The Tibetan Book of the Dead. By Kevin Williams.
Review_book_chan_canasta. Chan Canasta - A Remarkable Man By David Britland Published by Martin Breese Reviewed by Andy Nyman Once in a while a book comes along that, no matter what the cost, simply must be purchased.
This David Britland analysis of Chan Canasta's work is such a publication. Before reviewing the book I must state one fundamental problem I have with the publication. Despite my own moral dilemma I couldn't wait to read this book. 7 4 - Knot Atlas. Amor fati. Amor fati is a Latin phrase loosely translating to "love of fate" or "love of one's fate".
It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good. Moreover, it is characterized by an acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one's life. The phrase has been linked to the writings of Marcus Aurelius, who did not himself use the words (he wrote in Greek, not Latin).[1] The phrase is used repeatedly in Friedrich Nietzsche's writings and is representative of the general outlook on life he articulates in section 276 of The Gay Science, which reads: I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. It is important to note that Nietzsche in this context refers to "Yes-sayer", not in a political or social sense, but to the uncompromising acceptance of reality per se.
See also[edit] References[edit] Demonstrations Project. Double bind. A double bind is an emotionally distressing dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more conflicting messages, in which one message negates the other.
This creates a situation in which a successful response to one message results in a failed response to the other (and vice versa), so that the person will automatically be wrong regardless of response. The double bind occurs when the person cannot confront the inherent dilemma, and therefore can neither resolve it nor opt out of the situation. Double bind theory was first described by Gregory Bateson and his colleagues in the 1950s.[1] Double binds are often utilized as a form of control without open coercion—the use of confusion makes them both difficult to respond to as well as to resist.[2] Double bind theory is more clearly understood in the context of complex systems and cybernetics because human communication and the mind itself function in an interactive manner similar to ecosystems.
History[edit] All editions and performances of Eugene Ionesco's plays. Cioran_Hyp_May_10. The Politics of Experience. The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise is a 1967 book by Scottish psychiatrist R.D.
Laing, comprising two essays. The work was inspired by Laing’s extensive experimentation with LSD.[1] Summary[edit] Laing examines and challenges the idea of normality in modern society, and argues that it is not people who are mad, but the world.[2][3] He presents psychosis as "a psychedelic voyage of discovery in which the boundaries of perception were widened, and consciousness expanded".[1] Influence[edit] The Politics of Experience is Laing's best-known book.[2] References[edit] Cioran - Emil Cioran - Emile Cioran - EM Cioran - E.M. Cioran. E.M. Cioran on Beckett. Mircea Eliade-biography etc. 1 Life Mircea Eliade was born in Bucharest, Romania on 13 March 1907.
Although Romanian records give his date of birth as 28 February, this is according to the Julian calendar, since the Gregorian calendar was not adopted in Romania until 1924. Eliade’s Orthodox Christian family celebrated his birthday on the Day of the Forty Martyrs, which is 9 March by the Julian calendar, and Eliade himself gave that date as his birthday. Despite a childhood interest in entomology and botany (which doubtless first attracted his attention to Goethe, a lifelong role model and inspiration), he developed an interest in world literature and was led from there to philology, philosophy, and comparative religion. As a youth he read extensively in Romanian, French, and German, and around 1924-25 he learned Italian and English to read Raffaele Pettazzoni and James George Frazer in the original. Alfred Korzybski. Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ([kɔˈʐɨpski]; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics.
He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality.