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There is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program
by Gabriel Cousens David RainoshekDiabetes has become a seemingly unstoppable national epidemic, affecting more than twenty million Americans. Conventional wisdom calls it incurable, but renowned Dr. Gabriel Cousens counters that claim with this breakthrough book. There Is a Cure for Diabetes lays out a three-week plan for reversing the negative genetic expression of diabetes to a physiology of health and well-being. Dr. Cousens's method, widely tested at his famous Tree of Life centers, is to reset the DNA through green juice fasting and a 100% organic, nutrient-dense, vegan, low-glycemic, low-insulin-scoring, and high-mineral diet of living foods in the first twenty-one days. Both practical and inspirational, the book explains how to abandon the widespread "culture of death"- symbolized by addictive junk food- that fosters diabetes in favor of a more natural, nurturing approach. The program renders insulin and related medicines unnecessary within four daysas the blood sugar drops to normal levels; and the diabetic shifts into a non-diabetic physiology within two weeks. The third week focuses on live-food preparation, featuring 100 delicious raw recipes. Dr. Cousens emphasizes regular consultations, monitoring blood chemistries, and emotional support, and includes a one-year support program to help maintain a diabetes-free life.
There's More to Life Than This: Healing Messages, Remarkable Stories, and Insight About the Other Side from the Long Island Medium (A Gift for Long Island Medium Fans)
by Theresa CaputoFor fans of TLC’s Long Island Medium and anyone interested in the big questions of life, death, and finding out what’s important in between, New York Times bestselling author and medium Theresa Caputo shares how she discovered her gift and her many encounters with Spirit.Beloved medium Theresa Caputo, star of the hit television show Long Island Medium, opens the door to her world and invites you to experience her exceptional gift of communicating with those who’ve crossed over to the Other Side. The always funny, frank, and down-to-earth medium—whether she’s talking to her family, the local butcher, or the souls of those who’ve passed on—began communicating with Spirit at the age of four, but didn’t fully accept her gift until she was thirty-three years old. She had a good life as a busy wife and working mom, but also suffered from chronic anxiety that, as it turned out, came from ignoring her abilities. Once Theresa began channeling, she realized that she felt much better after delivering a message from Spirit and releasing that energy. Since then she’ s used her extraordinary gift to help people heal from the loss of their loved ones. Theresa feels that it’s her purpose to make us all aware that there is more to life than what we see here in the physical world. She wants you to know that your deceased loved ones are safe and at peace, and that they’re now with you in a different way—watching over you, loving you, and assisting you from the Other Side. She also wants you to realize that the unexplainable things you sense and feel from these souls are real, and that it’s healthy and essential to acknowledge them. There’s More to Life Than This lends insight on how Theresa’s mediumship works, what happens to your soul when you die, what Spirit says Heaven is like, what the deceased want you to know, the importance of living a positive life, and the many roles that your family, friends, angels, guides, souls of faith, and God play here and in the afterlife. It also explores how to safely connect with Spirit, so that you can recognize when your loved ones are reaching out. Through Theresa’s personal story, compelling anecdotes, and fascinating client readings, she teaches us about how she communicates with Spirit and helps us to understand and appreciate the important lessons and touching messages that we’re meant to embrace every day.
There's No Manual: Honest and Gory Wisdom About Having a Baby
by Beth Newell Jackie Ann RuizThe info-packed, truth-telling guide expectant and new mothers have been screaming into their pillows for.So you're making a person...and no one will stop telling you what to do about it. Your friends, your neighbors, your Uber driver--everyone is giving you unsolicited advice, to which Beth and Jackie say: F*ck advice! There's no "right" way to be pregnant or a new mom, only stretchy pants to be worn and choices to be made. This illustrated guide asks and answers all the essential questions that pop up from the first trimester to the fourth, such as: Should I have an unmedicated or drugged-out birth? (Up to you!) Will I have time to pee as a new mom? (Maybe!) How do I avoid hating my partner? (That's a little more complicated.) Funny, feminist, and, above all, pro-mom, this book is an actually useful baby shower gift.
