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...The Kabbalist Rabbi Laitman, who was the student and personal assistant to Rabbi Baruch Ashlag from 1979-1991, follows in the footsteps of his rabbi in passing on the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world. This book is based on sources that were passed down by Rabbi Baruch's father, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, the author of the com...

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...hai (Rashbi) ....................................................... 32 From Student to Fugitive ..................................................... ...t, at the deepest level of our being, the true basis for suffering arises from our inability to answer life’s most fundamental question: “Why am I ... ...h and the history of the world, except that Kabbalah tells the same story from the spiritual perspective. It is similar to examining our lives from ... ...and in Meron (in the north of Israel), and established a seminary in the Western galilee, not far from Meron. Even as a child, he was different from... ...hey are not actually writing about those higher worlds, but about how the writers perceived those worlds while being in the worlds BYA. And because ... ...awn The darkest time of night is right before the dawn. Similar- - ly, the writers of The Book of Zohar said, almost 2,000 years ago, that humanity’s... ...ples that marry, one divorces, and the figures are similar throughout the Western world. Moreover, couples no longer must go through a major crisis ... ...U.S. city, as well as in Toronto, Canada, London, Eng- - land, and Sydney, Australia. It is printed in English, He- - brew, and Russian, and is also a...

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...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ...Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward abdicated from the throne on 11 December 1936, making a different speech. ... ...ibed in antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the Pillars of Hercules (the Gibraltar Stra... ... Plan called for the US military to invade Bermuda and Britain's Caribbean assets. Australia and New Zealand were singled out as British allies and... ... on islands off the coasts of Sardinia, Corsica and Spain's Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean. It traps dozens of blowflies at a time in... ...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ...an (chief minister) of Porbandar, the capital of a small principality in Gujarat in western India under British suzerainty. He later became dewan o... ...tish mandate. Yet, in the meantime, other territorial plans emerged: in Canada, Australia, Iraq, Libya, and Angola. Close to 10,000 Jews settled...

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... paper, which, in fact, represent an “artificial poem”: deformed, resulted from a translation by the observant of the observed, and by translation o... ...h”, as an intellectual breathing, were superb springs. The “No” and “Anti” from my paradoxist manifestos had a creative character, not all nihilistic... ...tos had a creative character, not all nihilistic (C. M. Popa). The passage from paradoxes to paradoxism was documetarily described by Titu Popescu i... ...ty. The book of the non-poems is a protest against art’s marketing. Do you writers sell your feelings? Do you create only for money? Only books abou... ...oxiste, de exemplu, din: Anglia (A. Hollins); Argentina (Virginia Rhodas); Australia (Paul Haugh); Belgia (Mietje Vansina); Brazilia (Lucio Autran, ... ...eresinka Pereira şi intitulat ă Fanatico, cu desene de Xico, International Writers and Artists Association, Moorhead University, MN, SUA, 1989. 3. ... ...hila, 31 1993; tradus ă în englez ă de c ătre autor şi publicat ă în “A Writers’s Choice”, USA, http:/members.spree.com/writer/htm3/new-man.htm, ... ... Pereira (Brazilia), Pradeep Rana (Nepal), Pi O (pseudonimul unui scriitor australian) etc. Nu este vorba de nici o “americanizare”a paradoxismului ... ...n to the international literary community, especially to North America and Western Countries. Working as a computer programmer and then as a softwar...

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... paper, which, in fact, represent an “artificial poem”: deformed, resulted from a translation by the observant of the observed, and by translation o... ...h”, as an intellectual breathing, were superb springs. The “No” and “Anti” from my paradoxist manifestos had a creative character, not all nihilistic... ...tos had a creative character, not all nihilistic (C. M. Popa). The passage from paradoxes to paradoxism was documetarily described by Titu Popescu i... ...ty. The book of the non-poems is a protest against art’s marketing. Do you writers sell your feelings? Do you create only for money? Only books abou... ...oxiste, de exemplu, din: Anglia (A. Hollins); Argentina (Virginia Rhodas); Australia (Paul Haugh); Belgia (Mietje Vansina); Brazilia (Lucio Autran, ... ...eresinka Pereira şi intitulat ă Fanatico, cu desene de Xico, International Writers and Artists Association, Moorhead University, MN, SUA, 1989. 3. ... ...hila, 31 1993; tradus ă în englez ă de c ătre autor şi publicat ă în “A Writers’s Choice”, USA, http:/members.spree.com/writer/htm3/new-man.htm, ... ... Pereira (Brazilia), Pradeep Rana (Nepal), Pi O (pseudonimul unui scriitor australian) etc. Nu este vorba de nici o “americanizare”a paradoxismului ... ...n to the international literary community, especially to North America and Western Countries. Working as a computer programmer and then as a softwar...

