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Emily Dirt, Stephanie Dickinson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 7

Brother Wolf, Stephen Glosecki

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17

The Business Suit, Sheila Sinead Mcguinness

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 29

In The Republic Of Tinnitus, Jim Murphy

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 30-31

To The Landlady, Martha Serpas

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 36

Untitled, Patricia Waters

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 44

When There Is No Other Shore, Bonny Barry Sanders

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 51-53

Remembering Thunder / One More River To Cross: The Selected Poems Of John Beecher / A Calendar Of Crows, Theodore Haddin

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 53-58

Beneath The Mississippi, Ashley Combest

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 3

Blurred Relationships: The Factual Fiction Of John Edgar Wideman, Melissa Bakeman Hartmann

Theses Digitization Project

Control is a central issue in any text: does the author's intention or the reader's interpretation better explain the resulting meaning of the text? This question has long been the subject of debate among textual theorists; this essay proposes a middle ground, namely that the author and the reader engage in a collaborative effort to make meaning in a text.

Implicature And Argumentation, Jon Nelsen Preacher

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis explores the role, if any, that implicature plays as a strategy in informal debate. Transcripts of spontaneous debates from television and radio public affairs talk shows were analyzed with a focus on the use of implicature as a strategic rhetorical tool employed to gain advantage in an argument.

Our Rebellious Neighbors : Virginia's Border Counties During Pennsylvania's Whiskey Rebellion, Kevin T. Barksdale

History Faculty Research

Focuses on the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania, and its impact on the Virginia counties of Ohio, Harrison and Monongalia. Background on the Whiskey Rebellion; Concerns over the frontier dynamics occurring in Appalachian Virginia following the rebellion; Reaction from Pennsylvanians following the passage of the excise tax in March 1791.

Entheogens: True Or False?, Roger Walsh

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Despite 40 years of dialogue, debate still continues over whether psychedelics are capable of

inducing genuine mystical experiences. This paper first reviews the arguments against this possibility

and shows that all of them contain shortcomings. One reason the debate still continues is

that there has been no adequate theory of mystical states and their relationship to the factors

which produce them. Consequently a theory of mystical states based on Charles Tart’s systems

model of consciousness is proposed. This theory suggests how identical states of consciousness can

be induced by very different means, including contemplative practices and chemical substances,

and yet …

Gnostic Dilemmas In Western Psychologies Of Spirituality1, Harry T. Hunt

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Early Gnosticism is identified as a form of Weber’s inner-worldly mysticism that, following the

critique of Plotinus, entailed spiritual metapathologies of inflated grandiosity, despair, and/or

social withdrawal. These vulnerabilities re-emerge in the naturalistic psychologies of spirituality

begun by Emerson, Nietzsche, Jung, and Maslow and more implicitly within contemporary personality

and neuropsychological research on numinous/transpersonal experience. An updated

version of Gnostic dilemma and its conflicted dualism may be endemic to any would-be science

of the spiritual and to much current transpersonal psychology as well.

Mysticism And Its Cultural Expression: An Inquiry Into The Description Of Mystical Experience And Its Ontological And Epistemological Nature, Evgeny Torchinov

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the nature and ontological and epistemological

significance of differences observed in how various cultural traditions describe and explain such

experiences. After an initial consideration of definitional issues, the article focuses on the arguments

supporting and challenging the idea of mystical experience being a universal phenomenon

and a vehicle for true knowledge. The article also examines the problem of the unity of the mystical

experience as a definite state of consciousness and the multiplicity of its sociocultural and

civilizational expressions and descriptions conditioned by different cultural and historical factors.

An Integral Approach To Depression, Harris Friedman, Douglas A. Macdonald

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Integral Approach In Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Laura B. Gilot

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Clinical Depression: A Transpersonal Point Of View, Jaime L. Llabres

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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The Perennial Philosophy, Axel Randrup

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Review Essay: Alan Bray. The Friend, Garrett P.J. Epp

Quidditas

Alan Bray. The Friend. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 380pp. Ill.

Birmingham Poetry Review 26 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.

To Walk To Death, Lois Marie Harrod

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 27

Regarding The Sublime, Kimberly Meyer

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 33

Carolina Ghost Woods, Mary Carol Moran

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 52-54

Walking The Levee, Ashley Combest

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 4

Book Of My Nights, Robert Collins

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 61-62

Practicing Attention In Media Culture, Mary E. Hess

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Confessional Basis Of Lutheran Thinking On Church-State Issues, Mary Jane Haemig

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Message To Laodicea And The Problem Of Its Local Context., Craig R. Koester

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

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