Knot of the Soul

Knot of the Soul
Author: Stefania Pandolfo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2018-05-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022646511X

Through a dual engagement with the unconscious in psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, Stefania Pandolfo’s unsettling and innovative book reflects on the maladies of the soul at a time of tremendous global upheaval. Drawing on in-depth historical research and testimonies of contemporary patients and therapists in Morocco, Knot of the Soul offers both an ethnographic journey through madness and contemporary formations of despair and a philosophical and theological exploration of the vicissitudes of the soul. Knot of the Soul moves from the experience of psychosis in psychiatric hospitals, to the visionary torments of the soul in poor urban neighborhoods, to the melancholy and religious imaginary of undocumented migration, culminating in the liturgical stage of the Qur’anic cure. Demonstrating how contemporary Islamic cures for madness address some of the core preoccupations of the psychoanalytic approach, she reveals how a religious and ethical relation to the “ordeal” of madness might actually allow for spiritual transformation. This sophisticated and evocative work illuminates new dimensions of psychoanalysis and the ethical imagination while also sensitively examining the collective psychic strife that so many communities endure today.

A Touch of Vertigo

A Touch of Vertigo
Author: Karinna Damgård
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1982272333

Everything you want is on the other side of your greatest fear. Although we are sometimes resistant, hard times, challenges, and difficulties help make us who we are. Like the transformative metamorphosis from black coal to diamond, only after extreme pressure, and the passing of time, do we see the result. It is up to us whether we focus on the pain or the result. Many self-help books will say that if we just ask for what we want, we will get it, but what if we never learned to ask for what we really want? In this book, author Karinna Damgård explores how learning from a young age not to trust intuition, not to ask for help for fear of being a burden, has held us back. How will you learn the grandness of truth, if you were always told a lie? How can you learn to empower yourself, if life always taught you the opposite? How can you learn to better yourself if you are always busy watching out for the next big earthquake? Interweaving personal experiences with her expertise as a clairvoyant, healer, mentor, spiritual advisor, and intuitive soul, Damgård seeks to guide others through an introspective and inspirational step-by-step process that encourages movement away from self-imposed fears and expectations and into a new phase of personal growth where we recognize our own beauty, light, divinity, and how we shine with help from God, even in a chaotic world. A Touch of Vertigo is a down-to-earth guide that leads positive change seekers down a thoughtful path of personal growth and spiritual transformation to address fears and move forward into a new beginning filled with divine miracles.

Ignite Your Soul

Ignite Your Soul
Author: Mindy Caliguire
Publisher: NavPress
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2024-09-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1641588551

Revive Your Whole Self: Spiritually, Mentally, and Emotionally Burned out? Exhausted? Feeling isolated and like there's no end in sight? Find hope, direction, and a path to renewed life. Ignite Your Soul is a lifeline to help you restore your spiritual, emotional, and mental well-being and navigate the complex landscape of soul care within the communities you live and serve in. Whether you seek refreshment for yourself or those you lead, you'll explore six key practices that lead to whole-self flourishing: attention, participation, delight, humility, silence, and rest. In December 2021, Mindy and her husband, Jeff, bore witness to a wildfire's relentless advance on their Colorado property dedicated to spiritual rest and retreat. The devastation of that fire underscored the realization that mirrored the parched reality of many people's souls. So many of us are exhausted and overwhelmed, and we feel alone, silently struggling with addiction, busyness, distractions, fear, and apathy. Ignite Your Soul walks through the journey from pre-burnout to destruction and the path to healings so that you can walk out of your own ashes and into practices like journaling, prayer, and a rule of life and more, to thrive no matter what you face. Ignite Your Soul is a lifeline to help you restore your spiritual, emotional, and mental well-being within the communities you life and serve in.

Horizontal Vertigo

Horizontal Vertigo
Author: Juan Villoro
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1524748897

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers. In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.

Overcoming Spiritual Vertigo

Overcoming Spiritual Vertigo
Author: Dwayne E. Mercer
Publisher: CLC Publications
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1619582228

Sometimes doubt, fear and disappointment cause the Christian to lose confidence in God. In this book, Dwayne E. Mercer helps readers see past disappointments through God’s eyes and gain courage from biblical examples of faith. He provides tools for the discouraged Christian to take faith-risks for God again, stepping out in courageous faith.Sometimes doubt, fear and disappointment cause the Christian to lose confidence in God. In this book, Dwayne E. Mercer helps readers see past disappointments through God’s eyes and gain courage from biblical examples of faith. He provides tools for the discouraged Christian to take faith-risks for God again, stepping out in courageous faith.

Vertigo: The Making of the Hitchcock Classic

Vertigo: The Making of the Hitchcock Classic
Author: Dan Auiler
Publisher: Dan Auiler
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2022-05-04
Genre: Art
ISBN:

25th Anniversary Edition Special edition of the the bestselling Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic. The new e-text has images, a new preface and additional commentary on Vertigo's selection as the Best Film Ever Made by the BFI's Sight and Sound.

My Soul to Take

My Soul to Take
Author: Rachel Vincent
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1426837631

She doesn't see dead people, but… She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally. Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about her need to scream than she does. And when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason, only Kaylee knows who'll be next…

Vertigo and Dizziness

Vertigo and Dizziness
Author: Thomas Brandt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2007-06-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1846280818

Short and concise, clinically-oriented book with special emphasis on treatments: drug, physical, operative or psychotherapeutic An overview of the most important syndromes, each with explanatory clinical descriptions and illustrations makes it an easy-to-use reference

Mr Vertigo

Mr Vertigo
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2010-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0571264875

'I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water . . .' So begins Mr Vertigo, the story of Walt, an irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West. Under the tutelage of the mesmerising Master Yehudi, Walt is taken back to the mysterious house on the plains to prepare not only for the ability to fly, but also for the stardom that will accompany it. At the same time a delighted race through 1920s Americana and a richly allusive parable, Mr Vertigo is a compelling, magical novel - a work of true originality by a writer at the height of his powers. 'A virtuoso piece of storytelling by a master of the modern American fable.' The Independent

The Theology of Augustine's Confessions

The Theology of Augustine's Confessions
Author: Paul Rigby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107094925

This study of Augustine's Confessions presents his testimony of conversion as an antidote to modern culture's tendency toward disbelief.