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The Physics of Transfigured Light

The Imaginal Realm and the Hermetic Foundations of Science

By: Leon Marvell

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The Physics of Transfigured Light

The Imaginal Realm and the Hermetic Foundations of Science

By: Leon Marvell

Reveals the Hermetic underpinnings of modern scientific theories • Offers a full reconsideration of the history of science from Newton to the present day as well as a Platonic-Hermetic perspective on modern technology • Examines Hermetic resonances among the ideas of Gurdjieff, Robert Fludd, Marsilio Ficino, and cybernetics; Einstein and the Tibetan Bardo; Neoplatonism and artificial intelligence; and Rosicrucianism and the internet • Shows how Hermetic doctrine is at the heart of what modern physics is now rediscovering: that consciousness permeates everything Contemporary scientific disciplines such as chaos and complexity theory, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science treat themselves as new fields of inquiry, but many of these ideas can be traced back to Hermeticism, the European intellectual tradition sparked by the rediscovery of the Corpus Hermeticum and Platonic texts in the 15th century. Building a map of the progression of scientific thought across centuries and continents, Leon Marvell examines the ancient roots of Hermeticism, its rise during the Renaissance, and its suppression during the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment. He reveals how three main Hermetic ideas--the divine spark within each individual, the subtle body, and the anima mundi or world soul--have continually emerged at the cutting edge of science and philosophy throughout the ages because these ideas represent universal truths recognized by each era of human civilization. Marvell examines Hermetic resonances among the ideas of Gurdjieff, Robert Fludd, Marsilio Ficino, and cybernetic theory; Einstein and the Tibetan Bardo; and Neoplatonism and the work of AI scientist Christopher Langton. He reveals how the Rosicrucian description of the Invisible College also describes the instant availability of knowledge via the Internet, and he shows how Hermetic thought is at the heart of what modern physics is rediscovering: that consciousness permeates everything and the universe cannot be reduced to the random play of matter. Offering a full reconsideration of the history of science from Newton to the present day as well as a Platonic-Hermetic perspective on modern technology, Marvell reveals the pattern that connects the sciences, philosophy, and ancient knowledge and opens a potentially rich field of inquiry for 21st-century science.

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Simon and Schuster

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1620554836

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Transfigured Light

Philosophy, Cybernetics and the Hermetic Imaginary

By: Leon Marvell

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Transfigured Light

Philosophy, Cybernetics and the Hermetic Imaginary

By: Leon Marvell

An original research monograph that investigates and re examines the ideas generated by the Hermetic tradition (the hermetic imaginary) to discuss the effects of this tradition on philosophy and science. Author posits several elements of the hermetic imaginary that have been influential in modern philosophy and science. Table of contents: Chapter1: Spirit of the Beehive: Hermetic Resonances in Cybernetics, AI and Cyberspace Chapter2: Body Doubles Chapter3: Metaphysical Geometry, Cyber-Attractors and the Shape of the World Soul Chapter4: The Gnostic Chemistry of Robert Fludd Chapter5: The Gnostic Leibniz Chapter6: History Examines a Tradition " ....Highly recommended...an original and valuable contribution to the intellectual history of the West." Professor Paul du Quenoy, AUC History and Ideas Series, No.1

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323

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Academica Press,LLC

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1933146273

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9781933146270

British Historians and National Identity

From Hume to Churchill

By: Anthony Leon Brundage

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British Historians and National Identity

From Hume to Churchill

By: Anthony Leon Brundage

Two eminent scholars of historiography examine the concept of national identity through the key multi-volume histories of the last two hundred years. Starting with Hume’s History of England (1754–62), they explore the work of British historians whose work had a popular readership and an influence on succeeding generations of British children.

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Routledge

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1317317114

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9781317317111

The Rhythms Of Life

The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing

By: Leon Kreitzman,Russell Foster

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The Rhythms Of Life

The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing

By: Leon Kreitzman,Russell Foster

Popular science at its most exciting: the breaking new world of chronobiology - understanding the rhythm of life in humans and all plants and animals. The entire natural world is full of rhythms. The early bird catches the worm -and migrates to an internal calendar. Dormice hibernate away the winter. Plants open and close their flowers at the same hour each day. Bees search out nectar-rich flowers day after day. There are cicadas that can breed for only two weeks every 17 years. And in humans: why are people who work anti-social shifts more illness prone and die younger? What is jet-lag and can anything help? Why do teenagers refuse to get up in the morning, and are the rest of us really 'larks' or 'owls'? Why are most people born (and die) between 3am-5am? And should patients be given medicines (and operations) at set times of day, because the body reacts so differently in the morning, evening and at night? The answers lie in our biological clocks the mechanisms which give order to all living things. They impose a structure that enables us to change our behaviour in relation to the time of day, month or year. They are reset at sunrise and sunset each day to link astronomical time with an organism's internal time.

