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Charles Muses (1919–2000)
Auteur de In All Her Names: Explorations of the Feminine in Divinity
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Séries
Œuvres de Charles Muses
Destiny and control in human systems : studies in the interactive connectedness of time (chronotopology) (1984) 9 exemplaires
Aspects of the Theory of Artificial Intelligence: The Proceedings of the First International Symposium on… (1962) 3 exemplaires
An evaluation of relativity theory after a half-century 2 exemplaires
Destiny and Control in Human Systems: Studies in the Interactive Connectedness of Time (Chronotopology) 2 exemplaires
Aspects of the Theory of Artificial Intelligence: The Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Biosimulation… (1962) 1 exemplaire
EAST WEST FIRE. Schopenhauer's Optimism and the Lankavatara Sutra. An Excursion Toward the Common Ground between… 1 exemplaire
Die Königspyramide des Ameny-Qemau 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1919-04-28
- Date de décès
- 2000-08-26
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA (birth)
- Études
- Columbia University (MA - 1947, PhD -1951)
- Professions
- editor
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 21
- Membres
- 177
- Popularité
- #121,427
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 13
- Langues
- 1
The essays are organized into six major categories labeled as follows: Trance (actually called "En-Trancing is the Word"); "Consciousness and Science"; "Communicational Contexts for Man"; "Mysteries of the Delic Psyche;" "Pegasus" (on poetry and the "poetic experience"); and "Some New Techniques of Awareness". Foci of individual chapters include fire- walking in Ceylon; trance induction in Ancient Egypt; ESP; The place of consciousness in modern physics; awareness in plants; the search for miracle drugs among Amazonian Indians; communication with the criminal mind; and one by Charles Lindbergh titled "Man's Potential".
I didn't get far into this book, nor much out of the six essays I read. They went too far afield for the scientist I was becoming and smacked too much of the pseudo-science and particular sort of philosophy I was growing to eschew. A case in point is the essay "Awareness in plants", which drew on experiments on Mimosa to infer... you guessed it.
I've kept this book around for several decades, despite doubting that I'd ever get back to it. I kept it out of habit, but realistically, it deserves to find another home. Perhaps the Carnegie Library would welcome it back.… (plus d'informations)