The Jews Were Internauts

The Jews Were Internauts
Author: Rabbi Nilton Bonder
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2010-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1426935722

This book brings together the two major aspects of the Jewish myth the people of the Book and the wanderer to present an ancient concept of virtual reality. Drawing from Jewish mystical teachings, it speculates on possibilities to transcend reality by the use of special media. The longest exile in human history was responsible for shaping innovative prospects on linkage and space. Metaphors springing from the advent of widespread computer and Internet use offer new ways to understand rabbinic strategies for bonding in the lack of community and territory. They were able to devise means that can bring two or more places to be in the same site. Or as it was then called: "Jumping the Path". In this piece of archeological science fiction, Rabbi Nilton Bonder connects traces left in the past of a sophisticated concept of web. This is a book about the birth of the notion of the "net" and the first attempts of being together, without necessarily being in one place. It is a book about the possibility that much more lies between illusion and reality, than we might suppose. In a time when science was not capable of fostering imagination on the marvels of the universe, it was due to religion to manifest human speculations on wonder and awe. Nilton Bonder brings Jewish mystical texts and traditions of ancient times that can be better understood with our tools of communication and media such as the computer or the internet. Was there a Windows 1751? Were priests and prophets able to devise the principle of a net? Of a CWW , a Cosmic Wide Web? Why was the ancient fiction interested not on Time Travel, but Space Travel, or as they called it, Jumping the Way? From where could they have derived a concept of virtual reality? What are the connections between virtual reality and the Messianic ideas as well as the Resurrection of the Dead? These and some other fascinating questions are dealt in this book around mystical consideration on media and space.

ICTR 2018 International Conference on Tourism Research

ICTR 2018 International Conference on Tourism Research
Author: Dr Minna Tunkkari-Eskelinen, JAMK University of Applied Science Jyväskylä, Finland
Publisher: Academic Conferences and publishing limited
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2018-03-22
Genre:
ISBN: 191121876X

These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in the International Conference on Tourism Research (ICTR 2018) which is being hosted by JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland on 23-24 March 2018.

After the End

After the End
Author: David Sobelman
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2006
Genre: Canadian poetry
ISBN: 9781550712469

Challenging and compelling, this sequence of linked narrative poems consists of philosophical encounters between various necessary polarities: eye and ear, faith and reason, mythos and logos, essence and existence. It also explores the connection between them--the transformation from silence to speech made possible by the written word--and examines the relationship between the poet's physical being and the poet's soul.

Global Encounters

Global Encounters
Author: Gitte Stald
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781860205873

The relation between globalization, culture, and the transformative role of the media is examined in this book. Case studies assess questions of media use, cultural boundaries, and identities emanating from these theoretical reflections. The international scope of this book includes examinations of youth cultures in Denmark and South Africa, Asian cultures in India and London, the Iranian migration to London, and the Gauchos in Southern Brazil.

Business Ethics and the Electronic Economy

Business Ethics and the Electronic Economy
Author: Peter Koslowki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3662061899

The internet and the electronic economy are a technological revolution whose secular importance is apparent. The internet eliminates the temporal and spatial constraints on the exchange of information. It changes deeply the world of production and of labour. It transforms the exchange relationships between producers and consumers as well as between the suppliers within the supply-chain. The electronic economy is able to generate more accurate con sumer profiles and, therefore, a more powerful and effective marketing di rected to the individual consumer. There is no industry that is not undergoing thorough changes caused by the internet. The volume at hand gives an analysis of the internet revolution. It covers questions reaching form the highly controversial thesis of the end of property rights in the internet caused by the non-rivalry of the "consumption" of in formation to questions regarding the repercussions of the internet on our understanding of the human person. Technological changes like the introduction of the electronic economy pose the question of how to handle it and how to manage reasonably its ethi cal problems and dilemmas. The ethical problems and the business ethics of the electronic economy in the fields of production and labour, of consump tion, and in handling trust and the abuse of trust are analysed by the contribu tions from applied ethics and business ethics.

Jesus, King of Edessa

Jesus, King of Edessa
Author: Ralph Ellis
Publisher: Edfu Books
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 1905815654

Jesus was a king of Edessa 600 pages of gnosis. Colour Images. This is the book that the Catholic Church has been dreading for the last 1700 years. This is the book that will end Christianity as we know it. And this is not advertising hyperbole, this really is the end of the Christian fairytale. We now know who Jesus was. Visit his city, see the ruins of his citadel, gaze upon his statue, handle his coins. In reality, Jesus was a son of King Abgarus of Edessa, a king with a small realm, a large treasury, and even bigger ambitions. Thus Jesus' true history undermines much of the biblical fairystory that the gospel authors crafted, and so Christianity will never be the same again. The jacket image shows Jesus wearing his Crown of Thorns, the ceremonial crown of the Edessan monarchy. We suggest that readers start with 'Cleopatra to Christ' and then 'King Jesus'. The wait before arriving at the last episode in the trilogy will be worthwhile, for if a book could be valued on its 'eureka moments' then this final book would be priceless. The 'King Jesus Trilogy' Latest version v12.1 2024 Book three of the King Jesus Trilogy (in four parts). Followed by 'The Grail Cypher'. .

The New Sultan

The New Sultan
Author: Soner Çaǧaptay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017
Genre: Turkey
ISBN: 9781350988972

"In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Since 2002, Erdo?an has consolidated his hold on domestic politics while using military and diplomatic means to solidify Turkey as a regional power. His crackdown has been brutal and consistent - scores of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and many of the highest-ranking military officers arrested. In some senses, the nefarious and failed 2016 coup has given Erdo?an the licence to make good on his repeated promise to bring order and stability under a 'strongman'. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at Erdo?an's roots in Turkish history, what he believes in and how he has cemented his rule, as well as what this means for the world. The book will also unpick the 'threats' Erdogan has worked to combat - from the liberal Turks to the Gulen movement, from coup plotters to Kurdish nationalists - all of which have culminated in the crisis of modern Turkey."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah

Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah
Author: Jonathan Garb
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-05-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0226282074

Theory of shamanism, trance, and modern Kabbalah -- The shamanic process: descent and fiery transformations -- Empowerment through trance -- Shamanic Hasidism -- Hasidic trance -- Trance and the nomian.