Demons of the Mind but a Light Still Shines

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480949949
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Demons of the Mind but a Light Still Shines by : Dave Goodwin

Download or read book Demons of the Mind but a Light Still Shines written by Dave Goodwin and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demons of the Mind but a Light Still Shines By: Dave Goodwin You know it’s very difficult to regain trust after it’s been shattered by someone you totally trusted. I still have great difficulty going into public places; my eyes don’t move fast enough to watch everyone, and I hate anyone being behind me. I suppose that’s what happens when someone who professes to love you and thinks how wonderful you are suddenly, five minutes after telling you that, attacks you from behind, stabs you, and almost kills you. Writing these poems brings me a lot of comfort even though sometimes I’m very upset writing the traumatic ones; it does take away the pain if only for a short while. So if in reading them I bring some comfort to the reader, I’m happy, I’ve done what I intended. So for all those very special people in the world who are trying to face horrible and nasty situations, here is Demons of the Mind but a Light Still Shines.

Tales From The Mind Of A Schizophrenic

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456847503
Total Pages : 415 pages
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Book Synopsis Tales From The Mind Of A Schizophrenic by : Vincent Macraven

Download or read book Tales From The Mind Of A Schizophrenic written by Vincent Macraven and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hearing those stories through your eyes went straight to my core" Rebecca Rosenblat, B.Sc. Hons(Psych) Cert LC, ADL,EFT. Psychotherapist, Relationship & Sexuality Therapist, Tv Host, Media Personality, Author

And the Light Shines

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Publisher : WestBowPress
ISBN 13 : 1490803041
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis And the Light Shines by : Terri Wallace

Download or read book And the Light Shines written by Terri Wallace and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road to life is not an easy path to follow. Chris discovered that truth in a prison cell as he remembered and told his story to Michael. In the prison cell, he remembered aspects of his life he had forgotten because of the life he had chosen; yet a plan still existed for him. He thought Gods plan for him would end in a prison cell filled with pain and torture, but he was wrong. The path was clear. Would Chris follow it?

The World of Horrotica

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483690814
Total Pages : 670 pages
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Book Synopsis The World of Horrotica by : David Edward Collier

