Illusion Redefined

The focus of this book is to facilitate spiritual healing through recognition of internal power over self defeating behavior. Skills are offered to neutralize the negativity that interferes with healthy communication. The reader will learn how to tap into positive energy to maintain focus. The goal is to empower you to take control of your life. Exposure to positive and negative forces unseen serves to awaken/focus or manipulate/confuse the inner spirit (light of the Divine Creator). Mastery of essential tools defines the internal experience. We are all engaged at one point or another. Success brings us to the next stage of our continuing journey, serving to raise us to higher levels of awareness. As we accept responsibility for sharpening our own focus, we redefine and come to a greater understanding of what motivates as well as what inhibits us. In doing so, we become an island of calm for ourselves and others immune to illusion. The promise of this book is to help you to embrace the greatness within yourself.

This unique volume attempts to answer one of mankind's oldest puzzles -- why the moon appears to be larger and closer on the horizon than when it is high in the sky. Over the centuries, many viable solutions have been proposed for this psychological phenomenon. The Moon Illusion presents papers by major theorists striving to explain the illusion and providing commentaries on the works of others. Research on the moon illusion has been scattered throughout journals in many disciplines including philosophy, physiology, physics, and psychology. As the first publication to present a comprehensive treatment of the problem, this book is of vital interest to professionals whose major concern is visual perception, experimental psychology, or the neurosciences. Of additional interest to those whose focus is physics or astronomy.

Embark on a Voyage of Self-Discovery and Triumph Imagine standing before the greatest canvas of all -- your life. Redefine Yourself: A Journey to Personal Excellence is more than just a book; it's a compass guiding you through the treacherous yet rewarding terrain of self-improvement. With every page, you will embark upon an intimate pilgrimage, poised to sculpt the very essence of who you are. Dive deep into the BTBYCB Philosophy, a bedrock that will support the transformative journey you're about to undertake. Designed to make you question the fabric of your being, it offers a revelatory understanding of what it truly means to "Be The Best You Can Be." Absorb the Foundations of BTBYCB where startling insights reveal the latent potential that resides within you, waiting to be unleashed. Does your reflection in the mirror echo the authenticity of your inner voice? The Art of Self-Reflection challenges you to gaze into the Mirror of Honesty. Refined tools are provided to sharpen your self-awareness and carve clarity from the chaos of everyday life. Venture further and lift the veil with Unveiling the True Self, discovering the indisputable core values that define your unique path. Still, growth doesn't come from standing still. Ascend outside your comfort zone and learn to Rise Above with strategies that demand daily courage, molding you piece by piece into a paragon of self-belief. Building Confidence Step by Step, you'll master affirmations and visualizations, cultivating a bedrock of resilience. When adversity threatens your ideals, Facing Adversity with Grace and Poise equips you with unwavering strategies to turn trials into triumphs. Fused with daily exercises and invaluable resources, the Appendix ensures the perpetual evolution of your personal excellence. Embark on this journey laden with challenge, enriched with insight, and crowned with the joy of endless improvement. Your path to personal excellence awaits.

This volume takes up the challenge of Canadian women's writing in its diversity, in order to examine the terms on which subjectivity, in its social, political and literary dimensions, emerges as discourse. Work from writers as diverse as Dionne Brand, Hiromi Goto and Margaret Atwood, among others, are studied both in their specific dimensions and through the collective focus of cultural and textual revision which characterizes Canadian writing in the feminine. Current theorizing on the postcolonial imaginary is brought to bear in the interests of forging or unpacking those links which tie the Self to culture. As such, Redefining the Subject sets out to discover the limits of the aesthetic in its encounter with the political: the figures and designs which envisage textual reimaginings as statements of a contemporary Canadian reality.

The essays in this volume examine the conflict of ‘self' in society as a leitmotif in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Joyce's Ulysses, and Pinter's The Dwarfs, The Lover, The Caretaker, and The Homecoming.In his analyses, Murray discusses the ideas of behavioral and ideological conformity in Swift's work. He examines Poe's use of the grotesque to suggest correlations between the moral, physical, and spiritual degeneration of the characters, and the natural decay of their environment. Murray examines passages of dialogue from Pinter's dramas and discusses how the characters within the plays use language to create spatial boundaries to secure their identities by making themselves impervious to the language of their ‘social others.' Murray's final essay concentrates on the use of role-playing and misidentification in Joyce's novel.

Maya Unveiled: Journey from Illusion to Reality Embark on a mesmerizing odyssey through "Maya Unveiled," a transformative exploration that transcends the veils of illusion shaping our lives. Unveiling Deception: Awaken to the profound realization that our world is intricately woven with illusions. Peel back the layers obscuring reality and embrace a newfound awareness. Origins of Maya: Delve deep into the intricate veil of perception, tracing the roots of Maya from the rich tapestry of Hinduism to Jainism. Unravel the influential power of thoughts and beliefs that shape our understanding of the world. Challenge of Time: Dissect the illusions of time—past, present, and future. Learn to break free from the constraining grasp of time, discovering a timeless perspective on existence. Relationship Realities: Navigate the intricate web of relationships, exposing the illusions of love and connection. Discover the authenticity that lies beyond the masks we wear, forging genuine and meaningful connections. Redefining Success: Escape the traps of external validation and perfection. Redefine success in the face of Maya, discovering a path that resonates with your true essence and aligns with your authentic self. Discovering True Self: Unravel the ego's deceptive narratives and embark on a journey within. Explore the depths of your being to find the true self, untouched by the illusions of Maya. Spirituality and Maya: Explore the intricate interplay between Maya and spirituality. Navigate spiritual illusions and integrate timeless wisdom into your everyday life, fostering a harmonious connection between the material and spiritual realms. Awakening Process: Embark on the final leg of your transformative journey, unraveling the awakening process. Engage in practical techniques to dissolve the illusions of Maya, embracing the profound reality that lies beyond the veil. "Maya Unveiled" is more than a book; it's a guide to self-discovery, offering profound insights and practical wisdom to navigate the illusions that define our existence. Each exploration brings you closer to a reality untouched by illusion, inviting you to experience a transformative awakening. Are you prepared to unveil the truth hidden behind the Maya? Your journey to self-discovery and authenticity awaits!

In this book, Seung-hoon Jeong introduces the cinematic interface as a contact surface that mediates between image and subject, proposing that this mediation be understood not simply as transparent and efficient but rather as asymmetrical, ambivalent, immanent, and multidirectional. Jeong enlists the new media term "interface" to bring to film theory a synthetic notion of interfaciality as underlying the multifaceted nature of both the image and subjectivity. Drawing on a range of films, Jeong examines cinematic interfaces seen on screen and the spectator’s experience of them, including: the direct appearance of a camera/filmstrip/screen, the character’s bodily contact with such a medium-interface, the object’s surface and the subject’s face as "quasi-interface," and the image itself. Each of these case studies serves as a platform for remapping and revamping major concepts in film studies such as suture, embodiment, illusion, signification, and indexicality. Looking to such theories as the ontology of the image and the phenomenology of the body, this original theorization of the cinematic interface not only offers a conceptual framework for rethinking and re-linking film and media studies, but also suggests a general theory of the interface.