La Energía de Los Mandalas

Mandalas allow us to better understand ourselves and are essential for self-awareness. The creative activity of coloring mandalas requires a departure from everyday consciousness, which lets us experience our deepest feelings and thoughts.

Mandalas, concentric designs that originated in ancient India, are growing ever more popular in therapy, meditation, and relaxation exercises. Coloring the mandalas in this book offers more than a mere artistic pastime--working with mandalas helps increase self-knowledge and interior peace.

Mandalas are a reflection of life and when we color mandalas, skills and talents we didn't think we had rise to the surface. We develop a special and unique sensitivity to Mother Nature. We perceive everything with a new and growing intensity. In short, the satisfaction we feel is enormous.

A lo largo de tres décadas, Victor Burgin se ha convertido en un artista muy influyente y en uno de los pensadores más renombrados en el ámbito de la teoría cultural. Su original aparato crítico –que bebe de las fuentes de la teoría semiótica, cinematográfica y psicoanalítica– analiza, de manera rigurosa, las complejas relaciones sociales y de representación de nuestra época. Desde el pensamiento de Burgin, como comenta David Campany en su hermoso prólogo, "la fotografía no pertenece a ningún espacio cultural único, ya que conoce todos los lugares y no tiene ningún...

El martes 12 de noviembre del 2013, días antes de cerrar la edición de este libro, la venta de un tríptico de Francis Bacon en Nueva York -1969- rompía todos los records del mundo del arte al venderse por 142,5 millones de dólares. Esa misma tarde, un perrito naranja gigante -Balloon dog (Orange)- del escultor Jeff Koon's, se vendía por 58,4 millones convirtiéndole en el artista vivo con la obra más cara jamás subastada. Evidentemente, con esta venta alguien -el nombre del vendedor es Peter Bandt- se hizo inmensamente (más) rico en unas horas. Sin embargo, pocos minutos después,...

Events written down stay with us longer. That is the mission of the notebook you hold in your hands; an exceptional creative team has designed this object just for you. No two will be alike, because you ll fill yours with your unique observations and passions."

"New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras" is a collection of chapters on the theme of lexical borrowing in the languages of Western Europe with particular focus on borrowing from Latin, or from Greek via Latin, into Spanish. Such cultured, or “learnèd” borrowing—as it has sometimes been designated—, is an especially intriguing feature of the Romance languages, since they also derive from Latin. It is also of particular interest to historical linguists since it is an example of what has been called “change from above”: innovation first evidenced in the...