We All Dance To A Mysterious Tune 1st

We All Dance To A Mysterious Tune 1st
Author: Harold Salkin
Publisher: Arena books
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1911593013

An intimate autobiography describing the personal and sexual life of a poet working in the retail trade, giving a vivid description of life in the East End and Essex between the 1930s and the 21st century.

Eat Healthy with Melanie

Eat Healthy with Melanie
Author: Melanie Waxman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2019-02-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1796012858

Eat Healthy with Melanie is the essential healthy cookbook. All you need to know about eating a wholesome, delicious, and nutritious diet. With Eat Healthy with Melanie!, you will fi nd out: —How to keep your immune system strong —Ways to eat healthy foods in college —How organic, living foods increase your energy levels —How to heal the earth with the foods you eat —Natural and healthy ways to maintain weight —How Macrobiotic cooking is easier than you think —Over 140 heavenly, sugar-free vegan recipes —How to Go Green and Get Fit

The Medulla Obligation

The Medulla Obligation
Author: M. T. Kelson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2024-03-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Few things feel better than early love. We feel like we are flying. At that time, Nature adds its endorsement and accelerant to make sure survival concerns do not preempt going through the actions that have a high likelihood of making children. This force—the Medulla Obligation--is a compilation of hormones and romantic notions meant to enslave us to love’s duties. However, some of love’s duties are aggressive, territorial, and vicious, and those are exaggerated too. We have all been buried under its suffocating power many times in our lives. The introductory offer ends. Things were so promising; now confusion reigns. What do we have in front of us? What just happened? Who was that? “For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?” — Marcus Aurelius Once the nature of this force and its goals and methods are presented, sequenced, and better understood, we can prepare. This book is about the aftershocks sent out by the exaggerating forces of courtship as enforced by the Medulla Obligation—our core purpose—and their departure. Through awareness, we can still fly in the euphoria of new love, and escape the worst crashes of love when the flight loses momentum.

The Mystery of Life What’S It All About?

The Mystery of Life What’S It All About?
Author: David E. Peeples
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1984510606

Have you ever seriously considered the most difficult and puzzling questions presented to our minds during this mortal sojourn through an often difficult and challenging existence? Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? And perhaps the most important question of all: What is my purpose for living? In this ultra-modern, digital world of today many people have become so preoccupied with the daily pursuits of life and the addictive overuse of time-consuming technology that many of them rarely pause to seriously consider what life is actually all about. In writing The Mystery of Life it has been my hope and my goal to personally challenge each reader to consider many relevant facts and to follow a line of evidence pointing toward a worldview that is often overlooked and too easily marginalized. We live in an aggressive, technology-driven world where the wild pursuit of power, prestige, possession, and pleasure has become the driving influence ruling over many of our lives. What does your worldview look like? Is there enough evidence to support it beyond reasonable doubt? If not, then I invite you to consider a vast body of mounting evidence that could lead toward a more accurate discernment of an often confusing existence. The view of life that we have each come to know will strongly influence everything we do, say, and become in this world. Based on a remarkable consensus of evidence, perhaps we should consider a worldview understanding that will ultimately avail our hearts and minds of the personal fulfillment and satisfaction we have always longed for and often dreamed of. We owe it to ourselves to seriously consider where the evidence is leading us. Isnt it about time to discover the answers to our most persistent and pressing questions. The Mystery of Life is presented as a literary expose addressing the questions of origin, meaning, morality and destiny.

Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
Author: Carl C. Gaither
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1895
Release: 2008-01-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0387495770

Scientists and other keen observers of the natural world sometimes make or write a statement pertaining to scientific activity that is destined to live on beyond the brief period of time for which it was intended. This book serves as a collection of these statements from great philosophers and thought–influencers of science, past and present. It allows the reader quickly to find relevant quotations or citations. Organized thematically and indexed alphabetically by author, this work makes readily available an unprecedented collection of approximately 18,000 quotations related to a broad range of scientific topics.

Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet

Walt Whitman, Philosopher Poet
Author: John W. McDonald
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2007-02-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786423889

Was Walt Whitman--celebrated poet of freedom and democracy--a determinist at heart? A close study of Leaves of Grass shows that Whitman consistently acknowledges the inevitability of all things. As John McDonald argues, this seeming contradiction lies at the heart of Whitman's poetry, a fact continually overlooked in the more than 100 years that critics have written about the poet and his magnum opus. This volume contains an extensive study of Walt Whitman's poetry that explores both Whitman's guiding philosophy and its uses to unlock meaning within Leaves of Grass. Beginning with a detailed explanation of determinism, the author examines Whitman's use of indirection, which the poet referred to at times as a game played to evade the reader's comprehension. The work seeks to define a philosophy which was, in the author's opinion, the most significant influence in Whitman's thought and in his art. Various poems are examined in depth, including Song of Myself, Passage to India and the particularly significant With Antecedents. Gathered here will be evidence from Whitman's poems and prose and from his notes and quoted remarks, enough evidence to show beyond doubt that determinism was indeed his most significant influence. An innovative look at one of America's greatest poets.

