Kirjahaku

Zoe and Tod, who have been married for several years, have successful careers, but feel something is missing. They try to resolve the problem by taking a trip on the Chesepake bay. They experience the bay's beauty along with the mystery of a half-crazed crabber, whose lover drowned years ago. After discovering what appears to be a feral child, complications ensue, including an encounter with a ghost on the bay, and Zoe becoming severely ill from a parasitic amoeba. The story ends with an unexpected resolution to their problem.

Up Above features two adolescents, Zoe and Tod, who meet a homeless man. Mac reminds them of the Rock Man, who they experienced in a fantasy they had as children. The three try to help a runaway girl, who has been abused and is dissociating into a symbolic world. Meanwhile, a doctor in charge of a high-risk experimental treatment is in need of a human subject, and finds one in the runaway. In the end something uncanny happens, which reminds Zoe and Tod of their fantasy. Up Above explores homelessness, the meaning of symbolic realities, the dangers in authorities not understanding, and resolution towards true healing.

In a coming-of-age story, Loner, a wolf dog, has lost his pack, and encounters an unlikely array of animals who would make his new group. He finds himself caught up in a battle between a group in which old ways of power and trickery hold sway and a new vision of inclusion offered by a young lion. Loner is undecided and goes between sides, where he changes form. Behind all these events the world is facing a deeper danger, a Vapor trying to enter the world and stop the future from coming. The author invites you to take this fantastic journey in animals, a gospel-like story, in which you are invited to become aware of your shadow side and to find your true soul self.

From an underground fort, Zoe enters another world to find her lost friend Tod. There, she is joined by alien beings: a Sphere, a Rubbery Man and a Rock Man. Their journey takes them down below where they find Ancient Ones made of stone, and to an above world controlled by a mad scientist. Read this story to go on an archetypal adventure, a Wizard-of-Oz-like tale, which is the first of a seven-part series.

Delphi takes a time expansion workshop and finds he has a gift for out-of-body experiences. Soon, he finds himself remotely spying and engaged in a psychic war against powerful forces. He allies with Detinna, a defector who becomes his dream partner, and together they navigate the hazards of having a dream body. The main dangers are Time Thieves who are pirates of time and Watchers who track your movements. Read this story to imagine how a new generation with a psychic awareness can become a force for change in the world.

Zoe and Tod go vision questing on a mountain and find that they have died. Transported to another world, they are joined by Leola, an angelic being who serves as their guide. In the after world they experience colors, each producing an exotic experience which challenges their conception of being. In this Way Station world, the couple encounter persons, who still carry things and have hurts they need to discard. The end holds a surprise which you will have to answer. Read this book for a perspective on life from a place just beyond.

These oral histories tell of transformative experiences which led persons to become advocates and practitioners for reform of the mental health system. They include psychiatric survivors and professionals, many of whom have been or are leaders in the movement. Many of these stories are a miracle of survival, but they show the path to true healing -- how, despite fierce resistance, persons found their voice and identity. Pioneered by those who faced extreme situations and wounding, the way to deep healing can be found in lived lifes. We invite you now to take a journey which will convey to you an uncommon psychological wisdom.

In the Pleistocene era, an "early child" was born to a mother, named Bough. Absent a male protector, Bough offers her child to the Elements. The fleeing mother also raises an abandoned girl, who can make partnerships with wolves. Kinder and Huntress are the future, but dangers abound from lions to half humans. Read this story if you would like to see how mothers, fierce in love and courage, birthed "New Ones" and became more fully human.

Caseness and Narrative contrasts two ways of trying to help persons in emotional distress. The first, called Caseness, sees signs of distress as symptoms without significant meaning, makes a diagnosis in which the psychiatric system names the experience, and then uses methods such as drugging or electroshock to minimize or stop symptom expression. The second way, called Narrative, allows the story to unfold, uses the structure of narrative to frame the process, and then-- to avoid the person being stuck--supports the transformative nature of the experience. We invite you to a greater and deeper understanding of what our society has largely chosen to ignore, and which might enable you to help family or friends go through difficult emotional experiences.

