Desiderium

Desiderium
Author: W. B. Biggs
Publisher: Chaos Forge Press LLC
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2023-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

How much can a person lose before she is no longer herself? Memories fade, but when they’re ripped from your mind, they leave a gaping hole. That empty cavity tugs and threatens to swallow me up; its edges erode away as my mind picks at it like a week-old scab. On a journey to find lost memories, travel to a reality where lost things go: a world of misplaced treasures and things best forgotten. Dangers lurk in the dark, and lost hopes light the way. Welcome to Desiderium.

Beyond the Dynamical Universe

Beyond the Dynamical Universe
Author: Michael Silberstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2018-02-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0192533843

Theoretical physics and foundations of physics have not made much progress in the last few decades. Whether we are talking about unifying general relativity and quantum field theory (quantum gravity), explaining so-called dark energy and dark matter (cosmology), or the interpretation and implications of quantum mechanics and relativity, there is no consensus in sight. In addition, both enterprises are deeply puzzled about various facets of time including above all, time as experienced. The authors argue that, across the board, this impasse is the result of the "dynamical universe paradigm," the idea that reality is fundamentally made up of physical entities that evolve in time from some initial state according to dynamical laws. Thus, in the dynamical universe, the initial conditions plus the dynamical laws explain everything else going exclusively forward in time. In cosmology, for example, the initial conditions reside in the Big Bang and the dynamical law is supplied by general relativity. Accordingly, the present state of the universe is explained exclusively by its past. This book offers a completely new paradigm (called Relational Blockworld), whereby the past, present and future co-determine each other via "adynamical global constraints," such as the least action principle. Accordingly, the future is just as important for explaining the present as is the past. Most of the book is devoted to showing how Relational Blockworld resolves many of the current conundrums of both theoretical physics and foundations of physics, including the mystery of time as experienced and how that experience relates to the block universe.

Passages in Time

Passages in Time
Author: Keith Steiner
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1789014115

Offers a unique and critical witness to significant historic photographs, from the period of the inception of photography to the Edwardian era. Asserts historic photographs as vivid and lyrical artefacts which live both as a source of enrichment in contemporary artistic experience, and as documentary witness to our own age. Shows photography as an art in intimate cultural conjunction with painting and literature. We cannot travel back into the past! In the garish light of the blaze of contemporary ‘selfies’ and of the digital editing of photographs, photography has lost contact with the abstract impact and the purity of dimension of historic photography. Historic photography offers, instead, a unique and vivid witness to the lived experience of the past - in our own age. In his new book Keith Steiner brings us face to face with historic photographs as both the camera’s memories, and as definitive and enduring entities of the present. He explores how our perceptual dialogue with historic imagery is also an encounter with the bias rooted in our register of the literary, the optical, and the cultural. Keith Steiner’s authoritative, perceptive, illuminating, and penetrating text focuses key examples of historic photography in their fullness of register as artistic, perceptual, philosophic and cultural jewels. These mysterious, haunting photographs are thus revealed by the author in the full light of our age as sometime lyrical, metaphorical encounters of prose and poetry; and equally, and eternally, as of the fabric and geometry of now.

Hidden Passages

Hidden Passages
Author: Elle Klass
Publisher: Books by Elle, Inc
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1951017412

Rosette and Terra's bonding vacation in the Meradin Woods in Aradia is cut short when the realms are invaded. Trapped in the tiny city of Provence, refugees flood in from the realms and Terra's true nature and parentage is revealed to her. Without a moment to consider it, she's smuggled to another realm to practice magic that is anything but innate to her, when she is kidnapped by someone with electric whips. Her already complicated life grows in complexity when she and her kidnapper, a young attractive warlock, find they share a bond and a mission. Their lack of trust in one another diminishes as they narrowly escape an encounter with a hybrid fae/warlock in the dungeon beneath the fae palace. Thrust into the secrets of the past and enigmas of the present, their bond ties them to the future as they find themselves embroiled in a battle between warlocks, werewolves, and vampires. Destiny weighs on their shoulders, as they must find a way to salvage Drakonia and bring peace to the realms.

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Author: Perry Anderson
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781680086

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of historical materialism, while casting a fascinating light on the Ancient world, the Germanic invasions, nomadic society, and the different routes taken to feudalism in Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern and Western Europe. Through this work and its companion volume, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Anderson presents a Marxist history of Western political development that takes readers from the first stirrings of political consciousness in the classical world to the rise of absolutist monarchies in Europe and the birth of the modern epoch.

The Noble Eightfold Path of Christ

The Noble Eightfold Path of Christ
Author: Thomas Ragland
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1412000130

The ancient Theravada Buddhist canonical suttas, the beloved Mahayana Buddhist sutras, and the Tao Te Ching have been lovingly mined for concepts and realizations. These ideas resonate with the heart of the teachings of Jesus the Nazarene as preserved in the Christian gospels. Presented in the arrangement and context of Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, "the truths presented are timeless and universal as a complete religion in themselves," says the author. The author describes the book as serving as the message of Jesus to the world in the context of Christian of Eastern thought, and points out that it is not really a Christian work. This is foremost a Buddhist writing, devoted to the same Dharma that Buddha so loved and taught 2500 years ago. It is presented through the teachings of the One who is called the Christ in the Western world. Then again, this is not really a Buddhist work as the linkage the author has made between the concepts of Christ and Buddha create a synthesis that transcends Christianity and Buddhism. The heart of this Dharma cannot really be defined of confined by a system of thought. It lives on the immediacy of the expression of those who take it to heart.

Triad

Triad
Author: Terry Mcgarry
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2007-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765343291

The sequel to Illumination and The Binder's Road

Purest of Bastards

Purest of Bastards
Author: David Farrell Krell
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0271040440

In Realms Beyond

In Realms Beyond
Author: Al Miner
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1931044295

Miner writes of his channeled readings of those who are dying and beyond, with insights that relate to the scientific, medical, and spiritual.

Passages Beyond the Gate

Passages Beyond the Gate
Author: George-Harold Jennings
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 076185164X

Examining American psychology's development from a Jungian perspective, Jennings argues that the discipline is at a point where a deeper and broader exploration of spirituality is essential in order to realize the goal of creating a complete psychology of human beings. Having already developed an understanding of the person that rests upon the tenets of behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, psychoanalytic, humanistic, and existential approaches, many mainstream American psychologists now seem eager to embrace a growing viewpoint of the person grounded in biological psychology, which draws the discipline closer to a materialistic understanding of human beings. This direction in American psychology reinforces a strikingly unbalanced viewpoint of human nature that does little to reveal the fullness and purpose of human spirituality. To address this deficiency, Jennings encourages more American psychologists to integrate spiritual concepts readily explored in transpersonal psychology with respect to our more traditional psychological understanding of what it means to be human.