There's No Pill for This: A Naturopathic Physician's Personal Prescription for Managing Multiple Sclerosis
by Michaël Friedman"I truly recommend There&’s No Pill for This because it contains the wisdom of a health care professional who also has the experience of being a patient."—Bernie Siegel, MD, author of No Endings, Only Beginnings and Love, Medicine & MiraclesFrom a doctor living with MS: how to radically improve your quality of life with diet, hormones, supplements, exercise, and other lifestyle adjustmentsMost of us take for granted the little things in life—like walking out to the mailbox, socializing with friends, or enjoying a mug of hot coffee. But what if each daily activity required intensive planning and effort? That&’s what living with multiple sclerosis is like, and author Michaël Friedman knows this from first-hand experience.Since his diagnosis of multiple sclerosis a decade ago, Dr. Friedman has been searching for a cure for the disease. After years of research, he realized that he had some of the answers right in his naturopathic medicine toolbox, and others, surprisingly, lay in the realm of conventional medicine. There&’s No Pill for This tells his story and offers treatment advice and hope to those who suffer from MS. He does not promise a miracle cure but instead provides the personal prescriptions he follows that are delaying the disease process and radically improving his quality of life, including dietary measures and supplements to support a healthy microbiome and hormone therapies that can reduce neuroinflammation and possibly promote neurorestoration. Dr. Friedman presents a daily protocol for MS patients, including diet, supplement, detoxification, and hormone strategies; mindfulness therapy; physical therapy; and a wide range of beneficial lifestyle adjustments related to exercise, sleep routines, time management, stress management, and more. He also offers special advice for supporting healthy bladder and bowel function and improving oxygen supply.In the book&’s conclusion, Dr. Friedman reflects on what this complicated chronic disease has taught him, and continues to teach him, about the value of humility and about what is truly important in life.
There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You: The uplifting bestseller
by Lynda BellinghamBy turns, it is riotous, deeply serious, practical and sad. Reading it is like being at her kitchen table with a glass of wine to hand. (Daily Telegraph)Lynda Bellingham was a tremendously gifted storyteller with a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter and this memoir brings her kind heart, courage and emotion to the page in vivid detail. There's Something I've Been Dying To Tell You is a brave memoir about Lynda's battle with cancer, facing death she found joy and shared it with millions. Her story is an affecting and at times heart-breaking one but it is so often laugh-out-loud too and ultimately the way Lynda told her life story serves as a great inspiration to us all. Woven into this very moving and brave story are extraordinary, colourful tales of her acting and family life that will enlighten and entertain as well as the journey that Lynda has taken to find the family of her birth father having already suffered heartache in her search for her birth mother. In the search for her father's family, Lynda finds a family with a history in entertainment showing that acting was always in the blood.This book was written in Lynda's final months and revealed for the first time, and in great detail, her fight with cancer and how her life was transformed since her diagnosis. This edition includes a brand new chapter written by Lynda's husband Michael about his love for her, her love of life and her glorious final send-off.
There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You: The uplifting bestseller
by Lynda BellinghamIn 2013 Lynda Bellingham was diagnosed with cancer. Having kept the details of her illness private, now for the very first time Lynda talks with beautiful poignancy about her life since her diagnosis, her family and how together they came to terms with a future they hadn't planned. Having been told that she only has a matter of months left to live and writing this in what will sadly be her final days, There's Something I've Been Dying To Tell You is a brave and brutally honest memoir and yet Lynda also manages to spread her infectious warmth and humour, bringing light to a very dark time. Woven into this very moving and brave story are extraordinary, colourful tales of her acting and family life that will enlighten and entertain as well as the journey that Lynda has taken to find the family of her birth father having already suffered heartache in her search for her birth mother. In the search for her father's family, Lynda finds a family with a history in entertainment showing that acting was always in the blood.Lynda Bellingham is a tremendously gifted storyteller with a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter and this book brings her kind heart, courage and emotion to the page in vivid detail. Lynda's story is an affecting and at times heart-breaking one but it is so often laugh-out-loud too and ultimately the way Lynda tells her life story will serve as a great inspiration.(P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton
There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You: The uplifting bestseller
by Lynda BellinghamBy turns, it is riotous, deeply serious, practical and sad. Reading it is like being at her kitchen table with a glass of wine to hand. (Daily Telegraph)Lynda Bellingham was a tremendously gifted storyteller with a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter and this memoir brings her kind heart, courage and emotion to the page in vivid detail. There's Something I've Been Dying To Tell You is a brave memoir about Lynda's battle with cancer, facing death she found joy and shared it with millions. Her story is an affecting and at times heart-breaking one but it is so often laugh-out-loud too and ultimately the way Lynda told her life story serves as a great inspiration to us all. Woven into this very moving and brave story are extraordinary, colourful tales of her acting and family life that will enlighten and entertain as well as the journey that Lynda has taken to find the family of her birth father having already suffered heartache in her search for her birth mother. In the search for her father's family, Lynda finds a family with a history in entertainment showing that acting was always in the blood.This book was written in Lynda's final months and revealed for the first time, and in great detail, her fight with cancer and how her life was transformed since her diagnosis. This edition includes a brand new chapter written by Lynda's husband Michael about his love for her, her love of life and her glorious final send-off.
