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Will Johnson - The Posture of Meditation [1 eBook - EPUB] (Buddhism )

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When it comes to meditation practices, the body is as important as the mind—a fact that may come as a surprise to the many people who regard meditation as a strictly mental activity. But, as Will Johnson shows, the physical aspect of the practice is far too often underemphasized. The alert-yet-relaxed sitting posture that is the common denominator of so many meditative techniques is a wonderful aid for clearing the mind and opening the heart, but it also works to activate the natural healing energies of both body and mind. The author offers guidance and exercises for working with the posture of meditation and advice on how to carry its benefits on into all the rest of life.

Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Shambhala Publications (October 1, 1996)
Language: English

About the Author
Will Johnson received his BA, magna cum laude, in art and archaeology from Princeton University in 1968. After writing art criticism in New York for several years, he moved to the west coast, where he became a Buddhist practitioner in 1972 and trained as a Rolfer in 1976. Over the years he came to understand that the body was the doorway, not the obstacle, to personal growth and spiritual transformation, and that the worlds of somatics and dharma practice each possessed a kind of missing link to the other’s path of inquiry. In 1995 he founded The Institute for Embodiment Training, a teaching school that combines the orientation of Western somatic therapy with Eastern meditational practices. MsSVig

Anna Riva - Golden Secrets of Mystic Oils [1 scan - pdf] (Ritual Magic)

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This A to Z guide by Anna Riva details over 550 of the most popular oils available from occult supply houses.  Find the oils you need to help solve problems or assist in the situations you face.
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Golden Secrets of Mystic Oils by Anna Riva tells how to use oils for every purpose- love, luck, success, peace, power and more. A to Z arrangement, from Abra-Melin to Zula Zula. How to anoint candles, charms, one's body and other uses. Over 550 oils and over 1,300 spells. Easy to read, understand and use!


Anna Riva's guide to oils to go with her guide to incense & powders I already uploaded ~ as requested by some guy :-D

I rescanned this because I was unhappy with the one I uploaded earlier; this one turned out much better
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*scanned by me KaizokuHime MsSVig

Sri Sailendra Bejoy Dasgupta - Kriya Yoga(2006) [1 eBook - PDF] (Yoga / Tantra)

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This book is a rare gem. Written and originally appearing at the end of the author’s illustrious life, it is one of the few books available today in which the accurate information on Kriya Yoga is given, historical and otherwise, and written by a man who was part of that sacred tradition during its very crucial years and who had personally known several of the authorized disciples of the Yogiraj Shyama Charan Lahiri Mahasaya (including of course his own beloved Master, the illustrious Swamiji Maharaj, Sriyukteshvar Giri, by whom he was initiated in year 1929 at age nineteen and with whom he remained in close association).

Kriya Yoga is a system of physical and mental discipline towards attainment of Yoga as defined in the Yoga Shastras. The system taught by Yogiraj Shyama Charan Lahiri and down through his illustrious disciples is commonly termed Kriya. The technique and discipline taught are in conformity with the basic conceptions laid down in the Gita, Patanjal, Yoga and Tantra Shastras and the Manu Smriti; and designed in the pattern of movements of heavenly bodies that cause appearance of the Yugas and their virtues.

The book also discusses similarities that can be traced in the teachings of Jesus Christ contained in selected expressions in the Holy Bible and the basic conceptions of the Hindu spiritual practices and scriptures.

Essentially Kriya Yoga is a universally applicable spiritual system without any inhibition with regard to faiths and nationalities, and directed towards development of the complete man-in body, mind and in the unfoldment of the inner Spirit.

From the Back Cover:
"For ages and ages Kriya had been the preserve of ascetics and saints who normally lived away from human society. The system was so highly esteemed and possibility of attainments by devotedly adopting it that the early masters thought only a very select and deserving few should be initiated into it lest the system was wrongly practiced and applied for earthly gains or lest the price-less technique was in any way tampered with or misinterpreted. Many sound religious and spiritual teachings have been found to have been turned into unwelcome banal and vulgar features and decayed in the long history of India's spiritual efforts due to indiscriminate broadcasting of the teachings. The rigid attitude of the early Gurus of Kriya Yoga, even if it appears uncalled for and narrow today, saved the system from getting tarnished, debased and deviated from like many other valuable spiritual teachings.

The above barrier was, however, breached with the advent of Shyama Charan Lahiri on the scene, towards the middle of the last century, in 1861 to be specific. It was Lahiri Mahasaya's large-hearted kindness and unbounded loving consideration for his fellow worldly men and women that wrought the miracle. His ardent prayers to his Guru ultimately softened the Guru and "the ice" was melted. He was allowed by his god-man Guru to initiate deserving and devotedly desiring persons, even a householder, into the secrets of Kriya. Thus it was Shyama Charan who became the fountain source of Kriya that spread gradually throughout the country and abroad. Kriya performers would always remember the ever-kind Lahiri Mahasaya for his munificence in this respect and worship his memory in their heart of hearts."

