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The Prince of Tides. The Lords of Discipline is a 1980 novel by Pat Conroy that was later adapted in a 1983 film of the same name. [ 1 ] The story centers on Will McLean, who is in his fourth year at the fictional Carolina Military Institute in Charleston, South Carolina. Will's experiences are heavily based on Pat Conroy’s own experiences at ...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France.
Secret of the Sixth Magic. Master of the Five Magics is a fantasy novel by Lyndon Hardy, first published in 1980. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is the first of a trilogy set in the same world; the second book is Secret of the Sixth Magic and the third Riddle of the Seven Realms. The books feature different characters, but each explores the same system of magic ...
PZ4.T8764 Har PS3570.R9. Harvest Home is a 1973 folk horror novel by American writer Thomas Tryon. A New York Times bestseller, the book became an NBC mini-series in 1978 titled The Dark Secret of Harvest Home, which starred Bette Davis (as Mary Fortune) and David Ackroyd (as Nick Constantine). The miniseries was generally faithful to the plot ...
The Kybalion at Wikisource. The Kybalion (full title: The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece) is a book originally published in 1908 by "Three Initiates" (often identified as the New Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson, 1862–1932) [ 1 ] that purports to convey the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus.
Discipline is the self-control that is gained by requiring that rules or orders be obeyed, and the ability to keep working at something that is difficult. [ 1 ] Disciplinarians believe that such self-control is of the utmost importance and enforce a set of rules that aim to develop such behavior. Such enforcement is sometimes based on ...
Hermeticism, or Hermetism, is a philosophical and religious tradition rooted in the teachings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic figure combining elements of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. [ a ] This system encompasses a wide range of esoteric knowledge, including aspects of alchemy, astrology, and theurgy, and has ...
The Ārya-saṃdhi-nirmocana-sūtra or Noble Sūtra of the Explanation of the Profound Secrets is a Mahāyāna Buddhist text and the most important sutra of the Yogācāra school. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It contains explanations of key Yogācāra concepts such as the basal-consciousness ( ālayavijñāna ), the doctrine of appearance-only ...