There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You: The uplifting bestseller
by Lynda BellinghamBy turns, it is riotous, deeply serious, practical and sad. Reading it is like being at her kitchen table with a glass of wine to hand. (Daily Telegraph)Lynda Bellingham was a tremendously gifted storyteller with a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter and this memoir brings her kind heart, courage and emotion to the page in vivid detail. There's Something I've Been Dying To Tell You is a brave memoir about Lynda's battle with cancer, facing death she found joy and shared it with millions. Her story is an affecting and at times heart-breaking one but it is so often laugh-out-loud too and ultimately the way Lynda told her life story serves as a great inspiration to us all. Woven into this very moving and brave story are extraordinary, colourful tales of her acting and family life that will enlighten and entertain as well as the journey that Lynda has taken to find the family of her birth father having already suffered heartache in her search for her birth mother. In the search for her father's family, Lynda finds a family with a history in entertainment showing that acting was always in the blood.This book was written in Lynda's final months and revealed for the first time, and in great detail, her fight with cancer and how her life was transformed since her diagnosis. This edition includes a brand new chapter written by Lynda's husband Michael about his love for her, her love of life and her glorious final send-off.
There's Something about Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument
by Peter Ludlow Yujin Nagasawa Daniel StoljarIn Frank Jackson's famous thought experiment, Mary is confined to a black-and-white room and educated through black-and-white books and lectures on a black-and-white television. In this way, she learns everything there is to know about the physical world.
There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick
by Michael TeigMichael Teig's long-awaited second collection is the perfect poetry companion: witty, intriguing, and self-effacing as it picks up overheard conversations and the accidental encounters of everyday life. As Stephen Dobyns wrote, Teig's poems "have this ability to make the world fresh again and make us realize once again why we love the world, despite its failings and our own."
There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick (American Poets Continuum)
by Michael TeigMichael Teig’s long-awaited second collection is the perfect poetry companion: witty, intriguing, and self-effacing as it picks up overheard conversations and the accidental encounters of everyday life. As Stephen Dobyns wrote, Teig's poems "have this ability to make the world fresh again and make us realize once again why we love the world, despite its failings and our own."
Therindhu Kollungal!
by G.S.S. Aniruddha Malpani Anjali MalpaniThis book is a guide on human health, attempting to enlighten on medical treatment, Clinical Tests, Surgery, Medicines from birth till the last breathe. The book emphasizes the need for the basic knowledge of one’s own human body so that it would help deciding such alternative courses of medical treatment as suggested by the physician.
Thermogenic Fat
by Jun WuThis volume presents a collection of protocols that describe methodologies to study thermogenic fat biology from various angles. This book is divided into 2 parts. Part 1 focuses on establishing in vitro culture systems. The chapters in this section introduce techniques on how to isolate, culture, and differentiate primary fat cells from both laboratory mice and humans. This part also presents flow cytometry methods to isolate various subpopulations of precursors within the stromal vascular fraction of the adipose tissue, which contains both preadipocytes and immune cells. Part 2 introduces multiple means to genetically manipulate and evaluate brown and beige fat in vivo. The chapters in this section explore methods on bioenergetics analyses both in vitro and in vivo. They also cover how to evaluate thermogenic fat contents and activity in humans, how to culture these cells though interdisciplinary approaches, and how to use thermogenic fat cell lines to carry out drug screens. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Thorough and cutting-edge, Thermogenic Fat: Methods and Protocols is a valuable resource for both experts and novices who are interested in learning assays and investigating brown and beige fat functions.
