Author: Philip H. FarberPublisher: Eschaton Productions Incorporated
ISBN: 9781573531078
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Futureritual
Author: Philip H. FarberPublisher: Eschaton Productions Incorporated
ISBN: 9781573531078
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Future Thinking in Roman Culture
Author: Maggie L. PopkinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000515559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Future Thinking in Roman Culture is the first volume dedicated to the exploration of prospective memory and future thinking in the Roman world, integrating cutting edge research in cognitive sciences and theory with approaches to historiography, epigraphy, and material culture. This volume opens a new avenue of investigation for Roman memory studies in presenting multiple case studies of memory and commemoration as future-thinking phenomena. It breaks new ground by bringing classical studies into direct dialogue with recent research on cognitive processes of future thinking. The thematically linked but methodologically diverse contributions, all by leading scholars who have published significant work in memory studies of antiquity, both cultural and cognitive, make the volume well suited for classical studies scholars and students seeking to explore cognitive science and philosophy of mind in ancient contexts, with special appeal to those sharing the growing interest in investigating Roman conceptions of futurity and time. The chapters all deliberately coalesce around the central theme of prospection and future thinking and their impact on our understanding of Roman ritual and religion, politics, and individual motivation and intention. This volume will be an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of classics, art history, archaeology, history, and religious studies, as well as scholars and students of memory studies, historical and cultural cognitive studies, psychology, and philosophy.
The Ritual Practice of Time
Author: Lars Kirkhusmo PharoPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004252363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Calendars of Mesoamerican civilisations are subjected to what is categorised as “ritual practices of time”. This book is a comparative explication of rituals of time of four calendars: the Long Count calendar, the 260-day calendar, the 365-day calendar and the 52-years calendar. Building upon a comparative analytical model, the book contributes new theoretical insights about ritual practices and temporal philosophies. This comprehensive investigation analyses how ritual practices are represented and conceptualised in intellectual systems and societies. The temporal ritual practices are systematically analysed in relation to calendar organisation and structure, arithmetic, cosmogony and chronometry, spatial-temporality (cosmology), natural world, eschatology, sociology, politics, and ontology. It is argued that the 260-day calendar has a particular symbolic importance in Mesoamerican temporal philosophies and practices.
The Open court
Author: Meta-Magick: The Book of ATEM
Author: Philip H. FarberPublisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1609250192
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem, Philip H. Farber combines traditional ritual sensibilities with contemporary concepts of neurolinguistics and memetics to create a unique entity - Atem. In this instance, the essence of an entity is encoded in a book and activated by the reader. At the same time, the book is a comprehensive manual of evocation, containing dozens of easy-to-follow rituals and exercises for exploring and creating magical entities of every sort. Farber teaches readers to wake up from their habitual trance, to reprogram themselves to stand in the Mystery without unnecessary mystification. This supercharged fusion of tried-and-true magical and psychological techniques moves beyond trauma, healing, and recovery into self-fulfillment and self-transformation. Combining both disciplines with methods such as intentionality, autohypnosis, visualization, personification, and experiential journeys, Farber creates a powerful system that opens the way to peak experiences, self-knowledge, even cosmic consciousness. Rather than importing standardized healing images, readers learn to create their own emergent metaphors, their own creative strengths and flexible freedom.
The World's Parliament of Religions
Author: Indigenous Australia and the Unfinished Business of Theology
Author: J. HaveaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137426675
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book engages a complex subject that mainline theologies avoid, Indigenous Australia. The heritages, wisdoms and dreams of Indigenous Australians are tormented by the discriminating mindsets and colonialist practices of non-Indigenous peoples. This book gives special attention to the torments due to the arrival and development of the church.
Ritual and Its Consequences
Author: Adam B. SeligmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199887411
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between imagined worlds is central to the human capacity for empathy. Ritual, they claim, defines the boundaries of these imagined worlds, including those of empathy and other realms of human creativity, such as music, architecture and literature. The authors juxtapose this ritual orientation to a "sincere" search for unity and wholeness. The sincere world sees fragmentation and incoherence as signs of inauthenticity that must be overcome. Our modern world has accepted the sincere viewpoint at the expense of ritual, dismissing ritual as mere convention. In response, the authors show how the conventions of ritual allow us to live together in a broken world. Ritual is work, endless work. But it is among the most important things that we humans do.
The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium
Author: Claudia MoserPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428851
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.
The World's Parliament of Religions
Author: John Henry BarrowsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description