A finalist in the Oregon Book Awards Literary Arts contest, Fables by the Sea vibrates on every page with the mystery, music and magic of both sea and land. Eighty stories set on the water and the edge of the land make for whole family enjoyment, a favorite of school children and their parents, too. A special treat when read aloud at bedtime, it keeps parents turning the pages long after the youngsters have dozed, sure to be dreaming of mermaids who ride on grand old sea turtles, penguin families on vacation, pirates of all sorts, gypsies and cowboys who come down to the sea...If you don't cherish the seashore already, you surely will when you read Fables by the Sea, Award Winning Tales from Lands End.
Ode to Earth in 9-11 Meter is nominated for a Pulitzer prize by the author's former publisher.As the Library at Alexandria contained the wisdom of the ages and the secrets that would take humanity to the next level of evolution, so the Mother, Earth, contains the tools for transcendence in the substance of her makeup, repeated in the makeup of the human body.Ode to Earth in 9-11 Meter captures in lyric verse the woe that is at our feet and in our air and water and names the causes without blaming them, leading us to view the possibilities that reside within us still, lifting our gaze to a partnership that stretches the imagination and invites us to step where we never knew we could.
Nikola Tesla's approved biographer, John J. O'Neill, author of Prodigal Genius, looked forward to a time following Tesla's death when his work would be elaborated for "earth's struggling mortals." Now Tesla turns his attention to the genius residing within each of us and teases us to draw it out of its dormancy and develop it in our own unique ways. Ray brings to light Tesla's secret passions, hidden in key clues in his own autobiography, revealing the essence of the consummate inventor's gift. Return of the Prodigal Genius is a unique treasure sure to become a cherished addition to any professional or lay library, valued by every human, not only psychology students or Tesla devotees. "...truly a gem."
The iconoclastic writings that comprise Wings of Comfort are interwoven of both intimate conversation and factual explication that lift the readers' own scriptural studies into new and lighter dimensions.Old and New Testament scriptures, and both popular and obscure doctrines, are turned inside out by a lifelong Bible scholar, revealing meaning that has lain hidden since the Bible books were canonized during the misty history of early Christianity.Don't plan to come away from Wings of Comfort - New Light on Old Scripture - without your notions of God's Word lightened beyond recognition, and your heart freed from age-old accumulations of dogma dictated by religious leaders.
"Love begins with loving the divinity within..." from Prisms and Songs for the Beloved. Self-love is often confused with selfishness, a perception that leads to much of the dysfunction of our times. Only when we learn healthy love for the human being who is with us 24-7 without fail, can we "love our neighbors as ourselves."Prisms and Songs for the Beloved offers a daily calendar with new insights and inspiration that moves you further along your path than you've ever dared to dream. "Of a thousand steps it takes but one to enter the light..."Ideal for personal use, or a meaningful gift.
Pretend you are six inches long and wake up one day with a gold ring around your neck, and memories from another world. Suppose the meaning of the 7 plagues, 7 seals, and 7 initiations of the Book of Revelation is fully illumined in your mind. Wonder how you can discover your own hidden secrets just by thrilling to a new novel of medieval intrigue, mystery and youthful romance. Meet......Jonathan, the young soldier - will his sole survivorship of the battle be his undoing?...Genevieve, the lone shepherdess - can she survive at the end of the world?...Drake - the tormented duke - when will his quest end, and how?
Remarkable in its clarity probing interactions between the worlds of 'here' and 'over there, ' these stories, with their depictions both stark and intimate, indelibly part the mists for anyone who longs for a glimpse of their true home and real family. You won't get through these pages without both tears and heartfelt smiles.Images sketched with the precision of line drawings, and painted with the gossamer stroke of a water color brush, stay with you long after you've shared it with a friend as a 'must read.'The Changing Room is a Moondance finalist winner, with semi-and-quarter-finalist placing of The Minaret and The Stickspeaker, all contained within the covers of The Stickspeaker Collection.
