Dispel Illusion

Author: Mark Lawrence
Publisher: 47North
ISBN: 9781542094016
Category : Gifted persons
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Sometimes being wrong is the right answer. Nick Hayes's genius is in wringing out the universe's secrets. It's a talent that's allowed him to carve paths through time. But the worst part is that he knows how his story will end. He's seen it with his own eyes. And every year that passes, every breakthrough he makes, brings him a step closer. Mia's accident is waiting for them both in 2011. If it happens then he's out of choices. Then a chance 1992 discovery reveals that this seeker of truth has been lying to himself. But why? It's a question that haunts him for years. A straw he clings to as his long-awaited fate draws near. Time travel turns out not to be the biggest problem Nick has to work on. He needs to find out how he can stay on his path but change the destination. Failure has never been an option, and neither has survival. But Nick's hoping to roll the dice one more time. And this new truth begins with a lie.

Sleight of Mind

Author: Matt Cook
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262542293
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
This “fun, brain-twisting book . . . will make you think” as it explores more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences (Sean Carroll, New York Times–bestselling author of Something Deeply Hidden). Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician’s purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn’t require tangibles, like rabbits or hats. Paradox works in the abstract, with words and concepts and symbols, to create the illusion of contradiction. There are no contradictions in reality, but there can appear to be. In Sleight of Mind, Matt Cook and a few collaborators dive deeply into more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, physics, philosophy, and the social sciences. As each paradox is discussed and resolved, Cook helps readers discover the meaning of knowledge and the proper formation of concepts—and how reason can dispel the illusion of contradiction. The journey begins with “a most ingenious paradox” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. Readers will then travel from Ancient Greece to cutting-edge laboratories, encounter infinity and its different sizes, and discover mathematical impossibilities inherent in elections. They will tackle conundrums in probability, induction, geometry, and game theory; perform “supertasks”; build apparent perpetual motion machines; meet twins living in different millennia; explore the strange quantum world—and much more.

Who Are We?

Author: William Sowder
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546214003
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 606

Book Description
In this book, among other sources, we have compiled key thoughts and material that were dictated to Alice Bailey (starting in the 1920s and continuing through the 1960s) from the Tibetan master Djwhal Khul. As you see in the references, she wrote eighteen books, which were published by Lucis Publishing Company, New York. Djwhal Khul shared this material from another dimension, giving us a new perspective. We highly recommend these books because Djwhal Khul is in a higher vibrational dimension, working and aiding us in an enlightened evolution. What we have added to this book is some of our thoughts about the energies to which Khul refers. We know very little about these energies, and this material presents a challenge to us in our evolutionary sojourn. Each of us must pursue our understanding and knowledge about these energies. This is our goal and our reason for writing this book. Good travels to you.

The Complete Ascension Manual

Author: Joshua David Stone
Publisher: Light Technology Publishing
ISBN: 9780929385556
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
New age / spirituality.

The Great Grimoire Vol. I

Author: Robert Neri
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0997267402
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Mage, wizard, necromancer whatever you call a spellcaster they all require the same thing... spells. Those intricate little bits of game arcana that make such characters worthwhile and certain foes so lethal. This illustrated book contains over 1,000 pregenerated spells compatible with the D&G Core system with every thing from RPG classics to very strange and powerful new original spells. This accessory to the Dice & Glory system can aid any player or Game Master not willing or simply too over-taxed to create their own magic spells using the core rulebook. Requires the Dice & Glory Core Rulebook The Great Grimoire contains: Over 1,000 pregenerated spells and rituals, Several random roll tables including those to create randomly generated magic items! Rules, tables and an extra word on Magic Shops. This invaluable resource is a must have for upstart wizards and Game Masters looking for ideas!

Song of Freedom

Author: Judith Moore
Publisher: Light Technology Publishing
ISBN: 1622335899
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 515

Book Description
Judith Moore knew she had bene brought up by loving parents. Before age 40 she had no memory of childhood trauma, although she knew she had bene sick a lot mor ethan most peoople -- but it wasn't until she joinged an incest survivors' group to help her adopted daughter that the memories began surfacing. In this brave and groundbreaking work, Judith Moore shares her shattering revelations of the reality of HIGH-LEVEL MIND CONTROL. She opens the pages of her journal and the innermost feelings of her heart to share with the reader her JOUNREY TO WHOLENESS and to healing. Her early environment, rich in NATIVE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE, helps her in her quest. With the help of caring prefessionals, she researces, travels, investigates and meditates in an effort to set herself free, to reclaim her very sense of herself a sa person. Her search leads her into terrifying, unknown territory and ILLUMINATING DISCVOERIES about her own psyche and that of today's society as a whole.

The Reappearance of the Christ

Author: Alice Bailey
Publisher: Lucis Publishing Companies
ISBN: 0853304149
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Many religions today expect the coming of an Avatar or Saviour. The second coming of the Christ, as the world Teacher for the age of Aquarius, is presented in this book as an imminent event, a continuity of divine revelation throughout the ages. The Christ belongs to all mankind, and can be known and understood as, the same great Identity in all the world religions.

Perceptual Illusions

Author: C. Calabi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230365299
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions, there is no systematic work in the philosophy of perception and in the psychology of perception with respect to the concept of illusion and the relation between illusion and error. This book aims to fill that gap.

Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets

Author: James Henry Rubin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674548022
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Rubin also examines Manet's relationship to three of the leading critics of his day - Baudelaire, Zola, and Mallarme - giving special attention to Mallarme's appreciation, and eventual use in his own poetry, of the paradox between immersion and externality in Manet's oeuvre. Finally, the book uses the image of the bouquet to exemplify Manet's creative poetics through an exploration of his still life.

Reading Essays

Author: G. Douglas Atkins
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033653X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
Approaches abound to help us beneficially, enjoyably read fiction, poetry, and drama. Here, for the first time, is a book that aims to do the same for the essay. G. Douglas Atkins performs sustained readings of more than twenty-five major essays, explaining how we can appreciate and understand what this currently resurgent literary form reveals about the “art of living.” Atkins’s readings cover a wide spectrum of writers in the English language--and his readings are themselves essays, gracefully written, engaged, and engaging. Atkins starts with the earliest British practitioners of the form, including Francis Bacon, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Transcendentalist writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are included, as are works by Americans James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and E. B. White. Atkins also provides readings of a number of contemporary essayists, among them Annie Dillard, Scott Russell Sanders, and Cynthia Ozick. Many of the readings are of essays that Atkins has used successfully in the classroom, with undergraduate and graduate students, for many years. In his introduction Atkins offers practical advice on the specific demands essays make and the unique opportunities they offer, especially for college courses. The book ends with a note on the writing of essays, furthering the author’s contention that reading should not be separated from writing. Reading Essays continues in the tradition of such definitive texts as Understanding Poetry and Understanding Fiction. Throughout, Atkins reveals the joy, delight, grace, freedom, and wisdom of “the glorious essay.”