Bøker av Robin Bloor

Gurdjieff and Kundabuffer: Food for the Moon by Robin Bloor is a groundbreaking new book that considers Gurdjieff's theory that Man serves as food for the Moon - specifically that at death, some of the substances that make up Man's psyche are released and make their way to the Moon, via the ionosphere. The book is a tour de force, skipping from depictions and explanations of The Ray of Creation to deep analyses of the text of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson to consideration of the abnormal conditions of Man's existence which he developed himself and on to the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundbuffer. The book was written by one of few living specialists in objective science and in fathoming the gist of Gurdjieff's writings. It is full of unexpected insights. It looks at Kundabuffer and the nourishing of the Moon from every perspective. Read it if you want to know: - The astro-magnetic mechanism by which the sacred Askokin, produced by man, is transmitted to the Moon.- The meaning and nature of Anulios.- The meaning of the names of the angels, Sakaki, Looisos and Algamatant, and the meaning of their strange titles. - An account of the implanting of Kundabuffer.- A detailing and summary of the consequences of the properties of the organ.- An inventory of Man's faults which are due to the abnormal being-existence that he created for himself - irrespective of Kundabuffer.- What we can do to eradicate the consequences of the properties of the accursed organ Kundabuffer.Gurdjieff and Kundabuffer: Food for the Moon is a must-read for anyone interested in Gurdjieff's teachings. It is likely to become a classic in the canon of esoteric literature.

Food For The Heart And MindCollected over many years, this thoughtfully curated treasury of readings reaches out across multiple cultures and traditions. Open it on almost any page and you will find something to inspire you. It is awash with masterpieces of the writer''s craft.This literary gem is artfully organized under twelve headings which is itself a poem of a kind, and reads as follows:At First, An Arousing  Secondly, A Gathering Third, An ExplorationThe Fourth Is A Procession  The Fifth, A Pondering The Sixth, A Sallying ForthThe Seventh Is A Peregrination  The Eighth Entails A Mission The Ninth Becomes A QuestThen Proceeds A Pilgrimage  Penultimately, A Returning And Finally, A RecurrenceEach of these lines refers to a chapter containing nine separate works of poetry or prose, each occupying just a few pages. So it comprises 108 readings, harvested from the works of literary giants. A few you will undoubtedly be familiar with, but some will be entirely new to the reader. The book includes three previously unpublished poems by Rina Hands, as well as a few other previously unpublished works. It includes poetry or prose from:Lao Tzu, The Dalai Lama,G Gurdjieff, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jalal ad-D─½n Rumi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Walt Whitman, St Francis, Avicenna, Alexander Pushkin, Honor├⌐ de Balzac, John Milton, Marcus Aurelius, St Paul, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Blake, Khalil Gibran, Arthur Rimbaud, John Bunyan, Red Hawk, Immanual Joseph, John Keats, Ren├⌐ Daumal, Li Po, William Shakespeare, The Bible, Federico Garcia Lorca, Edgar Allan Poe, Tacitus, Lewis Carroll, Soren Kirkegaard, Farid ud-Din Attar, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson,Chuang Tzu, Omar Khayyam, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ivan Turgenev, W B Yeats, Charles Causley, Emily Dickinson and many others.It is a book you will dip into again and again, a book for the coffee table, not the bookshelf.

There has never been a universal algebra of data. Mathematics has been widely employed by software in many ways: numerical analysis, statistics, algorithms, mathematical modeling, and so on, but it has never been used to formally define data in all its variety.This changed when mathematical research into data algebra-carried out for Algebraix Data Corporation by one of the authors of this book-matured and was tested in an extensive range of data management, data integration, and performance optimization contexts. The purpose of this book is to explain that data algebra.The book is undeniably and unashamedly a mathematics text. However, realizing that the readership would likely include many software developers and users as well as mathematicians, the book is written to be as accessible as possible to anyone with some mathematical skills. As such, this is not your grandfather's mathematics text. Between the various set theory assertions, expressions, and equations flows a narrative that is both surprising and entertaining.The subtitle of the book, A Foundation for the Data Economy, is not hyperbole. The mathematical definition of data, and the various set theoretical operations and functions that can be applied to it, provide a new approach to data. It will, in time, become the natural foundation for the emerging data economy that is already growing swiftly.

Words You Don't Know takes the reader on a spirited romp through the dusty corridors of the English language. In 23 chapters and 202 pages, author Robin Bloor shines a light on nearly 300 of the least known words in the language, illuminating the history and mystery of each in short, humorous essays. He has reached back in time and selected some of the most obscure and fascinating words the reader has likely never encountered: words that span the centuries, from the time of Aristotle to the time of Google; words on the verge of extinction and words being coined right now. In each of the 23 chapters, the author weaves a theme around 10 of these words. Each humorous story is unique. The reader will discover rare words, swear words, long words, wrong words, curse words, terse words, legal words, regal words, tech words, sex words, eponyms, retronyms, nonsense words and words with limericks - even words about words! The author's sharp wit, playfulness, and British charm lend each essay a special perspective that is guaranteed to both entertain and enlighten the word lover in every reader.