A changing world, with changing values

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Subtitled Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar reveals how a changing world impacted
on the lives of people who, on the whole kept their homosexuality hidden. Revealing
that the laws of desire changed everything for them both in their private lives and in
the spirit of their work. Looking at some of the greatest and most influential artists
of the 19th and 20th centuries like Oscar Wilde, Roger Casement, Thomas Mann,
Francis Bacon, Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, and Pedro Almodovar,
among them. Predicts that a world in which 'being gay will no longer involve
difficulty and discrimination' will come to pass. Tuned in to the silent families and
the message that are unspoken and slip past the rest of the world, landing deep
in the hearts of those who understand.

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Today's many faith and belief systems are indeed many
and varied, but what can we learn from the many
spiritual beliefs and ancient religious practices which have
disappeared? Many of them are still represented, at least
in part, in existing religions, but some have entirely
vanished. 'Atlas Of Lost Cults And Mystery, by Robert Douglas
this superb book unlocks the meaning of many mysterious
traditions as often known to us today through art, architecture
and fragments of ancient manuscripts.
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Mysticism is the inner or contemplative quest for what lies within - variously thought as the Divine
Being within, or the eternal soul, or the Cloud of Unknowing, the emptiness, a dazzling darkness.
There are those, such as Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) who have thought that the image-less,
insight-giving mystical experience lies in the heart of all religions.