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Prayer can be so much more than a simple conversation. It can be a wordless connection with God, a step beyond the boundary of the separated self. It can be a way to listen to the silence.And it can be learned.We can learn how to pray in ways we never thought possible. It doesn't take more effort; it takes more understanding.

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This book embarks on scholarly investigations of mystical phenomena, including shamanism, near-death experiences, and the paranormal. Contributors address queries such as why religious experiences are ineffable, what the explanatory mechanisms of altered states of consciousness are, and how literature and art express the mystical.

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This book examines two religious leadersBonaventure, a medieval Franciscan theologian, and Chinul, a medieval Korean Zen masterand their efforts to integrate the intellectual and spiritual life. It also explores associated tensions between positive and negative modes of discourse on the divine and between immanence and transcendence.

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Nearly two hundred years since Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav's demise, his philosophical writings and literary creation remain lively and provocative materials in both Jewish culture and the New-Age movement. This work offers a systematic description of the mystical doctrine of one of the most influential thinkers in Jewish mysticism.

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Nearly two hundred years since Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav's demise, his philosophical writings and literary creation remain lively and provocative materials in both Jewish culture and the New-Age movement. This work offers a systematic description of the mystical doctrine of one of the most influential thinkers in Jewish mysticism.

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Mysticism is one of the most enduring and fascinating aspects of religious life, and one of the most difficult to unpick. This book enables readers to understand the nature of mysticism, and examines in detail the traditional methods used by mystics in seeking an intimate understanding of the spiritual world.

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A guide to mysticism: one of the most enduring and fascinating aspects of religious life, and one of the most difficult to unpick. It enables readers to understand the nature of mysticism, and to examine in detail the traditional methods used by mystics in seeking an intimate understanding of the spiritual world.

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The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This book argues that only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought. What is narrated in the Bible is only myth.

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The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This book argues that only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought. What is narrated in the Bible is only myth.

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Presents a study of mythology based on the analysis of nonlinear form, the self's confrontation with its world, and the nature of mythic truth. Drawing on texts world-wide and on many theorists, including Cassirer, Eliade, Jung, Levi-Strauss, and Buber, the book develops a complex view of the relation between consciousness and culture.

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An overview of the pre-Christian religions of Scandinavia.

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The Cosmographia of Bernard Silvester was the most important literary myth written between Lucretius and Dante. One of the most widely read books of its time, it was known to authors whose interests were as diverse as those of Vincent of Beauvais, Dante, and Chaucer. Bernard offers one of the most profound versions of a familiar theme in medieval l

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Myth is a complex but vital component of an understanding of religion, and issues surrounding the modern discipline of mythology are often fraught with difficulty. This book covers the major theories concerning the meaning and interpretation of myth, from structuralist to psychoanalystic.

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Myth is a complex but vital component of an understanding of religion, and issues surrounding the modern discipline of mythology are often fraught with difficulty. This book presents an introduction to the major theories concerning the meaning and interpretation of myth, from structuralist to psychoanalystic.

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Features three crucial themes in German idealism: mythology, madness and laughter. This book shows how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity, subjectivity, truth, habit and freedom.

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The driving force behind modern thought is the new potential for equality, which intensifies the violence and volatility in human relations, catalyzing the modern world.

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As the Vikings began to migrate overseas as raiders or settlers in the late eighth century, there is evidence that this new way of life, centred on warfare, commerce and exploration, brought with it a warrior ethos that gradually became codified in the Viking myths. This book leads the reader into the lost world of the Norse gods.