About the Author:
The Author is a direct disciple of Swami Sri Yukteshvar. He also came in intimate contact with several other direct disciples of Yogiraj Shyama Charan Lahiri. He was a student of the Ranchi Brahmacharya Vidyalaya established by Paramhansa Yogananda. MsSVig

Temple Of Them/ Sath - The Sorcery of THEM (2010) [1 eBook - PDF] (Satanism / Left-Hand Path)

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The Sorcery of THEM

(A Magickally Correct, and “Politically Incorrect” Treatise on Sorcery)
                       
by Sath

Contents:

Preface

I. The Temple of Them and the Sorcery of Them

II. The Sorcery of Them versus the Magian

III. Magickal Socialism

IV. The Sinister & the Dexter

V. The Body and the Wyrd

VI. The Devil and the Quest of Sorcery

VII. The Hierarchy of the Temple of Them

VIII. Physis

In Conclusion



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David Myatt/ ONA - Opera Omnia [1 eBook - PDF] (Satanism / Left-Hand Path)

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David Myatt - Opera  Omnia


Contents

Prefatory Note

Introduction

Part One - Autobiographical and Pathei-Mathos

Part Two - Letters

Part Three- The Numinous Way

Part Four - Greek Translations

Part Five - Poetry



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Zhang Zhong Jing - Shang Han Lun (On Cold Damage) [1 Scan OCR - PDF] (Taoism)

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Shang Han Lun (On Cold Damage): Translation & Commentaries
by Craig Mitchell, Feng Ye, and Nigel Wiseman




The Shang Han Lun has been a primary treatment theory and practice source for nearly two millenia. Its author, Zhang Zhong Jing, has been named the "Chinese Hippocrates" to highlight the depth and breadth of his contribution to traditional Chinese drug therapy.

This edition features the Chinese text, Pinyin transliteration, and an English translation of the entire Song Dynasty text, the content and textual order most used in Asia. Just as in Chinese language editions, it is fully supplemented with notes and commentaries. The notes describe the clinical symptoms Zhang Zhong Jing associated with the Chinese terms. For example, modern interpretations of a "moderate" pulse often refer to the speed of its beats. The same term, when used in the Shang Han Lun, refers to a pulse that is loose, soft, and harmonious. Such notes provide practitioners with the clinical observations necessary to properly apply the information.

The commentaries further enhance the text's clinical utility by explaining the theoretical and practical foundations behind the lines of text. Because entire bodies of theory and practice can be associated with the terms and expressions used in canonical works like the Shang Han Lun, commentaries have become a standard means of knowledge acquisition for Asian students. The commentaries in this edition serve exactly the same purpose, greatly enhancing its utility. The introductory matter explains the background of the text, the conceptual structure of its contents, and the problems of exegesis. The appendices are designed to assist those studying Chinese and the glossary and the full Pinyin-English index make this an easily accessed reference. MsSVig

Order Of Nine Angles - Fenrir: Journal Of Satanism and the Sinister/ Issue 1 - 123 YF [1 eBook - PDF] (Satanism / Left-Hand Path)

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O.N.A. (Order Of Nine Angles)

F E N R I R

ISSUE I / 123 YEAR OF FAYEN

BY THE O.N.A. – FOR THE O.N.A.

T H E  H E R E S Y  P R E S S


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Michael Kelly - Aegishjalmur (The Book Of Dragon Runes) [1 eBook - PDF] (Germanic Heathenry)

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ÆGISHJALMUR

CONTENTS

Introduction
The Dragon of the North
Dragon Runes
Establishing Sovereignty in Midgard
Mastery of the Mind
Unlocking the Worlds
Hanging On the Tree
The Mysteries of Desire
Time and the Gods
Twilight of the Gods
Further Reading



Excerpt:

"A Note on Names: It has been my intention to make this
book as accessible as possible for those with no prior
knowledge of the Northern Mysteries. Given that modern
English is itself a Germanic language, I have deliberately
chosen (in most cases, with one or two idiosyncratic
exceptions) to render names and other vocabulary relating to
magical concepts in the form likely to be most familiar and
pronounceable to the modern English reader. Thus readers
will find named in this book 'Odin' rather than 'Odhinn'.
Naturally, those who have a familiarity and love for
languages such as Old Norse or Old English may substitute
their more technical forms as they wish."
MsSVig

Christos Beest - Charnel House (1992) [1 Scan - PDF] (Satanism / Left-Hand Path)

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:arrow:RARE SCAN - 12 pages:arrow2:



Charnel House (2nd. edition)

"Sanguis Ac Genus"

Christos Beest aka. Richard Moult
(Order Of Nine Angles)

ONA - YF 103 Era Horrificus

First Published and printed 1991:
Coxland Press

Second Edition 1992
Coxland Press (The European Library)

Excerpt:

"Those who read and in reading understand and in understanding seek practice of all related, risk sanity and life should they fail in completion: should they fail in fully opening the Gate.For those who succeed awaits the splendour of Sirius itself; awaits the endless starry vistas beyond the Silver Gate which sing within the fluted musick of eternity."




