Author: Susan James
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book One) Susan James Susan James' underlying themes revolve around raising our individual illumination, and the effect we have on all of humanity, as well as our individual lives, as we do so. Methods of Manifestation / Essays Along The Way (Book One) include many of the writings on Susan James various websites and other book publications as she has expanded her own use of the Law of Growth, The Law of Opulence as applied to higher expansion and the upward spiral of consciousness. This higher expansion has led to ease, abundance and more in her life and lifestyle. May All who move their eyes along these pages be assisted in their own way for all they choose to have, be and desire fulfilled. Essay Listing Book One -That Space of Anything is Possible -Creating Fearlessness with a Bottle -(How to) Know When It’s Time to Think Bigger -Are You Yelling at Tomatoes? -Getting Money to a Better Level -Bricks Without Straw-Unlimitedness -How To Win At Manifesting The Big Prizes -Weighing Words & Money -When You Need a Little Hope -Michael Jordan & ThoughtForm-Manifestation -5 Ways to Move Our Lives Toward Abundance -Let The Words Do The Work -A Word About WORDS -How to Be Like Martha, Danielle, Cher & Olivia -The Done Deal -What to Do About Those Gut-Wrench Money Moments -Building a Vibrational Bridge -Having Your Cake and Eating It Too! -The Higher World Wants The Lower World To Get Better -Un-Box Your Self from Limitations ! -The Allowing Piece of Manifesting -How to Expect With Enthusiasm -Take The Jar Up The Hill -When Our Thoughts Stick Out Like A Sore Thumb -The Path of Manifestation (Understanding The Law of Growth) -Things to Consider Doing for Desire Fulfillment
Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book One) Susan James
Author: Susan James
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book One) Susan James Susan James' underlying themes revolve around raising our individual illumination, and the effect we have on all of humanity, as well as our individual lives, as we do so. Methods of Manifestation / Essays Along The Way (Book One) include many of the writings on Susan James various websites and other book publications as she has expanded her own use of the Law of Growth, The Law of Opulence as applied to higher expansion and the upward spiral of consciousness. This higher expansion has led to ease, abundance and more in her life and lifestyle. May All who move their eyes along these pages be assisted in their own way for all they choose to have, be and desire fulfilled. Essay Listing Book One -That Space of Anything is Possible -Creating Fearlessness with a Bottle -(How to) Know When It’s Time to Think Bigger -Are You Yelling at Tomatoes? -Getting Money to a Better Level -Bricks Without Straw-Unlimitedness -How To Win At Manifesting The Big Prizes -Weighing Words & Money -When You Need a Little Hope -Michael Jordan & ThoughtForm-Manifestation -5 Ways to Move Our Lives Toward Abundance -Let The Words Do The Work -A Word About WORDS -How to Be Like Martha, Danielle, Cher & Olivia -The Done Deal -What to Do About Those Gut-Wrench Money Moments -Building a Vibrational Bridge -Having Your Cake and Eating It Too! -The Higher World Wants The Lower World To Get Better -Un-Box Your Self from Limitations ! -The Allowing Piece of Manifesting -How to Expect With Enthusiasm -Take The Jar Up The Hill -When Our Thoughts Stick Out Like A Sore Thumb -The Path of Manifestation (Understanding The Law of Growth) -Things to Consider Doing for Desire Fulfillment
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book One) Susan James Susan James' underlying themes revolve around raising our individual illumination, and the effect we have on all of humanity, as well as our individual lives, as we do so. Methods of Manifestation / Essays Along The Way (Book One) include many of the writings on Susan James various websites and other book publications as she has expanded her own use of the Law of Growth, The Law of Opulence as applied to higher expansion and the upward spiral of consciousness. This higher expansion has led to ease, abundance and more in her life and lifestyle. May All who move their eyes along these pages be assisted in their own way for all they choose to have, be and desire fulfilled. Essay Listing Book One -That Space of Anything is Possible -Creating Fearlessness with a Bottle -(How to) Know When It’s Time to Think Bigger -Are You Yelling at Tomatoes? -Getting Money to a Better Level -Bricks Without Straw-Unlimitedness -How To Win At Manifesting The Big Prizes -Weighing Words & Money -When You Need a Little Hope -Michael Jordan & ThoughtForm-Manifestation -5 Ways to Move Our Lives Toward Abundance -Let The Words Do The Work -A Word About WORDS -How to Be Like Martha, Danielle, Cher & Olivia -The Done Deal -What to Do About Those Gut-Wrench Money Moments -Building a Vibrational Bridge -Having Your Cake and Eating It Too! -The Higher World Wants The Lower World To Get Better -Un-Box Your Self from Limitations ! -The Allowing Piece of Manifesting -How to Expect With Enthusiasm -Take The Jar Up The Hill -When Our Thoughts Stick Out Like A Sore Thumb -The Path of Manifestation (Understanding The Law of Growth) -Things to Consider Doing for Desire Fulfillment
Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book Two) Susan James
Author: Susan James
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book Two) Susan James Susan James' underlying themes revolve around raising our individual illumination, and the effect we have on all of humanity, as well as our individual lives, as we do so. Methods of Manifestation / Essays Along The Way (Book Two) include many of the writings on Susan James various websites and other book publications as she has expanded her own use of the Law of Growth, The Law of Opulence as applied to higher expansion and the upward spiral of consciousness. This higher expansion has led to ease, abundance and more in her life and lifestyle. May All who move their eyes along these pages be assisted in their own way for all they choose to have, be and desire fulfilled. Essay Listing Book Two -Net Income & Livelihood / Using of ‘The Swords’ Statement -Method Chickens Banging On The Golden Goose Success Door -If Tomato’s Had Imagination, We’d Be Trouble! -The Storage Unit Story: Proof of ‘This Stuff’ Works ! -Knowing When It’s Time to Up Your Intention Game -Dissolving The Loop of Limitation featuring The Loop Tool a Castles & Buttons Excerpt -Free Cell Your Way to Success and Understanding! -A Method of Operation: Expectancy Always Wins! -What to Do if This or That Happens. Another Method of Operation. -An Easy Degreaser for Business-Livelihood -26 Letters Make The Fortune, The Health, The Wealth, Depending On How We Use Them -When We Know What We Want And Don’t Want Anything Else. What to Do About It. -If Your Stuck on That ‘Feeling’ Thing In Regard to Desire Fulfilment-Try This: -When All The Moving Parts Feel Wrong; When The Thoughts We Are Thinking Aren’t In Line With What We Want, How to Fix It. -Is Everything Ready for When We Get That Thing We Want? -How to Blunder Forward, Up and Out! -The Thing That Happens When We Write It 3x. -Inventing, Success, Castles and Buttons -How To Be Open To Possibilities When We Don’t Know They Are There, Yet. - “Everyone Has Won & All Must Have Prizes!” -What Do Aladdin, Pollyanna and The Ostrich All Have In Common? -Sometimes We Allow Our Sub-Intents to Take Us Off The Path of Our Primary Intent. -The Opposite of Limitation is Boundless Supply. -This Happens If You’re The Only One In a Dark Room w/a Flashlight ! -Are You Maximizing Your Key Words (It Might Not Be What You Think!) -How To Use ‘The Golden Platter’ For Desire Fulfillment.
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book Two) Susan James Susan James' underlying themes revolve around raising our individual illumination, and the effect we have on all of humanity, as well as our individual lives, as we do so. Methods of Manifestation / Essays Along The Way (Book Two) include many of the writings on Susan James various websites and other book publications as she has expanded her own use of the Law of Growth, The Law of Opulence as applied to higher expansion and the upward spiral of consciousness. This higher expansion has led to ease, abundance and more in her life and lifestyle. May All who move their eyes along these pages be assisted in their own way for all they choose to have, be and desire fulfilled. Essay Listing Book Two -Net Income & Livelihood / Using of ‘The Swords’ Statement -Method Chickens Banging On The Golden Goose Success Door -If Tomato’s Had Imagination, We’d Be Trouble! -The Storage Unit Story: Proof of ‘This Stuff’ Works ! -Knowing When It’s Time to Up Your Intention Game -Dissolving The Loop of Limitation featuring The Loop Tool a Castles & Buttons Excerpt -Free Cell Your Way to Success and Understanding! -A Method of Operation: Expectancy Always Wins! -What to Do if This or That Happens. Another Method of Operation. -An Easy Degreaser for Business-Livelihood -26 Letters Make The Fortune, The Health, The Wealth, Depending On How We Use Them -When We Know What We Want And Don’t Want Anything Else. What to Do About It. -If Your Stuck on That ‘Feeling’ Thing In Regard to Desire Fulfilment-Try This: -When All The Moving Parts Feel Wrong; When The Thoughts We Are Thinking Aren’t In Line With What We Want, How to Fix It. -Is Everything Ready for When We Get That Thing We Want? -How to Blunder Forward, Up and Out! -The Thing That Happens When We Write It 3x. -Inventing, Success, Castles and Buttons -How To Be Open To Possibilities When We Don’t Know They Are There, Yet. - “Everyone Has Won & All Must Have Prizes!” -What Do Aladdin, Pollyanna and The Ostrich All Have In Common? -Sometimes We Allow Our Sub-Intents to Take Us Off The Path of Our Primary Intent. -The Opposite of Limitation is Boundless Supply. -This Happens If You’re The Only One In a Dark Room w/a Flashlight ! -Are You Maximizing Your Key Words (It Might Not Be What You Think!) -How To Use ‘The Golden Platter’ For Desire Fulfillment.
Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book Three) Susan James
Author: Susan James
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book Three) Susan James Susan James' underlying themes revolve around raising our individual illumination, and the effect we have on all of humanity, as well as our individual lives, as we do so. Methods of Manifestation / Essays Along The Way (Book Three) include many of the writings on Susan James various websites and other book publications as she has expanded her own use of the Law of Growth, The Law of Opulence as applied to higher expansion and the upward spiral of consciousness. This higher expansion has led to ease, abundance and more in her life and lifestyle. May All who move their eyes along these pages be assisted in their own way for all they choose to have, be and desire fulfilled. Essay Listing Book Three -How to Trust That You Won't See The Moves Ahead of Time -How Do We Begin Having Our Castles And Not Settling for The Buttons? -2 Easy Ways ToExpand, Open Your Mind for MORE ! -From Mental Images to Material Form -Intention vs Decision: The Slight Difference Makes a Big Difference -Desire Drives Fulfillment With The Help of Words -Expanding Information Overload to A Better Place -How to Fix The Conflict Between What We Choose and What We Actually Experience -The Job of Our Projects Is To Keep Us In The Enjoyment Phase and Vibration. Why - How? -New Money Notions for More Money! -MORE on....Let The Words Do The Work -This Happens When We Pretend to Have Celebrity Friends -Wishing Is More Than Enough for Desire -People Are Great and The Dice Are Loaded In Our Favor! -How Graham Crackers Helped Me With Desire -‘Take a Letter Maria, Gotta Start a New Life' (Letting The Words Do The Work This Happens) -Using The Invisible Space for a Little Bit More -Finding That Play Place Opens Our Doors, -The Non-Conformist Self and The Law of Opulence -Remember Those Gets, You Got ? -Understanding The Law of Opulence Changes Our POV -When We Want The Details of How Our Desires Will Be Fulfilled -The Easiest and Best Way to Do It Your Way -Opulence is Limitless -Desire Fulfillment-Automatic Mechanism -How I Applied Higher Themes to My Life -The Non-Conformist Self and The Law of Opulence
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Methods of Manifestation Essays Along The Way (Book Three) Susan James Susan James' underlying themes revolve around raising our individual illumination, and the effect we have on all of humanity, as well as our individual lives, as we do so. Methods of Manifestation / Essays Along The Way (Book Three) include many of the writings on Susan James various websites and other book publications as she has expanded her own use of the Law of Growth, The Law of Opulence as applied to higher expansion and the upward spiral of consciousness. This higher expansion has led to ease, abundance and more in her life and lifestyle. May All who move their eyes along these pages be assisted in their own way for all they choose to have, be and desire fulfilled. Essay Listing Book Three -How to Trust That You Won't See The Moves Ahead of Time -How Do We Begin Having Our Castles And Not Settling for The Buttons? -2 Easy Ways ToExpand, Open Your Mind for MORE ! -From Mental Images to Material Form -Intention vs Decision: The Slight Difference Makes a Big Difference -Desire Drives Fulfillment With The Help of Words -Expanding Information Overload to A Better Place -How to Fix The Conflict Between What We Choose and What We Actually Experience -The Job of Our Projects Is To Keep Us In The Enjoyment Phase and Vibration. Why - How? -New Money Notions for More Money! -MORE on....Let The Words Do The Work -This Happens When We Pretend to Have Celebrity Friends -Wishing Is More Than Enough for Desire -People Are Great and The Dice Are Loaded In Our Favor! -How Graham Crackers Helped Me With Desire -‘Take a Letter Maria, Gotta Start a New Life' (Letting The Words Do The Work This Happens) -Using The Invisible Space for a Little Bit More -Finding That Play Place Opens Our Doors, -The Non-Conformist Self and The Law of Opulence -Remember Those Gets, You Got ? -Understanding The Law of Opulence Changes Our POV -When We Want The Details of How Our Desires Will Be Fulfilled -The Easiest and Best Way to Do It Your Way -Opulence is Limitless -Desire Fulfillment-Automatic Mechanism -How I Applied Higher Themes to My Life -The Non-Conformist Self and The Law of Opulence
Castles & Buttons-(Book One) How to Have Everything by Doing Nothing (Susan James)
Author: Susan James
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Castles & Buttons-(Book One) How to Have Everything by Doing Nothing (Susan James) Advanced Higher Mechanics Castles & Buttons (Book One) How to Have Everything by Doing Nothing Advanced Higher Mechanics Castles-Buttons The Same, But How? One of the first phrases I latched onto in my beginning study of higher things, was the phrase mentioned in Abraham-Hicks material, ‘Castles and Buttons are the same.’ My first thought was, ‘how can that be?’ And since I have an investigative nature, I set out to find out, just how, Castles and Buttons are the same. For those new to the study of metaphysics, and things of a higher nature, the phrase ‘Castles and Buttons are the same’, implies, that it is just as easy to create a Castle as it is a button. It’s as easy to create a wonderful expansive lifestyle, as it is to live in the ruins of one. Again, I asked.. ‘How in the world can that be? And if it is true, how can it be easy?’ The entire Castle’s series is about my belief in ‘the Promises’ and my getting there. I want you to know, I’ve been where you are, and I’ll give you examples of how I’ve expanded beyond it. I’ll give you things to try, which worked for me. Things which helped me find out for myself, that yes, indeed, Castles and Buttons are the same. And...We can have what we want without all of the doing, and without ‘goofin’ it up first, as was the sub-title of one of my first books, and Editors Choice winner, Manifesting 101 & Beyond. Castle’s is based on The Ideal. The Law. And this law says, that only the best of the best is the only thing that we should be choosing. The Best. The Best of The Best. Castle’s is about not settling for less than what we really want. And most importantly, forget about anything other than Plan A. There is no Plan B, once we understand what we have in our hands. We’ll use examples that are of your life. And I know they are of your life, as I’ve lived it. I’ve had the broken cars, broken finances, broken relationships, but my understanding of what I had hold of, as long as I would practice and apply it, would move all of my mountains and moved me smack dab in the middle of my castles. It brought new and better in everything. Things showed up without struggle and strife and concern. Then it became automatic. Automatic, as in when it turns dusk the lights on the light pole automatically come on. Automatic as in breathing and walking without having to think about it first. Automatic as coin in the drink machine, drink plops out. Automatic as when we play the card game ‘Free Cell’, we make one move and many others automatically are moved for us. Automatic is becoming The Genie. Some of the themes covered in Castles & Buttons-Book One: • Bricks Without Straw: Unlimitedness-Doing The Impossible, Easily • How Do We Begin Having Our Castles and Not Settling For The Buttons? • Profusion Abundance (The Opposite of The Other Shoe Dropping) • The Opposite of Limited is Not Un-Limited • When The Ton of Bricks Becomes An Avalanche (And What To Do About It) • A Done Deal Example From My Beginning Days of Understanding • How Long Do I Use The Swords, and How Long Before We See Results? • The Golden Parachute vs The Golden Wheelbarrow • Quantum Manifesting Accelerated: Sword Statements • The Learning Curve of Not Having To Do Anything Manifestation • A Shortcut to Easy and Automatic Enjoy the entire Castle’s and Buttons Series and you too may then understand how creating Castles or Buttons is the same and everything you want is already there for you!
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Castles & Buttons-(Book One) How to Have Everything by Doing Nothing (Susan James) Advanced Higher Mechanics Castles & Buttons (Book One) How to Have Everything by Doing Nothing Advanced Higher Mechanics Castles-Buttons The Same, But How? One of the first phrases I latched onto in my beginning study of higher things, was the phrase mentioned in Abraham-Hicks material, ‘Castles and Buttons are the same.’ My first thought was, ‘how can that be?’ And since I have an investigative nature, I set out to find out, just how, Castles and Buttons are the same. For those new to the study of metaphysics, and things of a higher nature, the phrase ‘Castles and Buttons are the same’, implies, that it is just as easy to create a Castle as it is a button. It’s as easy to create a wonderful expansive lifestyle, as it is to live in the ruins of one. Again, I asked.. ‘How in the world can that be? And if it is true, how can it be easy?’ The entire Castle’s series is about my belief in ‘the Promises’ and my getting there. I want you to know, I’ve been where you are, and I’ll give you examples of how I’ve expanded beyond it. I’ll give you things to try, which worked for me. Things which helped me find out for myself, that yes, indeed, Castles and Buttons are the same. And...We can have what we want without all of the doing, and without ‘goofin’ it up first, as was the sub-title of one of my first books, and Editors Choice winner, Manifesting 101 & Beyond. Castle’s is based on The Ideal. The Law. And this law says, that only the best of the best is the only thing that we should be choosing. The Best. The Best of The Best. Castle’s is about not settling for less than what we really want. And most importantly, forget about anything other than Plan A. There is no Plan B, once we understand what we have in our hands. We’ll use examples that are of your life. And I know they are of your life, as I’ve lived it. I’ve had the broken cars, broken finances, broken relationships, but my understanding of what I had hold of, as long as I would practice and apply it, would move all of my mountains and moved me smack dab in the middle of my castles. It brought new and better in everything. Things showed up without struggle and strife and concern. Then it became automatic. Automatic, as in when it turns dusk the lights on the light pole automatically come on. Automatic as in breathing and walking without having to think about it first. Automatic as coin in the drink machine, drink plops out. Automatic as when we play the card game ‘Free Cell’, we make one move and many others automatically are moved for us. Automatic is becoming The Genie. Some of the themes covered in Castles & Buttons-Book One: • Bricks Without Straw: Unlimitedness-Doing The Impossible, Easily • How Do We Begin Having Our Castles and Not Settling For The Buttons? • Profusion Abundance (The Opposite of The Other Shoe Dropping) • The Opposite of Limited is Not Un-Limited • When The Ton of Bricks Becomes An Avalanche (And What To Do About It) • A Done Deal Example From My Beginning Days of Understanding • How Long Do I Use The Swords, and How Long Before We See Results? • The Golden Parachute vs The Golden Wheelbarrow • Quantum Manifesting Accelerated: Sword Statements • The Learning Curve of Not Having To Do Anything Manifestation • A Shortcut to Easy and Automatic Enjoy the entire Castle’s and Buttons Series and you too may then understand how creating Castles or Buttons is the same and everything you want is already there for you!
Manifesting 102 & Beyond
Author: Susan James
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Manifesting 102 & Beyond (The Design Continues) (by Susan James) Based upon the continuing theme of Susan James writings: The use and application of User Friendly Physics to the design of our lives, lifestyles and businesses. More of Getting What You Want w/o Goofin’ It Up First! Includes Games Susan Used in Moving From Old Work Energy To New Livelihood Energy. Author/Consultant, Susan James continues her User Friendly Physics theme in the second manifesting series; Manifesting 102 & Beyond/The Design Continues. We begin to understand: How to manifest our desires with the things we can’t see with our physical eyes. We begin to see: The difference between Kissing and the Kiss, and what it has to do with manifestation. James says, "We have shut ourselves from the tools of the gods, when it is the fabric of momentum." She answers the question: How do we do all of this while avoiding being whacked off our ladder to success? In addition to the manifesting essays and tools, two games never before released are included: The Money Flow Game and The Game of Intrinsic Value. Susan James Books, a Division of Vast Five features books for personal development, stirred but not shaken, using James’ User Friendly Physics and Susan James Methods of Manifestation. Author of 8 plus books, including The Barkle Series and winner of an Editor's Choice Award . Susan writes and consults on personal development themes, 'stirred but not shaken'. Most of Susan's books are also available in Paperback as well as Kindle and may be found on Amazon and ordered through retail bookstores. Castle's Advanced Newsletter is available by paid subscription. Reviews on Susan's writing may be found on her primary websites and blogs, found through SusanJames.org and VastFive.com and SusanJamesBooks.com
Publisher: Susan James / Vast Five
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Manifesting 102 & Beyond (The Design Continues) (by Susan James) Based upon the continuing theme of Susan James writings: The use and application of User Friendly Physics to the design of our lives, lifestyles and businesses. More of Getting What You Want w/o Goofin’ It Up First! Includes Games Susan Used in Moving From Old Work Energy To New Livelihood Energy. Author/Consultant, Susan James continues her User Friendly Physics theme in the second manifesting series; Manifesting 102 & Beyond/The Design Continues. We begin to understand: How to manifest our desires with the things we can’t see with our physical eyes. We begin to see: The difference between Kissing and the Kiss, and what it has to do with manifestation. James says, "We have shut ourselves from the tools of the gods, when it is the fabric of momentum." She answers the question: How do we do all of this while avoiding being whacked off our ladder to success? In addition to the manifesting essays and tools, two games never before released are included: The Money Flow Game and The Game of Intrinsic Value. Susan James Books, a Division of Vast Five features books for personal development, stirred but not shaken, using James’ User Friendly Physics and Susan James Methods of Manifestation. Author of 8 plus books, including The Barkle Series and winner of an Editor's Choice Award . Susan writes and consults on personal development themes, 'stirred but not shaken'. Most of Susan's books are also available in Paperback as well as Kindle and may be found on Amazon and ordered through retail bookstores. Castle's Advanced Newsletter is available by paid subscription. Reviews on Susan's writing may be found on her primary websites and blogs, found through SusanJames.org and VastFive.com and SusanJamesBooks.com
Passion and Action
Author: Susan James
