People who are in love think about their beloved the whole day, which is supposed to be associated with serotonin. The research questions were how peripheral serotonin levels differ between individuals that are in love compared to individuals that are not in love, and how these levels are associated with obsessive thinking about the beloved. Because gender differences exist in romantic love and...

Abstract Sethe Suggs, the protagonist in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, is often compared to Medea. The same analogy with Colchian princess was made by contemporaries relation Margaret Garner, historical person on whose life loosely based. An enslaved African-American woman mid-nineteenth century, Garner killed her own daughter after being found former owner and styled a ‘Modern Medea’ press. D...

in the following, i describe the sufi path (tariqa) as a dialectical process which transforms the person through love. i examine the belief system of islamic mystics as a journey involving both creativity and passion. i do so by using a fresh approach, a perspective that has heretofore yet to be applied to the spiritual alchemy of the sufis.

This thesis is dedicated to my beloved parents, brothers and to my lovely wife CONTENTS 1 Introduction 1 1.