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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ity of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprinted by per... ...k, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switz... ... And Vision Personal Postscript On Dreams Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Incr... ...ms Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Increase Sacred Knowledge The Present Concl... ... us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture ... ...me again in this book, particularly in the chapters on American Indian and Australian Aboriginal beliefs. Analysis “in Jung’s manner” is not, as popul... ...N INDIAN BELIEF 235 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My thanks to Jan Elliott, of Cherokee descent, for her many illuminating discussions with me of Native American b...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...h in the bottomless gulf of his paunch.” Holland’s Plutarch’s Morals. “The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which th... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...ere now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs — commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right an... ...rue mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvati... ...ef mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seeme... ...urious life, was smitten bodily into the air, and making a long arc in his descent, fell into the sea at the distance of about fifty yards. Not a chip ...

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...roods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...d I don’t believe it was infectious after all! Still, I am tired of ‘other people’s stairs.’” “It is nearly five years since you have been with them, ... ...at, I could not—I did not know whether their lives would not lie among our people here.” “Dear Sophy, don’t concern yourself. I am quite certain you w... ...rther off than ever! Or perhaps you will fulfil them, and go and teach the Australian blacks!” “A very unpromising field,” said Mrs. Best, “though I h... ...sable. Just at present, I think our own legs and Pixy’s are safer for that descent.” Vera was pacified enough to look on with a certain degree of comp... ...ve a peculiar faculty for dealing with those very unpromising natives, the Australian gins. Franciska remembered her tender nursing and bright manner ... ...xis’s achievements with the croquet ball, or his information about the Red Indians and Onomootka, she was equally ungracious to all; she scolded Thekl... ... your mouth?” said Lance, laughing. Gertrude, who had already received the Indian arrival, met Angela, who was bounding up to see to her charge, with,...

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... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...ng this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wrec... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...th little or no aid from the imagination, could yet see how the bodies had been turned, and where the head had been and where the feet. Some faded tra... ... of it was held in her hand. On the upper part of the arm, a device of Our Lord on the Cross, with stars surrounding the head of the Cross, and one la... ...he postilions Charles Dickens 62 counting what money they got, into their hats, and never making enough of it; there were the standard population of ... ...ers who had recently come home from India. There were men of Havelock’s among them; there were men who had been in many of the great battles of the C...

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... .............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...asting a hill on a bicycle. It wasn’t a tithe of the thrill of those three descents one gets on the great mountain railway in the White City. There on... ...igrating after his food, camping, homeless, as to this day are many of the Indians and Esquimaux in the Hudson Bay Territory. Then began agriculture, ... ... and cradle and in folk-songs and village gossip—Erse, the Taal, a hundred Indian and other Eastern tongues, Ca- nadian French—but I mean that also En... ...phlet full of mis- representation and bad argument against Socialism by an Australian Jew, published by the Single-Tax people appar- ently in a disint... ... men presented for my selection have not been English at all, but of alien descent. This, then, is the sum of the political liberty of the ordinary Am...

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

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...Preface: No one can be more sensible than is the Author that the present is an overgrown book of a nondescript class, neither the ?tale? for the young, nor the novel for their elders, but a mixture of both....

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...on The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...er.” “But, my dear, has your mamma considered? They are such a set of wild people at Cocksmoor; I don’t think we could walk there alone.” “It is Satur... ... yes!” cried Ethel, “but no one fit to speak to would do that!” “Plenty of people do, I can tell you,” said Norman. “Then I hope I shall never know wh... ...here, and many of them recording former generations of Mays, to whom their descent from the head- master had given a right of burial there. Dr. Hoxton... ...e Fiord. Its beauty and tricks were duly displayed, and a most beauti- ful Australian parrot was exhibited, Mrs. Larpent taking full interest in the t... ...ppositions as to her deten- tion, adding besides, that no one believed the Australian paper whence the report was taken. He had seen the Alcestis, kne... ...to him. It was a great step when his packages arrived, and his beau- tiful Indian curiosities were arranged, making his drawing- room as pretty a room... ...oing to put conceit in that lion head of yours, but you were as good as an Indian prince to my party. Do you know to whom you have been talking so coo...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ...f the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from... ...taracts, forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands. 3 What do you hear Walt Whitman? I hear the workman ... ...sounds of children and of animals early in the day, I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse, I hear the Spanish dance with castan... ...of all good. These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake, They show their descent from the Master himself. Off the word I have spoken I except not ...