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Robert Adams

    May 8, 1937

    Robert Adams was an American Advaita teacher who primarily advocated the path of jñāna yoga with an emphasis on self-enquiry. Though not widely known during his lifetime, his teachings have since circulated widely amongst those investigating Advaita philosophy and Western devotees of Sri Ramana Maharshi. His core message emphasizes self-knowledge and the practice of inquiry into the nature of the self. His teachings are collected in the book "Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams".

    Beauty in Photography
    The Approaching Apocalypse
    Vanishing landscapes
    Denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974
    What We Bought: The New World: Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974
    Silence of the Heart
    • 2023

      This book is a detailed study of rheumatic gout. Adams provides a comprehensive overview of the disease, including its causes, symptoms, and treatment options. He also discusses the management of chronic rheumatic arthritis in all joints. The book is an essential resource for medical practitioners who treat patients with rheumatic gout and arthritis.

      A Treatise On Rheumatic Gout, Or Chronic Rheumatic Arthritis of All the Joints
    • 2023

      This volume is a personal compilation of quotations that have played a vital role in orienting Robert Adams’ life as a photographer. Copied down in private notebooks collected over six decades and now edited for the general reader, this meditative tapestry of words addresses the question: “What are the facts of our situation, and how might we respond?” From poets, novelists and songwriters to painters, photographers and more, the book features quotations from a revealing array of historic and contemporary figures including Diane Arbus, Ingmar Bergman, Paul Cézanne, Emily Dickinson, Dag Hammarskjöld, Dorothea Lange, Fran Lebowitz and Alfred Stieglitz. Adams has grouped these quotations into sections that correspond to the larger motifs in his œuvre, such as “Walking,” “Night” and “Long Views.” Taken together, they suggest the lineaments of an autobiography, one aimed at helping others by means of lived experience recorded in words.

      Words That Helped
    • 2023

      In the mid-1970s, Robert Adams began recording nocturnal scenes near his former home in Longmont, Colorado. Illuminated by moon- light and streetlamp, suburban houses, roads, sidewalks and fields seemed transfigured. 25 years after first publishing a sequence of these pictures in 1985 as Summer Nights, he revisited his project, amending its title and completely re-editing its contents to create a more disquieting and thus more accurate reflection of his experience. Hailed as a new classic, Summer Nights, Walking went out of print soon after it was published in 2009. This sensitively enlarged edition, printed with the same exquisite care as the original, makes this revered body of work available to a new audience.

      Summer Nights, Walking
    • 2023

      In the fall of 1968, Robert Adams, a college English teacher, found himself inexplicably drawn to photograph a nondescript area south of Colorado Springs whose most notable feature was a truck stop off the interstate. Unflinching in their description yet embodying a mysteriously radiant peace, the pictures Adams made of the otherwise graceless site confirmed for him a vital new way of relating to the world. He would parlay this revelation into The New West, the book that would establish both his photographs and his subject—the contemporary landscape of the American frontier—as matters of wider consequence. This pivotal early series has been re-edited to include previously unpublished pictures from the period.

      Eden
    • 2023

      Having lived in Southern California during his university years, Robert Adams returned to photograph the Los Angeles Basin in the late 1970s and early 1980s, concentrating on what was left of the citrus groves, eucalyptus and palm trees that once flourished in the area. The pictures, while foreboding, testify to a verdancy against the odds. Featuring sumptuous quadratone plates, this greatly expanded and revised edition of a title originally published in 1986 reinvigorates one of Adams’ most influential and admired bodies of work.

      Los Angeles Spring
    • 2023

      The view from Lookout Mountain west of Denver is of natural forms and our imprint on them, of the timeless and the passing. Generations have made their way there to find perspective on the city and the plains beyond. Robert Adams photographed from the overlook in 1970, and again in 1984. For this volume, he has assembled a selection of views, by him and by others, which document a complex location that inspires both hope and despair.

      On Lookout Mountain
    • 2022

      Dare to Restore

      A Journey Out of Darkness, Guilt, Shame, and Condemnation to The Light, Restoration, Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness

      • 188 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Exploring the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality, this book addresses issues like depression, postconcussion syndrome, and PTSD. It delves into the experiences of those suffering from these conditions, shedding light on their pain, heartache, and the societal stigma they face. By integrating various disciplines, the text aims to empower wounded individuals, offering them both a voice and a roadmap toward healing and restoration.

      Dare to Restore
    • 2022

      Reflections of a Scared Soldier Boy in Vietnam

      God, Redlegs, and Blueboys

      • 826 pages
      • 29 hours of reading

      The narrative follows Robert Adams, a young combat soldier grappling with intense emotional and psychological challenges. His journey through the harrowing experiences of war catalyzes a profound transformation, pushing him from the innocence of boyhood into the harsh realities of manhood. The story delves into the complexities of fear, growth, and the impact of conflict on personal identity.

      Reflections of a Scared Soldier Boy in Vietnam