In some eastern traditions, Kali - in this case a demon, not the goddess Kali - is responsible for the age of vice and suffering that beset the world some millennia ago, and through which we still struggle today. Hence, the "age of darkness," or the Kali Yuga.The chief gardener from the golden times recounts the ways of old, when he was unconfined by a sheath of skin, before the veils fell and brought separation and darkness into the world. He tells of his exit from the homeland, his fall into the Kali Yuga, and the stunning discoveries he makes, shared by companions he could never have imagined, not even in the garden of his dreams. Cecily Birdbeak says, "A knockout. I loved it. Thought-provoking, well-crafted story with compelling characters who open a new window on traditional creation stories..."
With the correct password, we gain entry into privileged or secret domains. "In the beginning was the Word." Beyond the ancient Arabian "Open Sesame" and the American Popeye-the-Sailor-Man's "Open Says Me," words create, opening doors to new, or old, places. Our language "gauges the land" we walk. By our choice of statements we name our states, and by our remarks we re-mark our paths. We pronounce our own "sentences," spell our own "spells." In 99 Passwords to Personal Power, selected words are elucidated in ways that break mental and emotional barriers and spark personal growth. Each facing page is for the reflections of the reader, making this one of the new journals assisting readers as they move forward at today's pace. The author offers an online journal as well, answering readers' personal questions, at araypress.com.
Based on new archaeological discoveries, EA 101 is a compendium of conversations that delve into pressing issues peculiar to our times. The author interviews the historic god Ea, who surprises us with persuasive arguments that stir to its depth our cultural moorings.Scholar Krsanna Duran: "It's been six years since I looked at your talks with Ea. Things he said about me were merely puzzling in 2003. I was astounded today to realize how his many indications have played out in these intervening years. The puzzles have fallen into place and the observations have aligned in a marvelous way."Internationally recognized expert on ancient Sumer, Zecharia Sitchin quoted Ea, or Enki, from cuneiform tablets, in "The Lost Book of Enki," Bear & Co., 2002: "The will of the Creator of all is clear to see: On Earth and for Earthlings, only emissaries we are. The Earth to the Earthlings belongs, to preserve and advance them we were intended If that is our mission here, let us accordingly act "EA 101 furthers Ea's mission, "to preserve and advance" Earthlings on Earth.
Conversations with EA and other "Invisibles" are continued from EA 101 - We Are Earth's Everlasting Arms in Embryo.Joining EA are the familiar voices of Tesla and Hypatia, and some surprises for the reader to discover as they occur. Sweet Influences is composed of 300 pages that came over a period of less than two months, taking the reader to little known, and some unknown, places. The conversations transpire as would those candid talks that happen when we and our neighbors emerge from our winter holdings to find ourselves in a new world. Sequel to Return of the Prodigal Genius, where the reader is treated to secrets of Nikola Tesla hinted in his autobiography, and EA 101.
"An academic approach to the effects of a fundamentalist religious upbringing on the development of human sexuality..."Angelyn Ray, MSW, LCSW, exposes in a short text some of the warnings offered by pioneers in the field of psychology, illuminating causes of the harvest of abuses we reap today.Long before the current sexual abuse disclosures exploded on the national and global scene, the fields of psychology and psychiatry gave ample warning, in penetrating articles and books, of the inherent dangers associated with fundamentalism's attitude toward early human psychological and sexual development.The controversial manual, Sex and Religious Fundamentalism, was chosen as reading for future classes when the author submitted it as an assignment in her graduate class on Human Sexuality, Graduate School of Social Work, Portland State University.A veteran clinical social worker raised in Christian Fundamentalism, now retired, Ray enumerates pitfalls of the fundamentalist mindset in the morass of sexual abuse and crimes, allegations coming out of the strongholds of institutionalized religion, which informs our cultural and political values.Identification of the causes of abuse, and of the dangers endemic to our underlying national values, is a necessary step toward health and healing, and it is to that end that this important text is offered.
