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Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Culture & Tradition written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shelley R. Adler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548853
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Sleep Paralysis written by Shelley R. Adler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep Paralysis explores a distinctive form of nocturnal fright: the "night-mare," or incubus. In its original meaning a night-mare was the nocturnal visit of an evil being that threatened to press the life out of its victim. Today, it is known as sleep paralysis-a state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, when you are unable to move or speak and may experience vivid and often frightening hallucinations. Culture, history, and biology intersect to produce this terrifying sleep phenomenon. Although a relatively common experience across cultures, it is rarely recognized or understood in the contemporary United States. Shelley R. Adler's fifteen years of field and archival research focus on the ways in which night-mare attacks have been experienced and interpreted throughout history and across cultures and how, in a unique example of the effect of nocebo (placebo's evil twin), the combination of meaning and biology may result in sudden nocturnal death.
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Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indian Psychological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Warren
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030737145X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Head Trip written by Jeff Warren and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world at once familiar and unimaginably strange exists all around us, and within us – it is the vast realm of consciousness. In The Head Trip, science journalist Jeff Warren explores twelve distinct, natural states of consciousness available to us in a twenty-four-hour day, each state offering its own kind of knowledge and insight – its own adventure. The hypnagogic state, when our minds hover between waking and sleeping, can be a rich source of creativity and even compassion. Then there’s the Watch, an almost magical waking experience in the middle of the night that has been all but lost to electric light and modern sleep patterns. Daydreaming and trance, lucid dreaming, the Zone, and the Pure Conscious Event – from sleep laboratory to remote northern cabin, neurofeedback clinic to Buddhist retreat, Warren visits them all. Along the way, he talks to neuroscientists, chronobiologists, anthropologists, monks, and many others who illuminate his stories with cutting-edge science and age-old wisdom. On this trip, all are welcome and no drugs are required: all you need to pack are a functioning cerebrum and an open mind. Replete with stylish graphics and brightened by comic panels conceived and drawn by the author, The Head Trip is an instant classic, a brilliant and original description of the shifting experience of consciousness that’s also a practical guide to enhancing creativity and mental health. This book does not just inform and entertain – it shows how every one of us can expand upon the ways we experience being alive.
Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244962839
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)
Download or read book They Shimmer Within: Cognitive-Evolutionary Perspectives on Visionary Beings written by Bruce Rimell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of psychedelic drugs plants is rising, and with it the number of reports narrating encounters with otherworldly visionary beings. Approaches to these experiences have often been literal, archetypal or dismissive. Evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion suggest innate and non-imagistic mental foundations for these phenomena arising from easily-triggered evolutionary functions during emotive periods of high cognitive demand. Such functions include agent detection, social intelligence faculties and metacognition. This wide-ranging book explores how our deepest mental processes predispose us as humans to believe in supernatural agents, and presents a new hypothesis of how these same cognitions facilitate the emergence of those agents to become present when psychedelic drugs and plants are ingested. Bruce concludes that visionary beings shimmer within as awe-inspiring products of the mind, an experience which rests at the heart of what it is to be human.
Author : Mark Norman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750998326
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Dark Folklore written by Mark Norman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the porch of your local church really what you think it is? And what's that tapping noise on the roof of your car..? The fields of folklore have never been more popular – a recent resurgence of interest in traditional beliefs and customs, coupled with morbid curiosities in folk horror, historic witchcraft cases and our superstitious past, have led to an intersection of ideas that is driving people to seek out more information. Tracey Norman (author of the acclaimed play WITCH) and Mark Norman (creator of The Folklore Podcast) lead you on an exploration of those more salubrious facets of our past, highlighting those aspects of our cultural beliefs and social history that are less 'wicker basket' and more 'Wicker Man'.
Author : C.G. Chaconas
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book In The Land of Ni written by C.G. Chaconas and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2024-09-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world shaped by ancient forces and hidden magic, the fate of humanity hangs by a thread. Pausanias, a fierce Spartan warrior, and Saoka, a powerful Japanese sorceress, are drawn together by destiny and a secret order sworn to protect the world from demonic destruction. Uncovering the history of a fallen empire and its battle against the forces of darkness, they must face unimaginable dangers and wield magic beyond their wildest dreams. From the mystic lands of Japan to the ancient realms of Persia and India, Pausanias and Saoka’s paths intertwine in a race against time. Together with their son Eurotasu and the wise white wolf, Magumi, can they find the strength to save their world from oblivion? Set against a backdrop of myth, magic and the relentless march of time, IN THE LAND OF NI is the first book in the Yayoi Warriors series of fantasy novels by C.G. Chaconas.
Author : Jana Larson
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566896045
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Reel Bay written by Jana Larson and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank at the end of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her there: unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor shower, a far-flung search for purpose? The seed of an obsession took root in struggling film student Jana Larson when she chanced upon a news bulletin about the case. Over the years and across continents, the material Jana gathered in her search for the real Takako outgrew multiple attempts at screenplays and became this remarkable, genre-bending essay that leans into the space between fact and fiction, life and death, author and subject, reality and delusion.
