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  • On Acquiring Wisdom
    Keith Hill / Peter Calvert
    Traditionally, acquiring wisdom has involved becoming wise in the ways of the world and developing deep insight into what drives human existence. Notable among the wise in the Western tradition are Solomon, in whose name Jewish wisdom literature was composed, and Pythagoras, whose enquiries led him to invent the word philosophy, a composite of two Greek words, philo (love) and ...
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    15,52 €

  • Interrogations
    Keith Hill
    Interrogations selects the best of Keith Hill’s early writing to showcase fourteen years of literary, cultural and spiritual exploration. Inspired by traditional poetic forms and the avant-garde, drawing on influences that range from Blake to Beckett, Rumi to Jarry, Mirabai to Artaud, Bashō to Bly, Hill’s work interrogates key myths that have shaped Western culture. Displaying ...
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    20,98 €

  • Interrogations
    Keith Hill
    Interrogations selects the best of Keith Hill’s early writing to showcase fourteen years of literary, cultural and spiritual exploration. Inspired by traditional poetic forms and the avant-garde, drawing on influences that range from Blake to Beckett, Rumi to Jarry, Mirabai to Artaud, Bashō to Bly, Hill’s work interrogates key myths that have shaped Western culture. Displaying ...
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    27,61 €

  • Puck of the Starways
    Keith Hill
    Day in and day out, never resting, Puck played. Having no body, he flitted from star to star, solar system to solar system. Ever at fun, he gambolled through the ten thousand veils of reality. Life to him was a joy, and that joy was his life’s whole meaning.Yet he whose time-span was measured in units far exceeding an earthly aeon found that, in the end, he could not escape tim...
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    21,86 €

  • The Gnosis of Simon Magus
    Keith Hill
    Simon Magus is an enigma. Long derided as a heretic magician, the truth is much more complex. And fascinating. Keith Hill’s dramatic retelling of Simon’s story draws on documentary and legendary materials that show him to be a misunderstood pioneer of Western spirituality. An in-depth background essay explores his connection to Gnostic thought and how he came to be declared an ...
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    23,39 €

  • The Gnosis of Simon Magus
    Keith Hill
    Simon Magus is an enigma. Long derided as a heretic magician, the truth is much more complex. And fascinating. Keith Hill’s dramatic retelling of Simon’s story draws on documentary and legendary materials that show him to be a misunderstood pioneer of Western spirituality. An in-depth background essay explores his connection to Gnostic thought and how he came to be declared an ...
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    17,97 €

  • Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet
    Bryant Keith Alexander / Dominique C. Hill / Mary E. Weems
    In this volume of creative, performative and autoethnographic texts, four scholars spanning two generations come together to promote and claim the important of intergenerational black dialogues as a ’collaborative spirit-making’. ...
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    82,75 €

  • Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet
    Bryant Keith Alexander / Dominique C. Hill / Mary E. Weems
    In this volume of creative, performative and autoethnographic texts, four scholars spanning two generations come together to promote and claim the important of intergenerational black dialogues as a ’collaborative spirit-making’. ...
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    268,07 €

  • Out of the Way World Here Comes Humanity!
    Keith Hill
    'Up-to-the-minute reportage on our fraught zeitgeist, conveyed with vitality and satirical humour.' - Hugh MajorRanging from an individual’s birth to the death of the planet, this urgent collection reflects back to us the perilous state of our world. Written by a fed up boomer determined to call out our collective stupidity, Out of the way world is simultaneously justifiably cy...
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    15,62 €

  • Out of the Way World Here Comes Humanity!
    Keith Hill
    'Up-to-the-minute reportage on our fraught zeitgeist, conveyed with vitality and satirical humour.' - Hugh MajorRanging from an individual’s birth to the death of the planet, this urgent collection reflects back to us the perilous state of our world. Written by a fed up boomer determined to call out our collective stupidity, Out of the way world is simultaneously justifiably cy...
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    26,10 €

  • Puck of the Starways
    Keith Hill
    Day in and day out, never resting, Puck played. Having no body, he flitted from star to star, solar system to solar system. Ever at fun, he gambolled through the ten thousand veils of reality. Life to him was a joy, and that joy was his life’s whole meaning. Yet he whose time-span was measured in units far exceeding an earthly aeon found that, in the end, he could not escape t...
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    9,72 €

  • I Cannot Live Without You
    Keith Hill
    Wild and passionate, Mirabai is Indiaís greatest poet of devotion and love. Married at a young age, after her husbandís premature death she dedicated her life to worshipping the flute-playing Krishna. It was a decision that led her parents-in-law to evict her from their home. Mirabai spent the rest of her life travelling from village to village, singing and dancing to celebrate...
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    19,32 €

  • The Bhagavad Gita
    Keith Hill
    On the battlefield of life, desiring to do our best, how should we act? Which values should we live by? What metaphysical outlook best explains what happens to us? How do we express our spiritual nature? And how can we stay spiritually focused in the whirl of daily activity?Arjunaís searching questions, asked on the brink of a war he is loathe to fight, and Krishnaís profound a...
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    12,91 €

  • The Bhagavad Gita
    Keith Hill
    On the battlefield of life, desiring to do our best, how should we act? Which values should we live by? What metaphysical outlook best explains what happens to us? How do we express our spiritual nature? And how can we stay spiritually focused in the whirl of daily activity?Arjunaís searching questions, asked on the brink of a war he is loathe to fight, and Krishnaís profound a...
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    20,00 €

  • Psychological Spirituality
    Keith Hill
    The greatest personal difficulties we face, along with the psychological strengths and weaknesses that loom largest in our life, have their roots in previous life experience. This makes our personal psychology the tip of an iceberg that has been profoundly shaped by our past life undertakings, reactions and choices. Only by adopting a multi-life perspective can we get to the he...
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    14,38 €

