Isbn: 9798248981229 - the threshold: how doorways, borders, and in-between spaces shape everything we are (9 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What happens in the moment before you cross?Every day you walk through dozens of doors without a single thought. You cross thresholds of space, of time, of identity, of relationship, barely registering that anything has changed. But something has changed. Something always changes. And the quality of that change, whether you cross blindly or with full attention, determines far more about your life than you have ever been told.In THE THRESHOLD, author Mohammad Yusuf takes readers on an extraordinary journey through one of the most overlooked forces in human experience: the doorway. Drawing on neuroscience, ancient mythology, architectural history, political history, anthropology, and the quiet texture of everyday life, this book reveals that thresholds are not merely physical boundaries between rooms. They are the most charged and consequential spaces a human being will ever inhabit.Science shows that the brain treats every physical crossing as the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. Mythology shows that every culture in human history stationed a god or a guardian at the doorway, because our ancestors understood something we have largely forgotten: the threshold is sacred ground. Architecture shows that the greatest buildings ever built, from the temples of Egypt to the cathedrals of Europe to the most moving contemporary spaces, were designed above all else around the experience of crossing in. History shows that the borders drawn carelessly on maps have cost more human lives than almost any other single decision in the story of civilization. And psychology shows that the major crossings of a human life, birth and death, marriage and loss, initiation and grief, go wrong most often not because the crossing is too hard but because we attempt it without ceremony, without community, and without any understanding of what we are actually doing.THE THRESHOLD is a book for anyone who has ever stood at a doorway, physical or metaphorical, and felt the weight of what they were about to cross. It is a book about how to inhabit your own transitions with the depth and intention they deserve. And it is a book that will change, permanently, the way you move through every door you encounter for the rest of your life.Pause. Look. Cross. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What happens in the moment before you cross?Every day you walk through dozens of doors without a single thought. You cross thresholds of space, of time, of identity, of relationship, barely registering that anything has changed. But something has changed. Something always changes. And the quality of that change, whether you cross blindly or with full attention, determines far more about your life than you have ever been told.In THE THRESHOLD, author Mohammad Yusuf takes readers on an extraordinary journey through one of the most overlooked forces in human experience: the doorway. Drawing on neuroscience, ancient mythology, architectural history, political history, anthropology, and the quiet texture of everyday life, this book reveals that thresholds are not merely physical boundaries between rooms. They are the most charged and consequential spaces a human being will ever inhabit.Science shows that the brain treats every physical crossing as the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. Mythology shows that every culture in human history stationed a god or a guardian at the doorway, because our ancestors understood something we have largely forgotten: the threshold is sacred ground. Architecture shows that the greatest buildings ever built, from the temples of Egypt to the cathedrals of Europe to the most moving contemporary spaces, were designed above all else around the experience of crossing in. History shows that the borders drawn carelessly on maps have cost more human lives than almost any other single decision in the story of civilization. And psychology shows that the major crossings of a human life, birth and death, marriage and loss, initiation and grief, go wrong most often not because the crossing is too hard but because we attempt it without ceremony, without community, and without any understanding of what we are actually doing.THE THRESHOLD is a book for anyone who has ever stood at a doorway, physical or metaphorical, and felt the weight of what they were about to cross. It is a book about how to inhabit your own transitions with the depth and intention they deserve. And it is a book that will change, permanently, the way you move through every door you encounter for the rest of your life.Pause. Look. Cross. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …