All Things Rise

All Things Rise
Author: Missouri Vaun
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1626393907

Cole rescues Ava, a pilot from the Cloud City of Easton who crash-lands near her farm, setting in motion events that will alter the course of her life. It’s a hundred years after peak oil and the rich have risen above the Earth, inhabiting great Cloud Cities, while those left behind live a rural existence, off the grid. After suffering a vicious attack, Cole is transported to the Cloud City of Easton for emergency surgery. While recuperating and adrift in the unfamiliar social landscape of Easton, Cole begins a journey of discovery. When she meets Audrey, a beautiful doctor, the attraction they share is penetrating and possibly life altering. Explosions, staged by a ruthless underground movement, nearly bring Easton to the brink of collapse. The crisis that rocks the city forces Cole and Audrey to weigh what truly holds meaning and what each is willing to sacrifice for love.

Quantamplation

Quantamplation
Author: F.A. Raffa
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1477234438

The Power of the Mind, Free Will and Will Power were all natural gifts we inherited in our creation. The abilities of which have been lost in our Evolution. The memory of which we find shadowed in all our World Religious Teachings, Mythology & Ancient Traditions. Unlocking the human potential is a real possibility; it requires ones self-development, realization, since belief, dedication and Imagination. The combined practice of Quantamplation provides a platform to finding the key to opening the door to a whole new reality, controlled totally by YOU. Opportunities in life come by creation, and not by chance. -P. Yogananda

Mervelous Signals

Mervelous Signals
Author: Eugene Vance
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780803296084

The investigation of language, of how (and what and why) signifiers signify, is prominent in modern critical work, but the questions being asked are by no means new. In Mervelous Signals, Eugene Vance asserts that "there is scarcely a term, practice, or concept in contemporary theory that does not have some rich antecedent in medieval thought." He goes on to illustrate the complexity and depth of medieval speculations about language and literature. Vance's study of the link between the poetics and semiotics of the Middle Ages takes both a critical and a historical view as he brings today's insights to bear on the contemporary perspectives of such works as St. Augustine's Confessions, the Chanson de Roland, Chrätien's Yvain, Aucassin and Nicolette, Spenser's The Faerie Queen, and certain aspects of the works of Dante and Chaucer and of French medieval theater.

Everything that Rises Must Converge

Everything that Rises Must Converge
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 305
Release: 1965
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374150125

"Everything That Rises Must Converge" (1965) is nine posthumous stories. The introduction is by Robert Fitzgerald.

The Resemblance of All Things

The Resemblance of All Things
Author: Bernard J. Lurie
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1666737453

The Resemblance of All Things is a poetic consideration of God, the nature of things, and possible events, with all the permutations thereof, that may occur down through the ages to all that does or may exist. In discussing God, the poem considers the philosophical and religious problem of evil and argues, like the philosophical and religious problem of evil and asserts that the presence of evil is not inconsistent with God's existence. Like the philosophical school of Compatibilism, the poem also argues that free will and determinism are compatible, and not logically inconsistent. Resemblance masterfully expresses, in a traditional poetic format of seven-line stanzas of iambic hexameter verse, that there is no thing that is truly limited to being only what it initially appears to be. Each thing bears a reflection of other things, and there is a resemblance from one thing to what it is not. All things, in turn, also bear a resemblance to God. As the poem says, “And this must be the task of art and prophecy - / To speak that yet unknowable consistency / Of every thing, no matter seeming how unlike!”

Nature, the Soul, and God

Nature, the Soul, and God
Author: Jean W. Rioux
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2004-04-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1592446604

The complete title of one of the most famous works ever written, Isaac Newton's Principia, was actually Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Sadly, many contemporary philosophers would be hard-pressed to say just what natural philosophy (or philosophy of nature) is all about. Without question, the philosophy of nature has received relatively less attention than ethics and metaphysics for some time. In Nature, the Soul, and God, Jean W. Rioux has brought together a number of important readings in natural philosophy, from the Pre-Socratic philosophers and Aristotle to the 19th-century entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre. Collectively, they present three ways in which one might conceive of the natural world in a pre-scientific reflection upon the way things are: either the classical materialism of Empedocles, Democritus, and Epicurus, the formalism of Plato, or the hylomorphic view espoused and defended by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. In the sections following the consideration of nature are selections from these representative views concerning the immortality of the soul and the existence of God. Through the medium of philosophers both ancient and modern, Rioux makes the point that one's philosophical account of the natural world will have an impact upon how one regards human nature, as well as divinity itself. It all begins with nature.

(Before)

(Before)
Author: V.H. Alcantar
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1622127420

Before A Journey From (Within) because of the certain (Way) I tend to see, which is a feeling from (Within). Perhaps this is even an experience of (One)ness with creation. Starting with a near-death experience as a child just ?(Before),? a child is said to come to know in terms of concepts, I began a search for how and why I tend to see in a certain (Way), more in pictures and less in words.When reading ?split-brain studies? and ?two parallel ways of knowing,? I was intrigued with the difference in the contrasting views, and I began to create a model to express the two. I searched through old teachings, some newer, and began to see them in light of these modern findings. A more (Central) and (Neutral) view began to appear(Before)sided anddivided view ?after words.? In this work, language is adapted to these comparable contrasts. A (Common Center) is herein found to be (Common) to (All), a (Way) to see to bring together a torn-up world (Before) war.Therefore, I am seeking a step-back wider more (Collective) view of the ?two? to see ourselves and others as (One) from a (Common Center) core (Before)!

The Mad Professor of Babeldu

The Mad Professor of Babeldu
Author: Adamu Kyuka Usman Lilymjok
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 607
Release: 2013-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466982721

The Mad Professor of Babeldu is a work of fiction with an eccentric professor as its major character. Sitting alone in his farmhouse, Professor Philjez, in a profound and sometimes comic manner, talks on a variety of issues from politics to religion, economics, culture, science, and a myriad of other issues. This book no doubt will resonate with many readers because of its unusual character and profound ideas. Bizarre, comical, shocking, profound, and perhaps blasphemous are all adjectives aptly descriptive of The Mad Professor of Babeldu. Driven by Professor Philjez, its eccentric major character, this book despairs and inspires, saddens and excites, frightens and soothes, sobers and intoxicates a reader. It is a mixed grille. It is a jolly, hearty party of ideas that cannot fail to go away with gold medals in any Olympic contest of ideas.

The Worship and Love of God

The Worship and Love of God
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher: The Swedenborg Society
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780877852971

This allegorical retelling of the biblical creation story blends science, poetic understanding, and the spiritual revelations of Swedish visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). Starting with the creation of the earth from the substance of the universe, Swedenborg takes the reader through the formation of plants, animals, and finally human beings. Swedenborg puts particular emphasis on the spiritual nature of Adam and Adam's marriage to Eve. Although not considered one of Swedenborg's theological works, this book was written just prior to his visionary period and contains the seeds of many of his later ideas. This edition is a reprint of a 1914 English translation by A. H. Stroh and F. Sewall.