The Medulla Obligation Book Two

The Medulla Obligation Book Two
Author: M. Kelson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN: 059533685X

The Medulla Obligation is the siren of the mating dance. "The character of the Medulla Obligation is much more complicated that that of gravity, yet no less powerful and no less consistent." You cannot escape her designs on your life, but you can flow with her and learn to recognize both advantages and pitfalls inherent and inevitable in human interaction. The Medulla Obligation will show you that you can affect the outcome of you relationships through a tilt in your perception. You can learn when to interact and when to quietly disengage, when your gifts are yours or are to be taken from you. You can learn how to make the best of your "turns at bat" in life to make a difference for you and those important to you, and how to keep yourself viable beyond established expectations. "She has no flexibility and has no reliance on the quality of the partners she pressures together. The test of that union is the survivability and behavioral adaptations of the children born from it...most of that 'safeguard' is now gone, and we have been unable to compensate."

Understanding Peace Cultures

Understanding Peace Cultures
Author: Rebecca L. Oxford
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1623965071

Understanding Peace Cultures is exceptionally practical as well as theoretically grounded. As Elise Boulding tells us, culture consists of the shared values, ideas, practices, and artifacts of a group united by a common history. Rebecca Oxford explains that peace cultures are cultures, large or small, which foster any of the dimensions of peace – inner, interpersonal, intergroup, international, intercultural, or ecological – and thus help transform the world. As in her earlier book, The Language of Peace: Communicating to Create Harmony, Oxford contends here that peace is a serious and desirable option. Excellent educators help build peace cultures. In this book, Shelley Wong and Rachel Grant reveal how highly diverse public school classrooms serve as peace cultures, using activities and themes founded on womanist and critical race theories. Yingji Wang portrays a peace culture in a university classroom. Rui Ma’s model reaches out interculturally to Abraham’s children: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim youth, who share an ancient heritage. Children’s literature (Rebecca Oxford et al.) and students’ own writing (Tina Wei) spread cultures of peace. Deep traditions, such as African performance art, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and Islam, give rise to peace cultures, as shown here by John Grayzel, Sister Jewel (a colleague of Thich Nhat Hanh), Yingji Wang et al., and Dian Marissa et al. Peace cultures also emerge in completely unexpected venues, such as gangsta rap, unveiled by Charles Blake et al., and a prison where inmates learn Lois Liggett’s “spiritual semantics.” Finally, the book includes perspectives from Jerusalem (by Lawrence Berlin) and North Korea and South Korea (by Carol Griffiths) to help us envision – and hope for – new, transformative peace cultures where now there is strife.

The Martial Artist

The Martial Artist
Author: Tiziano Bonanni
Publisher: Europa Edizioni
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Extracts from the life of an artist, an athlete, a philosopher; a man occupied with the determined and instinctive research of beauty, justice, and of the deepest truth. A search that crosses several fields: from the purely artistic one to the sacred one, from the most ancient and remote times to our modern and contemporary world. An observer that, thanks to painting, manages to escape from the day-to-day banality and human mediocrity. A fascinating text that proves the redeeming power of art. Artist and teacher, Tiziano Bonanni is a painter, sculptor, and writer. Among the most relevant masters in Tuscany and one of the most representative Italian painters, he alternates his profession with the practice of judo and martial philosophy as a lifestyle, a “creed”, which generates creative thinking and excellency in a society that doesn’t wish to “be” anymore, but rather to own, in a compulsive and dishonorable way. Deeply connected to Florence’s history and culture, he’s an honorary member of the Accademia Medicea and Knight of the Ordine di Parte Guelfa.

The Daemon

The Daemon
Author: Anthony Peake
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2010-11-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1848379641

"Anthony Peake is engaged in one of the most important strands of ontological inquiry of modern times, nothing less than unravelling the Gordian knot that is the mystery of our existence." - Bob Rickard, founder editor of Fortean Times Appearing in Greek mythology and popularised by Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, the Daemon is broadly understood as a guiding spirit which exists as one half of your split self. In The Daemon: A Guide to Your Extraordinary Secret Self, Anthony Peake proposes that people consist of not one but two separate consciousnesses - everyday consciousness and that of The Daemon, a higher being that seems to possess knowledge of future events. Drawing upon phenomena such as déjà vu and Near-Death Experiences, he explores the ways that our Daemon breaks through into our consciousness and can subconsciously impact upon our decisions. From the author of Is There Life After Death?, this endlessly fascinating book draws upon the neurology, metaphysics and theology. It also follows the stories of famous figures, including Byron, Geothe, Jean Cocteau and many others, who have 'felt a force outside themselves'. This radical book will change the way you perceive reality, time and ultimately yourself.