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12" Gongs on the Small Eternal Present Gong Stand

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12" Gongs on the Small Eternal Present Gong StandThis combo includes the gong of your choice, gong stand, and a traditional Chinese gong mallet. The 12" Atlantis Gong is a unique gong. The gong making process allows for the science of metallurgy to mix with the art of the gongmaker to mix with the magic of fire to create each one of these gongs! We call these gongs Atlantis Gongs because we imagine, if our film director submariner James Cameron, were to discover Atlantis in one of his old up and

This combo includes the gong of your choice, gong stand, and a traditional Chinese gong mallet.



The 12" Atlantis Gong is a unique gong. The gong making process allows for the science of metallurgy to mix with the art of the gongmaker to mix with the magic of fire to create each one of these gongs!

We call these gongs Atlantis Gongs because we imagine, if our film director/submariner James Cameron, were to discover Atlantis in one of his old up and downs in the Marianas trench, and he was to bring up a gong from there it would look like our Atlantis Gong. A cool thing about Atlantis Gongs is each one looks different. That's part of the process of how they are made. So the one you get is going to be your special one that no one else has.

Approximate Gong Weight: 2 lbs 2 oz



The 12" Chau Gong is a classic gong. How classic?! When you thinks Blue Jeans, you think Levi Strauss or Wrangler. When you think Ice Cream, you think of Vanilla or Chocolate. When you think Gongs on Gong Stands, you think a Chau Gong on The Eternal Present Gong Stand!

This gong and gong stand combo will last the centuries. You will pass this down to your children and they will give it to their children, and their children, until one day, many many many generations from now, when we have reached the Singularity, or the Event Horizon, or the Debt Ceiling... all these gongs will be at the center, all ringing and singing and gonging... And you will know, from your perch on the spiritual levels, that you aided humanity's advancement.

Approximate Gong Weight: 2 lbs 10 oz



There are studies that suggest dark chocolate can help stimulate blood flow, lower cholesterol and lower risk of heart failure. On the other hand, extended over-consumption of chocolate could promote weight gain and can hurt your cardiovascular health.

The doctors at Gongs Unlimited prescribe the 12" Chocolate Drop Gong. It will give you a healthy mind and a healthy soul for eternity without messing with your cholesterol. Combined with this Eternal Present Stand, your cosmic arteries will be free and clear until the end of time. Now that's something to celebrate, maybe with a chocolate fountain.

Approximate Gong Weight: 2 lbs 10 oz



The 12" Dark Star Gong has a luminous sound that can fill your heart and heart chakra, the connective tissue between yin and yang, body and soul.

It is concentrated, focused, bell-like in its tone. It is great for meditative moments in the home, at your yoga studio, wherever you need a quiet, mental, spiritual break.

Approximate Gong Weight: 2 lbs 2 oz



Recently blown in, the 12" Dark Wind Gong is similar to traditional Wind Gongs, but with an unlathed outer edge. The unlathed part controls the crash, creating less splash than a wind gong and preventing the gong from opening up sound-wise like a fully lathed gong.

The balanced, deep tones of this gong can aid in your spiritual and emotional healing practices. Add one of these gongs to your sound therapy or yoga studio and meditate on the peaceful, harmonic motion of all things.

Approximate Gong Weight: 1 lb 6 oz



The 12" Heng Gong hangs waiting, silent. What will it say? What will it do? What can it bring you? Does it have purpose? Does it have a power? Is there a profundity hiding deep within?

Yes. The potential within the bronze can be activated with a subtle connection of the mallet. Just like your inner potential can be activated when listening to the 12" Heng Gong…Symbiosis!

A deep, constant tone, a wave of sound, reaching towards the thick outer rim. Brightness, oh shimmering brightness! Within depth of tone that reminds us of the lightness that exists even within the black holes of the universe...for they are lit within by spirit.

