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"Anthony Peakeâs first book, Is There Life After Death?: The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die, cause a considerable stir.
In The Daemon: A Guide to Your Extraordinary Secret Self, Peake expands on one of the most enigmatic areas of his previous book, the proposition that all consciously aware beings consist of not one but two separate consciousnesses â everyday consciousness and that of The Daemon, a higher being that seems to possess knowledge of future events.
Integral to this book are the stories of many famous artists, poets, politicians, musicians and scientists who have felt âa force outside themselvesâ, including Winston Churchill, Byron, Geothe, Jean Cocteau and many others.
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"A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supreme
The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, but his philosophy is almost entirely lost to history. This groundbreaking book is the first to reconstruct Ptolemyâs general philosophical systemâincluding his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethicsâand to explore its relationship to astronomy, harmonics, element theory, astrology, cosmology, psychology, and theology.
In this stimulating intellectual history, Jacqueline Feke uncovers references to a complex and sophisticated philosophical agenda scattered among Ptolemyâs technical studies in the physical and mathematical sciences. She shows how he developed a philosophy...>>
