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There is not just a desire but a profound human need for enhancement - the irrepressible yearning to become better than ourselves. Today, enhancement is often conceived of in terms of biotechnical intervention: genetic modification, prostheses, implants, drug therapy - even mind uploading. The theme of this book is an ancient form of enhancement: a physical upgrade that involves ethical practices of self-realization. It has been called 'angelification' - a transformation by which people become angels. The parallel process is 'daimonification', or becoming daimones. Ranging in time from Hesiod and Empedocles through Plato and Origen to Plotinus and Christian gnostics, this book explores not only how these two forms of posthuman transformation are related, but also how they connect and chasten modern visions of transhumanist enhancement which generally lack a robust account of moral improvement.

Transmigration --- Self-realization. --- Demonology. --- Angels. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Angelology --- Cherubim --- Cherubs (Spirits) --- Divine messengers --- Seraphim --- Spirits --- Demonology --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- Fulfillment (Ethics) --- Self-fulfillment --- Ethics --- Success --- Satisfaction --- Metempsychosis --- Animism --- Pre-existence --- Soul --- Theosophy --- Reincarnation --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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"As a doctor, I make every effort to strengthen the belief in immortality, especially with older patients when such questions come threateningly close. For, seen in correct psychological perspective, death is not an end but a goal, and life's inclination towards death begins as soon as the meridian is past."--C.G. Jung, commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower ? Here collected for the first time are Jung's views on death and immortality, his writings often coinciding with the death of the most significant people in his life. The book shows many of the major themes running throughout the writings, including the relativity of space and time surrounding death, the link between transference and death, and the archetypes shared among the world's religions at the depths of the Self. The book includes selections from "On Resurrection," "The Soul and Death," "Concerning Rebirth," "Psychological Commentary on The Tibetan Book of the Dead" from the Collected Works, "Letter to Pastor Pfafflin" from Letters, and "On Life after Death."

Psychologie analytique. --- Immortalité. --- Mort --- Psychanalyse --- Aspect psychologique. --- Aspect religieux. --- Jung, Carl Gustav, --- Jung, C. G. --- Contribution à la psychologie religieuse. --- Aristotle. --- Ash Wednesday. --- Basilides. --- Codex Ashburnham. --- Communism. --- Democritus. --- Dionysus. --- Einstein, Albert. --- Elijah. --- Good Friday. --- Hinduism. --- Homer. --- Ignatius Loyola. --- Isidore of Seville. --- Johannes Pontanus. --- Koran. --- Leade, Jane. --- Maria Prophetissa. --- Metempsychosis. --- Moses. --- Neumann, Erich. --- Norton, Thomas. --- Ojibways. --- Osiris cult. --- Paphnutia. --- Philemon. --- Salome. --- Shevill, Margaret. --- Steinach, Eugen. --- Taoism. --- Wei Po-yang. --- Wild Huntsman. --- doctrinairism.

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One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an ambitious new account of the context in which these "it narratives" became so popular. What does it mean when property declares independence of its owners and begins to move and speak? Jonathan Lamb addresses this and many other questions as he advances a new interpretation of these odd tales, from Defoe, Pope, Swift, Gay, and Sterne, to advertisements, still life paintings, and South Seas journals. Lamb emphasizes the subversive and even nonsensical quality of what things say; their interests are so radically different from ours that we either destroy or worship them. Existing outside systems of exchange and the priorities of civil society, things in fact advertise the dissident obscurity common to slave narratives all the way from Aesop and Phaedrus to Frederick Douglass and Primo Levi, a way of meaning only what is said, never saying what is meant. This is what Defoe's Roxana calls "the Sense of Things," and it is found in sounds, substances, and images rather than conventional signs. This major work illuminates not only "it narratives," but also eighteenth-century literature, the rise of the novel, and the genealogy of the slave narrative. --

English literature --- History and criticism. --- Aesop. --- Arabian Nights. --- Bacon, Francis. --- Blunden, Edmund. --- Brandeis, Louis. --- Copyright Act. --- Defoe, Daniel. --- Deutsch, Helen. --- Don Quixote (Cervantes). --- Fantomina (Haywood). --- Gallagher, Catherine. --- Gildon, Charles. --- Gothic novel. --- Grub Street. --- Hawkesworth, John. --- Heidegger, Martin. --- Hollar, Wenceslaus. --- Hume, David. --- Jünger, Ernst. --- Kirkman, Francis. --- Lennox, Charlotte. --- Leviathan (Hobbes). --- Locke, John. --- Michelangelo. --- Narcissus. --- Navy Board. --- Oedipus. --- Quintilian. --- Rambler. --- advertisements. --- authority. --- camera obscura. --- chapbook. --- curiosities. --- ekphrases. --- entail. --- fiction. --- folk tales. --- identity. --- idolatry. --- imagination. --- it-narratives. --- justice. --- labor. --- magic. --- metempsychosis. --- muru. --- objects. --- panpsychism. --- passion. --- probability. --- realism.

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In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos, rightly, regarded the The Fourth Dimension as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. From "Philoctetes" All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes. Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hallwhere glasses and voices sparkled, and the veilof an unseen dancer rippled silentlylike a diaphanous, whirling wallbetween life and death. This throbbingour childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shieldsetched on white walls by slow moonlight.

Greek poetry, Modern. --- Aegisthus. --- Aeschylus. --- Anachronism. --- Annoyance. --- Asthma. --- Atreus. --- Bay leaf. --- Bed bug. --- Blindman. --- Bloody Bones. --- Brauron. --- Bryaxis. --- Calchas. --- Castor and Pollux. --- Cemetery. --- Chandelier. --- Chthonian (Cthulhu Mythos). --- Clothing. --- Clytemnestra. --- Cold cream. --- Conflagration. --- Corset. --- Cover Her Face. --- Cowardice. --- Cyane. --- Dionysus. --- Drawing room. --- Earring. --- East Room. --- Eleusinian Mysteries. --- Erinyes. --- Eros. --- Euripides. --- Fireplace. --- Forehead. --- Furniture. --- Garret. --- God Knows (novel). --- Graziella. --- Greasy hair. --- Greek mythology. --- Haemon. --- Handkerchief. --- Hanging. --- Heart failure. --- Humiliation. --- Hurrying. --- Hyperbole. --- Keening. --- Laughter. --- Lion Gate. --- Mansion. --- Mead. --- Meanness. --- Metempsychosis. --- Military parade. --- Mothball. --- Mourning. --- My Bed. --- Mycenae. --- Napkin. --- Neurosis. --- Odor. --- Odyssey. --- Oil lamp. --- Pallor. --- Poetry. --- Porcelain. --- Priam. --- Pricking. --- Putto. --- Pylades. --- Roast chicken. --- Sacred bull. --- Seven Against Thebes. --- Shirt. --- Slavery. --- Snoring. --- Soliloquy. --- Sophocles. --- Stairs. --- Symplegades. --- Tablecloth. --- Tattoo. --- Tecmessa. --- The First Man. --- The Other Hand. --- Theoclymenus. --- Theseus. --- Threshing floor. --- Tray. --- Trireme. --- Trojan War. --- Twelve Olympians. --- Two Old Men. --- Urine. --- Venus Anadyomene. --- Vinegar. --- Wooden horse (device). --- Wrinkle.

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Most anyone interested in such topics as creation mythology, Jungian theory, or the idea of "secret teachings" in ancient Judaism and Christianity has found "gnosticism" compelling. Yet the term "gnosticism," which often connotes a single rebellious movement against the prevailing religions of late antiquity, gives the false impression of a monolithic religious phenomenon. Here Michael Williams challenges the validity of the widely invoked category of ancient "gnosticism" and the ways it has been described. Presenting such famous writings and movements as the Apocryphon of John and Valentinian Christianity, Williams uncovers the similarities and differences among some major traditions widely categorized as gnostic. He provides an eloquent, systematic argument for a more accurate way to discuss these interpretive approaches. The modern construct "gnosticism" is not justified by any ancient self-definition, and many of the most commonly cited religious features that supposedly define gnosticism phenomenologically turn out to be questionable. Exploring the sample sets of "gnostic" teachings, Williams refutes generalizations concerning asceticism and libertinism, attitudes toward the body and the created world, and alleged features of protest, parasitism, and elitism. He sketches a fresh model for understanding ancient innovations on more "mainstream" Judaism and Christianity, a model that is informed by modern research on dynamics in new religious movements and is freed from the false stereotypes from which the category "gnosticism" has been constructed.

Gnosticism. --- Rome --- Religion. --- Gnosticism --- 273.1 --- 273.1 Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Religion --- Cults --- Rome - Religion --- Against the Galilaeans. --- Agrippa Castor. --- Anchorite. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Anti-Judaism. --- Antinomianism. --- Antipope. --- Apocalypse. --- Apocrypha. --- Apocryphon. --- Apostasy. --- Asceticism. --- Blasphemy. --- Borborites. --- Cainites. --- Catharism. --- Celibacy. --- Cerdo (gnostic). --- Cerinthus. --- Christian Identity. --- Christian fundamentalism. --- Christianity. --- Church Fathers. --- Clement of Alexandria. --- Consubstantiality. --- Contra Celsum. --- Creation myth. --- Demiurge. --- Demonization. --- Dialogue with Trypho. --- Divine Spark. --- Doctrine. --- Elohim. --- Epiphanes (gnostic). --- Epistle to the Laodiceans. --- Ernst Troeltsch. --- Exegesis. --- Exorcism. --- False prophet. --- God. --- Good and evil. --- Gospel of Eve. --- Gospel of Philip. --- Heresy of the Free Spirit. --- Heresy. --- Heterodoxy. --- Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit. --- Ideal type. --- Incorruptibility. --- Infidel. --- Irenaeus. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Judas Iscariot. --- Justification (theology). --- Justin Martyr. --- Manichaeism. --- Marcion of Sinope. --- Marcionism. --- Martyr. --- Metempsychosis. --- New religious movement. --- Nicolaism. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Plotinus. --- Predestination. --- Problem of evil. --- Pseudo-Philo. --- Puritans. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religious text. --- Renunciation. --- Sacred prostitution. --- Satan. --- Sect. --- Secularization. --- Self-denial. --- Sethianism. --- Sexual Desire (book). --- Sexual abstinence. --- Simon Magus. --- Skepticism. --- Sophia (Gnosticism). --- Spiritual marriage. --- Spirituality. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tertullian. --- The Other Hand. --- Theodicy. --- Theodotus of Byzantium. --- Theology. --- Thou shalt not commit adultery. --- Thou shalt not covet. --- Tractate. --- Wickedness. --- Writing. --- Zostrianos.