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...ils every event of his life! Because I wanted to create a rich informative ebook, I made an intense documentary work to the Romanian National Library from Bucharest, using the most serious sources. I also visited more historical places for gathering all the information I needed for this. Some information you already know but some are definitely new for you, because they ar...

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...ore! The character of Dracula was during the time, treated in so many books, movies, articles, etc, that it seems everything was told about him. Many writers, journalists, fictional researchers, film producers, more or less known, have chosen the fictional character Dracula as the subject for their work. So that, why another book of Dracula to be written”? Well, first ...

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...ince Vlad Dracul (1390-1447) Chapter II: VLAD ŢEPEŞ (1431-1476) 2.1 Vlad Ţepeş becomes ruler Prince of Walachia 2.2 Vlad Ţepeş and the merchants from Southern Transylvania 2.3 Vlad Ţepeş and his fights for Walachia’s independence 2.4 The arrestment and detention of Vlad Ţepeş; his third reign in November – December 1476 Chapter III: THE TRACES OF VLAD ŢEPEŞ IN...

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...E THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT ...

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... ...............................................................................................................................103 RETREATING FROM R... ...study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a... ...nnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just as the great religious leaders seem to be climbing the same mountain from d... ...that need in the West. But is it true among the natives of Oceania or Asia? Still, let us look for a while at some of the major early ideas of Wester... ...ies would have been either strengthened or abandoned based on modern neuroscience. But there is no question that his insights were critical to Wester... ...eincarnation, but there are probably a billion people who do.‖ —―You‘re right Ray, we can never be sure. But let‘s take the position of Wester... ...1 in 25 women in Japan and to about 1 in 2 in Bangladesh every 51 year. Austra... ...ion in literature and to popular songs and other media. Psychologists have recently separated the real roots of love from the images romantic writer... ...l violence is frowned on throughout our society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writer...

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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ...ans of travel. ―It has long puzzled me why the common brothers in your western religions have fought so violently among themselves for so long. C... ...rworld and the mafia. It is rated the worst of the developed countries in Western Europe in terms of corruption. At the top of the ethical list, Finl... ...get the people behind the revolution. Since the majority of people in most Western countries are at least nominally theistic, it wouldn‘t make much s... ...n which scripture we are reading. ―Among the ancient Greeks we find writers who were pantheistic, panentheistic, polytheistic and monotheistic... ... of 90% saying they believe in God, surveys show that many can‘t name the writers of the gospels or the first five books of their Bible. ―S... ... the reading of foreign meanings into the words of the highly intelligent writers of the Constitution by partisan judges and lawmakers have all scar...

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...nstruction. 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 in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their soci...

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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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...Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under ... .... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful for permission to use material from the following: Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s ... ...in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotation from this paper that appears in the text is reprinted with kind permission ... ...n Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotations from this paper that appear in the text are reprinted with kind permission ... ...igious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that the vast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or ... ...s frequently been called “mystical” in a pejorative way, because in modern Western scientific civilization there is no room for subjective experience ... ...ittle known in the West. By and large the tendency among Western religious writers was to divide the world’s religions into two camps: Christians and ... ...ns. We are body-mind units. How could there be anything more? Yet Buddhist writers often speak of our “buddha nature.” There is something about us tha... ...at this means, but even he is seldom understood, because, as with Buddhist writers, what he wanted to say is beyond expression. That writer is Plato w...

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... fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization....

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...r 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7:...

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...000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives m...

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...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...|)rudence at Columbia law school. He has also served as lecturer at North- western university law school. '()1 —Charles R. King died at his home in Ro... ...Brown 190S has been elected captain of the junior class baseball team. The Western New Y'ork club will hold a smoker in Bemis' at 8.30 Wednesday eveni... ... lin game was sensationally close, but the Ohio State ehuinpions- the only western team which eanie east this your—were at the small entl of a to 7 sc... ... a brilli- ant stylist, and belongs to the decorative, prose-poet order of writers. While it is true that in many of his personal traits he re- minds ... ...nilwr which show increasing ease and creative faculty on the part of thair writers. ""The Gate of Tears'" by Mr. Westerraann, is espuoially sweet, ten... ...herbe. Balzac, Descartes. Pascal, the scholar and poet, and the dra- matic writers of the French stage before Oorneille, RUNAWAY GAME WITH RUTGERS Wil...

