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"I am the divine emptiness from which the first thought appears. Through it all things are revealed. I am the one feeling out of which all feelings are revealed. Do not lose yourself in the apparent variety of manifestation, for I alone am the one great unity, beyond which nothing exists." Who speaks these words? No ‘I’ as we know it. The Swiss author and spiritual teacher Mario Mantese expresses from the source beyond space and time. His aphorisms are glimmering pearls of love, and their radiance guides the soul directly to the Self. "Why are you afraid to recognize your true Self, and to be? Awaken in me, Beloved! I am absolute presence and supreme wisdom. Truly, I am you and you are me."
In Shanghai, the members of a global lodge come together and conduct a secret Taoist ritual. In ancient Egypt, a high ambassador is selected by the Pharaoh for an important political mission. He rushes off to the temple complex at Luxor to confront conspirators amongst the priests but is assassinated. In London, Paul Mongrave enjoys the seemingly quiet life of a private scholar. When he begins to have strong feelings for the daughter of a Russian aristocrat, the peace of his own soul is at stake. What does one scene have to do with the other? Step by step, Mario Mantese links these seemingly separate lives into one narrative which effortlessly encompasses different eras and diverse worlds. Through the reader`s interaction of these unique characters, it becomes very clear how the souls of human beings advance through various stages of incarnation, until they ultimately gaze into the mirror and find their true purpose.The Swiss author and wisdom teacher provides a gripping story written with great spiritual depth and timeless vision.
Dealing with wounds from the past, recalling your childhood memories and unearthing hidden secrets - is that what therapy is about? Not with 'Time Therapy'. Manuel Schoch's empowering approach to therapy focuses on what we truly are: human beings full of potential and promise - living manifestations of love.
Life moves like a rollercoaster, up and down and all around, and we are right in the middle of it. Hopes, expectations, and disappointments are experienced, and once in a while a few moments of happiness come along. But, like everything else, they trickle away. It wasn`t always like that, and it isn`t like that, really. It just seems that way. In Life Never Ends, Mario Mantese counters these assumptions. Based on heartening and emboldening experiences and realizations, this Swiss wisdom-teacher shows here that many things are completely different, completely the opposite. The rollercoaster moves only within the circuit of thoughts. Mario Mantese reminds us that we can get off the ride at any time. The thrills and fears experienced along those tracks are nothing compared to the true beauty of life. He writes with a smile - "Nothing is riskier than daily life".
The essays gathered here recommend the work of Ernest Bloch as a challenge to older models of historical materialism and utopian emancipation and give specific examples of how Bloch's work can contribute to current debates about utopia, nationalism, collective memory, and the complex relationship between ideology and everyday life.
'A New Spirit in Business is not a sober 'scientific treatise, ' but rather an account of a consciousness change through which the new concepts we so badly need come to light. Their book is both informative and autobiographical-and it is a revelation.I can promise that [reading] this book will be an experience that could change the reader's life."-Ervin Laszlo In the world of business and finance, everything revolves around the economy. But what does the economy revolve around? Journalist Martina Köhler and Swiss entrepreneur Hans Jecklin try to answer this question with the insightful A New Spirit in Business. Whereas several books have been written on companies' social responsibility, stakeholder strategy, and corporate ethics, Köhler and Jecklin tackle it from a different perspective-a human one. By elaborating on the essential features of an integral economy and how to deal with abundance in life, Köhler and Jecklin show how the spiritual and economic sides of business complement each other. Using examples from everyday life, dialogues, and exercises, the relationship between money and spirit takes an innovative shape.
Is there a reality behind what we experience day after day through the senses? Is there a life beyond cause and effect? Is there a way of being that encompasses non-being as well? Master Wang lives as a solitary recluse in a hermitage in the forest. One day the Taoist sage receives an unexpected visit from a young woman. A master-disciple relationship develops between them, and a gateway secretly opens to a life of immortality.
This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods, in particular in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past. Contrary to standard theories of modernisation, which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an ess...
In 1903 Otto Weininger, A Viennese Jew who converted to Protestantism, publishedGeschiecht und Charakter(Sex and Character), a book in which he set out to prove the moral inferiority and character deficiency of "the woman" and "the Jew." Almost immediately, he was acclaimed as a young genius for bringing these two elements together. Shortly thereafter, at the age of twenty-three, Weininger committed suicide in the room where Beethoven had died. Weininger's sensationalized death immortalized him as an intellectual who expressed the abject misogyny and antisemitism. This collection of essays, many translated into English for the first time, examines Weininger's influence and reception in Weste...
The position of women in Austrian society, politics, and in the economy follows the familiar trajectory of Western societies. They were expected to accept their "proper place" in a male patriarchal world. Achieving equality in all spheres of life was a long struggle that is still not completed in spite of many advances. The chapters in Women in Austria attest to the growing interest and vibrancy in the area of women's studies in Austria and present a cross-section of new research in this field to an international audience. The volume includes with book reviews on Austrian business history, the Waldheim memoirs, Jews in postwar Austria, and political scandals in twentieth-century Austria. Women in Austria covers a plethora of significant social issues and will be essential to the work of women's studies scholars, sociologists, historians, and Austrian area specialists.