely controversial, literally cry out for interpretation and criticism. But little along these lines has appeared. Ayn Rand Contra Human Nature represents a major contribution to a critical understanding of Rand’s so-called “Objectivist” ideology. Based on extensive research of Rand’s writings, including her journals and letters, the book demonstrates how Objectivism sprung from Rand’s romantic and idealistic view of human nature. Rand repeatedly claimed that the goal of her writing was “the projection of an ideal man” and that her philosophy was merely “a necessary means to that end.” Using this insight as an interpretive touchstone, the book proceeds to explain how Rand’s views on history, human knowledge, morality, and aesthetics were profoundly influenced by her idolatry of the “ideal man” and where she went wrong in developing her unique but flawed vision of human society.

Supernature

Author : Lyall Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340188347
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Supernature written by Lyall Watson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Nature

Author : Lyall Watson
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060927905
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Dark Nature written by Lyall Watson and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1997-01-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when violence threatens to become epidemic and genocide takes the place of diplomacy in many regions of the world, it is no longer enough to simply dismiss such dark behavior as "human nature." People need to know why such atrocities and horrors take place, and the usual moral, religious, political and philosophical explanations have proved inadequate. With Dark Nature, world naturalist Lyall Watson presents a scientific examination of evil. Drawing on the latest insights of genetics, evolutionary ethology, anthropology and psychology, he takes the discussion of evil out of the realm of monsters and demons to reveal it for what it truly is: A biological reality that may be terrifying but can be controlled. Groundbreaking, fascinating and eminently readable, Dark Nature is a vital and timely antidote to modern despair.

Iroquois Supernatural

Author : Michael Bastine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439442
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Iroquois Supernatural written by Michael Bastine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings the paranormal beings and places of the Iroquois folklore tradition to life through historic and contemporary accounts of otherworldly encounters • Recounts stories of shapeshifting witches, giant flying heads, enchanted masks, ethereal lights, talking animals, Little People, spirit-choirs, potent curses, and haunted hills, roads, and battlefields • Includes accounts of miraculous healings by shamans and medicine people such as Mad Bear and Ted Williams • Shows how these traditions can help one see the richness of the world and help those who have lost the chants of their own ancestors With a rich history reaching back more than one thousand years, the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy--the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Seneca, and the Tuscarora--are considered to be the most avid storytellers on earth with a collection of tales so vast it would dwarf those of any other society. Covering nearly the whole of New York State from the Hudson and Mohawk River Valleys westward across the Finger Lakes region to Niagara Falls and Salamanca, this mystical culture’s supernatural tradition is the psychic bedrock of the Northeast, yet their treasury of tales and beliefs is largely unknown and their most powerful sacred sites unrecognized. Assembling the lore and beliefs of this guarded spiritual legacy, Michael Bastine and Mason Winfield share the stories they have collected of both historic and contemporary encounters with beings and places of Iroquois legend: shapeshifting witches, strange forest creatures, ethereal lights, vampire zombies, cursed areas, dark magicians, talking animals, enchanted masks, and haunted hills, roads, and battlefields as well as accounts of miraculous healings by medicine people such as Mad Bear and Ted Williams. Grounding their tales with a history of the Haundenosaunee, the People of the Long House, the authors show how the supernatural beings, places, and customs of the Iroquois live on in contemporary paranormal experience, still surfacing as startling and sometimes inspiring reports of otherworldly creatures, haunted sites, after-death messages, and mystical visions. Providing a link with America’s oldest spiritual roots, these stories help us more deeply know the nature and super-nature around us as well as offer spiritual insights for those who can no longer hear the chants of their own ancestors.

The Art of Chi Kung: Making the Most of Your Vital Energy

Author : Kiew Kit, Wong
Publisher : Cosmos Internet (Publishing Division)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Chi Kung: Making the Most of Your Vital Energy written by Kiew Kit, Wong and published by Cosmos Internet (Publishing Division). This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely recognized as an effective means of stress management and healing, chi kung is also an extraordinary technique for developing a general fitness of the mind and body. In The Art of Chi Kung, fourth generation Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit explores the principles and philosophy of chi kung, explaining its beneficial effects, and then guides you through a series of chi kung exercises which you can learn from and practice at home. It includes: * Chi Kung for health and longevity. * Stress management. * Vitality for sex and youthfulness. * Training of the mind for focus and creativity. This is the most comprehensive study of chi kung available, and will prove invaluable whether you are a beginner or already have some understanding of this ancient art.

Heaven's Breath

Author : Lyall Watson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373696
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Heaven's Breath written by Lyall Watson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “comprehensive and fascinating study” of how wind has shaped the world as we know it, affecting all aspects of human and natural life—from geography to political history, plant life to psychology, and biology to philosophy (The Observer) Wind is everywhere and nowhere. Wind is the circulatory system of the earth, and its nervous system, too. Energy and information flow through it. It brings warmth and water, enriches and strips away the soil, aerates the globe. Wind shapes the lives of animals, humans among them. Trade follows the path of the wind, as empire also does. Wind made the difference in wars between the Greeks and Persians, the Mongols and the Japanese. Wind helped to destroy the Spanish Armada. And wind is no less determining of our inner lives: the föhn, mistral, sirocco, Santa Ana, and other “ill winds” of the world are correlated with disease, suicide, and even murder. Heaven’s Breath is an encyclopedic and enchanting book that opens dazzling new perspectives on history, nature, and humanity.

The Humanity of God

Author : John Wright Buckham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Humanity of God written by John Wright Buckham and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: