Автор: Richards Andrea, Miller Susan Название: Astrology. The Library of Esoterica ISBN: 383657988X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836579889 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 23910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание:
From the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for meaning. The movement of celestial bodies and their relation to our human lives has been the central tenant of astrology for thousands of years. The practice has both inspired reverence and worship, and deepened our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.While modern-day horoscopes may be the most familiar form of astrological knowledge, their lineage reaches back to the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks. As author Andrea Richards recounts in Astrology, the second volume in TASCHEN's Library of Esoterica series, astronomy and astrology were once sister sciences: the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid at Giza was built to align with the constellations, Persia raced with Greece to erect the first observatory, and even Galileo cast horoscopes for the Medicis. But with the Enlightenment and the birth of exact science, the practice moved to places where mystery was still permitted, inspiring literature, art, and psychology, and influenced artists and thinkers such as Goethe, Byron, and Blake. Later movements like the Theosophists and the New Agers, would thrust the practice into the mainstream.
Edited by Jessica Hundley, this vibrant visual history of Western astrology is the first ever compendium of its kind, exploring the symbolic meaning behind more than 500 images, from cave paintings and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary art from across the globe. Artwork by the likes of Leonora Carrington, Alphonse Mucha, and Hilma af Klint are sequenced to mirror the spin of the planets and the wheel of the zodiac, alongside quotations from Kepler, Copernicus, and Campbell. With a foreword by legendary astrologer Susan Miller and excerpts from new interviews with present-day astrologers like Jessica Lanydoo and Pam Younghans, Astrology celebrates the stars and their mysterious influence on our everyday lives.
About the series
Library of Esoterica explores how centuries of artists have given form to mysticism, translating the arcane and the obscure into enduring, visionary works of art. Each subject is showcased through both modern and archival imagery culled from private collectors, libraries, and museums around the globe. The result forms an inclusive visual history, a study of our primal pull to dream and nightmare, and the creative ways we strive to connect to the divine.
Автор: Hundley, J Название: Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica ISBN: 383658560X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836585606 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 23910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: A spellbinding journey through the global history of witchcraft, the third volume in The Library of Esoterica follows this magickal tradition from its ancient roots to its modern incarnations. Through more than 400 artworks, and revelatory essays and interviews with modern practitioners, Witchcraft chronicles a cathartic evolution, from the...
Автор: Hundley, J Название: Plant magick. the library of esoterica ISBN: 3836585642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836585644 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 26570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: The fourth volume in The Library of Esoterica explores the historic roots of plants in myth and magickal practices. Through essays, interviews, and more than 400 images-from ancient Egyptian stonework to Victorian botanical art, to contemporary works celebrating nature - Plant Magick chronicles the symbiotic relationship between plants and people.
Автор: Farley Helen Название: A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism ISBN: 1788314913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788314916 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 35890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages
Название: Cambridge handbook of western mysticism and esotericism ISBN: 0521734916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521734912 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This Handbook brings together articles on two distinct but related subjects: Western mysticism and Western esotericism. Readers will be able to trace, in one volume, connections between mystical and esoteric currents of thought. The essays are accessible to novices, but will be of interest to seasoned scholars as well.
Автор: Farley Helen Название: A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism ISBN: 1848850530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848850538 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 291210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This easy-to-use A2 Student Book contains the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics modules. Both modules are also on the accompanying CD-ROM, together with the other seven Unit 3 modules and guidance on the Unit 4 exam. The CD-ROM also has interactive `Test yourself` questions for all Unit 3 modules, helping students to check their learning at the end of each chapter.
Автор: Ron Geaves Название: Glastonbury and the Making of New Age Spirituality: An Indian Guru and Esotericism in 1971 ISBN: 1350090875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350090873 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 116160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Ron Geaves demonstrates how the convergence of Guru Maharaj Ji and Glastonbury Fayre 1971 reveals an important piece in the jigsaw that forms the bricolage that came to be known as ‘New Age’, or, more neutrally, contemporary spirituality. The book charts the “discovery” of Guru Maharaj Ji in India in 1969 by a small number of British, and then, North American ‘hippies’, and how his arrival in Britain in June 1971 and his speech from the pyramid stage at the Fayre at just 13 years of age, escalated his activities to become one of the key players influencing 1970s counter-culture spirituality. Both Glastonbury and Prem Rawat (Guru Maharaj Ji’s actual given name) have gone on to re-emerge in significantly different identities to the one presented in 1971. The meeting between the two demonstrates how alternative spiritualities were being formed in the 1960s and went on to develop into the ‘New Age’ counter-culture and eventually permeated mainstream cultures in Britain and the USA.
Автор: Aren Roukema Название: Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams ISBN: 9004369031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004369030 Издательство: Brill Цена: 252370.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams situates the life and fiction of the Inkling Charles Williams in the network of modern occultism, with special focus on his initiatory experiences in A.E. Waite’s Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. Aren Roukema evaluates fictional projections of magic, kabbalah, alchemy and ritual experience in Williams’s seven novels of supernatural fantasy. From this specific analysis, he develops more broadly applicable approaches to the serious expression of religious experience in fiction. Roukema shows that esoteric knowledge has frequently been blurred into fiction because of its inherent narrativity and adaptability, particularly by authors already attracted to the syncretism, multivalence and lived fantasy of the modern occult experience.
An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson.
A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality--but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
In High Weirdness, Erik Davis--America's leading scholar of high strangeness--examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America's West Coast at a time of radical technological, political, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality.
