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While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational depths of such phenomena, reawakening the intuitive, creative impulses that power greater understanding.Throughout his career, Obeyesekere has combined psychoanalysis and anthropology to illuminate the relationship between personal symbolism and religious experience. In this book, he begins with Buddha's visionary trances wherein, over the course of four hours, he witnesses hundreds of thousands of his past births and eons of world evolution, renewal, and disappearance. He then connects this fracturing of empirical and visionary time to the realm of space, considering the experience of a female Christian penitent, who stares devotedly at a tiny crucifix only to see the space around it expand to mirror Christ's suffering. Obeyesekere follows the unconscious motivations underlying rapture, the fantastical consumption of Christ's body and blood, and body mutilation and levitation, bridging medieval Catholicism and the movements of early modern thought as reflected in William Blake's artistic visions and poetic dreams. He develops the term "dream-ego" through a discussion of visionary journeys, Carl Jung's and Sigmund Freud's scientific dreaming, and the cosmic and erotic dream-visions of New Age virtuosos, and he defines the parameters of a visionary mode of knowledge that provides a more elastic understanding of truth. A career-culminating work, this volume translates the epistemology of Hindu and Buddhist thinkers for western audiences while revitalizing western philosophical and scientific inquiry.

Religious studies --- Visions --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Visionaries

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A wide-ranging consideration of the place of dreams and visions in Islamic societies from the pre-modern period to the present.

Visions. --- Dreams --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Visionaries --- Religious aspects --- Islam.

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This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as 'Gypsies' in local languages). The selection of the included materials reflects the authentic voice of the Roma them - selves, and presents their visions and the specific goals pursued by the Roma civic emancipation movement. The source materials are published in original and translated in English, and are accompanied by explanatory notes and summarising comments discussing the specific historical realities and their interrelation to the Romani emancipatory movement in Central and Eastern Europe, thus presenting a comprehensive picture of the historical processes.

Roma/Gypsies --- history --- sources --- civic --- emancipation --- activism --- organisations --- visionaries --- Romanies --- Social & cultural history --- Sociology.

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Liquid Work bezeichnet Konzepte gesunder und nachhaltiger Arbeitsformen, die für alle Beteiligten eine win-win-Situation entstehen lassen. Erstmals wird die Wissenschaft der Chronobiologie hierbei grundlegend mit einbezogen. Mit dem Wissen des Menschen um den Takt seiner eigenen, genetisch bedingten inneren Uhr wird sich das Wesen des Arbeitens, dessen Wert, aber auch das Verständnis von Lebensqualität in den kommenden Jahrzehnten nachhaltig verändern. Damit können sich Türen zu neuer, gesunder und nachhaltiger Produktivität öffnen, wenn dies alle Beteiligten zulassen. Mensch, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft werden davon zu gleichen Teilen profitieren. Wie aber kann dies aussehen? Michael Wieden zeigt Wege, entwickelt Visionen und möchte einen Dialog anstoßen, mit dem Ziel, Arbeit gesellschaftlich neu zu definieren. Der Inhalt Mobiles Arbeiten. – Wenn nichts mehr geht, fängt neues Denken an.- Die Wissensgesellschaft.- Definiere „Unternehmens-Erfolg“.- Chronobiologie – Der Schlüssel zu gesundem Arbeiten?.- Kein Tag ist wie der andere.- Die neue Generation „HR-Manager“.- Echtes Changemanagement ist gefragt.- Der Trojaner.- (Weiter)-Bildung nach der inneren Uhr…sinnvoll?.- Chronomobility – mehr als nur Mobilität.- Der Chronocheck.   Die Zielgruppen HR-Verantwortliche, Unternehmer, Unternehmens- und HR-Berater, Chronobiologen, Arbeitsmediziner, Verantwortliche von Berufsgenossenschaften und Gewerkschaften, Arbeitnehmer Dozierende und Studierende der Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit dem Schwerpunkt Organisation & Führung Der Autor Michael Wieden ist selbstständiger Unternehmensberater und doziert an der IHK Würzburg/Schweinfurt sowie der Kolping-Akademie Würzburg/Schweinfurt unter anderem die Themen "Führung und Zusammenarbeit"(Wirtschaftsfachwirt). Seit 2003 faszinieren ihn die Potenziale, die in der Wissenschaft der Chronobiologie für Mensch, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft stecken.

Management. --- Personnel management. --- Leadership. --- Human Resource Management. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Visionaries.

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In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved through the cracks of history. After the loss of her husband, however, things took a remarkable but frightening turn. For the last ten months of her life, Ermine was tormented by nightly visions of angels and demons. In her nocturnal terrors, she was attacked by animals, beaten and kidnapped by devils in disguise, and exposed to carnal spectacles; on other nights, she was blessed by saints, even visited by the Virgin Mary. She confessed these strange occurrences to an Augustinian friar known as Jean le Graveur, who recorded them all in vivid detail. Was Ermine a saint in the making, an impostor, an incipient witch, or a madwoman? Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski ponders answers to these questions in the historical and theological context of this troubled woman's experiences. With empathy and acuity, Blumenfeld-Kosinski examines Ermine's life in fourteenth-century Reims, her relationship with her confessor, her ascetic and devotional practices, and her reported encounters with heavenly and hellish beings. Supplemented by translated excerpts from Jean's account, The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims brings to life an episode that helped precipitate one of the major clerical controversies of late medieval Europe, revealing surprising truths about the era's conceptions of piety and possession.

Visionaries --- Women mystics --- Mysticism --- Visionnaires --- Femmes mystiques --- Mysticisme --- History --- Histoire --- Ermine, --- Visions --- Early works to 1800 --- Mysticism - France - History - To 1500 --- Visionaries - France --- Visions - France - Early works to 1800 --- Women mystics - France --- Ermine de Reims