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Robert Tangora - Bend the Bow & Shoot the Arrow in Tai Chi Ch’uan [6 DVD - MP4] (Taoism)

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BEND THE BOW & SHOOT THE ARROW IN TAI CHI CH’UAN – 6 DVD SET

The practice of “Bending the Bow to Shoot the Arrow” is fundamental to the gathering, absorbing and releasing of energy throughout the form. The practice unifies the spine and torso with the energetic practice of sticking chi to the spine.

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Misanthropic Luciferian Order - Interview With Noxifer [ 1 eBook - PDF] (Satanism / Left-Hand Path)

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An interview with Noxifer from the Swedish organization MLO (Misanthropic Luciferian Order) conducted by the Slayer Magazine.

Excerpt:

"We were created out of Chaos, against our will, but the black flame strengthens our will and gives us the possibility to seek back to our origin; the wild, dark, paradoxical, fearful, beautiful and eternal Chaos, which is the dragon Tiamat. Therefore it is essential for a person who desire to walk on the left and sinister path to have understanding of the inner black flame, which is the reflection of the external and eternal black flame, Lucifer our cruel and proud father, the bringer of light! The black flame shall set the world on fire! HAIL KAOS!"

eBook PDF - 7 pages
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G. S. Agarwal - Practical Vedic Astrology [1 Scan - 1 PDF] (Astrology)

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PRACTICAL VEDIC ASTROLOGY, 4th edition - G.S. Agarwal

http://www.astroamerica.com/v-a.html#a38

Contents:
Introduction;
Casting the horoscope;
Planets;
Signs;
Houses;

General:
Predictive principles; Judging a horoscope; Yogas; Longevity: Marakas: Death; Marriage & married life; Children; Sex & astrology; Female horoscopes; Medical astrology & important combinations; Profession; Karakas; D-charts, Shodasvargas; Dasa judgment; Transits; Foreign travels; Matching of horoscopes: Manglik;

Miscellany:
Retrogression, ruju, combustion, vargottama, critical degrees, indu lagna, rasmiballa, kulanasanamsa, planetary war, parallel, atmakaraka, avastha of planets;

Muhurta;
Calendars;
Horary astrology;
Charts for easy reference;
Index.

Comment: From the Preface: ....The credit of pushing this book through print goes to certain friends, who, immensely liked my diaries, in which I had preserved the hard earned fruits of my long, arduous, painful and very frustrating journey in the pursuit of astrology. Their incessant insistence to put these into print became such a pestering that I could not escape. I am not much of a fighter either, so I gave in.

The format of the book bears testimony to the fact that I have shirked writing & resorted to compiling instead. I have strived to offer the bare technical data, the tenets and the working rules - but devoid of any trimmings and frills of a writer. Earnestly, all that I can say is that the material provided between the covers of this book is time tested and should hold fast in over 70 percent of cases, a highly commendable success rate for any field of scientific discipline....

Books on astrology, in fact, cannot teach you how to make a prediction in as much as books on the art of playing cricket cannot teach you how to score. The secret, if it is one, lies in being out there. Be it an astrologer, a surgeon, a cook or a cricketer - never to let go of the proper technique, persevere, and, miraculously, that touch comes, a certain sense develops. (From page vii.)

Sagar, 396 pages, oversize paper. MsSVig

Wouter J. Hanegraaff - Esotericism and the Academy - Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (1 eBook - 1 PDF) (Everything Else)

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Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical traditions to which these terms refer, or their relevance to intellectual history. Wouter Hanegraaff tells the neglected story of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have tried to come to terms with a cluster of 'pagan' ideas from late antiquity that challenged the foundations of biblical religion and Greek rationality. Expelled from the academy on the basis of Protestant and Enlightenment polemics, these traditions have come to be perceived as the Other by which academics define their identity to the present day. Hanegraaff grounds his discussion in a meticulous study of primary and secondary sources, taking the reader on an exciting intellectual voyage from the fifteenth century to the present day and asking what implications the forgotten history of exclusion has for established textbook narratives of religion, philosophy and science.

Hanegraaff reveals the neglected history of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have tried to come to terms with ideas of the 'esoteric' and 'occult', present in Western culture. He asks what implications this forgotten history of exclusion has for established textbook narratives of religion, philosophy and science.

About the Author
Wouter J. Hanegraaff is Professor of the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, President of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), and a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. Alongside numerous articles, he is the author of New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought (1996, 1998); Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447-1500): The Hermetic Writings and Related Documents (2005, with Ruud M. Bouthoorn) and Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven (2007). He has also co-edited seven collective volumes, including the Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (2005) and Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism (2011, with Jeffrey J. Kripal). His latest work is Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2012). MsSVig

Temple Of Them - OTO Anorha (Issue 33) [1 eBook - PDF] (Satanism / Left-Hand Path)

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OTO ANORHA #33

NEW BLOOD / OLD GROUND

August 12th 2012 C.E.

Representing Insights and Expressions of the Sinister from a New Generation.






*Special thanks to Rex Morgen, Nuun Anukunaani, Grin Anon Widago, Graaz, Geryne Quinvex, Spectre7, Darth Vindex, Owy, Calus, Morder, Deofol, Interrogist, XV



Cover Painting by Grin Anon Widago of the Temple of THEM.

Inside Cover by Geryne Quinvex.

