2005, ISBN: 9781440184031

Hardcover

Acropolis Books (GA). Paperback. New. Paperback. 228 pages. Dimensions: 8.4in. x 5.5in. x 0.7in.Drawing its title from the biblical story of the prodigal son, The Journey Back to the Fa… More...

Acropolis Books (GA). Paperback. New. Paperback. 228 pages. Dimensions: 8.4in. x 5.5in. x 0.7in.Drawing its title from the biblical story of the prodigal son, The Journey Back to the Father s House explains that we have wandered away from knowing our true Self and our spiritual home in the kingdom of God within. We have immersed ourselves in the deceptions and illusions of the material world, and if we want a life of true peace and harmony, we must make the return journey. This is a journey which is accomplished within ourselves as an activity of consciousness. Goldsmith says, In any moment of your life, you can begin the journey back to the Father s house. In your human sense of life, you are a prodigal son. Each day you are using up some of your life . . . each day some of your strength, health, or wisdom is lessening in the human picture. That is the life of the prodigal. But, he continues, The moment that you realize, Man shall not live by bread alone or by the body, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, you are not living on your strength, your supply, your body, or the number of your years. Now you are drawing forth your life and abundance from the source. But how are we to make this return journey Goldsmith explains that we must attain that mind which was in Christ Jesus, or the transcendental mind that goes beyond the mere intellectual understanding of the letter of truth to the full spiritual realization. He shows the reader how to make that transition by clearing out old concepts of truth, meditating faithfully, and continuously practicing and applying spiritual principles. But, Goldsmith counsels, the journey takes time and practice: Every truth heard or read that makes you feel it is truth, is a seed that is being taken into your consciousness. You can no more expect it to do something for you tomorrow than if you planted an apple seed today and expected to find apples growing in your yard tomorrow. The seeds of truth must be nurtured and fed until they are in full flower. As we live with these seeds of truth and cultivate them in a receptive attitude, Goldsmith says, we are on the path back to the Father s house and to realizing our original relationship of oneness with God. This relationship of oneness is the pearl of great price that enables us to open out a way for harmony in all aspects of life to come forth from within. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Acropolis Books (GA), G. L. Design. Paperback. New. Paperback. 76 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 0.2in.It is the soul that fascinates me! For once I realize I am a soul, I can become willing to drop the superego, the ego, the false personality, the machine, or what Eckhart Tolle so deftly describes as the pain body. I can begin to awaken to another consciousness. To awaken can be the beginning of dying away those ancient forms. To die away those ancient forms involves awareness. To die away those ancient forms involves a loving discipline as an inner witness to my self-talk. To die away those ancient forms involves effort. To die away those ancient forms means not identifying with them as the true self, but to stay present to the quietness of the soul. To die away those ancient forms means to let intuition lead and the egomachine to follow, or disappear. When I get a glimpse of the peace, the light and the joy of the true self, then I know through verification that there is no separation between the soul and the God that created it and everyone and everything. Marcia Wolff, M. A. , trained as a psychotherapist at Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Here she fell in love with Carl Jung, dreams, symbolism, mythology and archetypes. She also earned a degree in English Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio and discovered poetry. To keep her soul alive, Marcia paints, creates collages, writes and attends to her dreams. Marcia makes her home in Mexico and the United States. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., G. L. Design, G2 Rights. Paperback. New. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Ships Fast. Expedite Shipping Available., G2 Rights, Harper Perennial. Paperback. New. Paperback. 832 pages. Dimensions: 8.0in. x 5.4in. x 1.6in.Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nations political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status. Influenced by an unusual combination of the Japanese imperial tradition and a modern scientific worldview, the young emperor gradually evolves into his preeminent role, aligning himself with the growing ultranationalist movement, perpetuating a cult of religious emperor worship, resisting attempts to curb his power, and all the while burnishing his image as a reluctant, passive monarch. