Author: Lesley BlanchPublisher:
ISBN: 9780445085817
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Journey Into the Mind's Eye
Author: Lesley BlanchPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond. “My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category,” Lesley Blanch wrote about Journey into the Mind’s Eye, a book that remains as singularly adventurous and intoxicating now as when it first came out in 1968. Russia seized Lesley Blanch when she was still a child. A mysterious traveler—swathed in Siberian furs, bearing Fabergé eggs and icons as gifts along with Russian fairy tales and fairy tales of Russia—came to visit her parents and left her starry-eyed. Years later the same man returned to sweep her off her feet. Her love affair with the Traveller, as she calls him, transformed her life and fueled an abiding fascination with Russia and Russian culture, one that would lead her to dingy apartments reeking of cabbage soup and piroshki on the outskirts of Paris in the 1960s, and to Siberia and beyond.
Author: Lesley BlanchA Smile in His Mind's Eye
Author: Ray MorrisonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802089399
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Durrell's best-known work fused Western notions of time and space with Eastern metaphysics. Very little has been written about Durrell's work before the Second World War. With A Smile in His Mind's Eye, Ray Morrison seeks to redress this neglect.
In the Mind's Eye
Author: Elizabeth Caroline DoddPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803215665
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The author of Archetypal Light explores the natural and human history of sites in the American Southwest, the caves of southern France, the Kansas grasslands, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest, in a collection of exquisite essays.
Journey Into Power
Author: Baron BaptistePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668002108
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A guide to physical, mental, and spiritual transformation explains how to rewire thinking, cleanse diet habits, meditate for truthful living, and do ten-minute tune-ups that boost energy and alleviate stress.
Healing with the Mind's Eye
Author: Michael Samuels, M.D.Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 047025632X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
"Dr. Michael Samuels provides us with new tools and ways of thinking about our capacity to heal. He has been a wonderful teacher for me and can be for you. . . . His work is inspiring." -Bernie Siegel, M.D. "Dr. Michael Samuels is one of the leading pioneers in exploring creativity as an important part of every person's healing journey." -Dean Ornish, M.D. "I was very moved by this powerful book." -Christiane Northrup, M.D., on Spirit Body Healing This remarkable book, now in paperback for the first time, can help you tap your own inner strength to enhance healing. For nearly three decades, Dr. Michael Samuels has pioneered the use of guided imagery as a way to help people boost their immune systems-and feel stronger and more in control of their lives. In Healing with the Mind's Eye, now revised and updated, Dr. Samuels offers you the same program of guided imagery exercises that he's used successfully in patient workshops across the country. You'll discover how to harness a variety of creative visionary techniques-reverie states, personal myths, helping figures, inner light, healing visions, healing imagery, and spiritual transformations-drawn from traditions around the world. As you progress through the exercises in the book, you'll open yourself to healing and change-and embark on your own journey toward wellness.
The Mind's Eye
Author: Alan KrohnPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465323813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Set during the short, dark days of a Michigan winter, The Mind's Eye takes the reader into the psychoanalytic consulting room and into the mind of Ivan Weiss, a gifted but troubled, psychoanalyst. Weiss' life is disintegrating. His daughter was recently raped, the clinic he directs is facing a sexual harassment charge, and paranoid worries about his wife's fidelity, which had plagued him in the past, are resurfacing. When his wife disappears, leaving an enigmatic note, and his daughter goes missing, his world totally flies apart. The story ranges from the quiet of the analytic consulting room in Ann Arbor to the south of France to a police chase in the devastated areas of downtown Detroit. It is about the present and secrets from the past.
Visions in My Mind’S Eye
Author: Irmagard Anchang LangmiaPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462036414
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Visions in My Minds Eye presents a collection of poems in which poet Irmagard Anchang Langmia conjures the lives of othersacademic, religious, secular, or otherwisefrom her imaginative mind. This collection represents a multitude of cultural experiences rooted in everyday, routine life at home in her native Cameroon and abroad. The poems in the first part of Visions in My Minds Eye are all academic in nature, each dedicated to students she has taught at Bowie State University. These poems illuminate varying themes and subjects ranging from the notion of knowledge to responsibility. In the second part of the collection, the poems are religious. While a number of them are written in memory of Irmagards late father Dr. Ngongwikuo, she also explores visual images of her life in Cameroon in a startling, meditative, and dreamlike state of mind. In the third part of the collection, she has written love poems drawn mostly from her imaginary world of romantic bliss. The fourth section of the collection includes secular poems covering a variety of themes based on the daily rhythm of our lives. The fifth and final part of Visions in My Minds Eye takes a critical look at basic human nature, morality, and the human condition during times of political upheaval. Visions in My Minds Eye portrays vivid images that capture the imagination and unravel an intriguing world that leaves the mind soul-searching for answers.
Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation
Author: Elizabeth C. TinglePublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 150151413X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Sacred Journeys in the Counter-Reformation examines long-distance pilgrimages to ancient, international shrines in northwestern Europe in the two centuries after Luther. In this region in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, saints’ cults and pilgrimage were frequently contested, more so than in the Mediterranean world. France, the Low Countries and the British Isles were places of disputation and hostility between Protestant and Catholic; sacred landscapes and journeys came under attack and in some regions, were outlawed by the state. Taking as case studies hugely popular medieval shrines such as Compostela, the Mont Saint-Michel and Lough Derg, the impact of Protestant criticism and Catholic revival on shrines, pilgrims’ motives and experiences is examined through life writings, devotional works and institutional records. The central focus is that of agency in religious change: what drove spiritual reform and what were its consequences for the ‘ordinary’ Catholic? This is explored through concepts of the religious self, holy materiality, and sacred space.
