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The Antipodes of the Mind

Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience

By: Benny Shanon

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The Antipodes of the Mind

Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience

By: Benny Shanon

This is a study of the phenomenology of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. The author's research is based both on extensive firsthand experiences with Ayahuasca, and on interviews conducted with a large number of informants.

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500

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Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN 10

0199252939

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9780199252930

True Story

How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media

By: Shanon Fitzpatrick

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True Story

How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media

By: Shanon Fitzpatrick

The larger-than-life story of Bernarr Macfadden, a bodybuilder who turned his obsession with muscles, celebrity, and confession into a publishing empire that transformed global media. In True Story, Shanon Fitzpatrick tells the unlikely story of an orphan from the Ozarks who became one of history’s most powerful media moguls. Born in 1868 in Mill Spring, Missouri, Bernarr Macfadden turned to bodybuilding to transform himself from a sickly “boy” into a creature of masculine perfection. He then channeled his passion into the magazine Physical Culture, capitalizing on the wider turn-of-the-century mania for fitness. Macfadden Publications soon become a pioneer in mass media, helping to inaugurate our sensational, confessional, and body-obsessed global marketplace. With publications like True Story, a magazine purportedly written and edited by its own readers, as well as scores of romance, crime, and fan magazines, Macfadden specialized in titles that targeted women, immigrants, and the working class. Although derided as pulp by critics of the time, Macfadden’s publications were not merely profitable. They were also influential. They championed reader engagement and interactivity long before these were buzzwords in the media industry, breaking down barriers between producers and consumers of culture. At the same time, Macfadden Publications inspired key elements of modern media strategy by privileging rapid production of new content and equally rapid disintegration and reconfiguration of properties in the face of shifting market conditions. No less than the kings of Hollywood and Madison Avenue, Macfadden was a crucial player in shaping American consumer culture and selling it to the world at large. Though the Macfadden media empire is overlooked today, its legacies are everywhere, from true-crime journalism to celebrity gossip rags and fifteen-minute abs.

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321

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Harvard University Press

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0674275675

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9780674275676

The Representational and the Presentational

An Essay on Cognition and the Study of Mind

By: Benny Shanon

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The Representational and the Presentational

An Essay on Cognition and the Study of Mind

By: Benny Shanon

In this wide-ranging book the author presents his critique of the contemporary portrayal of cognition, an analysis of the conceptual foundations of cognitive science and a proposal for a new concept of the mind. Shanon argues that the representational account is seriously lacking and that far from serving as a basis of cognitive activity, representations are the products of such activity. He proposes an alternative view of the mind in which the basic capability of the cognitive system is not the manipulation of symbols but rather action in the world. His book offers a different outlook on the phenomenon of consciousness and presents a new conception of psychological theory and explanation. This revised second edition includes a new Postscript.

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667

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Andrews UK Limited

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1845405137

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9781845405137

Way of the Wraith

By: Shanon Sinn

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Way of the Wraith

By: Shanon Sinn

Death comes at the end of every road, he had always said, and now it came for him. In a land devoid of memory, one man wakes from death only to discover that its nothing he could have ever imagined. Within a realm of fear and suffering, demons and angry spirits feed off of the recently deceased. Pain and attachment to the material world torture those that do not understand why they remain earthbound, or why some of them seem to be lucid at all. Stalked by reapers, hated by the living, and betrayed by those he once loved, one man races against time to discover why he remains upon the earth and what it is that he is supposed to accomplish. The end approaches. Not just for him, but for everyone.

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256

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iUniverse

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1462015301

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9781462015306

Pain to Purpose

The Stories of Women Who Went from Tragedy to Triumph

By: Tamara Marie Harris

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Pain to Purpose

The Stories of Women Who Went from Tragedy to Triumph

By: Tamara Marie Harris

The devastation of loss, humiliation and pain can take person through many facets of life that lead to rejection, depression and even suicide. These women tell their stories for the first time and leave you speechless from beginning to end.

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124

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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154293737X

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9781542937375

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The Antipodes of the Mind

The Antipodes of the Mind

True Story

True Story

The Representational and the Presentational

The Representational and the Presentational

Way of the Wraith

Way of the Wraith

Pain to Purpose

Pain to Purpose

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