The Unseen Realm

The Unseen Realm
Author: Heiser, Michael S.
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1577995570

In The Unseen Realm, Dr. Michael Heiser examines the ancient context of Scripture, explaining how its supernatural worldview can help us grow in our understanding of God. He illuminates intriguing and amazing passages of the Bible that have been hiding in plain sight. You'll find yourself engaged in an enthusiastic pursuit of the truth, resulting in a new appreciation for God's Word. Why wasn't Eve surprised when the serpent spoke to her? How did descendants of the Nephilim survive the flood? Why did Jacob fuse Yahweh and his Angel together in his prayer? Who are the assembly of divine beings that God presides over? In what way do those beings participate in God's decisions? Why do Peter and Jude promote belief in imprisoned spirits? Why does Paul describe evil spirits in terms of geographical rulership? Who are the "glorious ones" that even angels dare not rebuke? After reading this book, you may never read your Bible the same way again. Endorsements "There is a world referred to in the Scripture that is quite unseen, but also quite present and active. Michael Heiser's The Unseen Realm seeks to unmask this world. Heiser shows how important it is to understand this world and appreciate how its contribution helps to make sense of Scripture. The book is clear and well done, treating many ideas and themes that often go unseen themselves. With this book, such themes will no longer be neglected, so read it and discover a new realm for reflection about what Scripture teaches." --Darrell L. Bock, Executive Director for Cultural Engagement, Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Howard G. Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership and Cultural Engagement "'How was it possible that I had never seen that before?' Dr. Heiser's survey of the complex reality of the supernatural world as the Scriptures portray it covers a subject that is strangely sidestepped. No one is going to agree with everything in his book, but the subject deserves careful study, and so does this book." --John Goldingay, David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament, School of Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary "This is a 'big' book in the best sense of the term. It is big in its scope and in its depth of analysis. Michael Heiser is a scholar who knows Scripture intimately in its ancient cultural context. All--scholars, clergy, and laypeople--who read this profound and accessible book will grow in their understanding of both the Old and New Testaments, particularly as their eyes are opened to the Bible's 'unseen world.'" --Tremper Longman III, Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies, Westmont College

Unseen

Unseen
Author: Sara Hagerty
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310339987

How do we find contentment in God when we feel so hidden? Sara Hagerty unfolds the truths found in the biblical story of Mary of Bethany to discover the scandalous love of God and explore the spiritual richness of being hidden in him. Every heart longs to be seen and understood. Yet most of our lives is unwitnessed. We spend our days working, driving, parenting. We sometimes spend whole seasons feeling unnoticed and unappreciated. In Unseen, Sara Hagerty suggests that this is exactly what God intended. He is the only One who truly knows us. He is the only One who understands the value of the unseen in our lives. When this truth seeps into our souls, we realize that only when we hide ourselves in God can we give ourselves to others in true freedom--and know the joy of a deeper relationship with the God who sees us. Our culture applauds what we can produce, what we can show, what we can upload to social media. Only when we give all of ourselves to God--unedited, abandoned, apparently wasteful in its lack of productivity--can we live out who God created us to be. As Hagerty writes, "Maybe my seemingly unproductive, looking-up-at-Him life produces awe among the angels." Through an eloquent exploration of both personal and biblical story, Hagerty calls us to offer every unseen minute of our lives to God. God is in the secret places of our lives that no one else witnesses. But we've not been relegated to these places. We've been invited. We may be "wasting" ourselves in a hidden corner today: The cubicle on the fourth floor. The hospital bedside of an elderly parent. The laundry room. But these are the places God uses to meet us with a radical love. These are the places that produce the kind of unhinged love in us that gives everything at His feet, whether or not anyone else ever proclaims our name, whether or not anyone else ever sees. God's invitation is not just for a season or a day. It is the question of our lives: "When no one else applauds you, when it makes no sense, when you see no results--will you waste your love on Me?"

Anthropocene Unseen

Anthropocene Unseen
Author: Cymene Howe
Publisher: punctum books
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2020
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1950192555

