Linda Keen

In the first years of the new millennium, Linda Keen discovered an entirely new form of writing. Although Linda has been writing poetry, prose, and song lyrics of her own compositions since the age of fifteen, this book of prose is Linda's first published offering outside the realm of her metaphysical writings and teachings.She is excited to share this aspect of her lifetime's imaginative journeys with readers, perhaps stirring up untapped aspects of themselves in which unassuming daydreams and imaginings are given full permission to take on a life of their own.LINDA KEEN is an American healer, author, and teacher of metaphysics, as well as a professional musician and former school counselor. Linda has been featured on national television and radio as an author (including NPR's All Things Considered in 2000) and has written a total of seven books, two of them illustrated children's books published in the Netherlands in the Dutch language. "Integration of all that we know and can accomplish" remainsLinda's mission.

How little is actually known about human consciousness, particularly how intuition works in relation to the human body, mind, and spirit.If we think we cannot see, hear, feel, or touch it, what does it mean to believe in it? What does the unseen world offer us that the tangible world cannot?Does intuition lead us to the soul? Could it serve as a gateway to a sublime reality and awareness otherwise far too great and distant for us to comprehend?We might agree that our experience of love can be very similar--that it serves as a gateway to the divine, to a place of awareness too immeasurable for humans to try to understand. Yet, we try anyway.We attempt to understand and to find landmarks which can help us along our way as we leave the tangible world behind us in search of more dimensions of meaning to our mysterious and often baffling earthly experience.Perhaps our intuition leads us to our soul, to a vast and inexplicable place of knowing. It encourages and enables us to make use of the countless invisible realities co-existing with the visible ones.Intuition is a true gift we can receive, utilize and enjoy.Alongside love, it can broaden our horizons in ways nothing else on earth possibly can. Every human is born with this gift, and at the same time, it is a matter of personal interest and desire as to whether we want to receive and utilize it.Every person on earth holds a key to their intuition, yet it is up to each one of us to decide whether we want to unlock, explore, and apply its magic.As many now know, the gift of the imagination is truly the most powerful tool we humans possess in determining our ability to "be still and know," and it remains the primary source of all our self-healing.Linda Keen is an American healer, author, and teacher of metaphysics. She began her practice in 1978 in the Netherlands after discovering her aptitude for using her intuition to help others. Providing support to clients looking for significant answers to questions concerning a soul's purpose in everyday life, Linda unwittingly pioneered an entirely new method of training within the Dutch self-help community.Her book, first published in Dutch in 1985 titled Intuitieve Ontwikkeling (later called Intuition Magic in English) soon became a bestseller. It has gone into its 19th printing in Holland and remains a landmark resource for those seeking encouragement in this field.The most striking realization Linda had in the course of her work was how each and every human being has full access to his or her own elaborate body of spiritual information--if only they have the interest required to seek and find it. This access is one of the lesser-known and/or acknowledged gifts of the remarkable human psyche.As co-founder in 1987 of Mens & Intuitie (People &Intuition), one of the largest schools for energy awareness and intuitive healing in the Netherlands (with up to 350 weekly trainees), Linda, a mother of four children, spent sixteen years in that country as healer, meditation teacher, and published author. In 1993, she and her family left the Netherlands to live on the West Coast of the United States. Her school was eventually handed over to a number of graduates who helped keep the concepts of this institution alive.

Written for graduate students, this book presents topics in 2-dimensional hyperbolic geometry. The authors begin with rigid motions in the plane which are used as motivation for a full development of hyperbolic geometry in the unit disk. The approach is to define metrics from an infinitesimal point of view; first the density is defined and then the metric via integration. The study of hyperbolic geometry in arbitrary domains requires the concepts of surfaces and covering spaces as well as uniformization and Fuchsian groups. These ideas are developed in the context of what is used later. The authors then provide a detailed discussion of hyperbolic geometry for arbitrary plane domains. New material on hyperbolic and hyperbolic-like metrics is presented. These are generalizations of the Kobayashi and Caratheodory metrics for plane domains. The book concludes with applications to holomorphic dynamics including new results and accessible open problems.

Any attempt by governments to stem the tide of early retirement will need to focus as much on employers' management of human resources as on the impacts of social policy. This report focuses on this previously neglected area: employers' policies and practice as a dynamic force in retirement decisions. Drawing on data from a series of organisational case studies that situate the individual's decisions and experience in the context of employers' age management policies, the report examines how the retirement process is currently managed in a range of organisations; identifies barriers to effective planning for retirement; considers whether individuals feel there is enough choice when facing decisions about retirement and addresses the concerns of both researchers and academics in the fields of human resource management and social policy.