Approximate Gong Weight: 3 lbs 10 oz



The 12" Lunar Flare Gong is named after the ring of brightness that appears around the moon in a photo. It embodies the eternal of Earth's only satellite, yet we know the flare only because of today's technology which made it possible to capture this previously unseen and beautiful phenomenon. It has a deep sound, though not as sharp as its sister, the Solar Flare Gong. The rim focuses the sound which lingers pleasantly. There's a lightness, like the light from the moon that pierces the thick of night. Deep sound emanates and expands and transforms dark to light.

The Lunar Flare Gong is appropriately named, for its sounds move the water in your body in a way to loosen stuck emotions, if you work with it. It works the stuck sounds in your body so you can release them. It takes you from the Dark Side of the Moon, the brilliant reflective Light Side.

Approximate Gong Weight: 2 lbs 10 oz



The 12" Mother Tesla Gong is, perhaps, the disk depicted in Myron’s statue, “Discobolus” from 5th century BC.



How exactly one of our gongs became part of the ancient Greek Pentathlon involves a complex synthesis of temporal physics and wishful thinking that our attorneys have advised us not to discuss, as the patent is still pending. What we can speak to is the indisputable fact that Ancient Greece was not only a time of great advances in art, mathematics, philosophy and astronomy, but also track and field events that indulged the senses.

Wrestlers chose their holds by what would be most pleasing to the eye, javelins were scented, their points dipped in Jasmine and Lilac, and shot puts made of ground lamb and herbs were often nibbled pre-toss as they were held aloft on shoulders.

And as for the discus throw, greater emphasis was placed on the sound produced upon impact than distance as evidenced by the gold medal awarded to Leonidas of Rhodes whose best effort travelled only 3 meters but produced a richly satisfying tone that could be heard all the way to Sparta.

The 12” Mother Tesla is history in the re-making. Let one transport you to a time and place of your own choosing. Or simply display it as the world’s largest Olympic commemorative coin.

DISCLAIMER: WE WILL NOT REPLACE YOUR GONG IF USED AS A DISCUS.

Approximate Gong Weight: 2 lbs 2 oz



The 12" Subatomic Gong was created for Gongs Unlimited by request. We wanted to see what would happen if there was an extra lathed ring on the outside. We think what happened is pretty special.

The Subatomic Gong has a darkness to its voice that the traditional Chau doesn't. With the extra lathed circle of light like a halo of enlightenment, the Subatomtic has zipped around this universe a time or two. It knows the dance of light and dark, up and down, split and fused, giggles and groans up and is ready to help.

Approximate Gong Weight: 2 lbs 10 oz



The 12" Wind Gong is a small musical marvel. Shiny, splashy, with a bit of a zest and crash, it is a gong that awakens the passion in passionfruit. Before hearing this gong, it is sleepy don't wake me up-, or I am reading status updates on Facebook and not in the mood-.

The Wind Gong is a celebratory piece of bronze, that opens things up for cheers after you close the deal. It is a hale Gong for when you want to hail a cab, emotionally, mentally or spiritually, and it is subtle gong when you want a light tapping of bronze, just to chill after a solemn or Solomonic event...

Approximate Gong Weight: 1 lb 6 oz

The Eternal Present Gong Stand is made from a hardwood, in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Pakistan. It is carved, cut and stained with the strains of both muscle and spirit, and the body and mind connection works to create that delicate ladder, spiderweb thin, where we climb closer to eternity and the embrace of the omniscience that we so long for. It is the perfect match for a 12" Chinese Gong. Add it to your home, office, studio, wherever a quiet meditative moment is needed. 

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 25"
Height: 24"
Width of Base: 5"

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:

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Interesting anthropology and critique, but dense and obtuse writing
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The good part is that at the end of the day, I learned a lot here, and Polanyi raised a lot of very interesting and under-discussed historical points to create his argument. It felt very similar to David Graeber (or I guess Graeber is similar to Polanyi) in that way. The bad part is that, whereas Graeber writes with exceptional clarity and vividness, Polanyi is obtuse and dense. And I've read other books from this era, I don't think it's the time. I think it's Polanyi's writing. Beyond that, his work serves more as analysis than prescription. It's a bit unclear exactly what he's advocating for. Which maybe is OK, though I prefer when non fiction writers offer solutions rather than just pointing out problems. All in all, if you can settle in with his writing, there are definite gems in there.
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Kitty Bryant
Phoenix, US
★★★★★ 5
Inspiring analysis of economic history
Format: Paperback
Polanyi presents economic history through an analysis of the "utopian" catastrophy of the self-regulating market economy. Polanyi argues that the free market economy treats the most essential elements of human society - labor, nature, and money - as if they should be exploited like commodities. When liberalism (free marketeerism) rules, then the economy dictates what is possible in human society, and these rules are intolerable because they create conditions under which humans are impoverished and disempowered. In his final chapter he lays out the battle ground between liberalism and its alternatives, which when he was writing (1945) were socialism and fascism. Fascism refuses the dictates of economic liberalism but substitutes in its place the dictates of a state that denies individual freedom. Socialism, alternatively, holds the only promise of true freedom for the individual where economic and political rules are developed and enforced democratically for the protection of society. While this is not an easy read because it demands a background in history, he is a fluent and persuasive writer.
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Freh
Pawtucket, US
★★★★★ 5
This 1944 classic recounts the fatal flaws of market liberalism that led to the Great Depression and World Wars I & II
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Karl Polanyi. 1944. In 1944, the opposing monumental classics, The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek and The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, were published. From the right, Hayek argued that market liberalism led to prosperity, political liberty, and prevention of authoritarian governance. From the left, Polanyi argued that the rise of market liberalism during the industrial revolution led to intolerable hardship, inevitable unsustainable countermeasures, and finally collapse into fascism, the Great Depression, and World Wars I and II. Since their publication during World War II, these markedly opposed ideas have now been tested by seventy years of history. For the first thirty years after the war, policies reflecting Polanyi’s ideas led to a mixed economy of government policies and regulated markets in the US, northern Europe, and elsewhere that produced robustly increased prosperity broadly shared at all income levels. For the next forty years, ascendency of Hayek’s ideas led to reduction of the role of government with attendant economic instability, rising inequality (with all economic gains going to the rich in the US), and coercive imposition of market liberalism by authoritarian governments with disastrous results throughout Latin America and the former Soviet Union. Given the adverse consequences of resurgent market liberalism, the rebuttal of its ideas in The Great Transformation is as important today as ever. In The Great Transformation, Polanyi maintains that before the industrial revolution, markets did not play an important role in human society—they were embedded in society rather than the other way around. Goods and services were generally distributed without the motive for profit by the non-market mechanisms of reciprocity according to social relations, centralized storage with redistribution, and production for one’s own use known as householding. When present, the role of markets was peripheral and subordinate to politics, religion, and social relations. The industrial revolution brought about an almost miraculous improvement in the tools of production accompanied by catastrophic dislocations of the lives of the common people, of which poverty was merely the economic aspect. During this time, English thinkers created the theory of market liberalism, which radically reversed the previous subordination of markets to society by removing the role for government so that society was instead subordinated to self-regulating markets (without government interference). This change required that human labor, nature, and money be turned into commodities that could be bought and sold without regard to human and social considerations. Efficient functioning of markets also required callous indifference to the social dislocation, poverty, and damage to nature that resulted and even to hunger as a motivating factor for the working class. This change from regulated to self-regulating markets that organized the whole of society on the principle of gain and profit marked a great transformation of the nature of society by the removal of democratic control of markets. The goals of this transformation were unrealistically utopian and could never be achieved without annihilating the human and natural substance of society. Even during its installation, laissez-faire proved to be a myth. Government action was mandatory to adjust the supply of money and credit, to enforce provisions for labor and land, and to prevent political disruption. Even with this level of government activity, market liberalism still imposed unsustainable hardships