Symbols of Eternity

Symbols of Eternity
Author: Malcolm Stewart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Signs and symbols
ISBN: 9780863158377

Schumacher College is dedicated to studying all aspects of sustainable living. This book is the realization of Brian Goodwins vision to publish a collection of essays on sustainable solutions to todays global crisis. Themes include the importance of education, science, economics, energy sources, business, and design, all in the context of philosophy, spirituality, and mythology. Contributors include Satish Kumar, Jules Cashford, Fritjof Capra, Rupert Sheldrake, James Lovelock, Peter Reason, Gideon Kossoff, Craig Holdrege, Helena Norbert-Hodge, Colin Tudge, Nigel Topping and many others.

The Power of the Infinity Symbol

The Power of the Infinity Symbol
Author: Barbara Heider-Rauter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1844097552

A guide to the spiritual meaning and magic of the infinity symbol and how to activate its positive powers • Explains how the infinity symbol is the antidote to a negative, imbalanced world and how it can help reconnect the two halves of the brain and achieve balance and harmony in yourself, your relationships, and the wider world • Offers simple and practical exercises that harness the power of the infinity symbol for balance and harmony, including simple visualizations, physical exercises, and directed drawing of the symbol • Explores the many appearances of this universal symbol in history, mythology, different cultures, and the natural world Through the ages, the infinity symbol, a sideways figure eight, has represented eternal development and balance. Also known as the lemniscate, this powerful symbol stands for equilibrium, harmony, and the interconnectedness of all things. Although magical knowledge of symbols has often been kept secret throughout history, today the power of this symbol is available to all. In this accessible, hands-on guide, Barbara Heider-Rauter explores the spiritual world of the infinity symbol in a personal and practical way, allowing each of us to benefit from its positive influence for balance and harmony in ourselves, our relationships, and the wider world. She begins with a short exercise to attune readers to the energy field of the lemniscate. She explains how the infinity symbol offers the perfect response to a system that encourages separation and a world in which the negation of our feelings is often the source of illness and pain. She details simple exercises to reconnect the two halves of the brain, the analytical and the emotional, resulting in harmony and healing. She teaches how to use simple visualisation, physical exercises, and directed drawing of the symbol to achieve practical results in our daily lives. Beautifully illustrated in full color, the book also offers a wealth of information on the appearance of the infinity symbol through the ages in all its forms and contexts, from history and mythology to our own tiny body cells and the natural world. This book urges the reader to establish wholeness, to balance the scales of duality and find harmony. With the power of the lemniscate at hand, decisions will be made with greater ease and relationships filled with harmony and a lighter heart.

Patterns of Eternity

Patterns of Eternity
Author: Malcolm Stewart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Geometry in architecture
ISBN: 9780863157127

Describes the starcut diagram which underlies many significant geometrical patterns and proportions across the world.

Dictionary of Symbols

Dictionary of Symbols
Author: J. C. Cirlot
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006-10-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134958897

The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.

Signs and Symbols

Signs and Symbols
Author: Adrian Frutiger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.

Images and Symbols

Images and Symbols
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0691238340

Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.

Fears and Symbols

Fears and Symbols
Author: Elemér Hankiss
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789639241077

An encyclopedic study on the role that fear and anxiety have played as the organizing motives of human existence and social life. Hankiss explains how human beings have surrounded themselves with protective symbols: myths and religions, values and belief systems, ideas and scientific theories, moral and practical rules of behaviour, and a wide range of everyday rituals and trivialities.

The Art of Death. Myths and Rites

The Art of Death. Myths and Rites
Author: Victoria Charles
Publisher: Parkstone International
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1783107782

Since the first funerary statues were placed in the first sepulchres, the ideas of death and the afterlife have always held a prominent place at the heart of the art world. An unlimited source of inspiration where artists can search for the expression of the infinite, death remains the object of numerous rich illustrations, as various as they are mysterious. The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, the forever sleeping statues on medieval tombs, and the Romantic and Symbolist movements of the 19th century are all evidence of the incessant interest that fuels the creation of artworks featuring themes of death and what lies beyond it. In this work, Victoria Charles analyses how, through the centuries, art has become the reflection of these interrogations linked to mankind’s fate and the hereafter.

Time for Eternity

Time for Eternity
Author: Susan Renee
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2011-03-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1456739433

Joe Pitts, a brilliant if somewhat obsessive and cynical graduate student from a wealthy dysfunctional family lashes out under pressure against what he sees as the hypocrisy of society and the futility of his life in it. Briefly committed to a psychiatric ward in the aftermath of an altercation with one of his professors, he meets Dr. Margaret Wright, a resident and Susan Holland, a somewhat mystical nursing student. Just as Joe begins to believe that his intellect and his Ego can overcome what he sees as a minor troubling interlude in his life, he receives a shock. It is a diagnosis of terminal testicular cancer. With the aid of Dr. Wright, Susan, Roberta Turner, a philosophical fellow student and Dr. Shultz, the very professor with whom his altercation began this odyssey, and a man whose wife has just made the final passage, Joe learns in the hospice to revere his own, now fleeting existence and gains the humility necessary to face the next and final stage of his life.

Celestial Symbols

Celestial Symbols
Author: Allen H. Barber
Publisher: Horizon Publishers & Distributors
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780882908083

The Lord's Plan of Salvation is deeply interwoven with symbolic representations. This is especially so with respect to Christ and His atonement, baptism, and the temple. In this book, Allen H. Barber lists over 300 symbols, explains their meanings and tells how the Lord uses them to teach His plan of salvation through the scriptures, the prophets, and in the temples.