Graphics with permission by Altar of Perversion / Sol Evil

TENDRIL Images by RA.




Content:

THE SYNCHRON-I-TRONIK ORGANISM
NUMINOUS CORRELATIONS
THE POWER OF THE WORD
magian IGNORANCE
LUNAR UNDERSTANDING: A SHORT TALE
WARNING , CHILDREN AT PLAY - the First Howard´s End Story.
DEATH OF TOUCH [Part 2] Death of Touch Kills Face to Face
THINGS IN THE DARKNESS...
ALTAR OF PERVERSION: Intra Naos
SOL EVIL: BEYOND THE SUN
THE ENTELECHY OF NATURE; OTHERNESS; EVIL
CORRECTING THE MYTHOS
HOWL OF THE INTROVERT
THEM, NUMBERS, FORM AND THE MAGI:
The Inexorable March Toward Insynsian
TENDRIL: THEIR WILL BE DREAMS – The Tarot of the Temple of THEM.
BLOOD, SWEAT, FORMS AND YEARS
THE EYE OF THEM
INSIGHT IN SIGHT



Excerpt:


“THEM has many meanings, it is not just indicative of a group of people, it also means
Them, the Dark Gods, and their voice that issues through when the vein of the subconscious is tapped and directs the psyche beyond ego impulses and contrivances. It is the state that is experienced when Self and Ego become active as two powers that can direct one, and embodies the loss of identity that allows one to become a shape shifter – this separates US, from them. It is also a term to denote someone who has truly built their own self image devoid of others expectations that shrugs off the world’s and societies roles with friends, family etc., as projections that aim to force a person into a role and play by the laws of the matrix. A being that can smash all intellectual chains into dust, possessed of a determination of the will that others stand in awe and fear of. Furthermore, the word THEM is an appropriation of a Magian fear meme. When people quote an unknowable source in relating a scientific or religious fact, they generalise and thus create an illusory authoritarian figure, “they” i.e. “they say that…” or “that’s what they say” that builds on the fear felt by all in thrall to the matrix, that gives psychological and magickal credence to one’s claims. We have stolen that “They…” and it has become “THEM”.”



THE TEMPLE OF THEM, AUSTRALIA
2012
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TTC Video - Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (2000) [UN - 25 AVI, 1 eBook - PDF, 5 HTML] (Philosophy)

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"God is dead." "The Superman." "The Will to Power." "The Eternal Recurrence."Among shapers of contemporary thought—including Darwin, Marx, and Freud—Friedrich Nietzsche is perhaps the most mysterious and least understood. His aphorisms are widely quoted, but as both man and thinker he
remains an enigmatic figure, "philosophizing with a hammer" and hurling unsettling challenges to some of our most cherished beliefs.

Who was this eccentric German genius? This lonely and chronically ill, yet passionate, daring, and complex seeker?

   Was he a proto-Nazi, or would he have found Hitler despicable?
   Who was this man who caustically attacked the Christianity of his day but who wept openly when he saw a horse mistreated in the street?
   Why are his brilliant insights so relevant for today?
   How did he become the most misinterpreted and unfairly maligned intellectual figure of the last two centuries?

Professor Robert Solomon is the Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

He has received several awards for excellence in teaching, including a Fulbright Lecture Award and a Standard Oil Outstanding Teaching Award.

In his precise yet conversational style he weaves biographical detail, abstract analysis, and humor, constructing an engaging, well-rounded portrait of the most enigmatic, complex figure in all of philosophy. He is joined in many lectures by his wife and fellow Nietzsche scholar, Professor Kathleen Higgins, also of The University of Texas at Austin.

A Lonely Genius's Quest

Nietzsche's body of work has been enormously influential, but it consists of a hodgepodge of reflections, accusations, bits of psychoanalysis, church and secular history, advice to the lovelorn, moral reminders, and some forgeries created by Nietzsche's nefarious sister.

To provide shape to Nietzsche's thought, each lecture focuses on specific ideas that preoccupied Nietzsche while tracing the profound themes that give meaning to his work.

Lectures 1 through 3 provide a context within which we can better understand Nietzsche's life and work. These are essential and foundational introductions to him. Professors Solomon and Higgins:

   Debunk the myths, rumors, and misunderstandings surrounding Nietzsche. (They show, for example, that he was not insane, misogynistic, power-mad, anti-Semitic, or amoral.)
   Connect his thought to that of his predecessors Socrates, Plato, Jesus, and Schopenhauer and that of his near-contemporaries Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Marx, and Freud.
   Investigate how Nietzsche's method of explaining human beliefs and practices in terms of personality and character (as opposed to justifying them through reason) enabled him to refute Socratic assumptions, English utilitarianism, Christian compassion, and Schopenhauer's pessimism.

The Death of God and The Birth of Tragedy

Lectures 4 through 8 explore Nietzsche's subtle and complex critique of both religious belief and Greek rationalism.