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Profile Books

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1847653723

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9781847653727

Satire and the Transformation of Genre

By: Leon Guilhamet

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Satire and the Transformation of Genre

By: Leon Guilhamet

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512802093

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9781512802092

Matthew Arnold and the Romantics

By: Leon Gottfried

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Matthew Arnold and the Romantics

By: Leon Gottfried

First published in 1963. Matthew Arnold grew up under the personal as well as literary influence of Wordsworth, when Keats, Shelley, and Byron were dominant poetic forces and Coleridge a seminal thinker on social and religious problems. However, the great Romantics were not always positive influences. This study attempts to provide an examination of Arnold by exploring and evaluating the full range of Arnold’s reactions to the major Romantic poets over his whole career. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

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Routledge

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1317278054

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Defoe and the Whig Novel

A Reading of the Major Fiction

By: Leon Guilhamet

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Defoe and the Whig Novel

A Reading of the Major Fiction

By: Leon Guilhamet

Defoe's fictional settings all begin in the reign of the Stuarts, but the lack of specificity invariably reflects on the Hanoverian political and social situation, which witnessed a crisis in Whig leadership from 1717 to Walpole's resumption of power after the disaster of the South Sea Bubble and the sudden deaths of Stanhope and Sunderland. This serious split in Whig leadership probably played a role in Defoe's turning toward fiction. But Defoe never abandoned his social and political views. This study explores how his social viewpoint actuates his major fiction. --

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University of Delaware Press

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0874130891

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9780874130898

Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia

Literary Modernism and Politics

By: Leon Surette

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Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia

Literary Modernism and Politics

By: Leon Surette

While these authors' political inclinations are well known and much discussed, previous studies have failed to adequately analyse the surrounding political circumstances that informed the specific utopian aspirations in each writer's works. Balancing a thorough knowledge of their works with an understanding of the political climate of the early twentieth century, Leon Surette provides new insights into the motivations and development of each writer's respective political postures. Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia examines their political commentary and their correspondence with each other from 1910s to the 1950s. Contextualizing their political thought in a world troubled by two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Bolshevik Revolution, Surette traces their shared concerns and the divergent responses of each of these figures in the historical moment to the risk they perceived of democracies becoming the pawns of commercial and industrial elites, leading to war and mindless consumerism. They all leaned toward autocratic solutions, though Pound and Lewis eventually admitted their error.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773586652

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9780773586659

Innovation, Startups and Intellectual Property Management

Strategies and Evidence from Latin America and other Regions

By: Ignacio De Leon,Jose Fernandez Donoso

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Innovation, Startups and Intellectual Property Management

Strategies and Evidence from Latin America and other Regions

By: Ignacio De Leon,Jose Fernandez Donoso

This book identifies the potential of intellectual property as a competitive asset for Latin American firms. The authors employ a cognitive approach that involves identifying why small firms are reluctant to register patents, resorting rather to alternative IP competitive strategies. This, in turn, results in the undercapitalization of intellectual assets, thus creating hurdles for the development of capital venture markets. Using new data gathered from highly innovative SMEs in Latin America and the Caribbean, the authors bring a fresh cognitive approach towards understanding the institutional role of intellectual property, and outline various new policy recommendations.

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177

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Springer

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3319549065

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9783319549064

The War Lover

A Study of Plato's Republic

By: Leon Harold Craig

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The War Lover

A Study of Plato's Republic

By: Leon Harold Craig

A new interpretation of Plato's Republic. Craig investigates why this dialogue, ostensibly about justice, offers Plato's fullest account of philosophy and philosophers, and why it is preoccupied with war.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802079423

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9780802079428

The Modern Dilemma

Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Humanism

By: Leon Surette

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The Modern Dilemma

Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Humanism

By: Leon Surette

Leon Surette's new study of T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens challenges the received view that Stevens' poetry expresses a Humanist world view, and - more surprisingly - documents Eliot's early Humanist phase.

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0773575057

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9780773575059

Fabulous Fictions & Peculiar Practices

By: Leon Rooke

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Fabulous Fictions & Peculiar Practices

By: Leon Rooke

In Fabulous Fictions and Peculiar Practices, politics and economics sprawl comfortably alongside prurient dissertations on sex, marriage and aging as Leon Rooke and Tony Calzetta masterfully unfold a narrative of society’s indifference to the sorry plight of the artist. In this unique confluence of image and text, a pompous bank president delivers a rousing oration to his number cruncher clerks, and the painter Cézanne faces off against a disquieting muse and the cold rejection of the artistic community. Art critics, reveling in their own pedantry, find perverse enjoyment in professing ridiculous opinions. And God himself makes a cameo appearance—fearsome, irreverent and, it must be said, at times lecherous.... Satirical, playful and provocative, Fabulous Fictions is a madcap tour de force unlike anything you’ve ever seen or heard before.

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The Porcupine's Quill

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0889848335

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9780889848337

Transfigured Light

Philosophy, Cybernetics and the Hermetic Imaginary

By: Leon Marvell

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Transfigured Light

Philosophy, Cybernetics and the Hermetic Imaginary

By: Leon Marvell

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The Physics of Transfigured Light

The Imaginal Realm and the Hermetic Foundations of Science

By: Leon Marvell

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Book's by Leon Marvell

The Physics of Transfigured Light

The Physics of Transfigured Light

Transfigured Light

Transfigured Light

British Historians and National Identity

British Historians and National Identity

The Rhythms Of Life

The Rhythms Of Life

Satire and the Transformation of Genre

Satire and the Transformation of Genre

Matthew Arnold and the Romantics

Matthew Arnold and the Romantics

Defoe and the Whig Novel

Defoe and the Whig Novel

Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia

Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia

Innovation, Startups and Intellectual Property Management

Innovation, Startups and Intellectual Property Management

The War Lover

The War Lover

The Modern Dilemma

The Modern Dilemma

Fabulous Fictions & Peculiar Practices

Fabulous Fictions & Peculiar Practices

Transfigured Light

Transfigured Light

The Physics of Transfigured Light

The Physics of Transfigured Light

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