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New spatial notational systems for protecting and regaining Indigenous lands in the United States.

In The Language of Secret Proof, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik challenges the conditions under which Indigenous rights to protect and regain traditional lands are currently negotiated in United States legal frameworks. This tenth volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series responds to the urgent need for alternative modes of evidentiary production by introducing an innovative system of architectural drawing and notation.

Kolowratnik focuses on the double bind in which Native Pueblo communities in the United States find themselves when they become involved in a legal effort to reclaim and protect ancestral lands; the process of producing evidence runs counter to their structural organization around oral history and cultural secrecy. The spatial notational systems developed by Kolowratnik with Hemish tribal members from northern New Mexico and presented in this volume are an attempt to produce evidentiary documentation that speaks Native truths while respecting demands on secrecy. These systems also attempt to instigate a dialogue where there currently is none, working to deconstruct the fixed opposition between secrecy and disclosure within Western legal systems.

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Life is short, must it also be empty? Must it also be bitter? Must its passing hold terror? Where is fulfillment to be found in the midst of shallow and empty things? Where is peace to be found in the midst of chaos and strife? Where is serenity to be obtained in a spiritual wasteland? Seek no more, for we give you these answer, and more. We show you the meaning and the purpose of things. We lead you from confusion and uncertainty to knowledge; from weakness to strength; from frustrated desire to fulfillment. Deep inside all of us, in our race-soul, there is a source of divine wisdom, of ages-old wisdom, of wisdom as old as the universe. That is the wisdom, the truth, of Cosmotheism. It is a truth of which most of us have been largely unconscious all our lives, but which now we have the opportunity to understand clearly and precisely... Dr. Pierce's Cosmotheism is not a 'revealed' religion, but is instead what he called a natural religion, in that it rejects all of the claimed supernatural and unverifiable communications between a putative deity and man which find their way onto shining golden plates or ancient scrolls, instead having its basis in the realities of Nature that our eyes - and the investigations of science - have confirmed. In the drama of the evolution of life from non-living matter, and of higher and more conscious beings from lower forms of life, William Pierce sees a path of purpose and destiny for us.

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“Awesomely powerful and strikingly original. A book at the Spiritual level, the most important aspect in the fight for the survival of Western Civilisation. Jesus and Christ are two opposing personalities. One, Jesus, a fictitious character, invented by Paul in order to destroy the Roman Imperium. Christ, a historical reality overshadowed, killed by Jesus. An eternal struggle between Gods and devils. The author offers a solution: the convergence of Christ, shorn of the Semitic influences, with Cosmotheism - a nature oriented belief.”

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Born in Malta, Norman Lowell considers himself a European in every sense of the word. The author is a banker, a martial arts expert and is the founder of Ch'uan Shu in Malta. He is dedicated to his own abstract style: Dionysian Action Painting.

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New Age Spirituality at its finest. Dawnbringer is a book that will change your life! Dawnbringer heralds a New Religion, a Resurrection of Man! The New Era as predicted by the Mayan civilization starts here. Now, dear readers, brace yourselves to read The Book that will herald it all! In his Preface to his Dawnbringer - The Spiritual Manifesto, the author "It was hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials. The statuary found a granite block on the dilapidated ruins of what was formerly a sacred island, an island of the gods; gazing thereon, he saw how from the crag might be elicited a head, mystical, grandiose, awe-inspiring, esoteric; a form moulded with the highest essence of grandeur - power. With time and labour, the crag took human shape; and there it stands colossal, domineering, provoking - a testament of resilience for all to see."

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«Schneider osservò i chiostri romanici di San Cugat, di Gerona e di Ripoll in Catalogna, annotò le figure fantastiche effigiate sui capitelli assegnando a ciascuno un valore musicale, quindi lesse come simboli di note le singole figure, basandosi sulle corrispondenze tramandate dalla tradizione indù, e scoprì infine che la serie corrispondeva alla esatta notazione degli inni gregoriani dedicati ai santi di quei chiostri. Le pietre cantavano, a saperle leggere, melodie precise. A trarre tutte le conseguenze che il caso impone, ci si accorge che vacilla il nostro mondo culturale, che la storia e i valori comunemente accettati tremano come figure d'un velo dipinto. Una lama di luce rade le tenebre della storiografia medioevale, una storia ignota emerge, si ha la prova che si trasmettevano nel Medioevo conoscenze metafisiche simili a quelle che avevano generato la teoria musicale indù; esisteva una conoscenza metafisica non trascritta su pergamene, ma urlata dai capitelli.» (Dallo scritto di Elémire Zolla)

Marius Schneider

Pietre che cantano. Studi sul ritmo di tre chiostri catalani di stile romanico

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“Moon illuminates the careers of James, Warhol, and others by examining the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings.”

Michael Moon

A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol

April 29, 1998 by Duke University Press Books