[PDF] The Ritual Of Pearls eBook

Author : Susan Swann
Publisher : Piatkus
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0748109668

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Surely he knew that she was highly aroused. She moaned softly as his thumbs pressed into the dimples at the base of her spine. Now and then the heels of his hands grazed the insides of her thighs as they squeezed and moulded her flesh . . . The Discipline of Pearls: a secret society for sensualists, and one in which successful businesswoman Marika Fremen has already served her apprenticeship. She now possess the coveted jet pendant with intertwined hearts and is considered a 'high up' in the society. When Marika travels to a French chateau on society business she meets and is seduced by the charismatic Charles Germain. Too late she discovers that Germain was once a member of the Discipline of Pearls, but was expelled for bad conduct. And now Charles in turn has become obsessed by the beautiful, sensuous Marika. Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips.

Author : Georgia van Raalte
Publisher : Black Moon Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781890399788

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These rituals trace the waves and curves of my path to the divine. It is my hope that they may act as illumination, or as a map for your own journey. The creation of these rituals were processes of gaining knowledge; their performance brought understanding. Writing these rituals was an exercise in creative devotion. Performing them was a lesson in the reality of magic, and the irresistibility of its circuits and waves. These rituals utilise juxtaposition and movement across boundaries. They are sites of liminality, and thus power. They are games, toys; and the most serious technology we have ever had. These rituals offer a space of communitas, a suspended community in the liminal, ritual space, a mode of being with others that is utterly transformative. These rituals are magpie nests, built from all the shiny symbolism and structure I could lay my greedy hands upon. These rituals can be anything you want them to be; solemn rites or fantasies, mystery plays or literary provocations. Their reading offers a carnival of images in which to saturate your soul. Their performance offers lessons in being, in doing, and in communitas. You may gain as much or as little from them as from a journey on the train. Abide for a while, and watch the phantasmic flora and fauna glide past the window of your literary vision. You will not seem to move; yet it will be that you have travelled very far.

Author : Kristin Joyce
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Pearl industry and trade
ISBN :

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A visually stunning, one-of-a-kind history of the shimmering, lustrous object of beauty that has mesmerized humankind for millennia. Featuring 210 superb photographs, 168 in full color, Pearls traces the evolution of the pearl from sacred icon to timeless aesthetic symbol, a history that spans 4,000 years. Shrink-wrapped.

Author : Jane Beal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317194268

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This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning and in four corresponding genres: literally, an elegy; spiritually, an allegory; morally, a consolation; and anagogically, a revelation. The book addresses cruxes and scholarly debates about the poem’s genre and meaning, including key questions that have been unresolved in Pearl studies for over a century: * What is the nature of the relationship between the Dreamer and the Maiden? * What is the significance of allusions to Ovidian love stories and the use of liturgical time in the poem? * How does avian symbolism, like that of the central symbol of the pearl, develop, transform, and add meaning throughout the dream vision? * What is the nature of God portrayed in the poem, and how does the portrayal of the Maiden’s intimate relationship to God, her spiritual marriage to the Lamb, connect to the poet’s purpose in writing? Noting that the poem is open to many interpretations, Beal also considers folktale genre patterns in Pearl, including those drawn from parable, fable, and fairy-tale. The conclusion considers Pearl in the light of modern psychological theories of grieving and trauma. This book makes a compelling case for re-reading Pearl and recognizing the poem’s signifying power. Given the ongoing possibility of new interpretations, it will appeal to those who specialize in Pearl as well as scholars of Middle English, Medieval Literature, Genre Theory, and Literature and Religion.

Author : Flavia Vivacqua
Publisher : Bambual Editora LTDA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 6589138206

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A deep journey through the origins of the Dragon Dreaming method and philosophy and other contributions in Regenerative Education and co-learning processes In A Pérola do Dragão, we travel with Flávia Vivacqua through her sabbatical experience in which she walked her own learning path, while conducting research on innovative methodologies and philosophies that support Regenerative Education, which transforms and motivates the potential of each person. The author, since her first professional training, is dedicated to knowing and researching new approaches in Education and Learning, especially those that evoke collaboration, art and the connection with the ecosystem in which we live. In this book, she brings research on innovations in education in some parts of the world, as she found in the method and philosophy of co-creation of Dragon Dreaming projects, in the holistic learning of the Green School, in the reconnection provided by the deep ecology and the rites of passage, in creativity journeys and in the travel experience, possible paths for co-learning processes to take place.

Author : Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080708350X

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In the tradition of Thousand Pieces of Gold comes The Moon Pearl, the story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls’ house, where young daughters are taught to become daughters-in-law. These girls, however, want neither to marry nor become nuns (the only options open to them at this time). They choose instead to support themselves through their skills in embroidery and silk production. Though ostracized by their families, attacked, and barely able to find sustenance and shelter, these sze saw, or self-combers as they will come to be called, manage to create lives that they alone control. An amazing true-life story, The Moon Pearl offers an empowering vision of womanhood in China.