Flashes of lightning, resounding thunder, gloomy fog, brilliant sunshinethese are the life manifestations of the skies. The concrete visceral experiences that living under those skies stir within us are the ground for individual impulses, emotions, sentiments that in their interaction generate their own ever-changing clouds. While our intellect concentrates on the discovery of our cosmic position, on the architecture of the universe, our imagination is informed by the gloomy vapors, the glimmers of fleeting light, and the glory of the skies. Reconnoitering from the soil of human life and striving towards the infinite, the elan of imagination gets caught up in the clouds of the skies. There in that dimness, sensory receptivity, dispositions, emotions, passionate strivings, yearnings, elevations gather and propagate. From the Passions of the Skies spring innermost intuitions that nourish literature and the arts.

The so far ignored and just revealed in these studies the subtle but essential distinction between the incommensurable cosmos and the spheres of the skies opens a unique territory to explore Drawing nourishment from the cloudy skies imagination enhances our experiences of beauty in existence The passionate forces of human responses to the skies found expression in the arts and literature ?

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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".

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SECTION I .- On the Cosmology of Literature: Parallel Universes and Meaning Beyond Information Rebecca M. Painter.- Skies Passions: Reflections on La piel cielo Alira Ashvo-Munoz .- The Genealogy of Heaven in Poetic Literature Ion Soteropoulous and George Comtesse.- A Critique of John Searle's View of the Logic of Fictional Discourse Aydan Turanli.- The Recovery of Archaic Truth in Literature: Light and Darkness in the Perception of Space in the Human Imagination Lawrence Kimmel.- SECTION II.- The Disenchantment of the Sky in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers Raymond J. Wilson III .- Big Mind: The Nature of Consciousness as Internal Spaciousness in Transpersonal Experience Bruce Ross .- Leopardi's Noncturnal Muse Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith.- Aerial Passion, The Face, and the Deleuzean Close-up: Samuel Beckett's but the clouds Mary F. Catanzaro.- Wonder of Emptiness Kiymo Murata-Soraci.- On Concentric Circles of Being Revisited Friedrich Nietzsche and the idea of eternal recurrence Matti Itkonen.- SECTION III.- Passion's Delirium, Passion's Torment A Discussion of One Woman's Arousal in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Saundra Tara Weiss.- Flesh, World and Devil: Towards a Phenomenological Exposition of the Aesthetic Interpretation of Christianity in the Light of Some Tolstoy's Short Works Victor G. Rivas Lopez.- Valery's Materialist Conception of Consciousness and its Consequences Insook Webber.- Cyber-Salvation: Body in Virtual Skies Mariola Sulkowska-Janowska.- "Erit Ergo Spiritui Subdita Caro Spiritalis" (The Spiritual Flesh will Therefore be Subject to the Spirit): TheHeavenly Pleasures of the Disembodied and Reembodied An Essay on Augustine and the Problem of Embodiment George Heffernan.- All My Son's: Arthur Miller's Sky Play in Light of Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or Raymond J. Wilson III.- SECTION IV .- Sky that Surrounds Near to Far Tony Raczka.- On the Dialectical Condition of the Purity of Poetry, Love and Madness in Tarkovsky's Homesickness Victor G. Rivas Lopez.- Traveling to Other Worlds: Visitation to the Heavens as Transpersonal Experience in Rock Art Bruce Ross.- Harold Pinter's The Homecoming Through the Lens of Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice Emil Roy.- The Stream of Consciousness: Literary Psychology as the First Uniquely American Phenomenology in the Works of William James and His Swedenborgian and Transcendentalist Milieu Eugene Taylor.-.