Download or read book The World of Horrotica written by David Edward Collier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE APOCALYPSE CODEX PROPHESIZES THE COMING OF THE APOCALYPSE, UNLESS, OF COURSE, THE UNDERGROUND APOCALYPSE RESISTANCE CAN PREVENT THE APOCALYPSE FROM HAPPENING. HOWEVER, IN THE TRICKY PROCESS OF TRYING TO PREVENT THE APOCALYPSE, THE APOCALYPSE RESISTANCE INSTEAD CAUSES THE APOCALYPSE TO BEGIN. IS THE ZOMBIE DOOMSDAY UPON US: IN SHADOW OF TOMORROW, HELLREBEL AND HELLDEVIL ARE ORPHANED TWINS RAISED AS DAY-WALKING VAMPIRE HUNTERS BY THE BROTHERHOOD OF BLOOD, OTHERWISE KNOWN DOWN THE ROAD AS THE UNDERGROUND APOCALYPSE RESISTANCE. WALKING DEAD MEN WANTED AS VIGILANTE OUTLAWS HUNTED DOWN BY THE LAW, HELLREBEL AND HELLDEVIL MUST HUNT DOWN THE DEVIL INCARNATE BEFORE THE DEVIL INCARNATE HUNTS DOWN SIN INCARNATE. OTHERWISE, SIN INCARNATE WILL GIVE BIRTH TO DEATH INCARNATE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DID YOU KNOW ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON PENNED DR. JECKYLL AND MR. HYDE ON A SIX-DAY COCAINE BINGE? LIKE DR. JECKYLL AND MR. HYDE, EACH ONE OF US HAS A SPLIT PERSONALITY. THE GOOD SIDE THAT WE SHOW OFF DURING THE DAY, AND THEN THAT DARK SIDE THAT WE TRY TO KEEP HIDDEN IN THE DARKEST CORNER OF OUR CLOSET. I HIDE THESE EPISODES INSIDE THE CLOSET. WE ALL HAVE SKELETONS BURIED IN OUR CLOSET. BUT ME, I HAVE A CEMETERY BURIED IN MINE. HOWEVER, I FEAR SOMEONE WILL UNLOCK MY CLOSET. I SEE IT EVERY NIGHT IN MY NIGHTMARES, NIGHTMARES THAT WAKE ME EVERY NIGHT. LIKE FRANKENSTEIN, I SEE MYSELF FLEEING IN FEAR, RUNNING FASTER AND FASTER, RUSHING DOWN A DARK ROAD DISAPPEARING THROUGH THE SNOW-SWEPT WOODS GROWING DARKER AMIDST A BITTER WINTER, RUNNING FARTHER AND FURTHER AWAY, RUSHING THROUGH THE WIND-SWEPT WILD. IT WANDERS WAYWARD ACROSS UNFOLDING VIRGIN VISTAS AS IT WONDERS TO GOD IN HEAVEN, WHY THE HELL IN THE WORLD ARE THE RABID DOGS IN SUCH RUTHLESS, PITILESS, RELENTLESS PURSUIT? THERE ARE SOME DOGS THAT BARK. HOWEVER, THERE ARE OTHER DOGS THAT BITE. SAVE ME FROM MY SINS BEFORE THEY CATCH UP TO ME. MAN MAKES HIS HELL AND MY MIND IS MINE. SAVE ME FROM THE DEVIL AND FREE MY SOUL FROM THIS LIVING HELL. AS A WALKING DEAD MAN HUNTED DOWN IN THE DEAD MANS LAND, YUPPIE CITY WAS HOOKED ON MALE FUEL. MALE FUEL TURNED YOU INTO A MAN. MALE FUEL TURNED YOU INTO A MACHINE. MALE FUEL TURNED YOU INTO A MONSTER. HOWEVER, WHEN BIO/CIDE WENT UNDER, BIO/CIDE CITY NO LONGER MASS-PRODUCED MALE FUEL. THE ALICE-IN-WONDERLAND WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOM OF MALE FUEL WAS THAT YOU DEVELOPED VIOLENT ZOMBIE-LIKE BEHAVIOR THAT TURNED YOU INTO A HUMAN BEAST THAT BEHAVED LIKE A ZOMBIE. WHAT WAS STILL LEFT AT THE BIO/CIDE CITY WAS HORDED BY HUMANS THAT TOOK REFUGE UNDERGROUND. HOWEVER, FOR THOSE THAT WERE STILL ALIVE, THE UNDERWORLD WAS NOT ANY BETTER THAN THE WORLD THEY LEFT BEHIND. FOLLOWING THE GRAVEYARD WARS, THE WORLD OF HORROTICA WAS RECLAIMED BY THE OUTCASTS AND THE OUTLAWS WHO WEATHERED THE STORM WHILE LIVING UNDERGROUND WHERE THE REMAINING REMNANTS OF THE HUMAN CIVILIZATION RETURNED TO THE MORTAL WORLD WHERE THE OUTCASTS AND THE OUTLAWS TOOK CONTROL OF THE HUMAN WORLD, WHICH BECAME KNOWN AS THE LAWLESS LAND.

The Illuminate of Görlitz, Or, Jakob Böhme's (1575-1624) Life and Philosophy

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Total Pages : 1476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Encounters with God

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195118227
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Encounters with God by : Michael James McClymond

Download or read book Encounters with God written by Michael James McClymond and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the topics considered are spiritual perception, metaphysics, spirituality, ethics, history, and apologetics."--BOOK JACKET.