   What did Nietzsche mean when he declared "God is dead"? We see that Nietzsche did not seek to condemn true spirituality but to question the mindset that insists on eternity, that is obsessed with unity and coherence, and that demands predictability and justice in a world that is neither predictable or just.
   We examine Nietzsche's near-worship of pre-Socratic Greek culture and his championing of instinct, passion, and aestheticism.
   We study Nietzsche's first work, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), famous for its brilliant analysis of the creative tension between the cults of rational Apollo and ecstatic Dionysus in pre-Socratic Greece.
   We see how Nietzsche contrasts tragedy, which accepts suffering and makes something beautiful out of it, with Platonic, Socratic, and Christian thought, which he accuses of trying to deny the meaning of suffering by invoking a superior, otherworldly life.

Lectures 9 through 11 focus on Nietzsche's famous style, which deftly combines the majesty of the prophet, the force of the Homeric warrior, and the lyricism of the poet, but which nonetheless is rife with fallacies, inconsistencies, exaggerations, and scathing personal attacks.

Harsh but Insightful Criticisms

In lectures 12 through 15, Professor Solomon takes a closer look at Nietzsche's harsh but insightful criticisms of the intellectual currents of his time—Christian moralism, evolution, socialism, democracy, and nationalism. Here we meet Nietzsche the "moral psychologist," who revolutionized our understanding of the "human, all too human" motives that underlie our beliefs.

   Is Nietzsche correct that "every philosophy is a personal confession and an unconscious memoir"?
   Are pity and laughter just forms of dominance and power?
   How much of morality is, in fact, a scheme to bring down one's superiors through guilt? How do repression, religion, and rationalization assist in this scheme?
   How does Nietzsche criticize previous ideals of love?
   Is Nietzsche a powerful anti-nihilist? Is he correct in rejecting the utilitarian's moral guideline "the greatest good for the greatest number" as a nihilistic rejection of life? (He says: "Man does not live for pleasure; only the Englishman does.")
   How does Nietzsche's "morality of virtue" contrast with Judeo-Christian morality? And how does he argue that 2,000 years of Christianity enriches and spiritualizes "healthy" morality?

In Lectures 16 through 20, Professor Solomon pulls back and attempts to summarize Nietzsche's preoccupations. In a nod (and a wink) to our times, he compiles "top-ten lists" of both Nietzsche's favorites and his favorite targets. You will be intrigued to see who makes both lists! Also in this section, we encounter Nietzsche the historicist and Nietzsche the "immoralist," and discover the source of his vitriolic personal attacks.

The final four lectures examine Nietzsche's highly unorthodox "genealogy" of morality, as well as his most enduring image, that of the Ubermensch (super-man or over-man), and the notion of the will to power and "the eternal recurrence." Because these concepts have been misappropriated as rationalizations for monstrous behavior, they are usually misunderstood. You learn:

   How the will to power explains our need for self-expression
   How the Ubermensch is an expression of the innate human yearning for excellence
   How Nietzsche characterizes the alternative to the Ubermensch—the "last man," who can quickly be sketched as the "ultimate couch potato" and the final fruit of utilitarian philosophy.

The "eternal recurrence" is Nietzsche's powerful, personal test. If you knew that you would live your life again and again for eternity, is it the life you would will? In short: do you in fact love your life? This is not a nihilist's question. It is a powerful call to full awareness and action in life.

Nietzsche's Love of Life

As you make your way through these lectures, you'll discover that Nietzsche, even at his most polemical and offensive, exudes an unmistakable enthusiasm and love of life. In fact, you'll see that his exhortation to learn to love and accept one's own life, to make it better by becoming who one really is, forms the project that is the true core of his work. MsSVig

Chris Matsuo - Empath's Guide to the Universe [1 DVD - 1 MKV] (Taoism)

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The Empath's guide to the universe/ or Empath training manual By Christopher Lee Matsuo of  Dragon Gate Sanctuary  Honolulu, Hawaii
I promise this has made life changing gifts for people who suffer from being an Empath.

Are you empathic?
do you have empathic traits?
Do you have empathy for others to the point it is uncontrollable?
Is this gift mostly a burden?
Do you give 200% and get nothing back?
do you feel that you have no friends while your friends think you are their best friend?
Do you have to leave when the people and environment starts affecting you?
Do you know why you gain weight? Don't you eat because when you do, you feel nothing but your own body... finally.....it numbs you and you don't have to feel the world.  its the only way you can tune into yourself....
Do you pick up too much during healings?
Can you feel people thinking about you to the point that it affects your ability to function?

You really need to come train with me, but i do have a dvd.....
Now there is a real Guide a real owners manual a solution to turn your burden back into a gift.
Learn how to manage and control your energy... learn the proper proportions of energy the secret of the flame.
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Eva Wong - Libro Completo de Feng-Shui (Spanish) [1 Scan - PDF] (Taoism)

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The first complete, in-depth course in the traditional Chinese art of harmonious design for interiors, buildings, and sites—including instructions for making your own geomantic compass for feng-shui readings. Deeply rooted in Taoist and shamanic origins, feng-shui is not simply a list of directives for building auspicious structures or arranging interiors for good luck. It is the art of reading the patterns of the universe and living in harmony with the environment. With 200 photos and diagrams. MsSVig

Gershom Scholem - On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism [1 scan - PDF] (Qabalah)

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On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism


Author: Gershom Scholem
Publisher: Schocken Books
Publication Date: 1969
Edition: 1st
ISBN (print): 0-8052-0235-8
Size & Format: 2.62 MB / PDF
Pages: 216 actual / 226 total

Type: Scan
OCR: Yes
Searchable: Yes
Paginated: Yes
Bookmarked: Yes
Cover: Yes

Description:

In "On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism", Gershom Scholem guides the reader through the central themes in the intricate history of the Kabbalah; clarifying the relations between mysticism and established religious authority, the mystics' interpretation of the Torah and their attempts to discover the hidden meaning underlying scripture, the tension between the philosophical and the mystical concepts of God, and the symbolism employed in mystical religion.

