”It's obvious [Abby] that you have definitely had an opening and you have the articulation of the profound truths that you're able to bring to people, whether they're laymen or whether they are veterans. You’re bringing ‘It’ in a very powerful way.” —Michael Bernard Beckwith— Founder & Spiritual Director, Agape International Spiritual Center Author, “Life Visioning and Spiritual Liberation” How Me Found I: Mastering the Art of Pivoting Gracefully Through Life is a book focused on the philosophy of “multidimensional spherical thinking” and how to manifest the fullness of the life you want by operating from the center point of your experiences as a human being. This book will provide insights on helping a person improve his/her conscious understanding of their multidimensionality existence within a person’s scientific holographic reality here in their everyday 3D experiences through the strengthening of their critical thinking skills; the understanding of their own true natural composite state of being as it was always meant to be; the activation and alignment of their fullest potential in sync with nature and their own innate design; and ultimately pivots them accordingly into an accelerated life of true abundance, joyous existence, and fulfilling completeness. ABIGAIL DIAZ JUAN is a global citizen and world traveler. After coming to the United States from Afghanistan, she became a successful businesswoman, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. As a teacher and founder of the Diamond Quest Company, she assists others in walking their own destiny paths to greatness. Visit her online at www.mydiamondquest.net.
In her first collection of poems, Abigail Cloud draws inspiration from nineteenth-century European Romantic ballets, which often portrayed scorned females as mystical spirits such as sylphs, shades, and wilis. Some of these creatures seduced men into dancing until they died -- punishment for inconstancy or lured them into love. For Cloud, the dark gravity that holds these enchanters to the earth is the same as our own and thus these demons are as everyday as air. Sylph filters our world through the lenses of dance, folklore, and history, revealing our contemporary lives to be dreamlike and prismatic. "In the blink the mouse spent to disappear, I loved you," avows the sylph. The cost of her ascension -- and ours -- is steep: "our price speech, our forgetting breath." Such are the stakes in this complex, seductive, and stunning debut.
Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid traces how Flemish immigrant painters and imported Flemish paintings fundamentally transformed the development of Spanish taste, collecting, and art production in the Spanish “Golden Age.”
Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations, as that subtitle suggests, makes the case for considering Spanish vampire fiction an index of the complex relationship between intercultural phenomena and the specifics of a time, place, and author. Supernatural beings that drink blood are found in folklore worldwide, Spain included, and writers ranging from the most canonical to the most marginal have written vampire stories, Spanish ones included too. When they do, they choose between various strategies of characterization or blend different ones together. How much will they draw on conventions of the transnational corpus? Are their vampires to be local or foreign; alluring or repulsive; pitiable or pure evil, for instance? Decisions like these determine the messages texts carry and, when made by Spanish authors, may reveal aspects of their culture with striking candidness, perhaps because the fantasy premise seems to give the false sense of security that this is harmless escapism and, since metaphorical meaning is implicit, it is open to argument and, if necessary, denial. Part I gives a chronological text-by-text appreciation of all the texts included in this volume, many of them little known even to Hispanists and few if any to non-Spanish Gothic scholars. It also provides a plot summary and brief background on the author of each. These entries are free-standing and designed to be consulted for reference or read together to give a sense of the evolution of the paradigm since 1900. Part II considers the corpus comparatively, first with regard to its relationship to folklore and religion and then contagion and transmission. Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations will be of interest to Anglophone Gothic scholars who want to develop their knowledge of the Spanish dimension of the mode and to Hispanists who want to look at some canonical texts and authors from a new perspective but also gain an awareness of some interesting and decidedly non-canonical material.
Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimately, revolution, abstract art signaled the country’s cultural worldliness and its purchase within the international avant-garde. This pioneering book offers the first in-depth examination of Cuban art during that time, following the intersecting trajectories of the artist groups Los Once and Los Diez against a dramatic backdrop of modernization and armed rebellion. Abigail McEwen explores the activities of a constellation of artists and writers invested in the ideological promises of abstraction, and reflects on art’s capacity to effect radical social change. Featuring previously unpublished artworks, new archival research, and extensive primary sources, this remarkable volume excavates a rich cultural history with links to the development of abstraction in Europe and the Americas.
”It's obvious [Abby] that you have definitely had an opening and you have the articulation of the profound truths that you're able to bring to people, whether they're laymen or whether they are veterans. You’re bringing ‘It’ in a very powerful way.” —Michael Bernard Beckwith— Founder & Spiritual Director, Agape International Spiritual Center Author, “Life Visioning and Spiritual Liberation” How Me Found I: Mastering the Art of Pivoting Gracefully Through Life is a book focused on the philosophy of “multidimensional spherical thinking” and how to manifest the fullness of the life you want by operating from the center point of your experiences as a human being. This book will provide insights on helping a person improve his/her conscious understanding of their multidimensionality existence within a person’s scientific holographic reality here in their everyday 3D experiences through the strengthening of their critical thinking skills; the understanding of their own true natural composite state of being as it was always meant to be; the activation and alignment of their fullest potential in sync with nature and their own innate design; and ultimately pivots them accordingly into an accelerated life of true abundance, joyous existence, and fulfilling completeness. ABIGAIL DIAZ JUAN is a global citizen and world traveler. After coming to the United States from Afghanistan, she became a successful businesswoman, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. As a teacher and founder of the Diamond Quest Company, she assists others in walking their own destiny paths to greatness. Visit her online at www.mydiamondquest.net.
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