Quest for Silence

Quest for Silence
Author: Harry A. Wilmer
Publisher: Daimon
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2000
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 3856305939

What ever happened to silence? Actually nothing, and Harry Wilmer takes great pains to show how we have submerged it under a toxic barrage of noise. Using both clinical examples of the power of silence from his case histories, and cultural values of silence, he uncovers a astonishing theme in the Japanese idea of MA as silence. Wilmer points out how silence gives meaning to words, dreams, thought, action and music. From his long experience as a Jungian analyst, he weaves his ideas into an eminently practical treatise on the phenomenology of silence. With many references to literature as well as his personal life experiences and crises, he offers a readable and important new story of the universal and spiritual significance of silence in a world of jackhammer noise.

The Power of Silence

The Power of Silence
Author: Robert Cardinal Sarah
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621641910

In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."

A Silent Terror

A Silent Terror
Author: Lynette Eason
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488058261

A deaf woman navigates a maze of danger and intrigue in the first High Stakes thriller from the USA Today–bestselling author of A Silent Fury. When Marianna Santino’s roommate is killed, Detective Ethan O’Hara can’t fathom the motive. Then he realizes the deaf teacher was the intended target. Marianna must have something the murderer desperately wants. But what? Digging for the truth, the guarded cop tries to learn everything he can about Marianna. Her world. Her family. Her beauty, faith and fierce independence. In spite of himself, Ethan finds that he can’t keep his feelings at bay. Soon, he’s willing to risk everything—including his heart—to lay the silent terror stalking Marianna to rest.

Shroud of Silence

Shroud of Silence
Author: Carol D. Slama
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780764220395

With the help of Spencer Mitchell, Marissa Tomsen searches for her brother who disappeared after joining a secretive New Age group.

The Holy Shroud

The Holy Shroud
Author: Antonio Cassanelli
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002
Genre: Holy Shroud
ISBN: 9780852443514

The Shroud

The Shroud
Author: Ian Wilson
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2010-03-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1409094707

Two decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin Shroud a mediaeval fake, brand-new historical discoveries strongly suggest that this famous cloth, with its extraordinary photographic imprint, is genuinely Christ's shroud after all. In 1978 in his international bestseller The Turin Shroud Ian Wilson ignited worldwide public debate with his compelling case endorsing the shroud's authenticity. Now, 30 years later, he has completely rewritten and updated his earlier book to provide fresh evidence to support his original argument. Shroud boldly challenges the current post-radiocarbon dating view - that it is a fake. By arguing his case brilliantly and provocatively, Ian Wilson once more throws the matter into the public arena for further debate and controversy.

A History of Silence

A History of Silence
Author: Alain Corbin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1509517391

Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries. It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and forests. Yet despite the centrality of silence to some of our most intense experiences, the transformations of the twentieth century have gradually diminished its value. Today, raucous urban spaces and a continual bombardment from different media pressure us into constant activity. We are losing a sense of our inner selves, a process that is changing the very nature of the individual. This book rediscovers the wonder of silence and, with this, a richer experience of life. With his predilection for the elusive, Corbin calls us to listen to another history.

Coming Home

Coming Home
Author: Ron Evans
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2002-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1550023799

Through the authors reminiscences, we experience life on the prairies as it was more than 60 years ago, and as it is today.

In My Boots and Through My Eyes

In My Boots and Through My Eyes
Author: John C. Berkhoudt
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2021-02-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1649137443

In My Boots and Through My Eyes By: John C. Berkhoudt Author John C. Berkhoudt spent one year in combat as a first lieutenant infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. In My Boots and Through My Eyes is a collection of poetry, short stories, and ponderings during enlistment, training, combat, and home. This insightful work portrays a raw view of life in the jungles of Vietnam during the war. From the horrors to the small moments of joy, Berkhoudt’s journey is expressed with passion and reflectiveness that anyone could learn a thing or two from.

Bloodscripts

Bloodscripts
Author: Elana Gomel
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780814209493

We live in an increasingly violent world. From suicide terrorists to serial killers, violent subjects challenge our imaginations. We seek answers to our questions on this subject in literature, cinema, and electronic media. In Bloodscripts, Elana Gomel examines how popular culture narratives construct violent subjectivity. Using such various narratives as mystery, horror; detective, and fantasy fiction as well as accounts of the atrocities perpetuated by serial killers and the Holocaust, Bloodscripts offers a new map of the genres of violence and links the twin obsessions of postmodern culture: crime and genocide. Bloodscripts is a stimulating, original, and accessible account of the narrative construction of the violent subject. It proposes a narrative model that will be of interest to literary critics, cultural scholars, criminologists, and anyone trying to understand the role of violence in postmodern culture.