Review(s):

"Along with Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, this is the standard work in its field." -- Choice

"Comprises some of Scholem's most broadly conceived intellectual efforts, dealing with such universal issues as creativity and tradition, scripture and its interpretation, religion and myth, and the nature of religious authority." -- Arthur Green, Brandeis University

"Makes the intricate and fascinating world of kabbalistic symbol and myth accessible to a wider audience, rendering it in terms that are of interest to contemporary readers." -- Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University

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TTC Audio - Various - Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition [7 DVD AudioRip - 84 MP3 + 1 PDF] (Philosophy)

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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition
Taught By Dennis Dalton, Alan Charles Kors, Robert H. Kane, Phillip Cary, Louis Markos, Darren Staloff, Robert C. Solomon, Jeremy Adams, Jeremy Shearmur, Kathleen M. Higgins, Mark Risjord, Douglas Kellner

84 30-minute audio lectures (MP3)  + 1 PDF guidebook (parts I - VII)

For 3,000 years, mankind has grappled with life's most fundamental questions.

  What is real?
  What should be the purpose of my life, and how should I lead it?
  Who or what is God?
  How can there be freedom in a world determined by causal laws?
  When is it legitimate for one person to have power over others?
  What is justice? Beauty?

These are the crucial questions that thoughtful men and women have pondered since civilization began. The most brilliant minds in history focused on these questions—and their search for answers has left us an intellectual legacy of unsurpassed depth and richness.
The Intellectual Adventure of a Lifetime

Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western philosophy from its origins in classical Greece to the present. The course is an 84-lecture, 12-professor tour of Western philosophical tradition and covers more than 60 of history's greatest minds.

This panoramic course is carefully designed and taught. Each lecture is given by a university scholar who is not only an expert in the topic but a gifted teacher, with classroom talents certified by teaching awards and top rankings from students.

It took 3,000 years for the debate chronicled in these lectures to reach maturity. With this course, you can encompass it by the end of next month.

Two Cities and the World They Created

The Western tradition is a blend of two outlooks that are characteristic of the ancient cities that generated them: Athens and Jerusalem.

Western monotheism and its philosophical entailments—faith as an alternative to reason, mystic ecstasy, dogmatic scripturalism, and the assumed equality of all souls in the sight of God—ultimately derive from Jerusalem.

Athens is the city of inquiry, hubris, and emancipation. The rationalism of Western culture, with its unprecedented control over nature, is a perennial element in Western philosophy, and it originates in Greece.

Jerusalem supplies the mythos of the West and its holy text; Athens supplies the critical and self-critical spirit, which animates the Promethean and perhaps Faustian history of Western thought.

In this course, you see the synthesis and tension between these two traditions over hundreds of years.

Two Sets of Issues—Three Millennia of Debate

Philosophy in the West has centered on two basic sets of issues.

One: What is the world and what can we truly know about it (metaphysics and epistemology)?

Two: How should we live (ethics, social and political theory, and existentialism)?

You learn how different thinkers address these issues in dramatically different ways. Yet you also see that this variation is not random; entire philosophical epochs can be defined by shared approaches to these basic questions, despite a plethora of different solutions.

The course is in seven parts. Each part covers a specific period in the history of philosophy. Each of the seven parts begins with an introductory lecture to orient you to the period and the philosophers and ideas you study in that part.

PART I: Classical Origins (Lectures 1 to 12)

Part I introduces the entire series and the enduring problems of philosophy.

These lectures acquaint you with the Greek Pre-Socratics (the world's first scientific thinkers) and the Sophists (traveling teachers of rhetoric most widely seen through the works of their leading enemy).

You then examine in detail the insights of three towering figures: Socrates, his student Plato, and Plato's student, Aristotle. Much of the rest of philosophy and Western thought is a response to these three.

You study the Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics of the late Hellenistic and Roman worlds, as well as the Greek commentator Polybius and the Roman statesman-philosopher Cicero.

This first part of the series is truly foundational. It furnishes you with a solid ground on which you can build up and extend your own understanding of the developments that occur over millennia of philosophic debate. The aim of this course is to show these developments to you as passages in a narrative that records much disagreement but that contains substantial coherence beneath its contending voices.

PART II: The Christian Age (Lectures 13 to 24)

In the introductory lecture to Part II, you learn how we still stand on and are moved by the Greek and biblical traditions, often not something of which we are fully conscious.

