Following the Third World War, humankind left the toxic surface of the Earth and built an underground city to survive. A serious social problem has emerged in this new society: hyperorexia, or severe overeating, a side effect of the "Pure Trance" life-sustaining pill. The story begins in a hospital which has been ruined by a tyrannical director, Keiko Yamazaki. The nurses who toil under Keiko's whip are regular girls, just like your friends and co-workers. Yet this is no soap opera! It is a dreamy science fiction fantasy -- a twisted story of catfights, alien safari adventures, evil experimentation, and a girl in love with a pop idol singer.

From T. S. Eliot’s Sweeney to C. S. Lewis’s Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these ‘modern primitive’ figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic exchange. What compels our post-human identification with these characters? Modern Animalism explores representations of the human-animal ‘problem creature’ in a broad assortment of literature and comics from the late nineteenth century to the present — including authors such as Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Moore, Murakami, Pullman, Coetzee, and Atwood, and comics creators such as McCay, Herriman, Miyazaki, and Morrison. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish.

Robin Sylvan combines colorful firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis to paint a compelling portrait of global rave culture as an important new religious and spiritual phenomenon that also serves as a template for mapping the future evolution of new forms of religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century.

This book describes an entirely new way of conducting hypnotherapeutic interventions - Stephen Gilligan's generative trance. The first generation of trance work, the traditional hypnosis that still holds sway in most places, considers that both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind of the client are, to put it bluntly, idiots. So trance work involves first 'knocking out' the conscious mind and then talking to the unconscious mind like a 2-year old that needs to be told how to behave. Milton Erickson created the second generation of trance work. He approached the unconscious as having creative wisdom and each person as extraordinarily unique. Thus, rather than trying to programme the unconscious with new instructions, Erickson saw trance as an experiential learning state where a person's own creative unconscious could generate healing and transformation. At the same time Erickson, for the most part, carried the same low opinion of the conscious mind. Thus, Ericksonian hypnosis looks to bypass the conscious mind with indirect suggestions and dissociation and depotentiate it with confusion techniques.

You have landed here because a new time has come in your life. Take the control of your life in your hands and go on your way. You have hesitated long enough. Activate your power and start living psychically - but how? My experience with TRANCE HEALING has shown me that this easy-to-learn spiritual healing method has the power to transform your life. Because TRANCE HEALING opens the door to your psychic abilities and at the same time provides you with a wonderful companion from the spiritual world. How this works, to live psychically, and what it brings you in life, if you work together with forces of the spiritual world, that is in this book. In addition, it clears up myths and prejudices of esotericism and clarifies how mediumship works and what you can do integrated in normal everyday life, so that your spiritual healing abilities grow and blossom. TRANCE HEALING VOLUME 1 - Entering the supernatural shows that there is much more to you than you think. --------------------------------------------------------- Du bist hier gelandet, weil eine neue Zeit in Deinem Leben angebrochen ist. Nimm die Zügel Deines Lebens in die Hand und mach Dich auf den Weg. Du hast lange genug gezögert. Aktiviere Deine Kraft und beginne, übersinnlich zu leben - aber wie? Meine Erfahrungen mit TRANCE HEALING haben mir gezeigt, dass diese einfach zu lernende geistige Heilmethode die Kraft hat, Dein Leben zu transformieren. Weil TRANCE HEALING die Tür zu Deinen übersinnlichen Fähigkeiten öffnet und Dir zugleich einen wunderbaren Begleiter aus der geistigen Welt zur Seite stellt. Wie das geht, übersinnlich leben, und was es Dir im Leben bringt, wenn du mit Kräften der geistigen Welt zusammenarbeitest, das steht in diesem Buch. Zudem räumt es mit Mythen und Vorurteilen der Esoterik auf und klärt, wie Medialität funktioniert und was du integriert im normalen Alltag tun kannst, damit deine geistigen Heilfähigkeiten wachsen und gedeihen. TRANCE HEALING VOLUME 1 - Entering the supernatural zeigt, dass in Dir weit mehr steckt, als Du denkst.

A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men and women-individuals with the power to summon spirits. As written by priests, explorers, adventurers, natural historians, and anthropologists, the pieces express the wonder of strangers in new worlds. Who were these extraordinary magic-makers who imitated the sounds of animals in the night, or drank tobacco juice through funnels, or wore collars filled with stinging ants? Shamans Through Time is a rare chronicle of changing attitudes toward that which is strange and unfamiliar. With essays by such acclaimed thinkers as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Black Elk, Carlos Castaneda, and Frank Boas, it provides an awesome glimpse into the incredible shamanic practices of cultures around the world.

Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.