The idea of the Anthropocene often generates an overwhelming sense of abjection or apathy. It occupies the imagination as a set of circumstances that counterpose individual human actors against ungraspable scales and impossible odds. There is much at stake in how we understand the implications of this planetary imagination, and how to plot paths from this present to other less troubling futures. With Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, the editors aim at a resource helpful for this task: a catalog of ways to pluralize and radicalize our picture of the Anthropocene, to make it speak more effectively to a wider range of contemporary human societies and circumstances. Organized as a lexicon for troubled times, each entry in this book recognizes the gravity of the global forecasts that invest the present with its widespread air of crisis, urgency, and apocalyptic possibility. Each also finds value in smaller scales of analysis, capturing the magnitude of an epoch in the unique resonances afforded by a single word. The Holocene may have been the age in which we learned our letters, but we are faced now with circumstances that demand more experimental plasticity. Alternative ways of perceiving a moment can bring a halt to habitual action, opening a space for slantwise movements through the shock of the unexpected. Each small essay in this lexicon is meant to do just this, drawing from anthropology, literary studies, artistic practice, and other humanistic endeavors to open up the range of possible action by contributing some other concrete way of seeing the present. Each entry proposes a different way of conceiving this Earth from some grounded place, always in a manner that aims to provoke a different imagination of the Anthropocene as a whole. The Anthropocene is a world-engulfing concept, drawing every thing and being imaginable into its purview, both in terms of geographic scale and temporal duration. Pronouncing an epoch in our own name may seem the ultimate act of apex species self-aggrandizement, a picture of the world as dominated by ourselves. Can we learn new ways of being in the face of this challenge, approaching the transmogrification of the ecosphere in a spirit of experimentation rather than catastrophic risk and existential dismay? This lexicon is meant as a site to imagine and explore what human beings can do differently with this time, and with its sense of peril. Cymene Howe is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and founding faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS) at Rice University. She is the author of Intimate Activism (Duke, 2013) and Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke, 2019). Cymene was co-editor for the journal Cultural Anthropology and the Johns Hopkins Guide to Social Theory, and she co-hosts the weekly Cultures of Energy podcast. Anand Pandian is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation (Duke, 2015) and Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India (Duke, 2009), among other book, as well as the co-editor of Race, Nature and the Politics of Difference (Duke, 2003) and Crumpled Paper Boat (Duke, 2017).

Drama as Rhetoric/rhetoric as Drama

Drama as Rhetoric/rhetoric as Drama
Author: Stanley Vincent Longman
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780817308872

Part 1. Rhetorical dimensions of drama: the classical context: The enthymeme and the invention of troping in Greek drama / August W. Staub. Theorizing the spectacle: a rhetorical analysis of tragic recognition / Tom Heeney. Exile and the kingdom: reason as nightmare in the Aeschylean vision / John Arthos -- Part 2. The rhetorical in renaissance and neoclassical drama: Epideictic pastoral: rhetorical tensions in the staging of Torquato Tasso's Aminta / Maria Galli Stampino. Shakespeare's rhetoric versus the ideology of Ian McKellen's Richard III / George L. Geckle. And now for application: Venice preserv'd and the rhetoric of textual application / Odai Johnson -- Part 3. War, politics, and the drama: Federalist and republican theatre in the 1790s / Steve Wilmer. Uncle Tom's Cabin and the rhetoric of gradualism / Charles Wilbanks. Dario Fo's angry farce / Stanley Vincent Longman -- Part 4. Contemporary culture: Stain upon the silence: Samuel Beckett's deconstructive inventions / Leigh Anne Howard. Still angry after all these years: performing the language of HIV and the marked body in The normal heart and The destiny of me / Peter Michael Pober.

The Resonance of Unseen Things

The Resonance of Unseen Things
Author: Susan Lepselter
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0472052942

An interdisciplinary study of how conspiracy theories and stories persist and resonate among different Americans

Worlds of Sense

Worlds of Sense
Author: Constance Classen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000884392

First published in 1993, Worlds of Sense is an exploration of the historical and cultural formation of the senses. As the author demonstrates, different cultures have strikingly different ways of ‘making sense’ of the world. In the modern urban West, we are accustomed to thinking in terms of visual models such as ‘world view,’ whereas the Ongee of the Andaman Islands, for example, live in a world ordered by smell and the Tzotzil of Mexico hold that temperature is the basic force of the cosmos. In a fascinating examination of the role of the senses in diverse societies and eras, Constance Classen shows the extent to which perception is shaped by and expressive of cultural values. This book will be of interest to students of cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy.

Alif the Unseen

Alif the Unseen
Author: G. Willow Wilson
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802194621

“[A] Harry Potter-ish action-adventure romance” set during the Arab Spring, from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Ms. Marvel comic book series (The New York Times). In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker, who goes by Alif, shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, revolutionaries, and other watched groups—from surveillance, and tries to stay out of trouble. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has just been breached by the state’s electronic security force, putting his clients and himself on the line. Then it turns out his lover’s new fiancé is the “Hand of God,” as they call the head of state security, and his henchmen come after Alif, driving him underground. When Alif discovers The Thousand and One Days, the secret book of the jinn, which both he and the Hand suspect may unleash a new level of information technology, the stakes are raised and Alif must struggle for life or death, aided by forces seen and unseen. This “tale of literary enchantment, political change, and religious mystery” was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (Gregory Maguire). “Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic.” —Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods

Sense the Unseen

Sense the Unseen
Author: Serenella D'Ercole
Publisher: Giochidimagia Editore
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2020-04-27
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 8832146096