These Are Not the Words
by Amanda West LewisNew York City in the 1960s is the humming backdrop for this poignant, gritty story about a girl who sees her parents as flawed human beings for the first time, and finds the courage to make a fresh start. Missy’s mother has gone back to school to pursue her dream of becoming an artist. Missy’s father works in advertising and takes Missy on secret midnight excursions to Harlem and the Village so she can share his love of jazz. The two write poems for each other — poems that gradually become an exchange of apologies as Missy’s father’s alcohol and drug addiction begins to take over their lives. When Missy’s mother finally decides that she and her daughter must make a fresh start, Missy has to leave her old apartment, her school, her best friend and her cats and become a latchkey kid while her mother gets a job. But she won’t give up on trying to save her family, even though this will involve a hard journey from innocence to action, and finally acceptance. Based on the events and people of her own childhood, Amanda Lewis’s gorgeous novel is driven by Missy’s irresistible, optimistic voice, buoyed by the undercurrents of poetry and music. Key Text Features poems dialogue literary references epigraph vignettes
These Mortal Bodies: a gripping and atmospheric dark academia novel about toxic female friendships and obssession
by Elspeth Wilson'It's Saltburn meets Mean Girls meets The Craft – prepare to be beguiled&’ Emma van Straaten, author of CreepShe wasn't born into their world. But she'll do anything to belong. Leaving behind her childhood in coastal Scotland, Ivy Graveson arrives at an all-girls college at a prestigious university and throws herself into the deep end of life on campus.Though her fellow students all seem to come from money and to have known each other their whole lives, outsider Ivy is determined to belong. She embraces the world of secret societies, and as she discovers the legacy of her college, the parallels between its past and her present become striking. Because however hard she tries to ignore it, Ivy has always felt drawn to – and terrified of – the bodies of water that surround her.In just one life-changing year in these hallowed halls, Ivy will have to decide how much sisterhood means to her and how far she&’ll go to become the person she was destined to be.A richly atmospheric campus novel, perfect for fans of The Secret History and dark academia, These Mortal Bodies is an intoxicating story of obsession, infatuation and toxic friendship in the world of the elites, where rules are made to be broken.Praise for These Mortal Bodies: 'Utterly stunning. Wilson writes beautifully and with clarity, shining a torch on timeless issues' T. L. Huchu, author of The Library of the Dead &‘Builds tension and atmosphere with a quiet creepiness as it hurtles towards a shocking conclusion. It&’s refreshing to have read about a protagonist with neurodivergence where it&’s portrayed without cliché and with bold authenticity&’ Chris Bridges, author of Sick to Death &‘A delicious coming of age story with a dark academia twist ... Gripping and beautifully told, Elspeth Wilson has breathed life into her characters that will linger long after the final page&’ Laura Elliott, author of Awakened
ThetaHealing enfermedades y trastornos
by Vianna StibalEsta guía definitiva para librarse de enfermedades desde una perspectiva intuitiva, forma parte de la trilogía con ThetaHealing® y ThetaHealing® Avanzado, libros que han presentado a una audiencia global esta fascinante técnica de sanación y sus poderosas aplicaciones. Es una herramienta perfecta de referencia para todos aquellos que ya están familiarizados con los procesos paso a paso de ThetaHealing®. ThetaHealing® Enfermedades y trastornos contiene todos los programas, sistemas de creencias, perspectivas intuitivas, remedios y suplementos que Vianna Stibal considera de valor para situaciones específicas de salud, según su experiencia con más de 47,000 sesiones con sus clientes. Presentada en orden alfabético, para referencia rápida, esta lista extensa y variada de enfermedades y trastornos marca el camino hacia un sendero revolucionario de sanación.Con cada vez mayor evidencia científica de que las emociones tóxicas pueden contribuir a las enfermedades, una conciencia creciente de que las emociones, los sentimientos y el poder del pensamiento tienen un impacto directo en nuestra salud física, más y más personas están ahora advirtiendo que cambiar la forma en que sus mentes influyen sobre su cuerpo, puede ser de un valor enorme para crear una salud óptima. Este libro representa una valiosa contribución al nuevo paradigma que está surgiendo en el mundo de la sanación y un milagro viable para tu vida.
