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Cosmos of the Ancients: The Greek Philosophers on Myth and Cosmology
Stefan Stenudd
Booksurge Publishing
2007
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The Greek philosophers lived in a time when the gods and the myths about them were very much alive, and there was no scientific evidence dismissing them. This book explores to what extent the Greeks were able to question their own mythology. This is done by examining the cosmology of their philosophers, and what roles they allowed therein for the gods.Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, who studies the patterns of thought in creation myths.
Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author, artist, historian of ideas, and instructor in the peaceful martial art aikido. In this book, he lets his thoughts wander through questions about life, death, and the meaning of it all.A new edition of this book is published with the title "Occasionally I Contemplate Murder".
Tarot Unfolded: Imaginative Reading of the Divination Cards
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Tarot is the extended deck of cards used for divination, dating back to the Renaissance. It works by images, as do humans. We are creatures of imagination. Reading the Tarot cards is essentially done by processing the images in our imagination.This book presents the Tarot and explains how it's used in divination. But the main purpose of the book is to tickle the reader's imagination into going on the spiritual quest induced by imagery. See the Tarot card pictures come alive as other pictures emerge from your mind to meet and transform them. You may find that the world will never look the same again.Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author, historian of ideas, artist, and instructor in the peaceful martial art aikido. In the history of ideas he studies the thought patterns of creation myths, as well as Aristotle's Poetics.
Tao Quotes: The Ancient Wisdom of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Primary source to the gentle Chinese philosophy Taoism is the 2,500 years old book Tao Te Ching, written by the legendary first Taoist Lao Tzu. It has become one of the foremost world classics of wisdom, maybe even more relevant today than it was to Lao Tzu's contemporaries.Here are 389 quotes from the Tao Te Ching, sorted into 51 topics. In this way, the teachings and principles of Lao Tzu stand out with particular clarity, even for those just starting to explore Taoism.Stefan Stenudd has also published a complete translation of Lao Tzu's classic, with extensive comments and explanations: Tao Te Ching: The Taoism of Lao Tzu Explained.
Tao Te Ching: The Taoism of Lao Tzu Explained
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Tao Te Ching is the 2,500 years old source to Taoism, written by the legendary Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu. In 81 short chapters, he presented the world according to Tao, the Way, and how mankind should adapt to it. The book has become one of the foremost world classics of wisdom - maybe even more relevant today, than it was to Lao Tzu's contemporaries.This translation of the text focuses on the clarity and simplicity by which Lao Tzu expresses his fascinating cosmology and profound ethics. Each chapter is thoroughly explained, also regarding how this old wisdom can be understood and applied today.Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish writer of both fiction and non-fiction. As a historian of ideas, he studies the thought patterns in creation myths around the world. He is also a high-grade instructor of the peaceful martial art aikido, which he has practiced for almost 40 years.
Your Health in Your Horoscope: Introduction to Medical Astrology
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Learn how your health is described by the Zodiac signs, the movements of the planets, their aspects, and the astrological Houses. This book contains all the basics you need to get started on that exploration.Please, do not trust this book more than your doctor The ancient tradition of astrology is another way of looking at ourselves than the methods developed by modern natural science. It cannot substitute science any more than science can incorporate astrology.The best use you can have of this introduction to medical astrology is as an alternative perspective on your health. By examining your horoscope you shed light on the complexity of living your life in ways that agree with you the most.Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author who has written several bestselling books about astrology since the 1970's. He has also written books about myth, life energy concepts, Ancient Greek cosmology, and the Japanese martial arts. His fiction, too, deals with cosmological and existential themes.
Life Energy Encyclopedia: Qi, Prana, Spirit, and Other Life Forces Around the World
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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In every part of the world, already thousands of years ago, humans have speculated about some kind of life force. In China it is called qi (also spelled chi), in India prana, in ancient Greece pneuma, in Latin spiritus, and in Hebrew ruach. There are hundreds of life energy beliefs, which have many similarities.This encyclopedia presents and explains them all. In the introduction, distant origins of human thought are traced, examining how spiritual beliefs and life force ideas emerged, and how they were developed through time.Stefan Stenudd is an author and historian of ideas, who researches the thought patterns of myth in general and creation myths in particular. He is also a high-grade instructor of the peaceful and spiritual martial art aikido, since more than 40 years. Aikido, too, evolved from ideas of a life energy.
The careless suburban teen Christian Kalm joins with a supernova, which has developed a personality after passing through a psychoplasma cloud. Together they travel all across the universe in search of a world good enough to stay in without remorse.On the way they unknowingly initiate the return of the Messiah, who meets the fate that can be expected. But Christian Kalm moves on through time and the fifth dimension he is the one to discover.Christian's quest, which is initiated by the blunder of forgetting that time is not a constant, brings him to many worlds so different from his own - but sadly alike in lacking a convincing and lasting meaning, no matter how marvelous they may seem at first.Christian is not the one to give up without trying everything imaginable. In his case, and with his strange companion, that's a lot.Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author, historian of ideas, and aikido instructor. He writes to kill time, or to understand it.
