James M. Redfield

Een Amerikaan wordt op het spoor gezet van een manuscript dat in Peru verborgen is en waarin het wezen en de toekomst van de mens ontsloten worden.

De Celestijnse belofte

Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri--a Greek colony on the Adriatic coast of Italy--as a third way in Greek culture, neither Athens nor Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, James Redfield offers a fascinating account of this poorly understood Greek city-state, and in particular the distinctive role of women and marriage therein. Redfield devotes much of the book to placing Locri within a more general account of Greek culture, particularly with the institution of marriage in relation to private property, sexual identity, and the fate of the soul. He begins by considering the annual practice of sending two maidens from old-world Locris, the putative place of origin of the Italian Locrians, to serve in the temple of Athena at Ilion, finding here some key themes of Locrian culture. He goes on to provide a richly detailed overview of the Italian city; in a set of iconographic essays he suggests that marriage was seen in Locri as a life transformation akin to the eternal bliss hoped for after death. Nothing less than a general reevaluation of classical Greek society in both its political and theological dimensions, The Locrian Maidens is must reading for students and scholars of classics, while remaining accessible and of particular interest to those in women's studies and to anyone seeking a broader understanding of ancient Greece.

Love and Death in Greek Italy

The Locrian Maidens

Carol Adrienne

This hands-on guide is the perfect companion volume for The Tenth Insight. It provides detailed explanations and exercises on topics including: previous lifetimes, soul groups, birth visions, the use of dreams and prayers, the afterlife, and the World Vision. It helps us experience first-hand how our own lives fit into the eternal cycles... teaches us how to discover our own personal missions... and reveals how we can all take part in the ultimately joyful world changes revealed in The Tenth Insight.

Experiential Guide

Tenth Insight

This companion volume helps you intensify and expand the exciting knowledge contained in each of the Nine Insights of The Celestine Prophecy. Through detailed explanations and carefully designed exercises, you can uncover further revelations about your family and partners, and the ways your past has been a preparation for that special contribution you can make to the world. Most exciting of all, you can explore a deeper connection with your personal energy and divine source.

an experiential guide

The Celestine Prophecy

Jaap van Spanje

De celestijnse belofte

Karin van Grieken

De hoofdpersoon uit "De Celestijnse belofte" vertrekt naar Kathmandu, Nepal, en reist van daar met een gids naar de spirituele gemeenschap Shambhala waar hij tot het elfde inzicht komt.

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Het geheim van Shambhala

By focusing on the story of Hector, James M. Redfield presents an imaginative perspective not only on the Iliad but also on the whole of Homeric culture. In an expansive discussion informed by a reinterpretation of Aristotle's Poetics and a reflection on the human meaning of narrative art, the analysis of Hector leads to an inquiry into the fundamental features of Homeric culture and of culture generally in its relation to nature. Through Hector, as the "true tragic hero of the poem," the events and themes of the Iliad are understood and the function of tragedy within culture is examined. Redfield's work represents a significant application of anthropological perspectives to Homeric poetry. Originally published in 1975 (University of Chicago Press), this revised edition includes a new preface and concluding chapter by the author.

James M. Redfield

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