ThetaHealing: Diseases and Disorders
by Vianna StibalThe perfect reference tool for those already familiar with the step-by-step processes of ThetaHealing, ThetaHealing Diseases and Disorders contains all of the Programs, Belief Systems, intuitive insights, remedies and supplements that Vianna has found to be of value for certain diseases and disorders, based on experience of over 47,000 sessions with clients. Alphabetised for quick reference, this book addresses an extensive and varied list of ailments and points the way to a revolutionary path of healing.With growing scientific evidence that toxic emotions can contribute to disease, and increased awareness that emotions, feelings and the power of thought have a direct bearing upon our physical health, more and more people are now realising that changing how their minds influence their bodies can be of huge value in creating optimum health. This book represents a valuable contribution to the new paradigm that is emerging in the world of healing, and an attainable miracle for your life.
ThetaHealing: Introducing an Extraordinary Energy Healing Modality
by Vianna StibalDiscover the worldwide phenomenon of ThetaHealing® and how it can help you to achieve transformational healing in this revised and updated edition of Vianna Stibal's definitive guide.In 1995, Vianna Stibal was diagnosed with a serious health condition. When conventional and alternative medicine failed her, she discovered a simple technique that cured her illness and sparked a worldwide phenomenon.ThetaHealing® is essentially applied quantum physics. Using a theta brain wave, which until now was believed to be accessible only in deep sleep or yogi-level meditation, the practitioner is able to connect with the energy of All That Is - the energy in everything - to identify issues with and witness healings on the physical body, and to identify and change limiting beliefs.In this revised and updated edition, you will discover:- the belief and feeling work that can instantly change the thinking within you that creates illness- the 7 Planes of Existence, a concept that allows you to connect to the highest level of love and energy of All That Is- how to develop the ability to change on all levels: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, using the Creator of All That Is.
ThetaHealing: Una modalidad extraordinaria de sanación energética
by Vianna Stibal¡DESCUBRE UNA DE LAS TÉCNICAS DE SANACIÓN ENERGÉTICA MÁS PODEROSAS DEL MUNDO! En 1995, Vianna Stibal, madre de tres niños pequeños, fue diagnosticada con un cáncer que le estaba destruyendo su fémur derecho de forma acelerada. Todos sus intentos por curarse fracasaron, tanto con el uso de la medicina tradicional como alternativa, hasta que utilizó una sencilla técnica que aplicaba en su trabajo de lecturas intuitivas. Sorprendida ante su sanación instantánea, Vianna comenzó a usar esta técnica con sus clientes en sesiones individuales, descubriendo que, de forma milagrosa, unos tras otros se sanaban. Más emocionante aún fue descubrir, a través de su trabajo con miles de clientes, que las personas podían aprender su técnica. Ahora tú también puedes aprender a llevar tu cerebro a la frecuencia theta (4 a 7 ciclos por segundo) y así conectarte con la energía creadora que permea todas las cosas. En este libro descubrirás: • El trabajo con las creencias y las emociones que puede cambiar en un instante la creencia en tu interior que crea la enfermedad. • Los siete planos de existencia, un concepto que te permitirá conectarte con Todo lo que Es a un nivel más elevado de amor y energía. • Cómo desarrollar la habilidad de realizar cambios en todos los niveles: físico, mental, emocional y espiritual a través del Creador de Todo lo que Es.