on ordinary people from speculative excess, growing inequality, competition from imports, depressions, unemployment, poverty, and reduced entitlement to assistance. By the late 1800s, these impossible pressures of the self-regulating market necessarily led to a countermovement in industrialized nations to protect their societies from the market. This countermovement included protectionism for national markets and competition for colonies to take resources from other societies. In exotic and colonial regions with the absence of protective measures unspeakable suffering resulted. Thus Polanyi characterizes market societies as having two opposing movements, referred to as a “double movement.” These two contradictory movements resulted in simultaneous struggles to expand the scope of the market because of the opportunities for some and to limit the scope of the market because of the adverse consequences for many. These internal contradictions led to disruptive stresses and strains that were unsustainable for market societies. In the domestic economy, class conflict resulted from issues like the choice between inflation for stability of workers incomes and employment and deflation for stability of currency for investors. Market liberals from Spencer to Mises held that popular democracy was a danger to capitalism and that workers should not have the right to vote. In the international economy, relentless shocks imposed by the gold standard forced nations to consolidate around heightened national and imperial boundaries. In international politics, intensified political, military, and economic rivalries finally culminated in World War I. By this time, the class struggle over market liberalism was at an impasse. For a critical decade, economic liberals supported authoritarian intervention in service of their deflationary policy to protect currency exchange and investment. This merely weakened the democratic forces that might otherwise have averted the fascist catastrophe. During the Great Depression, the gold standard finally collapsed, foreign debts were repudiated, capital markets and world trade dwindled away, and the global political and economic system disintegrated. In a second great transformation of society that followed, the replacements of market society by fascism, socialism, and the New Deal were similar only in discarding laissez-faire principles. The conflict between the market and the elementary requirements of an organized social life had ultimately destroyed society. World Wars I and II merely hastened its destruction. In 1944, Polanyi appears to have regarded the utopia of market liberalism as utterly discredited. He expressed the hope that the passing of market economy could become the beginning of an era of unprecedented freedom. He noted that freedom as the absence of power and compulsion as claimed by market liberals is not possible in a complex society. The function of power is to ensure the measure of conformity which is needed for the survival of the group: its ultimate source is opinion. Regulation both extends and restricts freedom; only the balance of freedoms lost and won is significant. The comfortable classes enjoy the freedom provided by leisure in security. They resent the suggestion to spread out income, leisure, and security to extend to others the freedom they enjoy. Obviously, those who lack security cannot enjoy the same freedom as the comfortable classes. Those who want more freedom for all need not fear that either power or planning will undermine their freedom. Regulation and control in a complex society strive to give us all the security we need to achieve freedom not only for the few, but for all.
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Usman A. Ghani
Pawtucket, US
★★★★★ 5
Must read for contemporary (and all) times.
Format: Paperback
This is a great book. I wonder why we were not taught this in the freshman year, or at least as a counterpoint to Econ101. It opens up the perspective to seeing culture, economics, politics, and technology in an integrated way with an emphasis on social choesion as a unifying fabric for humanity and, looking for the right rate of economic reform. Much of what we do as "development" can in fact be harmful in the long (also short) run if we are not sensitive to the premises Polanyi is alerting us to. This is not counterpoint or counterfactual thesis per se. I am a strong proponent of the market system and also realize that this system is subsumed and must be complementary to the larger, complex social system where things are interconnected. An effective policy can only result from the collective consideration of these together. Polanyi's writing style is clear, direct, and simple and, unlike deeply nomenclature-intense economics write-ups, this book is rather an easy read. When we prescribe/teach The Industrial Revolution as an essential or secondary reading, The Great Transformation should also be a companion reading.
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Tanthallas
Battle Creek, US
★★★★★ 5
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Well, I was going to review this wonderful work. However, Robert Moore's review is so spot on that there is really no need to take up more space. Also I need a nap. Anyway, this book is truly fascinating. If you are at all interested in Political Economy, this is perhaps one of the most important books you will ever read. There is no school which has the authors name attached to it, nor is there a political movement dedicated to the realization of his ideas. In most cases this is because the author did not contribute original thought or make an adequate connection of his thought process with reality. In Polanyi's case, this is because the originality of his thought cuts through the specialized form in which science and social studies is presented today and cannot possible be claimed to belong to 'economics' any more than it can of 'sociology', 'anthropology', 'history', 'international relations', etc.. Read this book.
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