Reviews for The Papacy Considered In Relation To International Law (1879)

The average rating for The Papacy Considered In Relation To International Law (1879) based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-07-31 00:00:00 Jose Lucero I have always been fascinated in archetype, mythology and symbolism. As a grade-school kid, I read books on Greek Myth. In high school and college, I explored on my own many of the Celtic and Roman stories and their links to modern movies, religions, and stories. One professor – Susan Maroldo – suggested I get a set of Tarot as flash card to the major themes in western archetype. I had a two friends, Shelly Judd and Suzanne Brashears, who already had sets, and for my sophomore birthday, they and some other friends bought me my first set. I was always fascinated with mythology. I studied Jung on my own and in college classes. I always loved Joseph Campbell and consider his Power of Myth to be one of the life-changing books I read in college. The Tarot was my sort of “flash card” system to all the major themes. This last point was a big issue amongst many people. Our college was a religious college, and Tarot was seen as occult. Even though we were fairly liberal, Tarot was a little too “weird,” so I mostly hid that I had them. Susan and another professor – Bob Mesle - explained the history of Tarot to me and how the themes of the major and minor arcane shaped western mythology. It was a powerful tool, they both felt, to speed-teaching me about the major themes. Both Bob and Susan (and Bob’s wife Bard) in fact explained to me that they didn’t either believe in Tarot as divination, or the instructors had a perfectly logical, scientific explanation as to why Tarot works as divination, and that it was definitely not magic. All this sounds phenomenally attentive, but again, our college was small – 1200 students – and known for its personal attention to the students. One of the people I ran across in my self-study was Cynthia Giles, who explored the Tarot from a Jungian perspective. Now, 19 years from my first fascination with the Tarot’s symbology, I just finished her book, The Tarot. It is exactly a fresh reminder of everything I learned about western mythology, with a specific focus on the cards. It also goes into details on divination and the utilization of imagination. It’s a great and very detailed book – I enjoyed it thoroughly. However, I admit, if you think of Tarot as some sort of magic gathering knowledge from some shimmering ether – or if you don’t like to follow intellectual tangents on deep philosophical and mythological themes – you will hate this book. I personally love all those things, so I loved this book. The book is really about the confusing history and the themes. It supposes that the power of the Tarot is in its ability to tap people’s imagination by using unified themes we all know. It directly ties into to my understanding, shaped partially by my study of Campbell and of physiologist Edward de Bono and the process of random entry – the way the human mind makes concrete and orderly those things which are crandom and chaotic. If this makes sense to you, good. If not, it’s probably a very long conversation you wouldn’t want to be a part of anyway, and I really don’t blame you. You might be one of those rare people who are fascinated by these universal themes and how they play their part in religion, movies, books, and theatre. Or you aren’t interested at all, and there is no crime in either perspective.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-12-26 00:00:00 Andrew Nagy Livro de referência