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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Abacus: Robert Duncan: The Ambasador from Venus. Spec/Jun / Lisa Jarnot., 2001

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Identifier: CC-41031-43012
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This issue prints chapters from a book on Robert Duncan that describe the infuence of theosophy and other hermetic orders in his youth on his poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

all or nothing, 1961

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Identifier: CC-59891-10002944
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This is an apparent existential philosophical essay written by Lueck with surrealistivc illustrations by Potvin. It was Potvin's personal copy dedicated to him as Floyd (Potvin's middle name) by Lueck with a drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

[Asian Letter I November 1968] / Merton, Thomas., 1968

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Identifier: CC-30787-32233
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In a mass mailing to friends, Merton writes that he is learning about Buddhism on this Asian trip. He also mentions three long meetings with the Dalai Lama. He describes other spiritual meetings and indicates that he is entirely involved with monastic encounters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Blessed Are the Meek: The Roots of Christian Nonviolence / Merton, Thomas ; Corita M ; Baez J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-30782-32228
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The cover by Sister Mary Corita reprints a colored rubberstamped text of the title and subtitle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Books by Thomas Merton] / Merton, Thomas., 1969

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Identifier: CC-30793-32239
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This posthumous list of May 1969 lists Merton's publications and indicates that even at this date Monks Pound was out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Commentaries on Meister Eckhart Sermons, 2000

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Identifier: CC-43103-45158
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Although known as a concrete poet, critic, translator, and artist in the art and poetry worlds, Houedard was also well versed in religious thoughts and traditions. Educated in the Christian monastic and contemplative traditions, Dom Sylvester had a deep knowledge of many forms of belief, which he saw as different expressions of a single wisdom. A pioneer of the wider ecumenism, he had active contacts with Tibetan Buddhism and the work of the great Islamic mystic Muhyddin Ibn' Arabi. In these talks given near the end of his life, Dom Sylvester illuminates the meanings embedded in six of Eckhart's greatest sermons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Introduction to Benedictive to Avocampsis / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-09697-9890
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This a rough draft for a theologic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Jerusalem Bible / Houedard, Dom Sylvester, co-Literary Editor., 2013

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Identifier: CC-55997-9999461
Scope and Contents Dom (Pierre-)Sylvester Houédard (16 February 1924"“15 January 1992), also known under the acronym dsh, was a Benedictine priest, theologian and noted concrete poet. Born on Guernsey, Houédard was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959. Houédard was a leading exponent of concrete poetry, with regular contributions to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s onward. His elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems ("typestracts") were scattered across many chapbooks, including Kinkon (1965) and Tantric Poems Perhaps (1966). Among his best-known works is the poem Frog-Pond-Plop, his English rendition of a zen haiku by Matsuo Basho. Houédard became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961. Houédard cultivated an interest in multiple religious traditions; he wrote commentaries on Meister Eckhart and was a founder...
Dates: 2013

[letter to bill wyatt including two poems THE LION & tHE mARK] / levy, d.a.., 1965

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Identifier: CC-60896-10003756
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In this letter, levy discusses the discrimination against 'negroes' and the wrongful assasinations of Kennedy and Malcom X. He states that he took drugs for the first time including peyote, pot, acid, belladonna and hash and "I am quite tired." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Letter to ?: did geo show you the fluxus stuff?] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Weaver M; Williams J; Cage J., 1973

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Identifier: CC-56696-10000085
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This letter page might be a seicond of two that cannot be found. In it, Houedard discusses the religious life of monks as seen from the outside world.The remainder of the letter deals with meeting the person to whom it is addressed. Desmond, a prisoner that dsh befriended is also mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[letter to W.E. Wyatt re Zen & Drugs] / levy, d.a.; Watts A; Ouspensky P., 1966

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Identifier: CC-60897-10003757
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In this letter, levy tells aboit his religious, Buddhist experences after ingesting drugs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Los Juegos del Sacromonte / Gomez De Liano, Ignacio., 1975

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Identifier: CC-38469-40375
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The author of this text is an important Spanish concrete poet. This book is concerned with practices of the Catholic Church in Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Marxist Theory and Monastic Theoria / Merton, Thomas., 1968

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Identifier: CC-30792-32238
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This is a transcript of a talk dealing with Marxism and Buddhism on the day Merton met his death as a result of an auto accident. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Notes On The Suicide Of America [as modified from writings of] Hasan Sabbah II / levy, d.a.., 1966

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Identifier: CC-45380-47570
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Wikipedia: Hassan-i Sabbāh (Persian: حسن صباح"Ž; 1050s"“1124) was a NizārÄ« Ismā"Ä«lÄ« missionary who converted a community in the late 11th century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern Persia. He later seized a mountain fortress called Alamut and used it as the headquarters for a decentralized Persian insurrection against the dominant Seljuk Turks. He founded a group of fedayeen whose members are often referred to as the Hashshashin, or "Assassins". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Prinknash My Dear Charles (761016) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1976

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Identifier: CC-58645-10001876
Scope and Contents Although this is a letter to Charles Cameron, it could be considered a manuscript as Houedard expounds on the etymology of logec or logos and touches upon points later made in Wikipedia. Wikipedia: Logos (/ˈloÊŠÉ¡É’s/, /ˈlÉ’É¡É’s/, or /ˈloÊŠÉ¡oÊŠs/; Greek: λόγος, from λέγω lego "I say") is an important term in philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion. Originally a word meaning "a ground", "a plea", "an opinion", "an expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", it became a technical term in philosophy, beginning with Heraclitus (ca. 535"“475 BC), who used the term for a principle of order and knowledge. Ancient philosophers used the term in different ways. The sophists used the term to mean discourse, and Aristotle applied the term to refer to "reasoned discourse" or "the argument" in the field of rhetoric.The Stoic philosophers identified the term with the divine animating principle pervading the Universe. Under Hellenistic Judaism, Philo (ca. 20 BC "“ AD...
Dates: 1976