A Light in Dark Places

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 179600331X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis A Light in Dark Places by : Daniel Sykes

Download or read book A Light in Dark Places written by Daniel Sykes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to live. They wait and stalk to lie and talk as if you were a child that they had owned, as if they’d known and roamed with you a while. They sell their drugs to hordes of mugs who pay to die with ease, to hordes of thugs who pay for slugs of poisons that they’d please. To gain their weight in customers, they branch about the town to push their drugs upon the mugs who’d pay to hoof them down. They steal and leave the blind to lead; to tragic roads they’d hike upon the bleak and endless paths that shadows crawl in fright. They steal away their confidence and try to stretch, “to rake” the sun that shines out from the minds of those who do not take. To just feel tough as long as hard would be the road that’s grave; for moments view upon the feud, they take the drugs they’d crave to ruin people’s calm and peace, replaced with evil fiends; they stalk the worlds that they’d observed to rule them in their dreams. Upon the role of custom, laws are breached aboard smite—upon the realm of chances and upon the dark of night. In paths that rehabilitate and those who do not care—the sun still shines for those inclined, to live life if they dare. To learn the meaning of our lives, it’s said we’ll surely know—upon the end and when we bend to lessons that we grow. Although it’s such an easy thought to trust, we learn to live as if it’s hard to see the yard and life the sun can give.

My American Harp

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365807142
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (658 download)

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Book Synopsis My American Harp by : Surazeus Astarius

Download or read book My American Harp written by Surazeus Astarius and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My American Harp" presents 1,169 poems written 2010-2014 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be an American in the modern world of an interconnected global civilization.

When Your Mind Steals Your Soul's Reward

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Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1640035257
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis When Your Mind Steals Your Soul's Reward by : Carol Farnstrom

Download or read book When Your Mind Steals Your Soul's Reward written by Carol Farnstrom and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're all searching for something to last. We live our lives ever reaching for the next bar, meeting that right person, getting the perfect job, doing what we can do to make our lives what we think it should be. If you're a believer in Christ, then you pray and you ask favors, requests whatever you want to call them but they are a way of reaching out to the greater power that we do not possess. You may have been the victim of child abuse, a personal crime, a vendetta, or the perpetrator. You have been asking and praying for an answer or miracle to your need and relief from the burden you carry. What we forget is in order to receive from God, we must receive what he gives. Sometimes it isn't what we asked or prayed for, but it's an answer. This book is titled When Your Mind Steals Your Soul's Reward. It is meant as a message, that in order to receive, you must first think it possible. With the power of life and death being in the tongue, speak it! You must speak into your life what you hope and pray for. Faith is believing in the things that are hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. This is putting your faith into action. You must first think it, speak it, expect it just as Jesus said believe when you pray though your father has already given you what you asked for. The messages and very deep and personal accounts during Carol's life shared in this book are meant to enlighten, encourage, and strengthen your ability to receive God's amazing gifts and miracles through the power of words. God's abilities are not limited by our faith however. We do limit ourselves by our own spoken words of failure, fear, and felt circumstances. So often we are defeated before ever given the opportunity to see God's plan revealed by the words we speak, therefore directing the path of decisions made. This book is to be read with an open heart and praying throughout that God give you discernment and wisdom as you read as well as the ability to keep going, it will be painful at times. I believe with all my heart you will see miracles you have prayed for and know it is God and God only who is able to release them to you. It will be because you are finally able to receive through the knowledge of the power of your spoken words. So, go now in the power of his might and seek him so that you may have ears to hear and eyes to see as he leads you in this endeavor. In any offences at the truths shared in this book apologies first. Led as I am, it is all 100 percent the undeniable truth as seen through my eyes in this journey we call life.