Author : Chris French
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262048361
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Science of Weird Shit written by Chris French and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences. Ghostly encounters, alien abduction, reincarnation, talking to the dead, UFO sightings, inexplicable coincidences, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Are these legitimate phenomena? If not, then how should we go about understanding them? In this fascinating book, Chris French investigates paranormal claims to discover what lurks behind this “weird shit.” French provides authoritative evidence-based explanations for a wide range of superficially mysterious phenomena, and then goes further to draw out lessons with wider applications to many other aspects of modern society where critical thinking is urgently needed. Using academic, comprehensive, logical, and, at times, mathematical approaches, The Science of Weird Shit convincingly debunks ESP, communicating with the dead, and alien abduction claims, among other phenomena. All the while, however, French maintains that our belief in such phenomena is neither ridiculous nor trivial; if anything, such claims can tell us a great deal about the human mind if we pay them the attention they are due. Filled with light-bulb moments and a healthy dose of levity, The Science of Weird Shit is a clever, memorable, and gratifying read you won’t soon forget.
Author : Thomas Bauerle
Publisher : Asteroth's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780996197267
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Kanashibari written by Thomas Bauerle and published by Asteroth's Books. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts of Japan
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ISBN 13 : 9781566470728
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Obake written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian A. Sharpless
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199313806
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Sleep Paralysis written by Brian A. Sharpless and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep Paralysis: Historical, Psychological, and Medical Perspectives offers the first comprehensive examination of sleep paralysis from both clinical and cultural perspectives. Dr. Brian Sharpless and Dr. Karl Doghramji provide a thorough and easily readable resource on the phenomenon and present differential diagnosis suggestions, medication guidance, and a new treatment approach for mental health professionals.
Author : Sue Llewellyn
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889454487
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Fragmentation in Sleep and Mind: Linking Dissociative Symptoms, Sleep, and Memory written by Sue Llewellyn and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragmented, dissociated consciousness can characterize the mind in both wake and sleep states. Dissociative symptoms, during sleep, include vivid dreaming, nightmares, and alterations in objective sleep parameters (e.g., lengthening of REM sleep). During waking hours, dissociative symptoms exhibit disparate characteristics encompassing memory problems, excessive daydreaming, absentmindedness, and impairments and discontinuities in perceptions of the self, identity, and the environment. Llewellyn has theorized that a progressive and enduring de-differentiation of wake and dream states of consciousness eventually results in schizophrenia; a lesser degree of de-differentiation may have implications for dissociative symptoms. Against a background of de-differentiation between the dream and wake states, the papers in this volume link consciousness, memory, and mental illness with a special interest for dissociative symptoms.
Author : Stefan Petrucha
Publisher : Devil's Due Digital
ISBN 13 : 1933160160
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (331 download)
Download or read book The X-Files - Vol.2 written by Stefan Petrucha and published by Devil's Due Digital. This book was released on 2011 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek Padula
Publisher : Derek Padula
ISBN 13 : 1943149003
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Dragon Ball Culture Volume 4 written by Derek Padula and published by Derek Padula. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goku goes west! His grand adventure begins anew as his martial arts master tells him to travel the world to increase his power. But what will happen when this naïve boy enters the real world and meets people who want to harm him? Will he be able to find his grandpa's 4-Star dragon ball, or will the villainous Red Ribbon Army get to it first?! In Dragon Ball Culture Volume 4, you'll discover the origin of the Red Ribbon Army in Western cinema. You'll see how author Akira Toriyama brings Western concepts into his Eastern world and fuses them together, creating the Dragon World that we know and love. And you’ll learn how monster movies, witches, and magical dragons mix together to tell a story about a young boy with a dream of becoming stronger. Volume 4 explores Chapters 54 to 112 of the Dragon Ball manga. So let's hop on our magic cloud and head west with Goku!
Author : Michiko Iwasaka
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ghosts And The Japanese written by Michiko Iwasaka and published by . This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In this scholarly but accessible work, authors Iwasaka and Toelken show that everyday beliefs and customs--particularly death traditions--offer special insight into the living culture of Japan.
Author : Rebecca Suter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174716
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book The Japanization of Modernity written by Rebecca Suter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murakami Haruki is perhaps the best-known and most widely translated Japanese author of his generation. Despite Murakami’s critical and commercial success, particularly in the United States, his role as a mediator between Japanese and American literature and culture is seldom discussed. Bringing a comparative perspective to the study of Murakami’s fiction, Rebecca Suter complicates our understanding of the author’s oeuvre and highlights his contributions not only as a popular writer but also as a cultural critic on both sides of the Pacific. Suter concentrates on Murakami’s short stories—less known in the West but equally worthy of critical attention—as sites of some of the author’s bolder experiments in manipulating literary (and everyday) language, honing cross-cultural allusions, and crafting metafictional techniques. This study scrutinizes Murakami’s fictional worlds and their extraliterary contexts through a range of discursive lenses: modernity and postmodernity, universalism and particularism, imperialism and nationalism, Orientalism and globalization. By casting new light on the style and substance of Murakami’s prose, Suter situates the author and his works within the sphere of contemporary Japanese literature and finds him a prominent place within the broader sweep of the global literary scene."