  • Interpretations of Desire
    Keith Hill
    In 1201, Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi arrived in Mecca. Among the many people who impressed him one drew his attention above all others: Nizám, the daughter of a prominent religious teacher. As Beatrice did for Dante, Nizám soon inspired a sequence of love poems that are Ibn ‘Arabi’s poetic masterpiece, Tarjumán al-Aswáq (The Interpreter of Desire).Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi was known...
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    13,75 €

  • Psalms of Exile and Return
    Keith Hill
    In 587 BCE, King Zedekiah of Judah led his people in rebellion against Babylonian rule. Nebuchadnezzar responded mercilessly. His army sacked Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, and deported thousands to Babylon.These psalms are written from the perspective of one of those exiles. They express his growing unhappiness with life as a slave, his despairing cries for help to his Lord,...
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    13,07 €

  • The Lounging Lizard Poet of the Floating World
    Keith Hill
    New Zealand literature has no one like Keith Hill. Always surprising, a genuine original. - Roger HorrocksTHE MODERN DILEMMAHaving spent a lifetime of Western privilegedoing the limbo while jumping over my kneesI feel it is my right now to proclaimI consider myself short-changed.During hours spent stopped in rush hour queuesI have meticulously catalogued the disparitiesbetween ...
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    13,07 €

  • Learning Who You Are
    Keith Hill / Peter Calvert
    Learning Who You Are offers a contemporary take on the age-old questions of who we are and why we are here. The book builds on current scientific knowledge to show how the physical and spiritual realms are interlinked. It does this by presenting a number of innovative models and conceptual frameworks that mesh with twenty-first century understanding. The book also discusses the...
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    13,03 €

  • How Did I End Up Here?
    Keith Hill
    Why are we the person we are? Why did someone significant enter our life at the precise moment they did? How is it we’re naturally attracted to certain people, situations, work, opportunities and not others? Why are we living this life and not another life with different people? And where does God and our spiritual identity fit into it all?Our life seems to be an enigma impossi...
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    13,26 €

  • Striving To Be Human
    Keith Hill
    Striving To be Humanexamines what our moral values are, how we came to have them, and how we can add a spiritual dimension to them.Westerners live in liberal, secular democracies. The religious and moral certainties of the past have lost their influence on us, replaced by liberal freedoms that have led to a culture of moral relativism. The plus about this is that it gives each ...
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    11,77 €

  • Where Do I Go When I Meditate?
    Keith Hill
    “The particular form of meditation is unimportant. Some people sit, others stand, walk, sing or sway rhythmically; different cultures and traditions have different practices. What is important is that the meditator attains a focused inner state in which the external world is shut out and the mind is directed to pay attention to subtle communications. That such a state is attain...
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    7,20 €

  • Practical Spirituality
    Keith Hill
    WINNER OF NEW ZEALAND’S 2013 ASHTON WYLIE AWARD FOR BEST UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT IN THE GENRE OF MIND, BODY, SPIRIT“Whether you wish to be one or not, you are a spiritual being. You have a spiritual dimension at the core of your identity. But there is a difference between being a spirit and becoming spiritual. Being a spirit is a fact of human existence. Becoming spiritual requi...
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    8,61 €

  • Experimental Spirituality
    Keith Hill
    We live in an era when traditional religious approaches to spirituality are increasingly losing relevance. Equally, the sciences, which have very successfully helped us understand physical reality, are not equipped to fathom the subtleties of deep inner experience. Each approach offers useful insights, but neither is sufficient. We urgently need new forms of spirituality approp...
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    8,69 €

  • The Matapaua Conversations
    Keith Hill / Peter Calvert
    Who are we? Where do we come from? How did the universe come to be? What is the structure of reality? Do we have a higher purpose? If so, what is it?For millennia the world’s religions have offered answers to these and other big questions. Today those answers are showing their age. A new approach to spirituality is needed that takes into account our current understanding of rea...
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    11,67 €

  • The God Revolution
    Keith Hill
    Our view of the universe has changed radically since the Renaissance. We no longer think, speak, live, or see the world as our forebears did. The Protestant Reformation, the replacing of feudal social hierarchies with liberal democracy, the separation of State and Church, the industrial revolution, the advent of universal education, shifting from mythological religious explanat...
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    11,58 €

  • The New Mysticism
    Keith Hill
    The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear, is a dead man. – Albert EinsteinFor millennia, mystics’ explorations of reality were considered a religious quest. This changed during the Victorian era,...
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    11,71 €

  • The Kosmic Web
    Keith Hill / Peter Calvert
    We live in the midst of a vast universe. Currently, our sciences enable us to perceive less than 5% of it. The rest is designated dark energy and dark matter. This means 95% of the universe effectively remains a mystery. In 'The Kosmic Web' human beings who have completed their cycles of incarnation offer intriguing insights into the mystery of all existence. Drawing on the ide...
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    9,51 €

  • The Ecstasy of Cabeza de Vaca
    Keith Hill
    In 1528, a Spanish expedition was shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico. Eight years later only four men remained alive. One of the four, Cabeza de Vaca, later published an account of what occurred. Naked and enslaved, de Vaca was stripped of all he possessed, then underwent an extraordinary transformation. The Ecstasy of Cabeza de Vaca is Keith Hill’s masterful retelling of Cabeza...
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    13,64 €

  • What Is Really Going On?
    Keith Hill
    It often seems that our biggest problem with being human ... is being human! Here you will find down-to-earth and compassionate comments on some of the biggest issues that trouble us as we attempt to live fully and make sense of our lives. In often humorous responses, the guides talk plainly about the spiritual complexities involved in being human. 'We’ll start by introducing o...
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    12,13 €