Resultados para "Paradise" en Religión y espiritualidad

Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain - "al-Andalus" - as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: It is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity", Fernández-Morera sets the record straight.

Listen to The Divine Pymander and the Emerald Tablets of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus: Including the Glory of the World, the Table of Paradise. The Science of the Philosophers Stone and the Alchemical Catechism.

Comparing our modern day environment to a "savage paradise", he takes us on a fascinating safari to Kenya's famed Maasai Mara, using wildlife metaphors to describe lessons learned and coping skills that can be applied to our business and personal lives in today's dangerous, fast forward world.

This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Exploring the Amazon Basin in search of mythical shamanic hallucinogens, they encounter a host of unusual characters - including a mushroom, a flying saucer, pirate Mantids from outer space, an appearance by James and Nora Joyce in the guise of poultry, and translinguistic matter - and discover the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language.

Considered by many to be the greatest epic poem ever written, this biblical tale relates the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Despite God's prohibitive warning, Satan entices Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit. Dire consequences ensue.

This work describes a future world for listeners, in which volcanoes have replenished the soil and the seas have returned the lands that they previously inundated. Peace reigns; aliens come to visit with frequency; and advanced forms of meditation allow people to transform into other states, such as a mermaid or a bear.

Un jour, le Dr Alexander, neurochirurgien et neuroscientifique reconnu, a fait face à une expérience qui a changé sa vie à jamais : une méningite bactérienne gravement débilitante l'a plongé dans un coma profond. Durant 7 jours, il est entre la vie et la mort. Le miracle médical s’est produit: il revient à la vie, mais il revient de son voyage aux frontières de la mort avec un récit qui remet en cause ce qu’il pensait savoir de la conscience.

This episode focuses on the core, outer hips and shoulders, culminating in bird of paradise.

In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly 3,000 years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.

Author and tarot teacher Suzanne Corbie presents a unique and wonderful workshop recording that enables listeners to connect with the Goddess. Simple, easy exercises and guided visualizations take listeners on an inspiring and empowering journey to meet with the divine. The recording includes detailed sleeve notes by Suzanne and features music from Celtic Reiki by Chris Conway and Llewellyn.

Cassandra Eason has published more than 70 books worldwide on psychic development, crystals, healing, magick, and mythology. This is the first magick course ever recorded that will guide you through all you need to know to enrich your life, reverse bad fortune, and shape your own destiny. Cassandra, one of the world’s most experienced white witches, will guide you step-by-step in the safe, positive, but powerful old ways of magical wisdom, sharing her secrets along the way.

Why are Heavenly NDEs so different from each other and yet so alike? What are their most repetitive elements? And what can these actually tell us about God, Jesus, and Paradise? After personally interviewing over two dozen near-death experiencers from different parts of the world, the journalist and comparative religion researcher AJ Parr analyzes the most common elements he found in the cases of the following 15 survivors.

In 1932, a Jamaican man named Leonard Percival Howell began leading nonviolent protests in Kingston, Jamaica, against British colonial rule. While history books rightly credit Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. with popularizing nonviolent protest strategies in later years, little is known about Leonard Howell and his vision of self-reliance—poor people working together to build a society of their own

In 1933, British author James Hilton introduced the world to a new destination for journeys of the imagination: the hidden valley of Shangri-La. In doing so, Hilton built upon pre-existing fantasies, stereotypes and archetypes, many of which were centuries old, but Hilton also created something new in the form of a vision which captured the imagination of his contemporaries and has remained ever since.

This book is an excavation of long-forgotten spiritual treasures. They are gathered into 12 practical reflections that were first given to a men’s group, though their audience is universal. May they be for your edification and ultimate satisfaction.

The Bible is a piercing drama, a tale of prophets and wandering spirits, heroic mothers and flashing swords, cosmic mountains, and a dry, shadowy Sheol. It is a true story that defines the nature and purpose of reality, and its claims are astonishing. But few modern listeners experience the Bible that way. In this groundbreaking audiobook, celebrated storyteller Blaine Eldredge draws upon years of research to illuminate the story of the Bible through the lives of six kingly characters.

What is virtue? It is not a question often asked anymore; yet throughout the centuries, philosophers have considered it one of the most important questions of human life. Coming from the Latin word for “strength", virtue denotes a steady habit of willing the good—in Christian terms, pursuing the love of God and neighbor—in some particular way. While most Catholics know the virtues of faith, hope, and charity, as well as prudence, temperance, courage, and justice, many of us are unaware of numerous other virtues, such as discretion, constancy, and holy silence.

The Age of Paradise is the first of a projected four-volume history of Christendom, a civilization with a supporting culture that gave rise to what we now call the West. At a time of renewed interest in the future of Western culture, author John Strickland—an Orthodox scholar, professor, and priest—offers a vision rooted in the deep past of the first millennium. At the heart of his story is the early Church’s “culture of paradise”, an experience of the world in which the kingdom of heaven was tangible and familiar.

Since Adam and Eve left Eden, humanity has endured through long millennia of hardships and sufferings, especially death. But the hearts of their children and great grandchildren have never given up the hope that someday they could return to the place of happiness, which once had been their inheritance. It is a legitimate and dignified dream. In fact, since the day Adam and Eve left, paradise has remained on earth waiting for every single human child to return.

Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 12:2-3 of his visit to paradise, the third heaven; this was long after Jesus ascended to the first heaven. The second heaven was also described.