Noted historian John Chasteen traces the global history of marijuana, exploring its rich heritage with captivating insight. Among the first domesticated plants, Surprisingly, though, only infrequently has it been used as a recreational drug. Instead, there is a vibrant spiritual dimension to its long history that has been continually ignored.
Seven Stars traces the meaning and origins of the Seven Stars pub sign back 1500 years to the legal codes of the Anglo-Saxons and beyond that to the mythological astronomy of the ancient Mediterranean region. It is believed that the sign of the Seven Stars
originated in the star cluster of the seven Pleiades which was considered to be a bunch of ......
The undisputed virtuosity of William Shakespeare's theatrical works--and their perennial relationship to the experience of being human--assures their continued importance in the cultural life of the twenty-first century. However, Shakespeare is a subject of interest beyond the theater; his life and work remain among the foremost themes of literary ......
Geldard attends in depth to Emerson's late (Harvard) "University Lectures" to fill significant gaps in our understanding of how Emerson saw laws of mind operating in us, and present Transcendentalism as an important contribution to American philosophy.
Teresa Moorehouse's "narrative sculptures" tell deep, often timeless stories in cold cast bronze, with patinas of copper, silver, or gold. Some draw on traditional myths or legends. Others discover new voices for contemporary experience of spiritual mysteries. Her images weave a language of symbols that surpasses logic and speaks directly to ......
Mrs Leonora Piper (1859-1950) was one of the most famous mediums who ever lived. She attracted a large following, and even aroused the curiosity of William James. This is the verbatim record of six seances which psychologist and psychic researcher, Dr Amy Tanner attended with Dr G Stanley Hall in 1909, when Mrs Piper was at the height of her fame.
Takes readers inside the testing procedures of Sir William Crookes - a chemist and physicist who was roundly ridiculed by many of his fellow scientists for his five-year investigation of a number of important spiritualists and mediums, including Daniel Dunglas Home, Florence Cook, and Anna Eva Fay - to explore just what his investigation entailed.