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In the first instance of sexual intercourse, he mates with Nyx, producing Aether and Hemera (Day), [7] the pair of which represent the personified opposites of their parents. [8] The Neoplatonist Damascius attributes to Acusilaus (6th century BC) a cosmogony in which Chaos is the first principle, after which comes Erebus and Night, and from ...
The Book of Form and Emptiness is a novel by American author Ruth Ozeki, published in 2021 by Viking. Ozeki's fourth novel, the book won the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction . The story follows a boy who hears voices from inanimate objects while the narrative explores themes of mental illness and bereavement.
The Void is a recurring motif in cinema, often used to symbolize existential dread, the unknown, or the metaphysical boundaries between life and death. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is one of the most iconic examples, where the vast emptiness of space represents both the awe-inspiring and terrifying aspects of the Void. The ...
A novel which “stood out for its sparkling writing and poignancy” has been named winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. American-Canadian author Ruth Ozeki, 66, scooped the prestigious ...
Emptiness is also seen as a way to look at sense-experience that does not identify with the "I-making" and "my-making" process of the mind. As a form of meditation, this is developed by perceiving the six sense-spheres and their objects as empty of any self, this leads to a formless jhana of nothingness and a state of equanimity.
The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism, the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, which he terms "the sin of despair".
It is revealed that in the previous book, the Soul Eaters marked Torak with the Soul Eater symbol. When the symbol is noticed on a hunt by another boy named Aki, the decision is made to banish him from the clans; furthermore, the leader of the Wolf Clan, that of Torak's father, announces that his mother named him 'clanless'.
For instance, Śūnyatā (emptiness), unlike "nothingness", is considered to be a state of mind in some forms of Buddhism (see Nirvana, mu, and Bodhi). Achieving "nothing" as a state of mind in this tradition allows one to be totally focused on a thought or activity at a level of intensity that they would not be able to achieve if they were ...