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The son of Thomas Holroyd and Edith (King) Holroyd, Stuart Holroyd attended University College London (1957-1958) but left without completing his degree.
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Emergence from Chaos (Essay Index Reprint Series) by Stuart Holroyd (1957-06-03)
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Alien Intelligence
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The Elements of Gnosticism
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Gnosticism, the secret mystical tradition of the Western world--thought by many to be the foundation of all Western mystery traditions--is here explained and explored. An excellent introduction and survey of the subject, the book includes an extensive bibliography with suggestions for further reading.
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Contraries: A Personal Progression
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Mysteries of Inner Self
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Self-improvement, spirituality, hardcover.
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Quest of the Quiet Mind: Philosophy of Krishnamurti
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The life & philosophy of Krishnamurti. 1980 ED, TANNING TO PAGE EDGES
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The Elements of Gnosticism (The "Elements of..." Series)
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Gnosis is Greek for knowledge, gnosticism offers a dramatic account of creation and has both similarities and significant differences from Christianity. In ancient times, Gnosticism rivalled Christianity in popularity, and now is finding an increasing following in the West. Its central beliefs is that the creation is not divine and that only the soul of man has any true goodness. This text explains the meaning of Gnosticism, giving details of its history and relationship with Christianity. Discussion is included on the Gnostics themselves and the main teachings of the faith, as well as the major schools of Gnostic thought and literature.
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Mysteries of the inner self / by Stuart Holroyd
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The Elements of Gnosticism by Stuart Holroyd (1994-03-04)
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Emergence from Chaos (Essay Index Reprint Series)
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With an initial anti-humanist conviction Mr. Holroyd shows how six ports ""have reacted to the modern predicament"". Starting with the assumption that the world is fundamentally chaotic, he challenges the doctrine that man is the measure of man. How are we to order and make sense of the chaos if our aspirations are built upon our finitude, our imperfections, our ephemerality; if our values, contrived and transient, relative and arbitrary, are synonymous with our ideals? This prosecution favors a rediscovery of a religious attitude which dignifies the mind and ennobles its thought. It is only through a transcendant focus that fulfillment and self-realization can emerge. With these criteria Dylan Thomas, Whitman, Yeats, Rimbaud, Rilke and Eliot are evaluated. Thomas' reverence for an instinctive, libidinous life obliterates his personality and falls short of the religious attitude. Whitman too, in his denial of the duality of body and soul and deference to anthropomorphism is liable to accept, mediocrity as measure. Yeats was obsessed by the dichotomies in his nature and wanted to change his life; Rimbaud, aware of these dichotomies, sought to materialize them in the extreme. Rilke and Eliot represent an advance in consciousness, exercising the proper religious faculty, the intellect which transposes emotion into a universally accessible medium. Finally, Eliot, the intellectual soul, embodies truly the religious attitude, for he was able to turn his attention to social and cultural issues and historical process; away from the depths of his own soul to a permanent and more perfect object. A defined market. - Kirkus Review
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Mysteries of the Inner Self (Great mysteries) by Stuart Holroyd (1978-05-05)
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He first came to prominence for the philosophical and critical works produced during his close association with the writers Colin Wilson and Bill Hopkins, but has since written prolifically on parapsychology, contacts with extraterrestrial life, sexual love and other topics. He published his first book, Emergence from Chaos, in 1957 at the age of twenty-three. Wilson and Holroyd, along with the novelist Bill Hopkins, were associated with the literary movement known as the Angry Young Men.
In the same year, Holroyd, Wilson and Hopkins each contributed an essay to Declaration - an anthology of statements by writers and artists then labelled, rightly or wrongly, as Angry Young Men (the contributors included not only John Osborne and Kingsley Amis but Doris Lessing and the director Lindsay Anderson).
On 9 March 1958, Holroyd"s play, The Tenth Chance was produced at the Royal Court Theatre. Disturbances in the audience during the single performance, and a subsequent confrontation in a nearby public house involving Kenneth Tynan, Christopher Logue and Colin Wilson were widely reported.
Emergence from Chaos was a literary/psychological study of several modern poets. Holroyd"s next book, was an autobiographical examination of the author"s search for "spiritual values".
In 1961, Holroyd married Susan Joy Bennett,who however, he was not with for lougitude
With the exception of a textbook on English literature (The English Imagination), Holroyd did not publish another book for sixteen years. Contraries; A Personal Progression, which appeared in 1975, was a memoir of the "angry" years of the late 1950s, containing portraits of Wilson and Hopkins.
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The Elements of Gnosticism
(Gnosticism, the secret mystical tradition of the Western ...)
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The Elements of Gnosticism (The "Elements of..." Series)
(Gnosis is Greek for knowledge, gnosticism offers a dramat...)
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Emergence from Chaos (Essay Index Reprint Series)
(With an initial anti-humanist conviction Mr. Holroyd show...)
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Mysteries of Inner Self
(Self-improvement, spirituality, hardcover.)
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Quest of the Quiet Mind: Philosophy of Krishnamurti
(The life & philosophy of Krishnamurti. 1980 ED, TANNING T...)
- GREAT MYSTERIES: Mysteries of the Inner Self
- Emergence from Chaos (Essay Index Reprint Series) by Stuart Holroyd (1957-06-03)
- Alien Intelligence
- Contraries: A Personal Progression
- Mysteries of the inner self / by Stuart Holroyd
- The Elements of Gnosticism by Stuart Holroyd (1994-03-04)
- Mysteries of the Inner Self (Great mysteries) by Stuart Holroyd (1978-05-05)
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The Elements of Gnosticism
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His most recent publication, His Dear Time"s Waste (Pronoia Books, 2013) is described as "a 1950s literary and love life memoir," a re-issue of the amended text of Contraries, with substantial additions derived from journals, correspondence and other early writings, together with reflections from a present point of view.
