Bøger af Gordon Ellis

"TAPESTRY CROCHET MAGIC: Unlocking the Art for Beginners" is a charming aide made for those anxious to investigate the enamoring universe of woven artwork knit. Customized explicitly for fledglings, this book fills in as an extensive prologue to the method, offering bit by bit guidelines, imaginative motivation, and the way to opening the masterfulness of embroidery sew. The aide starts by acquainting perusers with the fundamental devices, materials, and essential knit lines required for woven artwork sew. With an emphasis on straightforwardness and clearness, it guarantees that even those with negligible stitch experience can certainly leave on their inventive excursion. As perusers progress through the book, they'll find an assortment of fledgling cordial ventures intended to upgrade their abilities and comprehension of embroidery knit. From straightforward examples to additional complicated plans, the aide energizes trial and error and personalization, permitting crafters to communicate their interesting style. The core of "TAPESTRY CROCHET MAGIC" lies in demystifying the fine art. Clear and itemized directions, joined by visuals, guide novices through the most common way of working with different varieties and making many-sided designs. The book shows the specialized angles as well as ingrains certainty, motivating people to embrace the sorcery of embroidery stitch and transform yarn into wonderful, customized masterpieces. Whether you're a stitch fledgling or an accomplished crafter looking for another test, this guide vows to open the ways to the hypnotizing universe of embroidery sew.

A collaboration between artist Nigel Moores and poet Gordon Ellis creates a space in which the viewer/reader is invited to enter and open to the experience that arises for them, leaving behind all preconceptions and judements, becoming a participant in the creative process itself. The book contains full-colour reproductions of the original art work and accompanying poems.

'After-Jena: A Symphonic Poem' is in four parts and is named after the small university town in Germany that, at the end of the C18th and early C19th, saw the emergence of early Romanticism and Idealism in a revolutionary ethos that included the arts, sciences and politics. A central figure to this was Caroline Bohmer-Schlegel-Schelling, an extraordinary woman, who was also a key figure in the translation of Shakespeare into German. Gathered around her were an astonishing array of talent, including Fichte, Schiller, Goethe, William and Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Schelling and Holderlin. In that milieu the notion of non-duality became central in a view of the world as essentially dynamic and emergent, and of the essential oneness of poetry and philosophy as well as of poetry and science, as understood by Goethe and evident in the recasting of his treatise on the 'Metamorphosis of Plants' as a poem. Humans were seen as a part of the natural world not apart from it. This orientation is apparent in the works of Holderlin, and subsequently the works of Heidegger and Paul Celan. Indeed, even Schelling considered writing his philosophical works as poems, inspired as he was by Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. Their view and approach to creativity saw a radical break from the dominant dualistic and absolutist ideology of the day, something which has subsequently been lost. Non-duality was a key notion, and is shared with Taoism in China, Dzogchen in Tibet, as well as being evident among certain of the Pre-Socratic philosopher-poets of Ancient Greece. This poem, 'After-Jena' relates to our cataclysmic times from this perspective - rehearsing key themes of 'home' and 'homelessness', 'refuge' and 'estrangement' or 'alienation'. It ranges across Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Tibet, England in the Medieval period and English Romanticism, among other themes that are developed and varied as the poem unfolds on the destitution of our times and the shrinking hope of salvation that still just about remains alive. It is a poem of enormous scope, depth and ambition. A poem for our age.

The essays contained in this volume include a number of substantial works: on the Yoga tradition, and how it has emerged in the modern age; on an exploration of the roots of the view of an absolutist god and the way this has shaped the development of Western civilisation; some reflections on what it is to be a human being in the world; an exploration of three significant figures: Freud, Plato, and Buddha so that they can be seen and compared as figures in a landscape today. There are also essays on Rudolf Steiner's Esotericism; the year 1948, that gave birth to the NHS and the State of Israel, and thoughts following the reading of 'The Essence of Nihilism' by Emmanuele Severino. Then there are some short pieces on: Buddhism; Death and Dying; the Buddha's Enlightenment in the Majjhima Nikaya and the Lalitavistara Sutra; Stanislav Grof's The Cosmic Game; the cosmopsychism of Itay Shani and on Greek Tragedy.

Poems set in Italy, Egypt, and Paris, reflecting on the varying cultures, and relating to contemporary life; more personal poems leading into a sequence, 'Tavern of Ruin', which, for a Sufi, is like training in a divine university. As Dr Javad Nurbakhsh puts it - 'Before a perfect being enters the 'Tavern of Ruin', he or she can be defined. However, upon entering the Truth, such a being is indefinable, beyond the realm of words' ('In The Tavern Of Ruins: Seven Essays On Sufism'). The other starting point is George Meredith's, "Modern Love'.