This meeting of Athens and Jerusalem is exemplified first by the influence of the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus on Saint Augustine. The symbiosis of Athens and Jerusalem continues during the High Middle Ages with Saint Thomas Aquinas's synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Christian theology and then branches off into different directions represented by the mysticism of Meister Eckhart and the Protestantism of Martin Luther and John Calvin.

PART III: From the Renaissance to the Age of Reason (Lectures 25 to 36)

Part III marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science. You begin with the bold work of Machiavelli, who opened up new ways of thinking about moral and political life. This is contrasted to the work of statesman-saint Sir Thomas More and his Utopia.

You examine the foundations of scientific thought in the work of Galileo, Sir Francis Bacon, and René Descartes.

You return from science to political life, specifically the era of the English Civil War and its echoes in the absolutist political thought of Thomas Hobbes, who championed a coldly scientific view of human nature.

You study the detached reverence toward being of Baruch Spinoza, the mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, and the skepticism of the influential Pierre Bayle.

The concluding lecture is a summation of the career and significance of Isaac Newton, whose pathbreaking Principia Mathematica gave the new science authoritative expression.

PART IV: The Enlightenment and Its Critics (Lectures 37 to 48)

Part IV covers the 17th and 18th centuries, capturing the sense of breathless discovery found in the Enlightenment, which reveled in the new freedom of human potential and scientific expansion. This was also when the new bourgeoisie found its voice in a demand for free markets, free speech, and more political power.

This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.

This segment of the course, like the others, stresses the inevitable linkage between a thinker's theory of knowledge and theory of morality: what we can know determines what we can know to be the right way to act. The lectures on John Locke and David Hume develop this point with special cogency. Others covered here include Vico, Mandeville, Bishop Berkeley, and Adam Smith.

The Enlightenment stirred critics who feared its larger moral, spiritual, and political effects. Of these doubters, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was among the most influential, making him a fitting subject for the compelling lecture that concludes this segment.

PART V: The Age of Ideology (Lectures 49 to 60)

Part V continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution in our understanding of ourselves and the many problems that it raises.

Is science the only source of true knowledge? If we have no control over our actions because causal laws determine them, then what is left of freedom? Choice? Right and wrong?

You study philosophers asking how far the scientific method might be applied. Immanuel Kant responds to the challenges raised by the new scientific consciousness in the metaphysical and the moral arenas.

You study Edmund Burke, the Anglo-Irish philosopher-statesman whose eloquent critiques of the French Revolution made him an architect of modern conservatism, as well as the giant of the liberal tradition, John Stuart Mill.

Lectures follow on G. W. F. Hegel's philosophy of history, and Karl Marx's appropriation of a materialist version of Hegelianism as part of his effort to develop scientific laws of progress potent enough to overcome all human alienation.

Because causal determinism undermines the possibility of freedom, choice, and virtue, this is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.

The final four lectures, on Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche, discuss three brilliant exponents of this period's striving toward a new ground for the human self and its aspirations.

PART VI: Modernism and the Age of Analysis (Lectures 61 to 72)

Part VI introduces you to the philosophical struggles of our own day.

Psychologists William James and Sigmund Freud still affect us. James's philosophy of pragmatism seems characteristically American, yet bears a striking resemblance to many of Nietzsche's ideas. Freud applied the tools of science to the philosopher's sanctum sanctorum—the mind itself.

Different 20th-century attempts to claim a new ground for the understanding of self and society are explored. You study the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, the existentialism of Martin Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School's efforts to use the ideas of Marx and Freud as a basis for rational moral and political engagement, the structuralism of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.

You conclude Part VI by studying Max Weber's sociology, the ideas of A. J. Ayer, and the giant of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein.

PART VII: The Crisis of Modernity (Lectures 73 to 84)

Part VII covers the work of late 20th-century philosophers and theorists, beginning with Friedrich Hayek's critique of the idea of central authority.

You examine Karl Popper's argument that scientific hypotheses must remain "falsifiable," and the related but distinct imperative for whole societies to remain "open."

You then analyze Thomas Kuhn's contribution in showing how scientific knowledge works in "the real world."

You see how the communication-based theories of Jurgen Habermas open up a new dimension in our understanding of the human world.

You study Alvin Gouldner's ironic class-based critique of Marxism.

Postmodernism and the work of the French philosopher and literary theorist Jacques Derrida—a much-discussed ideology of our own day—is explored sympathetically yet critically.

You conclude the series by studying the work of several widely influential American philosophers—Willard Quine, Richard Rorty, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Robert Nozick. MsSVig

TTC Video - Questions of Value (2005) [UN - 25 AVI, 1 eBook PDF] (Philosophy)

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COURSE DEscriptION
Our lives are filled with everyday questions of fact and finance. Which investment brings the highest return? What school district is the house in? What will this candidate do if elected? But the really fundamental questions of our lives, says Professor Patrick Grim, are
questions of neither fact nor finance. They are questions of value. They are the deep questions that apply to every aspect of our lives.

What is it that gives something genuine value? What things are really worth striving for? What is it that makes life worth living? Are there values that transcend cultural differences? Can we have ethical values without religion? If the universe operates in terms of deterministic laws, how can there be real choice? Is all value subjective? We can even ask if life is always worth living, or whether in some situations we would be better off dead.

