The Maharishi Effect: A Personal Hourney Through the Movement That Transformed American Spirituality By Geoff Gilpin
2006 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 1585425079 | PDF | 146 MB
This penetrating literary-journalistic memoir depicts the clash between promise and reality within the movement that virtually defined alternative spirituality in America: Transcendental Meditation and its iconic guru, the Maharishi.Like hundreds of thousands of young people, Geoff Gilpin entered the Transcendental Meditation movement in the early seventies, when its guru, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was fresh in the public mind as the spiritual guide to the Beatles and the man who made "meditation" a household word. The movement's Iowa campus was a center of spiritual idealism and healthy living.Gilpin left after five years, settling into a successful career in the software business. Two decades later, wistful over the past and concerned by the increasingly harsh tone of the Maharishi's public pronouncements, Gilpin decided to return and find out what had become of the spiritual community of his youth.His move back to Fairfield, Iowa, proved both revealing and unsettling. He rediscovered what had drawn his generation to Eastern spirituality - and what he and his cohorts had lost in following the usual path to careerism. But he also experienced disturbing changes in a spiritual organization that - while attracting money, celebrity, and clout - had seemingly drifted from its early ideals. Its inner culture, Gilpin observed, had divided into haves and have-nots, in ways both subtle and obvious. The Maharishi - believed to be in his late eighties or early nineties and now living in Holland - was promoting projects that involved global government, third-world rulers, claims of levitation, and grandiose fund-raising campaigns.The Maharishi Effect is one man's bittersweet chronicle of innocence found and lost in the movement that, more than any other, defined spirituality for a generation. BACKCOVER: One of the most important influences on the spiritual revolution of the Sixties was Transcendental Meditation. TM is a simple meditation technique popularized by the Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The cultural explosion that followed-the "human potential movement" and the New Age-began with Maharishi as much as anybody.I was among those who learned TM back in the day. I wasn't content to sit with my eyes closed, however; I wanted to find out if Maharishi had anything else to offer. My curiosity led me into the Movement, the worldwide organization that Maharishi established to teach TM and bring enlightenment to the planet. I spent five years in the Movement, from 1973 to 1978, as a hanger-on, volunteer, and student at Maharishi International University.When I left, it was for the usual reasons. I got a job, a wife, a house in the suburbs - the whole nine yards. I continued to meditate, but I was out of the Movement loop for two decades.Then I went back. In part, I wanted to reconnect with the spiritual life I'd neglected since young adulthood. I'd also heard of some unsettling developments in the Movement and I was curious to find out what was going on firsthand. There might have been a small midlife crisis in there somewhere as well. For a few months in 2001, I took a local apartment and lived in the town that's at the center of America's spiritual revolution.
Kimberly Brock, "The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1400234271, 1400234204 | 464 pages | EPUB | 4.4 MB
The fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl.
The Keto Waffle Chef: A Month of Keto Waffles from a Chef's Kitchen by Keanu Wood
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09J18F59T | 74 pages | EPUB | 3.55 Mb
Keto waffles? Don't give us that look! They're real, they exist, and we've mastered them! In fact, we've become so good at making them that we've got a month's worth of recipes waiting just for you! Sweet and savory, we've got a waffle recipe for every craving. Morning, afternoon, evening, midnight snack - we have it all!
The Invisible Game: The Secrets and the Science of Winning Minds and Winning Deals by Kai-Markus Mueller, Gabriele Rehbock
English | November 16th, 2022 | ISBN: 1394152981 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 7.19 MB
Cutting-edge science can make all the difference for salespeople in a time when they are facing a business world in transformation.
Jacquelyn Parkes, "The "I Love Cookies" Recipe Book: From Rolled Sugar Cookies to Snickerdoodles and More, 100 of Your Favorite Cookie Recipes! ("I Love My" Cookbook Series)"
English | ISBN: 1507220049 | 2022 | EPUB | 176 pages | 120 MB
Celebrate your cookie obsession with these 100 mouthwatering recipes in The "I Love My Cookies" Recipe Book.
Emily Lauer, "The Harry Potter Generation: Essays on Growing Up with the Series"
English | ISBN: 147667003X | 2019 | 218 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The generation of readers most heavily impacted by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series-those who grew up alongside "the boy who lived"-have come of age. They are poised to become teachers, parents, critics and writers, and many of their views and choices will be influenced by the literary revolution in which they were immersed. This collection of new essays explores the many different ways in which Harry Potter has shaped this generation's views on everything from politics to identity to pedagogical spaces online. It seeks to determine how the books have affected fans' understanding of their place in the world and their capacity to create it anew.
The Green Barbecue Cookbook: Modern Vegetarian Grill and BBQ Recipes by Martin Nordin
English | May 3, 2022 | ISBN: 1784885479 | 240 pages | PDF | 25 Mb
The Green Barbecue Cookbook is a collection of mouthwatering vegetarian recipes, all of which are cooked with fire.
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
English | November 16, 2021 | ISBN: 1591847338 | 608 pages | PDF | 43 Mb
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin: Easy Essays from the Catholic Worker By Peter Maurin, Lincoln Rice (editor)
2020 | 864 Pages | ISBN: 082328753X | PDF | 3 MB
The definitive edition of Catholic Worker cofounder Peter Maurin's Easy Essays, including 74 previously unpublished worksAlthough Peter Maurin is well known among people connected to the Catholic Worker movement, his Catholic Worker co-founder and mentee Dorothy Day largely overshadowed him. Maurin was never the charismatic leader that Day was, and some Workers found his idiosyncrasies challenging. Reticent to write or even speak much about his personal life, Maurin preferred to present his beliefs and ideas in the form of Easy Essays, published in the New York Catholic Worker. Featuring 482 of his essays, as well as 87 previously unpublished ones, this text offers a great contribution to the corpus of twentieth-century Catholic life.At first glance, Maurin's Easy Essays appear overly simplistic and preposterous. But upon further investigation, his essays are much more complex and nuanced. Packed with demanding ideas meant to convey dense information and encourage the listener to ponder different ways to understand and interact with reality, his short poetic phrases became his modus operandi for communicating his vision and became a hallmark of his public theology. Each essay contained anywhere from one to ten or more stanzas and were part of a larger arrangement, often titled. Within the larger arrangements were individual essays, which were also titled and arranged in such a manner as to support the overall thesis. Many individual essays were later repeated in slightly altered forms in new arrangements. Previous arrangements were also repeated that omitted or added an essay.Providing scholarly and contextual information for the modern reader, this annotated collection includes more than 350 footnotes which offer a layer of intelligibility that explains Maurin's use of obscure references to historical people and events that would have been common knowledge for readers during the 1930s. When appropriate, the footnotes explain why Maurin chose to cite a person or event. A scholarly Introduction offers a robust synthesis of contemporary scholarship on Maurin and the Catholic Worker that considers radical Catholicism and questions regarding race, ethnicity, religious difference, and gender, because many of Maurin's essays take up these themes. This book shapes the ways Maurin is read in the present day and the ways leftist Catholicism is understood as part of twentieth-century history.
Teresa Kindred, "The Faith-Filled Grandmother: Promises, Prayers & Practical Advice for Today"
English | ISBN: 1680994298 | 2019 | 184 pages | EPUB | 1531 KB
With accompanying scriptures, devotions, and prayers, The Faith-Filled Grandmother will inspire, empower, and relay God's promises to a new generation of grandmothers-from fearful first-time nanas to seasoned grandmothers-as well as new parents and women's ministry pastors.