The purpose of this handbook is to open the doors to the development and knowledge of the extrasensory faculties, giving each of you the keys to access intuitive, psychic and telepathic abilities in full autonomy, because you are all sensitive and endowed with these qualities, which are often attributed only to particular and fortunate groups of people. Rather, you are not yet aware of it and you have forgotten how to bring to your consciousness these precious powers, with which your ancestors lived in a completely spontaneous way. These activities are commonly referred to as "extra", in fact they are very normal quality of mind that everyone can access, without exception. It is only a matter of refining the subtle senses more so that we can take what exists beyond the boundaries of matter, beyond time and space. You will succeed through the many practical exercises focused on reading the Aura and The Subtle Bodies, the analysis of individual colours, telepathy, Second Sight in all its applications, bilocation, psychometry of objects and the places, simple and effective exercises that you can do alone or in the company of friends with your own passion for the extrasensitive world. Not only that, but the development of psychic faculties will not remain an end in itself, because when you begin to transcend the limits of space and time, you will realize that you can tangibly take the greatest quality that most belongs to you rightfully: freedom. In fact, you will learn to take over your life, to act in the real world, because you will become aware of what is beyond the normal perception of the senses, realizing that the world as it appears is just a wishful thinking. You will come into contact with other dimensions, less concrete certainly, but no less real. You will walk in a new perception of reality, step by step, in which everything will seem to indicate that in life nothing will be as it seems or as it appears. You will regain your truest powers, because you will be more and more aware of your multidimensional Being. It will be your internal feelings that will play a decisive role in all these new experiences. It will be necessary to know how to listen to them, letting them flow freely, without judgment, to perceive their language, which can be composed of symbols, images, sounds, smells, which you will sense at another level, because the senses that will be used will be the subtle ones, not physical ones, to lead you to see, hear, smell, touch and taste all that does not appear in the sensitive world, but in the ultrasensitive one. I could have written this book in many ways, but I looked for the easiest and most direct way, so that it would reach everyone. For this reason, I tried not to enter into considerations of an overly philosophical or spiritual character, which would have been my most natural way of expression, because I would have risked, perhaps, not to embrace even that part of readers anyway interested in learning to "sense the unseen." I am sure that all of you will be able to read and understand the messages between the lines of this book, to bring them on all levels and plans of existence, physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual, so that you can achieve with lightness and extreme ease the life that you really want to live, without struggle and without effort, because you will have finally learned to enter the flow and let go of everything that weighs down and nullifies your life. Learning extrasensory faculties leads to surprising benefits as a natural consequence. First of all, a greater awareness of who you are and what you want to achieve, because by opening your mind and your heart to listening to what you perceive beyond the normal use of the senses, it will give you such clarity as to make you the true creators of your reality . You will be able to receive the answers you have wanted to receive for so long and too long. These are answers that will take you far along the path of your earthly life. You will soon realize that you are finally free of old mental habits, creating new and more productive habits, awakening from that long sleep to bring you to new levels of understanding and personal growth. You will notice how your creativity and imagination will increase, because extrasensory experiences go to stimulate areas of the brain that are not normally solicited and exploited in the course of daily life. One recommendation: do not be tempted by skipping some chapters of the book to directly access the exercises, however very practical, detailed and attractive, because you would miss those basic and useful parts for the best success exercises themselves, which were presented not in random form, but in a very precise order. This journey from matter to the unseen will lead you into your deepest potentials, which wait for nothing more to be rediscovered and awakened, so that you can first-hand access the exploration of your true being, with full confidence in your unlimited potential. Then everything will be possible: to transcend time and space, to overcome the limits of matter, exploring firsthand faculties that you did not even think you had, beyond all expectations, making you finally aware that what lives beyond matter, a world of invisible energies, it had always been waiting for you. In this ebook you find: Biographical notes INTRODUCTION FIRST PART – APPARENT TRUTH SENSES OF REALITY THE TIME AND THE SPACE SECOND PART – BEYOND THE LIMIT THE SUBTLE BODIES THE ETHERIC BODY THE ASTRAL BODY THE MENTAL BODY THE SPIRITUAL BODY THE CHAKRAS FIRST CHAKRA SECOND CHAKRA THIRD CHAKRA FOURTH CHAKRA FIFTH CHAKRA SIXTH CHAKRA SEVENTH CHAKRA THE COLOURS THE AURA THIRD PART – SENSE THE UNSEEN THE SIXTH SENSE THE UNSEEN THE INTENT TELEPATHY THE SECOND SIGHT THE CLAIRVOYANCE THE PSYCHOMETRY ACKNOWLEDGMENT BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Unseen World: A Novel

The Unseen World: A Novel
Author: Liz Moore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393245004

The moving story of a daughter’s quest to discover the truth about her beloved father’s hidden past. Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David’s mysterious history comes into question. When his mind begins to falter, leaving Ada virtually an orphan, she is taken in by one of David’s colleagues. Soon she embarks on a mission to uncover her father’s secrets: a process that carries her from childhood to adulthood. What Ada discovers on her journey into a virtual universe will keep the reader riveted until The Unseen World’s heart-stopping, fascinating conclusion.

The Pervert

The Pervert
Author: Michelle Perez
Publisher: Image Comics
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2018-04-25
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1534309721

A surprisingly honest and touching account of a trans girl surviving through sex work in Seattle. With excerpts published in the Eisner-nominated anthology ISLAND, the full-color volume, drawn and painted by REMY BOYDELL, is an unflinching debut graphic novel. Written by MICHELLE PEREZ.