"When I look back on my life, it seems as if I grew up by accident. But at the end of the day, that's the best way to grow up, isn't it?" An unexpected gift arrives for 13 year old troublemaker Jillian Brighton: a special antique telescope that can see into parallel worlds. As she learns to use it, she discovers a whole civilization on the moon. But her friends don't believe her, and her suspicious parents want the telescope sent back to where it came from. Then a shady lawyer says that the telescope might

Jillian Brighton and the Wonderful Cosmographic Telescope: A Fairy Tale about Knowing

Brendan Myers

Northwest Passage Books

Philosophy was invented by pagans. Yet this fact is almost always ignored by those who write the history of ideas. This book tells the history of the pagan philosophers, and the various places where their ideas appeared, from ancient times to the 21st century. The Pagan philosophers are a surprisingly diverse group: from kings of great empires to exiled lonely wanderers, from devout religious teachers to con artists, drug addicts, and social radicals. Three traditions of thought emerge from their work: Pantheism, NeoPlatonism, and Humanism, corresponding to the immensities of the Earth, the Gods, and the Soul. From ancient schools like the Stoics and the Druids, to modern feminists and deep ecologists, the pagan philosophers examined these three immensities with systematic critical reason, and sometimes with poetry and mystical vision. This book tells their story for the first time in one volume, and invites you to examine the immensities with them. And as a special feature, the book includes summaries of the ideas of leading modern pagan intellectuals, in their own words: Emma Restall Orr, Michael York, John Michael Greer, Vivianne Crowley, and more

Earth, The Gods and The Soul - A History of Pagan Philosophy, The

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Moon Books

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