![]() ![]() In each paragraph of the book, the Spirit is there. "A true encanto, an incantation, this book is pure music. This remarkable book tells, with haunting simplicity and precision, the true story of where our western culture really came from and where it is taking us now. For the first time in centuries it traces the ancient threads that connect Mongolia, Tibet and Native Americans to the very origins of western civilization - showing how these sacred ties have shaped our lives today. Here's a link to a brief article on this: The Spiritual Tradition at the Roots of Western Civilization.Īnd here's more info on his latest book (from his website):Ī Story Waiting To Pierce You offers a breathtaking insight into our past and our future as human beings. ![]() From what I've gathered so far, his main thesis is that we have all but lost touch with the "original," mystical, "feminine" foundations of Western civilization, which he traces to the work of Parmenides - and, beyond him, to Mongolia and Tibet -, and Kingsley's work is about retracing and reclaiming that link. ![]() ![]() When I first heard about him awhile back, I checked out an online video interview with him - which I'll try to locate later - and was not very impressed by what I heard, as I recall, but I thought I'd share his work here for anyone who might be interested. A writer named Peter Kingsley has been making waves recently in some parts of the Integral community - particularly his book, A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of t. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Department of Defense and deployed on American soil. ![]() Hallucination? Perhaps - except Robert Guffey, an English teacher and Dion’s friend, tracked down and interviewed one of the scientists behind the project codenamed “Chameleo,” experimental technology which appears to have been stolen by the U.S. Subsequently, he believed himself under intense government scrutiny - and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre experimentation involving “cloaking”- electro-optical camouflage so extreme it renders observers practically invisible from a distance of some meters - by the Department of Homeland Security. ![]() He was released from jail after a six-day-long Abu-Ghraib-style interrogation. The fact that Dion had absolutely nothing to do with international terrorists, smuggling, Top Secret military equipment, or Camp Pendleton didn’t seem to bother the military. Marine Corps base.ĭion found himself arrested (under the ostensible auspices of The Patriot Act) for conspiring with international terrorists to smuggle Top Secret military equipment out of Camp Pendleton. Navy sailor who’d stolen night vision goggles and perhaps a few top secret files from a nearby U.S. Dick, Chameleo is a true account of what happened in a seedy Southern California town when an enthusiastic and unrepentant heroin addict named Dion Fuller sheltered a U.S. A mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to Joyce's celebrated biographer, Richard Ellman, Joyce hoped that his Portrait would be an autobiographical novel, "turning his life into fiction." While scholars disagree on the extent to which Joyce's life affected his fictional narrative in the novel, most of them concur that Stephen Dedalus is both the protagonist of the novel, as well as the persona (Latin, meaning "mask") behind which Joyce paints his fictional "portrait" of the "artist" and of the "young man."Ī close examination of these obvious clues in the title reveals to readers that the novel can be classified as both a Kunstlerroman (German, meaning a novel about an artist) and a Bildungsroman (German, meaning a novel of development or education). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man details events which closely correspond with those of Joyce's first twenty years. ![]() ![]() ![]() He worked as a surgeon on a whaling boat and also as a medical officer on a steamer travelling between Liverpool and West Africa. ![]() He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. ![]() ![]() Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.Īrthur Conan Doyle was born on in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of 'The Final Problem' but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. In 1893 Conan Doyle published 'The Final Problem' in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student.Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on in Edinburgh. ![]() ![]() November 2012: The Blessed by Tonya Hurley.November 2011: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi.November 2010: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick.May 2015: The Game of Love & Death by Martha Brockenbrough.May 2013: The Hero’s Guide to Storming the Castle by Christopher Healy.May 2012: Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin. ![]() May 2010: Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley. ![]() ![]() March 2015: My Secret Guide to Paris by Lisa Schroeder.March 2011: The Body Finder series by Kimberly Derting.March 2010: The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg.June 2014: The Stepsister’s Tale by Tracy Barrett.July 2014: Brazen by Katherine Longshore.July 2013: The Watchers Series by Veronica Wolff.July 2012: Innocent Darkness by Suzanne Lazear.July 2011: The Revenant by Sonia Gensler.July 2010: The Naughty List by Suzanne Young.February 2015: I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios.February 2013: The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd.February 2012: A Beautiful Evil by Kelly Keaton. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries, meditations, personal anecdotes, and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to "mindfulness" - the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. ![]() A ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. ![]() ![]() Ø Child soldiers not only participate in combat, but they can serve as cooks, guards, messengers or spies. In some instances, girls may be abused and given to the military commanders to serve as “wives.” Ø Both boys and girls can be child soldiers. ![]() Ø Advances in the development of weapons and the use of small arms, has contributed to an increase in child soldiers. In addition to children being exploited, some have been kidnapped and forced to become soldiers. Children can be easily manipulated and end up being involved in violent situations that they are too young to understand. Economic or social pressures are also influences. These children may be exploited to become soldiers because they are looking for support, a sense of belonging or revenge. ![]() Ø Children who live in poor and disadvantaged families are those that are at the highest risk of becoming child soldiers. Ø Since 2001, it has been reported that children have been used in conflict in 21 countries around the world. Some of these children began their journey as child soldiers as early as the age of eight. ![]() Ø Hundreds of thousands of children under the age of 18, serve or have served in government armies and rebel groups. ![]() ![]() And his speechwriting touched a young politician so profoundly that he ended up writing what has to be regarded as the 2nd most historically significant speech by an African-American in the exact length as Dr. ![]() Martin Luther King, I realized, moved his people and the nation not only by being one of our most gloriously charismatic speakers, but because he was one of America's greatest speechwriters. King do that mere mortal speakers don't? I remember analyzing the speech on a flight from LA to NY and feeling a bit uncomfortable about it as, more than once, I was literally moved to tears, just by the beauty, depth and soul of the words themselves. ![]() ![]() Excerpt from "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events" One of the greatest thrills of writing a book on the 20 most inspiring speeches of The 20th Century was to sit down and actually go through "I Have A Dream," word by word, and attempt to explain why it mesmerized 250,000 and changed the course of American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s one of the reasons I delayed listening to An Earl Like You for so long (it came out in August 2018) – I loved the story and knew that Beverley A. Why? Well, good historicals have been very thin on the ground lately, and not all of the good ones have made it into audio and many of those that have made it have been assigned narrators I don’t care for (and/or who I knew wouldn’t do the book justice). If you’re a regular visitor to AudioGals and read my reviews (thank you for that!) you’ll probably know that historical romance has always been my favourite sub-genre – and you may have noticed I’ve been reviewing fewer and fewer of them over the past year or two. Caroline Linden’s An Earl Like You was one of my favourite books of 2018, and was actually one of the very few historical romances that really hit the spot for me last year. ![]() |