ThetaHealing® Rhythm for Finding Your Perfect Weight
by Vianna StibalWritten by the creator of ThetaHealing®, Vianna Stibal, this is more than just a weight loss book! It is about finding a real rhythm for your mind, body and spirit, while tapping into your inner beauty and love for yourself. ThetaHealing began when Vianna realised that she could teach other people the method that she used to heal herself from a serious health condition. It is now famous for being one of the most powerful energy-healing techniques in the world. Now, for the first time, Vianna has compiled a book that demonstrates how to use ThetaHealing for weight loss and reveal a strong, healthy and beautiful body which you love! Using the techniques in this book, you will be able to:• select the right foods and supplements to nourish your body, and enjoy the foods you love without guilt• make your body think that it is exercising while you listen to music and relax!• release the emotions and fears that hold you back from having the body you want• change your unhelpful beliefs into more productive and useful beliefs that will allow you to release your excess weight. So say goodbye to calorie counting and feeling guilty, and say hello to being comfortable in your own body and finding inner peace and happiness!
ThetaHealing®: Deepen Your Connection with the Energy of Creation
by Vianna StibalEssential ThetaHealing® handbook for practitioners explaining how we can connect with the Creator for spiritual elevation.When we enter a theta brain state, we can connect to the Creator of All That Is. Discover how to improve this connection to achieve deep inner healing.Founded by Vianna Stibal, ThetaHealing® is a powerful healing modality through which we can change limiting beliefs to receive deep emotional and physical healing. While in the Theta state, we're able to connect with the divine energy that flows through all things: The Creator of All That Is.Vianna is often asked: 'How do I know I'm connected to the Creator, or if it's just my own thoughts?' The true answer is that to know the difference between your thoughts and divine inspiration, you must first understand yourself. This in-depth guide for ThetaHealing practitioners will teach you how to experience knowing yourself on an intimate level, so you can recognize this difference and establish clear and enlightened communication with the Creator.Vianna shares powerful teachings, downloads, exercises, and her own experiences to illustrate how to recognize the belief systems, inner aspects, and subconscious selves preventing you from fully bonding with the energy of the Creator, and how to navigate and understand your own mind. The Creator always communicates from a place of pure, perfect love, and Vianna details a powerful road map for experiencing and strengthening this connection, so that you too can become limitless.
ThetaHealing®: How to Rewire Your Subconscious Thinking for Deep Inner Healing
by Vianna StibalNew ThetaHealing® handbook for fans of the ThetaHealing® teachings by best-selling author Vianna Stibal, exploring step-by-step how to Dig for bottom beliefs and rewire your subconscious thinking for deep and transformative healing.In this companion book to ThetaHealing®, Advanced ThetaHealing®, ThetaHealing Diseases and Disorders®, and The Planes of Existence®, bestselling author Vianna Stibal shares an in-depth process to Digging for Beliefs, an integral part of the ThetaHealing® modality.ThetaHealing® is a revolutionary technique developed by Stibal that allows a person to enter into a state of deep meditation, tap into the brain's Theta waves, and activate incredible healing powers. In the pure and divine Theta state of mind, we are able to connect with the Creator of All That Is through focused prayer, access fascinating knowledge and change not only our own lives, but the lives of others. When a Belief has been accepted as real by the mind it becomes crystalized as a "Program" and is placed into the hard-drive of the subconscious, where it acts out those Beliefs, whether or not they are positive or negative. The process of Digging for bottom beliefs in ThetaHealing® enables us to identify those negative Beliefs and rewire our subconscious, receive positive Downloads from the Creator of All That Is, and achieve deep, inner healing. This book provides the student with the necessary tools to achieve this state of divine healing, and is based on Stibal's original teachings. It is an essential book for any student of Theta Healing®.
Theurgy: The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine
by P. D. NewmanConnects the magical practice of theurgy to the time of Homer• Explores the many theurgic themes and events in the Odyssey and the Iliad• Analyzes the writings of Neoplatonists Porphyry and Proclus, showing how both describe the technical ritual praxis of theurgy in Homeric terms• Examines the methods of telestikē, a form of theurgic statue animation and technique to divinize the soul, and how theurgy is akin to shamanic soul flightFirst defined by the second century Chaldean Oracles, theurgy is an ancient magic practice whereby practitioners divinized the soul and achieved mystical union with a deity, the Demiurge, or the One.In this detailed study, P. D. Newman pushes the roots of theurgy all the way back before the time of Homer. He shows how the Chaldean Oracles were not only written in Homeric Greek but also in dactylic hexameter, the same meter as the epics of Homer. Linking the Greek shamanic practices of the late Archaic period with the theurgic rites of late antiquity, the author explains how both anabasis, soul ascent, and katabasis, soul descent, can be considered varieties of shamanic soul flight and how these practices existed in ancient Greek culture prior to the influx of shamanic influence from Thrace and the Hyperborean North.The author explores the many theurgic themes and symbolic events in the Odyssey and the Iliad, including the famous journey of Odysseus to Hades and the incident of the funeral pyre of Patroclus. He presents a close analysis of On the Cave of the Nymphs, Porphyry&’s commentary on Homer&’s Odyssey, as well as a detailed look at Proclus&’s symbolic reading of Homer&’s Iliad, showing how both of these Neoplatonists describe the philosophical theory and the technical ritual praxis of theurgy. Using the Chaldean Oracles as a case study, Newman examines in detail the methods of telestikē, a form of theurgic statue animation, linking this practice to ancient Egyptian and Greek traditions as well as theurgic techniques to divinize the soul.Revealing how the theurgic arts are far older than the second century, Newman&’s study not only examines the philosophical theory of theurgy but also the actual ritual practices of the theurgists, as described in their own words.
They Are Already Here: Ufo Culture And Why We See Saucers
by Sarah ScolesAn anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery—both terrestrial and cosmic. More than half a century since Roswell, UFOs have been making headlines once again. On December 17, 2017, the New York Times ran a front-page story about an approximately five-year Pentagon program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The article hinted, and its sources clearly said in subsequent television interviews, that some of the ships in question couldn’t be linked to any country. The implication, of course, was that they might be linked to other solar systems. The UFO community—those who had been thinking about, seeing, and analyzing supposed flying saucers (or triangles or chevrons) for years—was surprisingly skeptical of the revelation. Their incredulity and doubt rippled across the internet. Many of the people most invested in UFO reality weren’t really buying it. And as Scoles did her own digging, she ventured to dark, conspiracy-filled corners of the internet, to a former paranormal research center in Utah, and to the hallways of the Pentagon. In They Are Already Here we meet the bigwigs, the scrappy upstarts, the field investigators, the rational people, and the unhinged kooks of this sprawling community. How do they interact with each other? How do they interact with “anomalous phenomena”? And how do they (as any group must) reflect the politics and culture of the larger world around them? We will travel along the Extraterrestrial Highway (next to Area 51) and visit the UFO Watchtower, where seeking lights in the sky is more of a spiritual quest than a “gotcha” one. We meet someone who, for a while believes they may have communicated with aliens. Where do these alleged encounters stem from? What are the emotional effects on the experiencers? Funny and colorful, and told in a way that doesn’t require one to believe, Scoles brings humanity to an often derided and misunderstood community. After all, the truth is out there . . .
They Both Die at the End: TikTok made me buy it! (They Both Die at the End series)
by Adam SilveraThe first book in the No. 1 global bestselling They Both Die at the End series. What if you could find out your death date from a single phone call? Death-Cast is calling . . . will you answer? &‘If They Both Die at the End broke your heart and put it back together again, be prepared for this novel to do the same. A tender, sad, hopeful and youthful story that deserves as much love as its predecessor.&’ Culturefly '[A] heart-pounding story [full] of emotion and suspense.' Kirkus 'An extraordinary book with a riveting plot.' BooklistA love story with a difference - an unforgettable tale of life, loss and making each day count. On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: there's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure - to live a lifetime in a single day. Another beautiful, heartbreaking and life-affirming book from the brilliant Adam Silvera, author of More Happy Than Not, History Is All You Left Me, What If It's Us, Here's To Us and the Infinity Cycle series.PRAISE FOR ADAM SILVERA: 'There isn't a teenager alive who won't find their heart described perfectly on these pages.' Patrick Ness, author of The Knife of Never Letting Go 'Adam Silvera is a master at capturing the infinite small heartbreaks of love and loss and grief.' Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything 'A phenomenal talent.' Juno Dawson, author of Clean and Wonderland 'Bold and haunting.' Lauren Oliver, author of Delirium