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019151912X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Passion and Action explores the place of the emotions in seventeenth-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action. Interest in the passions pervaded all areas of philosophical enquiry, and was central to the theories of many major figures, including Hobbes, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Pascal, and Locke. Yet little attention has been paid to this topic in studies of early modern thought. Susan James surveys the inheritance of ancient and medieval doctrines about the passions, then shows how these were incorporated into new philosophical theories in the course of the seventeenth century. She examines the relation of the emotions to will, knowledge, understanding, desire, and power, offering fresh analyses and interpretations of a broad range of texts by little-known writers as well as canonical figures, and establishing that a full understanding of these authors must take account of their discussions of our affective life. Passion and Action also addresses current debates, particularly those within feminist philosophy, about the embodied character of thinking and the relation between emotion and knowledge. This ground-breaking study throws new light upon the shaping of our ideas about the mind, and provides a historical context for burgeoning contemporary investigations of the emotions.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019151912X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Passion and Action explores the place of the emotions in seventeenth-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action. Interest in the passions pervaded all areas of philosophical enquiry, and was central to the theories of many major figures, including Hobbes, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Pascal, and Locke. Yet little attention has been paid to this topic in studies of early modern thought. Susan James surveys the inheritance of ancient and medieval doctrines about the passions, then shows how these were incorporated into new philosophical theories in the course of the seventeenth century. She examines the relation of the emotions to will, knowledge, understanding, desire, and power, offering fresh analyses and interpretations of a broad range of texts by little-known writers as well as canonical figures, and establishing that a full understanding of these authors must take account of their discussions of our affective life. Passion and Action also addresses current debates, particularly those within feminist philosophy, about the embodied character of thinking and the relation between emotion and knowledge. This ground-breaking study throws new light upon the shaping of our ideas about the mind, and provides a historical context for burgeoning contemporary investigations of the emotions.
Make It Scream, Make It Burn
Author: Leslie Jamison
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316259667
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book. With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth. Often compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, and widely considered one of the defining voices of her generation, Jamison interrogates her own life with the same nuance and rigor she brings to her subjects. The result is a provocative reminder of the joy and sustenance that can be found in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay One of the fall's most anticipated books: Time, Entertainment Weekly, O, Oprah Magazine, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Esquire, Seattle Times, Baltimore Sun, BuzzFeed, BookPage, The Millions, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Lit Hub, Women's Day, AV Club, Nylon, Bustle, Goop, Goodreads, Book Riot, Yahoo! Lifestyle, Pacific Standard, The Week, and Romper.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316259667
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly), "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic), and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes a return to the essay form in this expansive book. With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth. Often compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, and widely considered one of the defining voices of her generation, Jamison interrogates her own life with the same nuance and rigor she brings to her subjects. The result is a provocative reminder of the joy and sustenance that can be found in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay One of the fall's most anticipated books: Time, Entertainment Weekly, O, Oprah Magazine, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Esquire, Seattle Times, Baltimore Sun, BuzzFeed, BookPage, The Millions, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Lit Hub, Women's Day, AV Club, Nylon, Bustle, Goop, Goodreads, Book Riot, Yahoo! Lifestyle, Pacific Standard, The Week, and Romper.
