Why Mrs Blake Cried - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Mrs Blake Cried write by Marsha Keith Schuchard. This book was released on 2006. Why Mrs Blake Cried available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work offers a new insight into the work of William Blake. The discovery of Blake family documents led to a radical cast of characters including Cagliostro, Zinzendorf and Swedenborg, and to a world of waking visions, magical practices, sexual-spiritual experimentation, tantric sex and free love.
William Blake's Sexual Path to Spiritual Vision
William Blake's Sexual Path to Spiritual Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William Blake's Sexual Path to Spiritual Vision write by Marsha Keith Schuchard. This book was released on 2008-04-29. William Blake's Sexual Path to Spiritual Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The secret and mystical sexual practices at the heart of William Blake’s creative and spiritual life • Reveals newly discovered family documents connecting Blake’s mother and Blake himself to Moravian and Swedenborgian erotic and visionary experimentation • Shows Blake had access to kabbalistic and tantric techniques of psychoerotic meditation, which used sexual arousal to achieve spiritual vision William Blake (1757-1827) has long been treasured as an artist and poet whose work was born out of authentic spiritual vision. The acutely personal, almost otherworldly look of his artwork, combined with its archetypal casting and depth of emotion, transcend societal conventions and ordinary experience. But much of the overtly sexual work has been destroyed or altered, deemed too heretical by conservative elements among the mystic Moravians and Swedenborgians, whose influence on Blake has been uncovered only recently. The author’s investigation into the radical psychosexual spiritual practices surrounding William Blake, which includes new archival discoveries of Blake family documents, reveals that Moravian and Swedenborgian erotic and visionary experimentation fueled much of Blake’s creative and spiritual life. Drawing also upon modern art restoration techniques, Marsha Keith Schuchard shows that Blake and his wife, Catherine, were influenced by secret kabbalistic and tantric rituals designed to transcend the bonds of social convention. Her exhaustive research provides a new context for understanding the mystical practices at the heart of Blake’s most radical beliefs about sexualized spirituality and its relation to visionary art.
The Postmistress
The Postmistress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postmistress write by Sarah Blake. This book was released on 2010-02-09. The Postmistress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experience World War 2 through the eyes of two very different women in this captivating New York Times bestseller by the author of The Guest Book. “A beautifully written, thought-provoking novel.”—Kathryn Stockett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Help In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople than she will ever say, and believes her job is to deliver secrets. Yet one day she does the unthinkable: slips a letter into her pocket, reads it, and doesn't deliver it. Meanwhile, Frankie Bard broadcasts from overseas with Edward R. Murrow. Her dispatches beg listeners to pay heed as the Nazis bomb London nightly. Most of the townspeople of Franklin think the war can't touch them. But both Iris and Frankie know better... The Postmistress is a tale of two worlds-one shattered by violence, the other willfully naïve—and of two women whose job is to deliver the news, yet who find themselves unable to do so. Through their eyes, and the eyes of everyday people caught in history's tide, it examines how stories are told, and how the fact of war is borne even through everyday life.
Witness Against the Beast
Witness Against the Beast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witness Against the Beast write by E. P. Thompson. This book was released on 1994-10-13. Witness Against the Beast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First paperback edition of one of E. P. Thompson's best and most deeply felt works.
Politics and the Occult
Politics and the Occult - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics and the Occult write by Gary Lachman. This book was released on 2012-12-16. Politics and the Occult available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The gritty business of politics is not something we usually associate with the occult. But esoteric beliefs have influenced the destiny of nations since the time of ancient Egypt and China, when decisions of state were based on portents and astrology, to today, when presidents and prime ministers privately consult self-proclaimed seers. Politics and the Occult offers a lively history of this enduring phenomenon. Author and cultural pundit Gary Lachman provocativly questions whether the separation of church and state so dear to modern political philosophy should be maintained. A few of his fascinating topics include the fate of the Knights Templar and the medieval Gnostic Cathars, the occult roots of America and the French Revolution in Freemasonry, Gurdjieff and the swastika, Soviet interest in UFOs, the CIA and LSD, the Age of Aquarius, the millenarian politics that inform the struggle with Islamic terrorism, fundamentalism, and more.
