Orogeny was used by Gressly (1840) and Thurmann (1854) as orogenic in terms of the creation of mountain elevations, as the term mountain building was still used to describe the processes. Elie de Beaumont (1852) used the evocative "Jaws of a Vise" theory to explain orogeny, but was more concerned with the height rather than the implicit structures orogenic belts created and contained. His theory essentially held that mountains were created ...

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Orogeny, Orogeny - History, Orogeny - Physiography, Orogeny - List of orogenies, Orogeny - North American orogenies, Orogeny - European orogenies, Orogeny - Asian orogenies, Orogeny - South American orogenies, Orogeny - Australian orogenies, Orogeny - Antarctic orogenies

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The band formed in the mid 1980s. The original line up comprised Timothy (Tim)O'Reilly (bass guitar/vocals), Michael Quinlan (rhythm guitar/vocals), Stephen McCowage (lead guitar) and Price Conlan (drums). The Mexican Spitfires were a quintessentially inner-city/suburban Sydney band with an evocative collection of songs about Sydney, living in Sydney and its surrounds. Their songs dealt with typical aspects of daily life in Sydney: from romance on Ivy Street,Redfern - a dilapidated street very familiar to Sydney University students wh ...

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The Mexican Spitfires, The Mexican Spitfires - History, The Mexican Spitfires - Discography

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Hannett's trademark sound, most apparent on Joy Division's groundbreaking debut album Unknown Pleasures and its follow-up, Closer, is sparse and eerie, complementing frontman Ian Curtis' dark, depressive musings and tremorous baritone vocals. His meticulous production, heavily influenced by dub, creates an evocative negative space at the heart of Joy Division's sound, pitting the band's spartan, jagged instrumentation against a spacey void, the latter being created by adept studio manipulation. For these purposes, Hannett often ...

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Martin Hannett, Martin Hannett - Career, Martin Hannett - Selected discography as producer, Martin Hannett - Albums, Martin Hannett - EPs, Martin Hannett - Singles, Martin Hannett - Martin: The Work of Record Producer Martin Hannett

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Avey Tare - Dave Portner: Avey comes from taking the D off of Davey, and Tare is because he was tearing the name apart. It is not a play on the word avatar. Panda Bear - Noah Lennox: As a kid he used to make 4 track tapes. On the first one he did a drawing of a panda bear on it. Geologist - Brian Weitz: Somebody had incorrectly thought he had studied geology in college, while in reality it was biology. The name stuck. Deakin - Josh Dibb: He used to send long letters to Avey Tare in a style evocative of romance literature of the 19 ...

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Animal Collective, Animal Collective - History, Animal Collective - Names, Animal Collective - Discography, Animal Collective - Albums, Animal Collective - EPs, Animal Collective - Singles, Animal Collective - Splits, Animal Collective - Related

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Guru (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root gur to be weighty, venerable, excellent)

Teacher, preceptor; applied not only to a chela's spiritual teacher, but to spiritual and metaphysical teachers of many kinds. The spiritual fire within each person, the higher self or atma-buddhi, is also called a guru, a divine instructor; and this higher self within each individual is, when all is said, the supreme guru for that person.

The Master outside of the disciple's own spiritual guide is a very necessary element in genuine occult instruction; but the outer guru, the Master who teaches and leads the disciple, has always in view the evocation and development of the guru within the disciple -- the bringing to birth of the chela's own inner divine and intellectual energies and powers.

(See also: Guru, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Guru (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root gur to be weighty, venerable, excellent)

Teacher, preceptor; applied not only to a chela's spiritual teacher, but to spiritual and metaphysical teachers of many kinds. The spiritual fire within each person, the higher self or atma-buddhi, is also called a guru, a divine instructor; and this higher self within each individual is, when all is said, the supreme guru for that person.

The Master outside of the disciple's own spiritual guide is a very necessary element in genuine occult instruction; but the outer guru, the Master who teaches and leads the disciple, has always in view the evocation and development of the guru within the disciple -- the bringing to birth of the chela's own inner divine and intellectual energies and powers.

(See also: Gupta-vidya, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Louis-Philippe ascended the throne on the strength of the July Revolution of 1830, and ruled, not as "King of France" but as "King of the French," an evocative difference among contemporaries. Most historians treat the resulting July Monarchy, 1830 - 1848, as a separate period in French history. Louis-Philippe I, the Citizen King 1830-1848 Following the ousting of the last king to rule France in 1848, the Second Republic was formed after the election of Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as President (1848-1852), who subsequ ...

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Bourbon Dynasty Restored, Bourbon Dynasty Restored - Louis XVIII 1814-1824, Bourbon Dynasty Restored - Charles X 1824 – 1830, Bourbon Dynasty Restored - The Fall of the Restoration 1827-1830, Bourbon Dynasty Restored - The Four Ordinances, Bourbon Dynasty Restored - Louis-Phillipe and the House of Orleans, Bourbon Dynasty Restored - Sources

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Louis-Philippe ascended the throne on the strength of the July Revolution of 1830, and ruled, not as "King of France" but as "King of the French," an evocative difference among contemporaries. Most historians treat the resulting July Monarchy, 1830 - 1848, as a separate period in French history. Louis-Philippe I, the Citizen King 1830-1848 Following the ousting of the last king to rule France in 1848, the Second Republic was formed after the election of Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as President (1848-1852), who subseq ...

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Bourbon Dynasty, Restored, Bourbon Dynasty, Restored - Louis XVIII, 1814-1824, Bourbon Dynasty, Restored - Charles X, 1824 – 1830, Bourbon Dynasty, Restored - The Fall of the Restoration, 1827-1830, Bourbon Dynasty, Restored - The Four Ordinances, Bourbon Dynasty, Restored - Louis-Phillipe and the House of Orleans, Bourbon Dynasty, Restored - Sources

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The fifth track on the album, "Skin", is one of the most ambitious and groundbreaking works in Madonna's canon. The song begins with a melancholic a capella vocal before erupting into a trip into the trance world. Coupled with kaleidoscopic violins and an erratic electronic bassline, an evocative vocal repeatedly recites the lyric "I'm not like this all the time". The final track on the LP, "Mer Girl" is unlike anything Madonna has ever recorded. The diary style and imagery of the verses was drawn from events that affected her at the ...

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Ray of Light, Ray of Light - Album information, Ray of Light - Track listing, Ray of Light - Instrumentation, Ray of Light - Album highlights, Ray of Light - Drugs, Ray of Light - Charts and sales, Ray of Light - Demo versions and unreleased tracks, Ray of Light - Trivia, Ray of Light - Personnel, Ray of Light - Production, Ray of Light - Charts, Ray of Light - Certifications, Ray of Light - Awards

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HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK

Developed by Dr. Stanislov Grof, a psychiatrist working with people in non-ordinary states of consciousness, and by Christina Grof, a transpersonal teacher, this is a simple, yet powerful technique for self-exploration and healing based on combined insights from modern consciousness research, depth psychology, and perennial spiritual practices.

The method activates non-ordinary states of consciousness which mobilize the spontaneous healing potential of the psyche. Sustained effective breathing, evocative music, focused energy work, and mandala drawing are components of this subjective journey.

Holotropic literally means moving toward wholeness. Virtually all ancient and native traditions recognize the psychological and spiritual healing potential of states of consciousness that differ from what we call ordinary.

Holotropic Breathwork is a powerful method of self-exploration and healing. This work can be useful for artists wishing to facilitate their creativity, persons seeking a deep level of healing, those seeking to explore their inner self and/or the transpersonal dimensions, and it can lead to a spiritual opening and transformation.

(See also: HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK, Alternative Health, Massage, Bodywork, Body Mind and Soul)

One of the first recorded poets of the British colonies was Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672), who remains one of the earliest known women poets in English. Her poems are untypically tender evocations of home and family life and of her love for her husband. In marked contrast, Edward Taylor (1645–1729) wrote poems expounding Puritan virtues in a highly wrought metaphysical style that can be seen as typical of the early colonial period. This narrow focus on the Puritan ethic was, understandably, the dominant note of most of the po ...

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Poetry of the United States, Poetry of the United States - Poetry in the colonies, Poetry of the United States - Postcolonial poetry, Poetry of the United States - An American idiom, Poetry of the United States - Modernism and after, Poetry of the United States - World War II and after, Poetry of the United States - American poetry now

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Mitchell could be labeled a "musician's musician"; her work has had an enormous influence on a number of artists; she has influenced not only "similar" singer-songwriters, such as Sheryl Crow and Shawn Colvin, but a number of artists in diverse genres, such as k.d. lang, Elvis Costello, PM Dawn, Agnes Chan, and Prince. For instance, Prince's song "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" off the album Sign 'O' the Times, pays tribute to Mitchell, both through his evocative Mitchell-like harmonies and through the use of one Mitchell's own techniq ...

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Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell - Early life, Joni Mitchell - 1970s success, Joni Mitchell - Jazz period, Joni Mitchell - Geffen era, Joni Mitchell - Turbulent 1990s, Joni Mitchell - I hate music: the 2000s, Joni Mitchell - Influence, Joni Mitchell - Discography, Joni Mitchell - Albums, Joni Mitchell - Compilations, Joni Mitchell - Singles

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Definition and meaning of Ernest Hemingway:

Hemingway, Ernest

Hemingway was the most talented of America's expatriate writers in the 1920s. His many books portrayed his sense of life's meaninglessness and the amorality of modern life. His simple, evocative style made him a legend in his own time.

(Source: Madrid Waddington High School )

Also see these pages:  American History, American History Sitemap, History, History Sitemap

Sacred Name Most names are labels, and according to ancient occult theory to disclose the real name of a being is to evoke the presence of that being, a knowledge which is made use of in magical evocations.

To name the Deity would be an initiation, a revelation, fit only for ears prepared to receive it. Supreme deities are said to be ineffable -- their names cannot or may not be spoken -- as was the case with the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, IHVH, often written Jehovah, Jahveh, etc., but whose real pronunciation was secret and sacred.

Qabbalists, in order to screen the real mystery-name of 'eyn soph (the boundless), substituted the name of one of the personal creative 'elohim, the hermaphrodite Jah-Eve; and the name was made sacred in order to conceal the deception (SD 2:126).

As a substitute for Jehovah the name 'Adonai (my Lords), was afterwards used when reading the ancient Hebrew scriptures aloud for and instead of the, which appeared written on the manuscript, because YHVH was considered too holy for utterance.

(See also: Sacred Name, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Jnana-sakti (Sanskrit) (from jnana knowledge, wisdom + sakti power, energy)

Wisdom-power, the power of pure intellect which is a ray from the Logos, and therefore is the consciousness of the higher manas. Each of the saktis -- whether jnana-sakti, ajnana-sakti, ichchha-sakti, or kriya-sakti -- manifesting in the universe or in an individual being, is the expression of a force of nature; and therefore as each such force of nature is the emanation from a cosmic entity, each one of them has its own svabhava (individuality or essential characteristic) which differentiates it sharply from all other forces of nature.

Jnana-sakti has the power or intrinsic faculty of movement of intelligence in the universe, which likewise expresses itself in man, a child of that universe; consequently it acts according to its own peculiarities or characteristics. The adept, knowing this through the power of his spiritual monad, can at any time select any one of these saktis of his constitution and use it alone or in combination with others to produce both interior or exterior phenomena. He does so by an expenditure of one or the other of the saktis that he is using, which are concentrated so to speak in his constitution. Hence their use is always followed by a corresponding reaction, much after the fashion of an electrical discharge; and a certain time is always required for the constitution to reestablish its normal equilibrium. Such equilibrium is a condition of health.

Thus when an adept for some noble object purposes to use his inner powers, it is rare indeed that a single one of these saktis is employed alone. First there may be an evocation from his constitution of the sakti of ideation or high mentation giving the picture of what must be done, thus directing the flow of the will; then follows the evocation of ichchha-sakti or desire to perform the object in view. This combines with kriya-sakti or mental power guiding the desire and the will along the proper path to the end desired. Other saktis may or may not be called into function as needed. The saktis most commonly having a phenomenal effect or repercussion on the physical plane are ichchha-sakti, combining with kriya-sakti, guided by jnana-sakti.

(See also: Jnana-sakti, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Most of the songs on John Wesley Harding are noted for their pared-down lyrics. Though the style remains evocative, continuing Dylan's strong use of bold imagery, the wild, intoxicating surreality that seemed to flow in a stream-of-conscience fashion has been tamed into something earthier and crisp. "What I'm trying to do now is not use too many words," Dylan said in a 1968 interview. "There's no line that you can stick your finger through, there's no hole in any of the stanzas. There's no blank filler. Each line has something." Accor ...

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Falk, Ca?n Chenul. A Kabbalistic Jew, reputed to have worked "miracles". Kenneth Mackenzie quotes in regard to him from the German annalist Archenoiz’ work on England (1788): - "

There exists in London an extraordinary man who for thirty years has been celebrated in Kabbalistic records. He is named Ca?n Chenul Falk. A certain Count de Rautzow, lately dead in the service of France, with the rank of Field-Marshal, certifies that he has seen this Falk in Brunswick, and that evocations of spirits took place in the presence of credible witnesses."

