Claire Messud's new novel, The Woman Upstairs, is fiercely intelligent and urgently intimate, written with precision, humor, and an incredible...
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This classic study on the evolution of the human mind is as valuable today as when first published in 1901. Dr. Bucke makes the case that at intervals throughout history certain individuals have appeared who are gifted with the power of transcendent realization or illumination — and that instances of such ilium nation are on the increase. Enthusiastically acclaimed by William James and P. D. Ouspensky, it has long bee accepted as a landmark work.
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