Qi: Increase Your Life Energy
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Qi is the Chinese word for life energy, also spelled chi or ki. It is the essence used in acupuncture, qigong and taiji, as well as many other traditional arts in China and Japan. Its western counterpart is the spirit, or inspiration.This book explains how qi works, and presents several very easy exercises by which you can cultivate and increase its flow within yourself. It is not difficult at all, and the result will invigorate you beyond your expectations. So, give it a try.Stefan Stenudd is a high grade instructor of the peaceful and spiritual martial art aikido, since more than 40 years. Aikido, too, evolves around the life energy. But the exercises in this book can be done by anyone, with or without experience of Eastern traditions.
Cosmos of the Ancients: The Greek Philosophers on Myth and Cosmology
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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The philosophers of Ancient Greece lived in a time when the gods were worshipped and the myths about them very much alive. They were generally regarded as accurate and there was no scientific evidence at hand to dismiss them. So, were they believed?This book explores to what extent the Greeks were able to question their own mythology. This is done by examining the cosmology of their philosophers and what roles they allowed therein for the gods - as much as possible according to their own words.To the philosophers, the quest to understand the world was neither made redundant by the mythology nor completely independent of it. If they were able to express doubts regarding the gods as well as the myths about them, and many of them certainly were, then their contemporaries must have been able to grasp the same. The Greeks were devoted to their mythology, but not all of them blindly so.Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, who specializes on studies of the patterns of thought in creation myths.
Attacks in Aikido: How to Do Kogeki, the Attack Techniques
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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For the first time: an aikido book that focuses on the attack techniques Although aikido is a purely defensive martial art, attack techniques need to be practiced in order for the training partners to exercise the defense against them. And for the aikido skills to increase, the attacking skills must improve accordingly.This book presents all the attacks practiced in aikido - grips as well as strikes, punches, and kicks. Also attacks with a sword, a stick, and a knife are included. Each of these attack techniques is examined in depth, with lots of advice and pointers for beginners as well as advanced aikido students.The book contains commented lists of all the combinations of attack and defense techniques, and a dictionary of aikido terminology.Stefan Stenudd is a 7 dan Aikikai Shihan aikido instructor, former Vice Chairman of the International Aikido Federation, member of the Swedish aikido grading committee, and President of the Swedish Budo & Martial Arts Federation. He has practiced aikido since 1972. He also teaches the sword art iaido.He has previously written the aikido books Aikido Principles and Aikibatto: Sword Exercises for Aikido Students.
Aikido Principles: Basic Concepts of the Peaceful Martial Art
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Aikido is the peaceful martial art. Its defense techniques should be so gentle that also the attacker is delighted. There's no competition, since each participant should be a winner. It's an art that takes a lifetime to learn.This book presents the principles and basic concepts of aikido - deeply rooted in Eastern philosophy and the refined ideals of the samurai. It explores all the Japanese traditions and martial art essentials at work in aikido practice.Stefan Stenudd is a 7 dan Aikikai Shihan aikido instructor, former Vice Chairman of the International Aikido Federation and President of the Swedish Budo & Martial Arts Federation, presently a member of the Swedish Aikido Grading Committee. He has practiced aikido since 1972. He is also a writer of both fiction and non-fiction.
Capricorn Zodiac Sign: Astrological Meanings of the Star Sign
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Sunday Brunch with the World Maker
Stefan Stenudd
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Treating himself to the luxurious Sunday brunch of the Waldorf Astoria in New York, the author is joined by a young stranger. At first, their conversation is all about the author, his experiences and thoughts on life.But as the brunch progresses it becomes evident that the stranger has a lot to say, too. The conversation slips into the mysterious, soon to burst beyond the realm of possibility.Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author, artist, historian of ideas, and instructor in the peaceful martial art aikido. He writes to kill time, or to understand it.
Caroline witnesses the agonizing death of her twin brother, when they are no more than 15 years old. Horrified, she feels that nobody should ever have to die.Then she discovers a hidden visitor to her home, who has the ability to live forever without aging at all. And this ability can be transmitted.As she gets to know the visitor, she finds that there are grisly downsides to such longevity. But events unfold, giving her little time to decide.Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author, historian of ideas, and instructor in the peaceful martial art aikido. He writes because he just has to.
Treating himself to the luxurious Sunday brunch of the Waldorf Astoria in New York, the author is joined by a young stranger. At first, their conversation is all about the author, his experiences and thoughts on life.But as the brunch progresses it becomes evident that the stranger has a lot to say, too. The conversation slips into the mysterious, soon to burst beyond the realm of possibility.Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author, artist, historian of ideas, and instructor in the peaceful martial art aikido. He writes to kill time, or to understand it.
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and several of his followers used their psychological theories to explain the origin and functions of myths and religion. This book describes and critically examines their ideas as they presented them in their own texts. It is a strange journey through a world of thoughts restrained by psychoanalytical dogma and loyalty to its creator, with its own myths of sorts and - in spite of scientific claims - a fidelity that can be characterized as religious.Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author and historian of ideas. Within the history of ideas he researches thought patterns in creation myths, as well as theories about mythology through history.