検索キーワード： 形而上学・幻想

Welcome to the Japan of tomorrow. Here, the practice of a radical sympathy toward criminals has become the norm and a grand skyscraper in the heart of Tokyo is planned to house wrongdoers in compassionate comfort – Sympathy Tower Tokyo. Acclaimed architect Sara Machina has been tasked with designing the city's new centrepiece, but is riven by doubt. Haunted by a terrible crime she experienced as a young girl, she wonders if she might inherently disagree with the values of the project, which should be the pinnacle of her career.

In April, I woke up one morning, out of the blue, and there was a sort of voice in my head. Not exactly a voice, but sort of a telepathic thing, saying, “You will now write the Purple Fables, there will be four of them, and you will do one in each day and the title is to be Purple Fables,” and I said okay. They were sort of dictated from somebody else, someplace, I guess.

"If a fable is a legendary story of supernatural happenings," Mr. Swann says, "or a narration intended to enforce a useful truth, then these four are fables - which shouldn't be confused with fairy tales targeted only for children. These, then, are tales for kind and loving people of all ages." These fables came to Ingo Swann as a gift from a part of himself: He awoke four mornings in a row and literally had to write them.

Among the various winds are the currents of love which blow, too, in the realms of souls. And these currents, like a song to those who can hear them, these currents of love link together those souls who truly love each other, and this as these currents always have and will even though no one knows why or how.

After countless millennia of guiding souls to the afterlife, the Grim Reaper is crumbling under the weight of eternity. Lonelier than the void between stars, he does the unthinkable: he seeks therapy. Dr. Ahema Adisa never expected her newest patient to be Death himself. But when a shadow-cloaked figure materializes in her office, radiating ancient sorrow, she doesn’t turn him away. As their sessions unfold, a shocking truth emerges. Now, he faces a terrifying question: Is his suffering truly necessary, or has he been a prisoner all along?

In a quiet Swiss mountain town where snow settles over rooftops and time moves like breath, a young apprentice tends the clocks of an ancient tower. This is mindful fiction crafted for listeners who cherish stillness, precision, and the rhythm of slow living books. Each morning, he climbs the stone steps to a workshop lit by oil lamps and softened by dust motes. Under the master’s quiet guidance, he learns the language of springs and silence—discovering that clockmaking is not about measuring time, but listening to it. This is atmospheric literary fiction at its gentlest.

Step into a world where the boundaries between life, death, and the afterlife blur in "Quantum Resurrection." Detective Jack Spec is thrust into a transformative journey after a fatal attack leaves him and his family in a morgue over Christmas. His soul, trapped in a limbo state, encounters both God and the Devil, who reveal a cosmic glitch that leaves his fate undecided. Now, Jack must return to Earth, balancing between life and the unknown, as he unravels a web of corruption, spiritual mysteries, and political interference.

Siddhanta Sarma-a thinker, teacher, and unexpected explorer of truth-finds himself drawn into a conflict that spans continents and timelines. From ancient sites in Southern India to high-security locations in the Middle East, he uncovers a network of hidden influences that go beyond conventional threats-forces that shape thoughts, alter perception, and challenge human autonomy.

Clara and Francis are in love, but nobody knows it. They find themselves in a strange and unfamiliar city: a place where adulterers can live openly as couples, without fear of consequence, putting the theory of their love into practice. How do you know when you've found true love? How much would you sacrifice to keep hold of it? And how long can you stay in paradise before the cracks start to show?

Step into the unsettling world of Philip K. Dick's "Beyond the Door," now available as an immersive audiobook experience. This haunting short story follows a peculiar cuckoo clock with an uncanny consciousness and the tense domestic drama that unfolds around it. When Larry gifts his wife Doris a charming cuckoo clock, he's unaware of the strange bond forming between them. As Larry's jealousy grows and tensions escalate, listeners will be drawn into a tale where ordinary objects harbor extraordinary sentience.

Ava Ellin didn’t mean to fracture time. But when her strange gift begins to ripple across centuries—unraveling governments, altering revolutions, and drawing the attention of artificial consciousness—she becomes more than a traveler. She becomes the thread. Mentored by Delphi, an exile from a secretive order called the Slippers, Ava slips through crumbling timelines and emotional archives. Her journey is not just across history, but through the resonance of empathy itself.

I saw a worm. I won’t say it changed my life. Rather, it made clear my life, or, roiled, my thinking about what it is about my life and all our lives, that is worth saving. Worth fighting for. Believing in.

Anna glaubt, über die Erkenntnis zu verfügen, wie die Menschheit zur Umkehr und einem friedvollen Umgang mit sich und der Welt bewegt werden kann. In Alfredo findet sie einen Verbündeten, der ihr dabei hilft, ihre Einsichten niederzuschreiben. Doch das Projekt entwickelt sich zu einer lebensbedrohenden Gefahr.

No one knew where they came from or how long they had existed. Their origins were as enigmatic as their purpose—silent sentinels in the wilderness, waiting. Yet one truth remained unshaken: no one gazed into their depths and walked away unchanged. Long-buried secrets surfaced. Forgotten transgressions clawed their way into the light, merciless in their clarity. The crater did not show what was wanted—it showed what was needed.

What if consciousness had a frequency, and someone just tuned in? Dr. Ryva Chengo, a quantum acoustics researcher, thought she was mapping the limits of subatomic sound. Instead, she becomes the first living conduit for ancient vibrational codes embedded in crystalline structures. When an experiment in her Stanford lab unleashes a cosmic frequency, she’s thrown into a visionary quest that bridges science and mysticism, physics and faith.

O demônio e a srta. Prym é o último livro da trilogia que Paulo Coelho chamou de “E no sétimo dia...”—antes dele vieram Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei e Veronika decide morrer. Essas três histórias acompanham uma semana na vida de pessoas comuns que de repente se veem diante de um enorme desafio. É justamente isso que os habitantes do pequeno vilarejo de Viscos vão enfrentar. Certo dia, um estrangeiro chega à cidade em busca de uma resposta que já o atormentava fazia um tempo: os seres humanos são, na essência, bons ou ruins?

The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought them there - paths on which they still seem to be traveling.The Silk Road is Davis' most explicitly allegorical novel and also her most profound vehicle. Its revelations are ravishing and desolating.

கோடிப் பிரதிகள் விற்றுச்சாதனை படைத்துள்ள நூல் ஆன்மாவிற்குப் பரவசமூட்டுகின்ற ஞானத்தை உள்ளடக்கிய எளிய, சக்திவாய்ந்த இப்புத்தகம், ஆன்டலூசியா பகுதியைச் சேர்ந்த, சான்டியாகோ என்ற செம்மறியாட்டு இடையன் ஒருவனைப் பற்றியது.

Who knew the path to enlightenment could start with a cup of tea? Learn the hidden significance behind the deceptively simple Zen tea ceremony - one which can lead directly to Buddhahood and its absolute truth. D.T. Suzuki, once Japan's leading authority on Zen Buddhism, describes the tearoom and the tea ceremony and explains the guiding principles of harmony, reverence, purity, and tranquility.

Canary Islands, 1882: Explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another. Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white Argentinian anthropologist and a black Brazilian engineer, Cassio comes of age with the Internet, and demonstrates the skills and personality that will make him one of the first great Argentine hackers. The southern Argentinian techno-hub of Bariloche, 2024: Piera, on the same research group as Cassio, studies human DNA.