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Beyond vision : going blind, inner seeing, and the nature of the self /
"How does a young man who is losing his eyesight go about shaping a life? Such a dilemma is the stuff of "pathography," a dreary genre of literature that emphasizes suffering and loss. This literary convention and the misconceptions that fuel it are challenged by Allan Jones in his au...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments Listening Hard and Writing Out Loud; Introduction Claiming the Terrain; 1 Can the self go blind?; 2 Finding a path; 3 Making sense of the pathfinder; 4 Where we are heading; 1 A Sheer White Cliff Face; 1 How things began to go missing; 2 The flight from the truth; 3 Inner acknowledgment; 4 Taking my prognosis on tour; 2 The Functionary and His Mask; 1 Eyeing the foreign service and angling for Tokyo; 2 Down from the plateau; 3 Three faces of the RP identity; 4 Trying to catch hold of myself; 3 India, the Visual Conundrum, and Letting Go.
- 1 The new Delhi sensorium2 Disentanglement from images; 3 A set of Mogul pictures; 4 Regarding facelessness; 4 Vedanta, the Ego, and the Flesh; 1 Re-enter Shiva; 2 The coils of the ego; 3 Factor X: the centripetal pull of the body; 5 Into the Pre-visual Centre; 1 Skirting the edge; 2 Just by walking; 3 Factor Y: the return of the repressed; 4 A burst of openness; 5 Looking for my others; 6 Vision, Science, and the World-Illusion; 1 Three unconventional perspectives on seeing; 2 Inside the mall: reality or appearance?; 3 The great light of consciousness; 7 Learning to Live an Ancient Teaching.
- 1 Taking it in and letting it work2 Spiritual practice as stress management; 3 The subtle arts of equimindedness; 8 The Challenge of Integration; 1 Factor Z, at long last; 2 Interzone, phantasmagoria, ownership; 3 Ordinary life as I find it; 9 Opening Up; 1 A humane transition; 2 A final af firmation of the sensory world; Notes.