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...this work. Original title: Ipotesi su Ulisse Translated from Italian by Martha S. Bache-Wiig 2009, authorized by the Author. ... ...reat willingness to be daring. 4 Notes from the translator: - The passages from the Odyssey that the author us... ...the translator: - The passages from the Odyssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecch... ...he cosmos had not placed this aspiration within us. The immortality that writers and poets attributed to the Olympian gods is a false immortality ... ...ngs. The first is that Homer’s two poems contain all the development of western literature: the second is that, beyond the theme of the siege and... ... we generally manage to preserve during childhood. Then, at least in the Western world, this beauty disappears. All around us, we see an ever-grow... ...young women, by using either cunning or violence. We must acknowledge that western and eastern thought are very different. The search for harmony, m... ...ere the case, the return, the greatly proclaimed “nostos” of the poets and writers, would have been concluded here. 118 Homer is not thinking ... ...ant to make sure that my readers do not forget about it, as do many of the writers who speak of Ulysses and mention only his deceit and his manipula...

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...f, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@... ... Internet, has been transformed beyond recognition since March 2000. From an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers - it has evolve... ... properties. The likes of Disney and Bertelsmann have swung a full circle from considering the Internet to be the next big thing in New Media deliver... ...ivatization" of the medium. This harps on very sensitive strings in every Western soul: the efficient allocation of resources which is the result of... ... facility is an example of something more sophisticated and more durable. Western firms are discovering the immense pools of skills, talent, innovat... ...guage, affluent people's toy. PG includes predominantly English language, Western world, texts. Do you intend to make it more multicultural and mult... ...ialog. For low volumes of messages, this is a good thing. But top-selling writers could not handle email from thousands of dedicated fans. Even in ... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyroscop... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyrosco...

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...lities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 5. Addenda: Definitions derived from Neutrosophics: 120 2 Preface to Neutrosophy and Neutrosophic Logic... ...troduction. It was a surprise for me when in 1995 I received a manuscript from the mathematician, experimental writer and innovative painter Florent... ...paper, which, in fact, represent an "artificial poem": deformed, resulted from a translation by the observant of the observed, and by translation on... .... The book of the non-poems is a protest against art's marketing. Do you writers sell your feelings? Do you create only for money?? Only books abou... ...or doing research. In histories of arts, literature, science you see only westerners: - rare exceptions of other people being in there confirm the r... ... than their male proponents. The women have more rights than men in western societies (in divorce trials). Social Paradox: In a democracy sho... ...or example, the today's third world country people imitating/following the western ideology, politics, culture, behavior, etc. b) conditioned - by m... ...ttp://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Smarandache+logic. and FOLDOC Australian Mirror - Australia's Cultural Network, http://www.acn.net.au/cgi... ...110] Pollett, Phil, The Probability Web / Miscellaneous Probability links, Australia, http://www.maths.uq.oz.au/~pkp/probweb/misc.html. [111] Priest...

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...ted the track, hated to race. The phone in Kurt’s pocket vibrated. He pivoted from the rail, giving the two ladies a polite nod as he passed. Ignori... ...’s mouth tightened as the horses approached the starting gate and Lazer shied from a swooping bird, almost dumping his jockey. The colt wheeled and ... ...s undercover job, the lies, the deception, he’d handed Archer his resignation from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Archer had convinced Kurt to ac... ...“Julie found him when he was a pup. Probably part coyote with some heeler and Australian shepherd mixed in. He's great with the stock, tougher than ... ... and gave Adam an appreciative ‘thanks.’ Julie’s father was a good example of western hospitality, and Kurt hoped Julie would be just as obliging. ... ...the window, scanning the pattern on the silver. Designs focused on the city’s western heritage—lots of chuck wagons, cowboys and bulls. Odd location ... ...orse a look of grudging approval. “But he's just an App. With your weight and western saddle, there’s no way he can keep up with a Thoroughbred.” “Y... ...or their insights and suggestions. They made this book much better. Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada, Pixie Chicks and the Ruby Slippered Sister... ...Bev Pettersen is an award-winning writer and two-time finalist in the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart® Contest. She competed for five years...

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...antinople and Bombay and between Baku and Bombay in the next half-century. From such grades of certainty as this, one may come down the scale until th... ...ter a num- ber of more or less obvious prophecies through his other books. From first to last he has been writing for twenty years, so that it is poss... ...tes are too short; he foretold, for ex- ample, a special motor track apart from the high road be- tween London and Brighton before 1910, which is stil... ...nce of machine guns, a significance thoroughly ven- tilated by imaginative writers fifteen years before, was being grasped by the conservative but by ... ...it to the power for treason of these suppositi- tious German monarchs that Western folly has permitted to possess these Balkan thrones—thrones which n... ...from both sides, to journalists and neu- tral go-betweens. The Eastern and Western Allies will prob- ably begin quite soon to discuss an anti-German Z... ... of automobile had driven the bicycle as a pleasure vehicle off the roads. Western Europe was running to fat and not to muscle, as America is to-day. ... ... large a proportion of its mem- bers to the front; the scientific men, the writers, have been begging to be used in any capacity at any price or none;... ...ne of the many corrupting lies in British intellectual life. English comic writers never weary of sneering at the Hindu who claimed to be a “failed B....

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