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...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...are adherents. It is true that the vast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many pe... ...f is in The Republic section 496c. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION ii Aristotle’s writings made good sense, but I could never feel that his heart was in his ... ...ad experienced. It is almost a cliche to say that to understand a person’s writings you must know the person who wrote them. It took very little time ... ...o reflect a rather closed mind. From Jung’s autobiography, as from Plato’s writings, I got the feeling that he did know of the religious experience, t... ... to say how a schizophrenic feels? Stop talking at the person and start to listen. How does it feel to weep nonstop for months at a time? If you haven... ...n sufferings, in or out of analysis, then meet it head on in someone else, listen to it day by day, month by month. If you do not have the patience fo...

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...An idea is taken for granted in the scheme of things. Someone exclaims, "I've got an idea!" What is it that he has? From where did he get it? How was it transmitted? How might it spread to others? What will be the effect of the acceptance of the idea? These are some o...

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...er Originally Published in 1981 by Praeger Publishers. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE MARKETING OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 1 TABLE OF ... ...BLE OF CONTENTS 3 FOREWORD 6 PREFACE 7 GLOSSARY 9 INTRODUCTION 10 1 THE NATURE OF IDEAS AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12 ORIGINATION, MATURATION AND ADOPTIO... ...cope Broadening" Debate 22 Social Marketing: Two Meanings 23 A BROADENED TYPOLOGY OF PRODUCTS 23 The Typology 24 Implications 27 EXCHANGE TRANSAC... ... planning could be applied to ideas and issues was made some years ago, only a few writings have appeared to date. Most are specialized to a partic... ... press, nudism, consumer cooperatives, or "Join the Peace Corps." (a more complete list appears in Table 1.1.) It is also useful in the marketing o... ...e led to the conclusion that while propaganda was indeed well covered, none of the writings seemed to approach the topic from a formal marketing vie... ... It almost seems as though whenever one wishes to reduce some marketing thought to writing, research reveals that Kotler has already written it and ... ...ctor encompasses a large variety of "products" (see Table 1.1) and includes a long list of institutions engaged in the marketing of these products. T... ...istics and these are taken up in this section. But first some popular concepts are listed in Table 1.1. The ideas, causes and issues dealt with in t...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over co...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...r perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctrinate... ... whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in ... ...listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense... ...y changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. 9. Largest Land Empire Ever Illiterate... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...n any sounds-within-sounds that chimpanzees make. The Wondrous Nature Of Listening It‘s not just the act of speaking that‘s wondrous. As we lis...

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...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Sty...

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...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had i...

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...ty of Chicago Manual Style by University of Chicago Classic Literature Collection World Public Library.org... ...World Public Library.org Title: Chicago Style Manal Author: University of Chicago Language: English Subject: NonFiction, Reference Publisher: W... ...ww.WorldLibrary.net is an effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and... ...into rigid uniformity of "style" and appearance. Methods have been devised, systems evolved, in certain lines of work, which cannot bodily be carrie... ...s, Book of Job, Psalms (Psalter), Song of Songs, the [Mosaic] Law and the [writings of the] Prophets, Minor Prophets, Wisdom literature, Septuagint... ... "von," written in the usual fashion with lower-case letters, are regularly listed under the letter following the particle. In individual cases it m... ...ly capitalized and treated as the first part of the surname; such names are listed under V. (Van Maastricht, Hendryk.) d) Spanish names having two ... ...dryk.) d) Spanish names having two parts connected by the particle "y" are listed under the name preceding the connective. (Go- mez y Pineda, Liber... ... 96 The Uttiversity of Chicago Press to be inserted should be indicated by writing "Here insert A," etc., on the margin of the original pages. Par...

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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ...reesura Wiwien Wongsansern Sayom Munnam interviewers had in their minds a lists of topics and questions I had prepared, which they could use to move ... ...hive of the . In this book, we hear the voices of local people, villagers. Listen to their talk about life, the past and the future. They have lived i... ...ea was full of tattoos. The tattoos used to be pictures of animals and the writing that was included was old language, some writing was in new languag... ...ncarnations, it's only book knowledge. I've read about these things in old writings when I was at the temple. I think they're all good. The two-storey... ...people don't like them today, like they don't like Thai music. Today, they listen to disco music and it annoys me. Foreign, Western culture has arrive... ...rrive at the temple, the head of the monastery reads the chapters from the writings that belong to ordination as novice and dresses the novice in a ye...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...like a Chinamen who had sucked up too much sun. After the revelation he had listened to him repeatedly talk about wishing that he had been born a wom... ...axation from the week, he sat in a reclining chair near the window and began writing down notes but he felt that he was dabbling. He deluded himself ... ... "Raindrops keep falling on my head" and other lugubrious folk melodies. He listened. He cried on her white blanket as if she had banished him foreve... ...k his chocolate milk with his Graham crackers, and found himself a grown man listening to a university professor's lecture on biology, so the sunlight... ...iduals in between engagements. Visions came unto him and he almost felt holy writing out aspects of Gabriele's life within the fog of his smoke. Naked... ...persistency and to gain inspiration from it. She knew that once she finished writing her piece, the spider would be smashed, but she believed that the...

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...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am... ...ded with fire; but so much for analogy. It appears, therefore, from the above list, that the expression, animal life, is nearly synonymous with the exp... ...more and more evident that my townsmen would not after all admit me into the list of town officers, nor make my place a sinecure with a moderate allowa... ...who was su perintendent of the Indians subject to the Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, “The best of their houses are covered very neatly,... ...ry thin for a long season.” The secretary of the Province of New Netherland, writing in Dutch, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to tak... ... whose odorous herb garden I love to stroll sometimes, gathering simples and listening to her fables; for she has a genius of unequalled fertility, an... ...h a thing to day,” says he. To him Homer was a great writer, though what his writing was about he did not know. A more simple and natural man it would...

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...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .... Oh, yes, we know,” interrupted Allen; “Janet does not think anyone worth listening to that hasn’t got a whole alphabet tacked behind his name.” “Jan... ...rs. Brownlow. “He knows how describe as few people do.” “Did you see Janet listening to him,” said her grandmother, “with her brows pulled down and he... ...roline, bewil- dered as to his intentions, and finding it hard to read the writing, as he went on— “No word to anyone!” scoring it under, “not till on... ...hy to do it,” was traced by his fingers. “It is not developed enough to be listened to by any- one. Keep it for the fit one of the boys. Religion, mor... ...s brother, and at first unable to read the one word Joe traced for him—for writing had become a great effort—“Carey.” “We will do our best for her, El... ...ert. That brought to her mind the white slate on which her father had been writing, and she hurried to secure it, though she hardly knew where to go o...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

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...Introduction While studying the neuroscience of consciousness, I was struck with certain facts about mental imagery that seemed to shed some light on the process of the evolution of the human mind. The origin of the human mind remains one of the greatest mysteries of al...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...oured with recent prejudice; and it is quite another business to put these writings coldly forth again in a bound volume. We are most of us attached t... ..., from beginning to end, under the disadvantages inherent in this style of writing. Of these disadvantages a word must here be said. The writer of sho... ... that condensation logical and striking. For the only justification of his writing at all is that he shall present a brief, reasoned, and memorable vi... ...es, “that a soul which has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul such an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressi... ... many crude but genuine feelings tumble together for the mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the Large 139 Familiar Stu... ...rumpet, it is not wonderful if we retire with pleasure into old books, and listen to authors who speak small and clear, as if in a private conversatio...