In a utopian land, Little People have singing names, flowers as tall as trees and crystal houses. Their land is invaded by DongBoLatts, who steal from the past and the future. Two adolescents, from our world, are called upon to help, along with a prehistoric Sailfin animal who can ride time. Come, journey to a land in which plants and animals have surprising traits, and take a journey from the deep past to the far future.

This work uses a novel way to map ten major pulses of evolution between 4 billion years and 7.8 million years ago, from the start of life to the emergence of early humans. Rather than use the traditional, linear scale in which events bunch up toward the end, this work uses a logarithmic scale that expands our resolution as we come to the present. Thus, events can be spaced out evenly and seen more clearly, as well as revealing the logarithmic pacing of evolutionary events. The use of the concept of logarithm should not deter us, as being too complex to use or understand. In this case, it means that we will simple halve units to mark the pulses or nodes of change as we go from the deep past to more recent times. Thus, if we begin with the start of life at around four billion years ago, we next go to two billion years ago with the eucaryotic cell, then one billion, to 500 million, all the way to 7.5 million and the start of humanity. Come journey with us and see how the patterning of time reveals the pulses of consciousness that seem to have no end.

Detinna and Delphi go to Guatemala to gain access to another world, so they can free the Time Thief imprisoned in a deep cave. The journey is an incursion into the beautiful landscape of Guatemala, interfaced with the spirits of olden times. The Lady of the Falls and the Spirit of Air are archetypal companions who would help them battle the Cave God who has more power than them all. In the end, the couple discover something more important than life and death, or any powers that gods or people might have.

In the early Pleistocene era, when fire was invented, a young Firekeeper tends the night fire for the kin. He has a personal intimacy with Fire, with whom he speaks, a being both crafty and true. Two challenges present: he must battle the spirits of the night, and he falls into an impossible love with a woman of the day. Read this book to inhabit the little known stories of our deep history, and to see how human weakness and spiritual strength combine to make us human.

Zoe and Tod have been married for some time and seek to reignite their relationship with a trip abroad. Zoe wants to go to Europe, and Tod agrees on the condition they do one wild thing in each country. The wild thing leads to complications, from accidentally ingesting mushrooms in a remote region of Greece, to a bicycle fall amid windmills in Spain. In the end their adventures and misadventures lead them to discover something deeper in their relationship.

Finn, a young professor in paleonotology, attends a conference on the West coast of Canada, but ends up staying five weeks instead of five days. It's because he has discovered a relict enviornment, in which he journeys with a prehistoric Cave Bear. The adventure continues when he encounters paleolithic clans and becomes caught up in a war for which he becomes a shaman. In the end the tribes unite to battle the Thunder Heads, electrical beings of unknown origin. Afterwards Finn is placed in a psychiatric hospital from which he manages to escape. Finn tells the story to his friends, but has no evidence of its truth until he shows something at the very end.Read this story if you would like to gain a sense of paleolithic culture and have fun with the journey.

In the outback of tropical Queensland, Australia. Finn discovers an archaic preserve. There, a Giant Salamander takes him on an evolutionary adventure through the land of the dinosaurs. This story embraces the paradox of how seemingly weaker animals, like mammals, survived. Finn lives to tell his story and to be coaxed backto sanity as he explains his wounds to his friends. Read this story to have a fun adventure and deeper insight into our evolutionary journey.

Two lone survivors of a battle fleet make alien contact. Befriending and understanding an alien becomes the key to their survival as they encounter even more remote aliens who are disembodied. This is the start of an Odysseus-like tale, in which the survivors meet aliens in ever more exotic forms.

Zoe and Tod, having retired from the work world, take a second honeymoon to find a new direction in life. They experience the exceptional beauty of Yosemite, but its tinged with premonitions of death and signs of the spirit world. In the end the meet an indigneous stranger whose identity remains unknown. The man leaves them to their vision quest, and somethiing unexpected happens.

Zoe and Tod, who had been best friends since childhood, plan a reunion with a visit to Guatemala. In a stop at a remote village, they find ancient Mayan ways are still practiced, including a New Year's ritual in a deep cave. A problem develops: time is stopped and the old gods demand a sacrifice. The two end up facing the Cave God and the question of how to start time again. In the swirling chaos of un-time, Zoe and Tod have a revelation, that will change the rest of their lives.