The Virtues of Poetry
Author: James Longenbach
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe) "This book proposes some of the virtues to which the next poem might aspire: boldness, change, compression, dilation, doubt, excess, inevitability, intimacy, otherness, particularity, restraint, shyness, surprise, and worldliness. The word ‘virtue' came to English from Latin, via Old French, and while it has acquired a moral valence, the word in its earliest uses gestured toward a magical or transcendental power, a power that might be embodied by any particular substance or act. With vices I am not concerned. Unlike the short-term history of taste, which is fueled by reprimand or correction, the history of art moves from achievement to achievement. Contemporary embodiments of poetry's virtues abound, and only our devotion to a long history of excellence allows us to recognize them." –from James Longenbach's preface The Virtues of Poetry is a resplendent and ultimately moving work of twelve interconnected essays, each of which describes the way in which a particular excellence is enacted in poetry. Longenbach closely reads poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Bishop, and Ashbery (among others), sometimes exploring the ways in which these writers transmuted the material of their lives into art, and always emphasizing that the notions of excellence we derive from art are fluid, never fixed. Provocative, funny, and astute, The Virtues of Poetry is indispensable for readers, teachers, and writers. Longenbach reminds us that poetry delivers meaning in exacting ways, and that it is through its precision that we experience this art's lasting virtues.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe) "This book proposes some of the virtues to which the next poem might aspire: boldness, change, compression, dilation, doubt, excess, inevitability, intimacy, otherness, particularity, restraint, shyness, surprise, and worldliness. The word ‘virtue' came to English from Latin, via Old French, and while it has acquired a moral valence, the word in its earliest uses gestured toward a magical or transcendental power, a power that might be embodied by any particular substance or act. With vices I am not concerned. Unlike the short-term history of taste, which is fueled by reprimand or correction, the history of art moves from achievement to achievement. Contemporary embodiments of poetry's virtues abound, and only our devotion to a long history of excellence allows us to recognize them." –from James Longenbach's preface The Virtues of Poetry is a resplendent and ultimately moving work of twelve interconnected essays, each of which describes the way in which a particular excellence is enacted in poetry. Longenbach closely reads poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Bishop, and Ashbery (among others), sometimes exploring the ways in which these writers transmuted the material of their lives into art, and always emphasizing that the notions of excellence we derive from art are fluid, never fixed. Provocative, funny, and astute, The Virtues of Poetry is indispensable for readers, teachers, and writers. Longenbach reminds us that poetry delivers meaning in exacting ways, and that it is through its precision that we experience this art's lasting virtues.
Nothing Good Can Come from This
Author: Kristi Coulter
Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374717087
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"Kristi Coulter charts the raw, unvarnished, and quietly riveting terrain of new sobriety with wit and warmth. Nothing Good Can Come from This is a book about generative discomfort, surprising sources of beauty, and the odd, often hilarious, business of being human." —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking. Nothing Good Can Come from This is her debut--a frank, funny, and feminist essay collection by a keen-eyed observer no longer numbed into complacency. When Kristi stopped drinking, she started noticing things. Like when you give up a debilitating habit, it leaves a space, one that can’t easily be filled by mocktails or ice cream or sex or crafting. And when you cancel Rosé Season for yourself, you’re left with just Summer, and that’s when you notice that the women around you are tanked—that alcohol is the oil in the motors that keeps them purring when they could be making other kinds of noise. In her sharp, incisive debut essay collection, Coulter reveals a portrait of a life in transition. By turns hilarious and heartrending, Nothing Good Can Come from This introduces a fierce new voice to fans of Sloane Crosley, David Sedaris, and Cheryl Strayed—perfect for anyone who has ever stood in the middle of a so-called perfect life and looked for an escape hatch.
Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374717087
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"Kristi Coulter charts the raw, unvarnished, and quietly riveting terrain of new sobriety with wit and warmth. Nothing Good Can Come from This is a book about generative discomfort, surprising sources of beauty, and the odd, often hilarious, business of being human." —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking. Nothing Good Can Come from This is her debut--a frank, funny, and feminist essay collection by a keen-eyed observer no longer numbed into complacency. When Kristi stopped drinking, she started noticing things. Like when you give up a debilitating habit, it leaves a space, one that can’t easily be filled by mocktails or ice cream or sex or crafting. And when you cancel Rosé Season for yourself, you’re left with just Summer, and that’s when you notice that the women around you are tanked—that alcohol is the oil in the motors that keeps them purring when they could be making other kinds of noise. In her sharp, incisive debut essay collection, Coulter reveals a portrait of a life in transition. By turns hilarious and heartrending, Nothing Good Can Come from This introduces a fierce new voice to fans of Sloane Crosley, David Sedaris, and Cheryl Strayed—perfect for anyone who has ever stood in the middle of a so-called perfect life and looked for an escape hatch.