Less than 50, 000 years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism. Then, in a dramatic change, all the skills and qualities appeared already fully formed. This work sets out to investigate this mysterious "before-and-after moment" and to discover the truth about the influences that gave birth to the modern human mind.
Popular music artists are intentionally unoriginal. Remix artists compose a pastiche of the latest hits. These mashup artists stretch the boundaries of creativity by intermingling old sounds and melodies with the newest technologies. This work encourages the invention of theological ideas by creating a mashup of the traditional and the novel.
Presents a compilation of White Eagle's teaching on the subject of the feminine - from the great Divine Mother, through the feminine principle in nature, to the female human being. This book touches on the Virgin Mary, the myth of Isis and Osiris, and the stone monuments of antiquity.
This short book is a lively dialogue between a religious believer and a skeptic. It covers all the main issues including different ideas of God, the good and bad in religion, religious experience and neuroscience, pain and suffering, death and life after death, and includes interesting autobiographical revelations.
Whilst Shakespeare's genius is universally recognized, there is a hidden, secretive side to his work that is little known: the fact that he made use of a mysterious code that figures widely in the esoteric literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. This title explores and reveals what Shakespeare alluded to as 'a Secret booke'.
Advances our understanding of the so-called New Age phenomenon by analysing accounts of insiders' religious experience and orientations. This approach is brought to bear not only on the study of written documents relating to New Age and its putative antecedents, but on the analysis of in-depth interviews with thirty-five spiritual actors.
Discusses essential stories and parables from the world's great wisdom traditions of Zen, Taoism, Christianity, and Judaism. This book presents a collection of stories which have been interpreted and applied to the concerns of modern day life. It includes such topics as the futility of chasing happiness, and the journey from fear to freedom.