The Earth-Dance of Love

The Earth-Dance of Love
Author: Sharon Tetila Cox
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-06-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1453505652

A personal poetic journey thru the anatomy of love detailing the many joys and the many challenges that must be met in order to help maintain my own physiological, psycho-social and spiritual integrity much better intact living here in the greatest socioeconomic & advanced technological society in the World still Today! As biopsychosocial & spiritual beings, I believe that we should each strive to live at our individually unique optimum levels of health in life each day with so many technological advancements and overall, opportunities for spiritual development! Also, there's much enthusiasm for President Obama' new health & insurance reform!

Dancing on the Earth

Dancing on the Earth
Author: Johanna Leseho
Publisher: Findhorn Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1844093840

The essays in this dynamic compilation are a testament to dance as a healing art. Widely interdisciplinary in nature and written by women dancers from around the world, they illustrate a rich array of dance practices, cultures, and disciplines and show how this expressive therapy can be both empowering and exhilarating. The women’s narratives all share a deep appreciation for the connection between mental, spiritual, and physical dimensions, offering dance as a transformative power of renewing and rebuilding that bond. Both personal and professional, the stories weave a vivid tapestry of lived experiences and insights, balance, and a community healed by dance.

Dance on the Earth

Dance on the Earth
Author: Margaret Laurence
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780771047473

In a writing career spanning nearly three decades, Margaret Laurence became one of the most celebrated and widely read authors in the world. In this, her final work, Margaret Laurence reveals the story of her fascinating life, the process of her writing, and the people and emotional journeys which accompanied it. She relates her experiences living in different cultures; the issues and causes she so passionately upheld; her personal battle against censorship. She also pays tribute to the three women from whom she drew important spiritual strength. Including a selection of her articles, speeches, and letters - many never before published - and photographs selected by Margaret Laurence from her personal family albums, Dance on the Earth is a book of celebration and exploration in which Margaret Laurence speaks openly about her place in the world as a woman, a writer, and a concerned human being.

The Rest Is Noise

The Rest Is Noise
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2007-10-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1429932880

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Dance of Divine Love

Dance of Divine Love
Author: Graham M. Schweig
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2005-03-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0691114463

The heart of this book is a dramatic love poem, the Rasa Lila, which is the ultimate focal point of one of the most treasured Sanskrit texts of India, the Bhagavata Purana. Judged a literary masterpiece by Indian and Western scholars alike, this work of poetic genius and soaring religious vision is one of the world's greatest sacred love stories and, as Graham Schweig clearly demonstrates, should be regarded as India's Song of Songs. The story presents the supreme deity as the youthful and amorous cowherd, Krishna, who joins his beloved maidens in an enchanting and celebratory "dance of divine love." Schweig introduces this work of exquisite poetry and profound theology to the Western world in the form of a luminous translation and erudite scholarly treatment. His book explores the historical context and literary genre of the work and elucidates the aesthetic and emotional richness of the composition, highlighting poignant details of this drama of divine love. Schweig illuminates the religious dimensions and ethical nuances of the drama, drawing widely from the commentaries and esoteric vision of masters of the Caitanya school of Vaishnavism, a prominent devotional Hindu tradition. Themes such as transcendence of death through love, the yoga of devotion, the contrast between worldly love and passionate love for God, and the dialectical tension between ethical boundaries and boundless love are presented. The final event of the Rasa dance, the author concludes, presents a dynamic symbol of supreme love that provides the basis for a theological vision of genuine religious pluralism.

This School Called Planet Earth

This School Called Planet Earth
Author: Summer Bacon
Publisher: Light Technology Publishing
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2005-11-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1622336070

"If I could but lift one robin into its nest again, I shall not have lived in vain." This is truth, my dear friends. There is a purpose to your life, and you will find it before you leave the Earth, without question. There's no way you can escape yourselves. Some have come here to finish karmic relationships. Some have come here to discover that there is beauty in ugliness and vice versa. Some have come here in an exploration of abundance and what this means. On and on the lessons go! The planet Earth is a canvas, you are the paintbrush and your heart is the paint with which you color the planet -- with your words, with your hands, with your heart, with your hugs and with your kisses. God bless you, indeed! -- Dr. James Martin Peebles In the pages that follow, I hope you enjoy a glorious journey to the heart, for as Dr. Peebles says, "It is a joy and blessing when human and Spirit join together in search of the greater truths and awarenesses." Enjoy the exploration of you as you journey into the pages of this book. I am simply a vessel through which Spirit speaks. whatever conclusions you come to, that is the clarity of you, and that's beautiful. -- Summer Bacon

Earth Dance

Earth Dance
Author: Oka Rusmini
Publisher: Lontar
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789798083822

"Earth Dance," the story of four generations of Balinese women, centers on conflicts that arise between the demands of caste and personal desires. Narrated by Ida Ayu Telaga, a Balinese woman in her thirties, the novel shows Balinese women-as depicted by her mother, grandmother and female peers-to be motivated by two factors: the yearning to be beautiful, and the desire for a high-caste husband. Headstrong Telaga defies her mother's wishes and marries the man of her dreams, who is a commoner. Thus, in a reversal of societal expectations, as shown in the novel by images of women who aspire to "liberation" through "marrying up," Telaga's emancipation is implicitly characterized as a move downwards, through transformation to the status of a commoner. "Earth Dance" also reveals that-like high-caste status-beauty, too, has a price. Behind the thick, glossy hair and golden complexion, lies a web of jealousy, derision and intrigue. Telaga, whose life is controlled by her mother's avarice, her mother-in-law's bitterness and the greed of her sister-in-law, has frequent cause to wonder: "Is this what it means to be a woman?"

The High Definition Leader

The High Definition Leader
Author: Derwin L. Gray
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 071803158X

The United States is know as the “Great Melting Pot,” yet a survey of our churches on Sunday Morning would reveal a noticeably different portrait of our ethnic make-up. Every facet of American culture is multi-ethnic. Yet, the Church is not. The church is segregated. Drawing from scripture, Derwin shows how the modern church is suffering from being homogenous and how we are not fulfilling our calling as effectively as we should be. The High-Definition Leader is a call for churches and their leaders to grow out of ignorance, class-ism, racism, and greed into a flourishing and vibrant community of believers united in their devotion to serving God and sharing His love with the world.

Social Seduction

Social Seduction
Author: SHARON TETILA COX
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1514411849

The stories in this book are about ordinary everyday human beings as we are each challenged and often socially seduced biologically, psycho-socially, spiritually, and economically as biopsychosocial and spiritual beings. These are also riveting true stories of the biopsychosocial and spiritual being who demonstrates the courage to stand strong during challenges of social seduction not just for oneself, but also for others. Many of us muster up the courage to do the things that are right according to our spiritual faith which for me includes my Christian ethics meaning even when we do not necessarily feel like doing them. We find the courage to not do the things were being hedonistically enticed or seduced into doing when we know its not morally right, or against our practicing spiritual ethics which clearly tells us not to do them. While many biopsychosocial and spiritual beings pray, some chant, others meditate, study/tarry, etc. Often this is based upon our individually unique beliefs and practices we are allowed here in America. My Christian Ethics however are rooted in the Science of Biblical Hermeneutics which truly empowers me with full armor and the sword of the spirit that sustains and keeps me steady allowing me to maintain my inner peace in the midst of storms including the ones shared in this book.