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This is a journey into the songlines of memory and imagination: the unique view of a 'Westerner' on his heritage and what it might hold for us in this age of communication overload, conflict and environmental crisis. The landscapes of this journey release their tales of civilisation, of songs of creation, of myth, of spiritual vision, of man's age old quest through life. This book is the fruit of many years of research. It is a novel and, in the same breath, a guidebook for the physical and metaphysical traveller: a rich, compelling invitation to explore the ribbons of stories woven into the landscapes of Italy.

Features: Islands, Networks & Webs: Current Issues in Today's Debate; A Synergy of Contradictions: The Genesis of a World Music & Dance Centre; Performing Ethnomusicology: Exploring How Teaching Performance Undermines the Ethnomusicologist within University Music Training; Ethnomusicology, Education & World Music Pedagogy: Across the Pond; The Wesleyan Way: World Music in an American Academic Structure; Enriching or Endangering: Exploring the Positive & Negative Effects of Recontextualising Mariachi Music For Use in K-12 Schools; Participation, the Workshop & the Welcome; Negotiating Dutch Dance: The Changing Landscape of Dance in The Netherlands.

An essay based on the questions debated in Genoa, Italy (2004) -- within the conference organised by the European Group of Life Sciences -- by leading figures from different disciplines: scientists, psychiatrists, philosophers, sociologists, policy-makers, journalists, writers and poets, on how do the most recent developments in the life sciences affect our understanding, and to assess in which way this knowledge affects visions of humanity. Among the participating authors were: Evandro Agazzi, Sophie Bassis, Christopher Bigsby, James Bono, Philippe Busquin, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Patrick Cunningham, Inez de Beaufort, Victor de Lorenzo, Carl Djerassi, Anne Fagot-Lergeault, Robin Gill, Gilbert Hottoi, Fotis Kafatos, Axel Khan, Karin Knorr Cetina, Ladislav Kovác, Helga Nowotny, Hans Jörg Rheinberger, Edoardo Sanguineti, Marilyn Strathern, Gianni Vattimo, Fraser Watts and Lewis Wolpert.

CONTENTS: Danza de Tijeras Through Modernity & Migration; I Love the Starry Sky at Night-Time: Singing & Signing in the Buddha's Light International Association, Sydney; Dapa: Dancing Gods, Virtual Pilgrimage & Sacred Singing in Bhaktapur, Nepal; Shamanic Traditions & Music Among the Yolmos of Nepal; Melodic Analysis of the Performance of Islamic Hymns in Harar, Ethiopia; Aspects of Stylistic & Musical Diversity in Religious Music in Two Jewish Communities in Greece; The Musical Experience of the Sacred & the Concept of Hierophany; Singing Prayesrs in Secret: The Gaelic Hymn Rann Roimh Urnaigh (Rune Before Prayer) & Its Introductory Note; Between the Sacred & the Secular: Vernacular Performance in a North-East Scottish Coastal Community; Percenter-Led Praise in Northern Scottish Congregations; How Does One Sing to a God Who Isn't the Lord? Sacred Singing in American-Jewish Feminism; Abstracts.

Text in Spanish. Ronimund von Bissing was the son of a naturalised British subject who was educated at Charterhouse-Magdalen College, Oxford University, and at La Sorbonne; in 1939 he was called to the Bar (Middle Temple). From a very early age he found himself alone among his peers who, for the most part, did not share his search for an inner way which was to become his principal objective in life. Travelling to such places as Mount Athos made him increasingly aware of the need to pursue his thirst for inner reality. From 1935 he attended lectures in London given by P D Ouspensky -- the prominent Russian philosopher and thinker -- which opened the doors of hope for him. In 1956 he first heard of Muhammad Subuh Sumohadivwidjojo, the founder of Subud, and invited him to the West. From this time on his inner journey become guided by the Subud experience.

The Spanda Foundation in The Hague, the Netherlands, publishes a biyearly peer-reviewed journal. The current edition, entitled "Consciousness & Development 2.0," includes articles by many well-known scholars and thinkers in the domain of consciousness. A small sampling includes Stanislav Grof, Erwin Laszlo, Riane Eisler, Fred Alan Wolf, Christian de Quincey, Rollin McCraty & Annette Deyhle, and IONS' Marilyn Schlitz.

Disclosing the state of the art in anarchy and non-profit cogitations, from ethics to public goods, challenges to opportunities, philanthropy to free society, past anarchism to freedom, global civil society to libertarians, indigenous resilience to sable anarchy, environmental degradation to social order, people-centred adjustment to non-profit, maya to the clean code, are some of the visions unveiled in this book.

Spanda Journal, biyearly of the Spanda Foundation. Discolsing shared congitations.