Questions of Value is a course for anyone who has ever felt the tug of such questions or who wants to fine-tune their ability to see how deeper questions of ethics and values apply to the choices that make up their lives.

In presenting this philosophical examination of the range of decisions we all encounter as we live our lives, Professor Grim has placed the accent on individual choice—and has not shied away from controversy. The issues he presents for your examination cover evolution and ethics, about whether punishment is justified by retribution or by deterrence, and about the differing lessons drawn from life's worst horrors by both religious and antireligious traditions.

What values, for instance, are involved in thinking about life and death? What values are evident in a yearning for immortality? The lines of discussion raised throughout the course are regularly as provocative as these, and Professor Grim means them to be exactly that.

"The purpose of the lectures," he notes, "is, first and foremost, to open issues for thoughtful consideration ... [to] give an appreciation for the complex concepts that lie just beneath our everyday patterns of evaluation, and for some of the bold and insightful reflections that can illuminate them.

"The student can expect to finish the course with some new and interesting answers, and a command of important philosophical arguments and approaches, but also with some new and interesting questions about values."

A Challenge to Look Inward

"The course is designed not to close debate but to open it, not to end controversy but to facilitate reflective thought. It was Socrates who said, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' This course offers the tools necessary for examining the values that guide our lives."

Best known for his logical arguments in the philosophy of religion and his groundbreaking work in philosophical computer modeling, Professor Grim has published across an extraordinary range of disciplines, from theoretical biology to artificial intelligence and computer science.

With these lectures he returns to his abiding interest in values. He uses his award-winning teaching skills to draw on almost every expression of human endeavor, bringing to life not only the fundamental questions of the course but the insights gleaned by the thinkers and artists who have grappled with those same questions for thousands of years.

The net he casts encompasses history, beginning with Herodotus and running through usury in feudalism's seignorial system right up through more contemporary subjects such as the cases of Patty Hearst and John W. Hinckley. Theoretical economics makes an appearance as well, as does game theory from John von Neumann to Robert Axelrod's work on cooperation. He delves into both theoretical biology and sociobiology through the work of E. O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins on altruism and evolution. There is even a foray into physics, as quantum mechanics is used to discuss determinism. His discussion of relativism brings in aspects of anthropology, and an exploration of the role of rules in our lives draws on psychology, examining the work of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg.

But it isn't only scientists whose work inevitably forces us to consider our values. The questions we ask and the answers we seek also figure prominently in the work of writers as varied as Charles Dickens, Peter S. Beagle, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ursula Le Guin, Mark Twain, Anne Rice, and Jorge Luis Borges. Even John Ford's classic western film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is brought into the mix.

In exploring the course's varied sources, Professor Grim takes great care in ensuring that every concept addressed in a later lecture has been clearly introduced earlier. His presentation—even of the most nuanced material—is consistently clear, even to those with no background in philosophy.

A Range of Tools to Make even Complex Concepts Clear

Professor Grim has put together a course in which concepts are animated through both vivid examples drawn from real life and equally vivid "thought experiments"—hypothetical situations devised by philosophers to isolate and illustrate key concepts in readily accessible terms.

One of those thought experiments has its roots in the "evil demon" of Descartes' Meditations and is further developed in the work of both Robert Nozick and Hilary Putnam—and you may even recognize it in the theme of The Matrix films. In this example of a so-called "magic button" case, Professor Grim poses the question of whether one would accept a choice of pushing a button that would give everyone a very nice, but merely virtual, life—a life lived simply as a brain in a vat, experiencing as "real" the imaginary existence fed it by a master computer.

This particular thought experiment, along with G. E. Moore's famous one of imagining a universe containing nothing but the single thing you wish to evaluate, are two of the examples Professor Grim uses to discuss the question of whether values are objective or subjective. Both are remarkable for the clarity they bring to a complex subject.

In still another example of the tool kit offered as an aid to "doing philosophy," Professor Grim recalls the story of the Ford Pinto, built with a rear-mounted gas tank likely to explode in a collision. At least 500 burn deaths resulted, and many lawsuits were brought against the Ford Motor Company—bringing to light what some might consider the cold-blooded cost-benefit analysis of human worth that the Ford company had used to make its design decisions.

That analysis is one of the centerpieces of Professor Grim's discussion of the "cash value" of a human life and the ways people have tried to put an actual value on something most people are tempted to say has "infinite value."

The result is a fascinating discussion not only of the choices made by Ford but of the very different kinds of value that are evident in our decisions as individuals and as a society.

"Values for beings like us," Professor Grim notes, "are inescapable, but because we want our values to be right, reflection on values—given the particular values we have and for rationally placed beings like us—is also inescapable. ...

"The philosopher John Dewey somewhere characterizes philosophy as such an inquiry, and he gives an important warning: that an inquiry of ideas, like every other real exploration, is intellectually dangerous.

"Once you start to think critically about ideas, once you are no longer satisfied with familiar beliefs just because they are familiar, you can no longer be certain what conclusions you will come to." MsSVig
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