Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity by Wouter J. HanegraaffRequirements: .PDF reader, 3 MBOverview: In Egypt during the first centuries CE, men and women would meet discreetly in their homes, in temple sanctuaries, or insolitary places to learn a powerful practice of spiritual liberation. They thought of themselves […]
The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics by Niall Keane, Chris Lawn (Editors)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 4 MBOverview: A Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original essays from leading international scholars that provide a definitive historical and critical compendium of philosophical hermeneutics. •Offers a definitive historical, systematic, and critical compendium of hermeneutics •Represents state-of-the-art thinking on the […]
Hermetic Philosophy and Creative Alchemy: The Emerald Tablet, the Corpus Hermeticum, and the Journey through the Seven Spheres by Marlene Seven BremnerRequirements: .ePUB reader, 29.5 MBOverview: Drawing on ancient Egyptian and Greek cosmogonies and essential Hermetic texts, such as the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina), and the Nag Hammadi codices, Marlene Seven Bremner […]
Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia by Michael ShermerRequirements: .MP3 reader, 303 MBOverview: In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans’ belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by radical life extentionists, extropians, transhumanists, cryonicists, and mind […]
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael ShermerRequirements: .MP3 reader, 631.5 MBOverview: The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer’s comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished.In this work synthesizing thirty years of […]