13.04.2021

“Metaphysics of Children’s Literature: Climbing Fuzzy Mountains” by Lisa Sainsbury

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"Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the world. In its exploration of something and nothing, this book identifies a number of metaphysical structures in texts for young people-such as the ontological exchange or nowhere in extremis-demonstrating that their entanglement with the workings of reality is unique to the conditions of children's literature. Drawing on contemporary children's literature discourse and metaphysicians from Heidegger and Levinas, to Bachelard, Sartre and Haraway, Lisa Sainsbury reveals the metaphysical groundwork of children's literature. Authors and illustrators covered include: Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Mac Barnett, Ron Brooks, Peter Brown,...>>

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12.04.2021

“Reading the Enemy’s Mind: Inside Star Gate: America’s Psychic Espionage Program” by Paul H. Smith

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"If you thought The Manchurian Candidate was fiction or John Farris's The Fury, which featured a CIA mind-control program run amok, was the stuff of an overheated imagination, you were sorely mistaken. From behind the cloak of U.S. military secrecy comes the story of Star Gate, the project that for nearly a quarter of a century trained soldiers and civilian spies in extra-sensory perception (ESP). Their objective: To search out the secrets of America's cold war enemies using a skill called "remote viewing." Paul H. Smith, a U.S. Army Major, was one of these viewers. Assigned to the remote viewing unit in 1983 at a pivotal time in its history, Smith served for the rest...>>

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12.04.2021

“SEER: 30 Years of Remote Viewing….and Counting” by Angela Thompson Smith (2nd edition)

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"SEER is one woman's journey through the fascinating world of remote viewing! Over forty years of professional research and development have gone into the study and development of remote viewing (RV), and, the US government and the military funded and operated remote viewing units for over twenty years. Educational groups such as Stanford Research Institute and Princeton University also studied RV for over three decades. Now dozens of remote viewing schools around the US and abroad have trained thousands in remote viewing protocols. Remote Viewing is alive and kicking!"...>>

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12.04.2021

“The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine” by Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath

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"World-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion: "If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down." The volume has received wide coverage, fueled much passionate debate and caused not a little confusion. Alister McGrath, along with his wife, Joanna, are ideal to evaluate Dawkins's ideas. Once an atheist himself, he gained a doctorate in molecular biophysics before going on to become a leading Christian theologian. He wonders how two people, who have reflected at length on substantially the same world, could possibly have come to such different conclusions about God. McGrath subjects Dawkins's critique of faith to rigorous scrutiny. His exhilarating,...>>

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12.04.2021

“Mind at Large: IEEE Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception” edited by Charles T. Tart, Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ

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"A collection of essays from scientists and progressive thinkers, reporting from the diverse fields of paranormal research and theory. Each piece is edited with an introduction by Charles Tart, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ. The volume features first-hand accounts from Edwin May, Costa de Beauregard, Helmut Schmidt, and others."...>>

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