These "spirits" were Elementals, whom Falk brought into view by the conjurations used by every Kabbalist. His son, Johann Friedrich Falk, likewise a Jew, was also a Kabbalist of repute, and was once the head of a Kabbalistic college in London. His occupation was that of a jeweller and appraiser of diamonds, and he was a wealthy man. To this day the mystic writings and rare Kabbalistic works bequeathed by him to a trustee may be perused in a certain half-public library in London, by every genuine student of Occultism. Falk’s own writings are all still in MS., and some in cypher.

(See also: Falk, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Tempter In general, the human mind, whether reacting to outside impulsions or impressions, or from within its own relatively small and uninspired powers; it has been commonly typified by the dragon, Satan, Zeus, etc. "Zeus is represented as a serpent -- the intellectual tempter of man -- which, nevertheless, begets in the course of cyclic evolution the 'Man-Saviour,' the solar Bacchus or 'Dionysus,' more than a man" (SD 2:419-20). Indeed, often it is our higher nature which "tempts" us upwards by calling forth latent or inner powers which, once evoked, are the ladder by which we climb. Thus our tempter is also our redeemer. The esoteric teaching of the tempting of humankind by awakening in its light of intellect has been materialized into a sensual temptation by a Devil in the Garden of Eden; and in the Bible, an evolutionary phase has been theologically degraded into a sin. The astral light is also spoken of as the tempter, especially by Eliphas Levi.

Temptation in its better sense is trial, probation, and testing, such as a candidate for knowledge must necessarily incur. In its worse sense, temptation is the evocation of action in and from the human mind and emotions, either by outside impacts, or because of the undeveloped characteristics of the mind itself.

(See also: Tempter, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

GLAMOUR

Glamour didn't always refer to the quality of a movie star. It is actually a corruption of grammar or gramarye, a word with two meanings: 1) grammar and 2) magic.

Magic has much to do with the casting of spells (and spelling goes back to Gematria and the meanings of the letters of words, an insight that the Jews picked up from the Egyptians). Once again, the connection between language and magic is quite clear. Remember, Gods are really cosmic magicians who create and mutate things through the Word and human magicians achieve their ends by invocation, evocation, chants, mantras, orisons, etc. All things are as they are because of the words we give to them.

Example, a mushroom can be called either a psychedelic or a death-dealing toadstool. Or if you call a man a king then he is a king and if you call him a fool then he is a fool. Grammar in the schoolroom sense is also magic, for knowing exactly and correctly how to phrase your thoughts you thereby affect reality for precision or imprecision.

Vedanta is even more specific. Vedanta actually means linguistic grammar.

(See also: GLAMOUR, Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul, )

Talisman [from Arab from Greek telesma completion, initiation, incantation]

A charm made by engraving, for instance, the seal or sigil of a certain planet on a disc of metal corresponding to that planet, the operation being done at a time when the influence of that planet is strong. This, being worn, secured the help or influence of the genius of the planet, and is thought to be protective against one or another evil influence. The application extends beyond the planets, and an indefinite number of signs might be used to propitiate or protect against various genii, evil or good.

Such symbols as the cross, the swastika, and the serpent may serve as talismans, for a true symbol is more than a mere arbitrary sign and actually plays its part in the evocation of certain influences -- but only when intense faith is conjoined in the production of magical effects. Talismans are utterly useless and foolish unless intense faith operates because all such talismanic emblems depend for their efficacy upon the faith of the possessor of them. When a person believes beyond any shadow of doubt and is thoroughly worked up in such conviction, his will power through such faith when concentrated upon a talisman or similar object can actually bring about the functioning of a potent creative power. This is the root of all genuinely magical operations; but the true magician has no need for such exoteric paraphernalia or adventitious aids. He produces his effects through the sole power of his will combined with his wide knowledge of nature and natural laws.

(See also: Talisman, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)

Mark Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens, 1835-1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast -- in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir Life on the Mississippi and the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's style -- influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently funny -- changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively Americ ...

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Mark Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens, 1835-1910) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast -- in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir Life on the Mississippi and the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's style -- influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and irreverently funny -- changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively Americ ...

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American literature, American literature - Overview, American literature - Colonial literature, American literature - Early U.S. literature, American literature - Unique American style, American literature - American lyric, American literature - Realism, Twain, and James, American literature - Turn of the century, American literature - Theater, American literature - Post-World War II, American literature - Post-Postmodernism and Other Recent Movements, American literature - Modern humorist literature, American literature - Southern literature, American literature - Jewish writers, American literature - African American literature, American literature - Other ethnic, minority, and immigrant literatures, American literature - Other genres, American literature - External link

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