To Morrow Now Occurs Again

Gover, Robert

Literature & Fiction

Ross-Erikson

The light at the center : context and pretext of modern mysticism Agehananda Bharati

The Light at the Center

Bharati, Agehananda

Religion & Spirituality

The Light at the Center, an investigation of mysticism in the tradition of Butler, Underhill and Zaehner, ventures into a totally new sphere because the author combines two allegedly contradictory qualifications - he is a trained mystic, an initiate into a Hindu monastic order, and also an outstanding social scientist. So far no holy man has been able to analyze the society in which he operates, and no social scientist has been a professional mystic. Bharati first defines mysticism, then proceeds to discuss oriental religious movements in America. He claims that the majority of gurus whose actions and words have diffused into the West since the turn of the century are frauds, but that the mystical experience they refer to is often genuine, although inaccessible to empirical measurement. He then appeals for a rational, disciplined approach to mysticism that would embrace all those willing to approach the tradition by the sweat of their brows, and to do away with media-inspired notions of the initiate and the aspirant.

The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism

Dust jacket notes: "This selection by Kenneth Rexroth of Lafcadio Hearn's essays, sketches, and stories establishes Hearn as the primary influence in the dissemination of Buddhist thought and practice from Japan to the United States. This final bridge completed a centuries-long flow of Buddhist ideas from India to China, Tibet, Korea, Japan, and other parts of Asia, and thence via Hearn to the United States. Modern scholars are now agreed that no writer since Hearn has surpassed his ability to make Buddhism as practiced on a daily basis by the Japanese understood by the average American reader...."

The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio, Hearn

This is a commentary on human violence. Man Into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy is a reprint of the 1948 edition, with a new introduction by Donald Lathrop.Basing his own hypothesis on the writings of Carl Jung, psychologist Robert Eisler suggests a prehistoric answer to the birth of the werwolf. He suggests that primitive man had been vegetarian and peaceful until the Ice Age forced humans to kill to survive. Not only could the necessity of eating meat to not starve to death have resulted in permanent trauma, but wearing hides to not freeze to death could have been buried deep in our psyche as a memory of turning into fur-covered beasts. Eisler suggests the possibility of a pre-historical, evolutionist derivation of all causes of violence. Also offered is his thesis that many contemporary serial killers were a particular breed of psychologically warped individuals who believed that they were werewolves.The book includes Eisler's lecture given to the Royal Society of Medicine. Also included are chapters on: Professor Jung's Archetypes and Neo Lamarckism; the Roman Luperci and the Lupercalia Ritual, Contemporary Parallels; The Flagellation of Women in the Dio Nysian Mysteries; A Clear Case of Vampirism, John George Haigh; Going Beserk; many pages of his notes; and Index and appendices.

Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Robert Eisler

Psychology & Counseling

Howard Warshaw died at age 56 in August of 1977.  He was an extraordinarily articulate and lucid man who had the character and gift to live as he pleased and regret none of it.  His work is in the permanent collections of numerous institutions, among them the Carnegie Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Hirshorn in Washington D.C., the Fogg Museum at Harvard, the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara Museums of Art and the University of Southern California collection.  His paintings have been exhibited in the Corcoran Gallery, the Guggenheim and Whitney museums, the De Young, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County  Museum and the Museums of Modern Art in Paris and Sao Paulo.  The Smithsonian, in its Archives of American Art, has a complete record of his works, publications and awards as well as microfilm of paintings, drawings and notebooks.

Drawings on Drawing: A Graphic Reflexion on the Language of Drawing

Warshaw, Howard

Action & Adventure

The visionary poetics of Allen Ginsberg

Paul Portuges

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism and Lycanthropy

Eisler, Robert

Dialogues on Art [Jan 01, 1980] Roditi, Edouard

Dialogues on Art

Roditi, Édouard

Arts & Photography

The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies

De Mille, Richard

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