Supreme warrior

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Publisher : Sellene Chardou
ISBN 13 : 1304424316
Total Pages : 3070 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Supreme warrior written by Li Donghao and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 3070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old Taoist priest, who was exposed by people and was struck by lightning, smiled wryly, and his wrinkled old face showed a trace of sincerity: "Anan, I am doing this for your own good. Recently, I see that your face is a bit wrong, with a black cage and an ominous eyebrow. My mysterious people pay attention to getting lucky and avoiding evil. Even if I am a liar, I have never thought of cheating you. For the sake of a colleague, I am kind ... Speaking of faces, the old man nagged endlessly

The Human Mind and Belief 3 - Reloaded

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496988973
Total Pages : 105 pages
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Book Synopsis The Human Mind and Belief 3 - Reloaded by : Eugene G. Breen

Download or read book The Human Mind and Belief 3 - Reloaded written by Eugene G. Breen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mans search for meaning is a perennial quest. The workings and desires and hopes and frustrations of the mind, tell us many things about it, and why it is the way it is. The awesome capacity of the entire person to become addicted to almost anything, throws a light on our strength and also our weakness. The human face is a shadow cast by the mind, and more often than not, it functions as a one-way mirror rather than a true reflection of what is going on beneath the surface. We become attached to people and things, and we actually love. The exhilaration of true joy crafted onto a robust scaffold of pain and disappointment and suffering and sorrow is counter intuitive yet very real. Joy in the possession of the beloved is as good as it gets down here, but our minds pine for this bliss always. This longing for joy is not a vestigial structure in a once functional lobe of our primordial brains that has become atrophied due to disuse. It is the flicker of light at the end of our tunnel showing us the way to go. The human mind is truly a blueprint of our destiny.

The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind

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Publisher : Aum Publications
ISBN 13 : 193859942X
Total Pages : 1706 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind by : Sri Chinmoy

Download or read book The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind written by Sri Chinmoy and published by Aum Publications. This book was released on 2014-03-22 with total page 1706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic collection of all of Sri Chinmoy’s university lectures in eBook form has been released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Sri Chinmoy’s arrival in the West on 13 April 1964. Sri Chinmoy’s very first university lecture was given at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, on 10 January 1968. It was entitled “Spirituality: What It Is and What It Is Not.” This inaugurated a whole era of talks which saw Sri Chinmoy travelling ceaselessly across the length and breadth of America and around the world to address the youth of each country. He would spend countless hours travelling by car or train to reach far- flung universities, sometimes visiting two or even three in the course of a single day. After many of these sublimely inspiring discourses, he would answer questions from the audience or spend time instructing sincere seekers in the age-old practices of concentration, meditation and contemplation. By the mid-seventies, Sri Chinmoy had spoken volumes and he began to include longer and longer periods of silent meditation in his lectures. Then, in 1984, in a significant departure from the spoken word, he introduced the theme of Peace Concerts. At these concerts, Sri Chinmoy would play his own soulful and devotional compositions on a variety of instruments of both Eastern and Western origin, meditating between each instrument and sometimes giving aphorisms on peace and related themes. In 2003 yet another form of Sri Chinmoy’s self-offering unfolded when he travelled to a number of universities to honour distinguished professors for their significant contributions to the betterment of humanity by physically lifting them overhead. This remarkable endeavour was part of his “Lifting Up the World With a Oneness-Heart” award programme. Thus, through words, silence, music and a combination of physical and spiritual upliftment, Sri Chinmoy has shared his profound spiritual message with the aspiring Truth- seekers and God-lovers of the university-world for four decades. Sri Chinmoy’s words are mantras for the modern age, reverberating in our hearts with their timeless and truly life-transforming wisdom. In his exquisite prose, which is suffused with the very breath and cadence of poetry, Sri Chinmoy has revealed all the many stages of the seeker’s journey towards the Golden Shores of the ever-transcending Beyond. For generations to come these three volumes will awaken the inner mounting cry of seekers everywhere to achieve the highest Goal of Yoga—union with God—in this life.

Invitation To Love

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595338852
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Invitation To Love by : Ivonne Delaflor

Download or read book Invitation To Love written by Ivonne Delaflor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the Sanatan Dharma, the Eternal Religion of Prema, Divine Love, and the one and only that can only be found in your heart. And remember: YOU must guide others to it through love, simplicity and truth. That is the only way. That is the unspoken, eternal and nameless way. Always remember that no time is ever wasted except for the time that one is not loving. Move out of the house of ignorance! There are better places to live. Ring, ring! Wake up! The Buddha nature and Christ-like energy within are ready to be reawakened in all. Become like a child! Enter the kingdom of heaven. The Christ and Buddha nature are within! So, where is the kingdom? Excerpted from Invitation to Love. 108 Reminders for the Enlightened Ones "The greatest blessing in my life was the gift of being in the physical presence of Babaji in Herrekhan in 1980. One day he said that he would be leaving his body, I asked him if he would still come to me if I asked. He simply looked at me and smiled knowingly and said: "Of course!" Recently, my work healing moved to a new level. Some of the recent miracles have been so powerful as to leave me shaky. I could only turn to God to keep myself stable and humble; and so I asked for his advice. Well, he has answered my request. And I imagine he will answer the prayers of many others, through the writings of Ivonne Delaflor. In them I recognize his voice, his humor, his teaching. Thank you Babaji! And thank you Ivonne for being such an open channel!" Dan Brulé Guchu Ram Singh www.breathmastery.com

The Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004185852
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis The Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1) by : Michel Roberge

Download or read book The Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1) written by Michel Roberge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the Paraphrase of Shem, Codex VII, 1 in the Coptic Nag Hammdi Library. The translation, which sets out the text in paragraphs with headings and subheadings, is followed by a commentary.

Godsent

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Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 161145851X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Godsent written by Richard Burton and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Skylar is an ordinary seventeen-year-old with an extraordinary destiny. A virgin, Kate suddenly finds herself pregnant with what she believes is the Son of God. But the Catholic Church is convinced Kate is carrying the Antichrist and, assisted by an artificial intelligence known as Grand Inquisitor, will stop at nothing to kill Ethan, her son. Ethan’s only protection is Conversatio, a secret organization dedicated to the Second Coming—which may have its own dark agenda. As Ethan grows up in anonymity, ignorant of his true identity and not knowing whom to trust, he must come to terms with his miraculous abilities and make a fateful choice that will determine the future of all mankind. And for Kate, an equally difficult struggle looms, as well as a mother’s devastating choice. Godsent is a wild religious thriller, a page-turner that keeps you guessing until the very last page. Burton, in his fiction debut, crafts a tightly-wound narrative with a heart-pounding plot and emotional resonance that will ring true to anyone with children of their own, all while the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

Physics in Mind

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ISBN 13 : 0465029841
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Physics in Mind by : Werner Loewenstein

Download or read book Physics in Mind written by Werner Loewenstein and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent biophysicist Loewenstein seeks an answer in the mechanisms of physics. Bringing information theory--the idea that all information can be quantified and encoded in bits--to bear on recent advances in the neurosciences, he reveals a web of immense computational power inside the brain.

The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834841967
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts by : Issai Chozanshi

Download or read book The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts written by Issai Chozanshi and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of parables written by an eighteenth-century samurai is a classic of martial arts literature. The tales are concerned with themes such as perception of conflict, self-transformation, the cultivation of chi (life energy), and understanding yin and yang. Some of the parables seem light and fanciful, but they offer the reader valuable lessons on the fundamental principles of the martial arts; “The Mysterious Technique of the Cat” is iconic. The “demon” in the title story refers to the mythical tengu, who guard the secrets of swordsmanship. A swordsman travels to Mt. Kurama, famous for being inhabited by tengu, and in a series of conversations he learns about mushin (no-mind), strategy, the transformation of chi, and how the path of the sword leads to the understanding of life itself. The author, Issai Chozanshi, had a deep understanding of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto, as well as insight into the central role of chi in the universe—points that are succinctly explained in William Scott Wilson’s fine introduction and extensive endnotes. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to truly understand the philosophical underpinnings of martial arts, and how these principles relate to our existence.