The Edge of Knowing

The Edge of Knowing
Author: Roy Bing Chan
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0295999004

Reveals the historical impact of dream rhetoric on Chinese modernity and nation-building Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The Edge of Knowing investigates this relationship, showing how writers’ attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for revolutionary change, and the enduring legacy of traditional Chinese philosophy. At the same time, modern Chinese writers used their work to represent social reality for the purpose of nation building. Recent political usage of dream rhetoric in the People’s Republic of China attests to the continuing influence of dreams on the imagination of Chinese modernity. By employing a number of critical perspectives, The Edge of Knowing will appeal to readers seeking to understand the complicated relationship between literary form and Chinese history and politics.

Angels, Dreams, Visions

Angels, Dreams, Visions
Author: G. Allen Grootboom, PhD
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 151446571X

Angels, dreams, and visionswe all experience these adventures in mind, body, or soul, in real time, in thought, or in dreams. We dream about strange worlds, have strange encounters where we are told of things to come but not of when. People operate like magnets, attracting people and events into our lives and pushing people away. This book is about those events, those meetings, those dreams. It is a journey into our knowing of our imaginary worlds. It is also about your journey into your thought life, where the thoughts come from and where they vanish to. It is about our alone life.

Bamso

Bamso
Author: Asanaro
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1101152079

A journey through the mysterious world of dreams. In this mystical memoir of his spiritual journey through the world of Dreams, teacher of pre-Buddist Tibetan martial arts and philosophy Asanaro describes his apprenticeship with his master, Alsam. As the young apprentice opens his vision to the Astral World, he learns that the art of mental projection allows him to jump through time and space . . . and what he discovers isn?t at all what he had expected. Written in the form of a teaching story, Bamso uncovers for readers the fundamentals of astral projection and ?doubling?? the art of lucid dreaming. Presented in an engaging yet instructive manner, this book will captivate fans of Carlos Castaneda and Paulo Coelho.

Dreams, Visions, Imaginations

Dreams, Visions, Imaginations
Author: Jens Schröter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110714779

The contributions in this volume are focused on the historical origins, religious provenance, and social function of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature, including so-called ‘Gnostic’ writings. Although it is disputed whether there was a genre of ‘apocalyptic literature,’ it is obvious that numerous texts from ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and other religious milieus share a specific view of history and the world to come. Many of these writings are presented in form of a heavenly (divine) revelation, mediated through an otherworldly figure (like an angel) to an elected human being who discloses this revelation to his recipients in written form. In different strands of early Judaism, ancient Christianity as well as in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and Islam, apocalyptic writings played an important role from early on and were produced also in later centuries. One of the most characteristic features of these texts is their specific interpretation of history, based on the knowledge about the upper, divine realm and the world to come. Against this background the volume deals with a wide range of apocalyptic texts from different periods and various religious backgrounds.

The Dreams, the Visions and Realizations

The Dreams, the Visions and Realizations
Author: Patricia L. Ritchie
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2015-03-11
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1504327381

This book is an on-going recording of my soul journey toward ascension. There are three sections: Dream, Visions and Conversations with my Angels, and lastly, Nineteen Life Lessons from an angel named O, pronounced awe. Topics include -how a multi-dimensional world is created; -fire letters, codes of creation; -the process of creation and transformation of souls; and - light bodies and spaceships as well as others. My Angels are Yo Weh, Black Eagle, and O as well as others without names. The most important message from Yo Weh: The galaxy is shifting...

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9780340977002

A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasnt about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

Dreams and Visions in the World of Islam

Dreams and Visions in the World of Islam
Author: Elizabeth Sirriyeh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 178673964X

People in Western societies have long been interested in their dreams and what they mean. However, few non-Muslims in the West are likely to seek interpretation of those dreams to help them make life-changing decisions. In the Islamic world the situation is quite different. Dreaming and the import of visions are here of enormous significance, to the degree that many Muslims believe that in their dreams they are receiving divine guidance: for example, on whether or not to accept a marriage proposal, or a new job opportunity. In her authoritative new book, Elizabeth Sirriyeh offers the first concerted history of the rise of dream interpretation in Islamic culture, from medieval times to the present. Central to the book is the figure of the Prophet Muhammad - seen to represent for Muslims the perfect dreamer, visionary and interpreter of dreams. Less benignly, dreams have been exploited in the propaganda of Islamic militants in Afghanistan, and in apocalyptic visions relating to the 9/11 attacks. This timely volume gives an important, fascinating and overlooked subject the exploration it has long deserved.

Dreams

Dreams
Author: David Coxhead
Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1976
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The dream state is the one path to heightened consciousness that we all know from birth; it has been used to secure creativity, health, foreknowledge, and ecstatic insight. But it is a voice of inner truth that is now being vindicated--as can be learned from vastly remote cultures. 110 illustrations, 24 in color.

The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz

The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz
Author: Inge van Rij
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316239632

Berlioz frequently explored other worlds in his writings, from the imagined exotic enchantments of New Zealand to the rings of Saturn where Beethoven's spirit was said to reside. The settings for his musical works are more conservative, and his adventurousness has instead been located in his mastery of the orchestra, as both orchestrator and conductor. Inge van Rij's book takes a new approach to Berlioz's treatment of the orchestra by exploring the relationship between these two forms of control – the orchestra as abstract sound, and the orchestra as collective labour and instrumental technology. Van Rij reveals that the negotiation between worlds characteristic of Berlioz's writings also plays out in his music: orchestral technology may be concealed or ostentatiously displayed; musical instruments might be industrialised or exoticised; and the orchestral musicians themselves move between being a society of distinctive individuals and being a machine played by Berlioz himself.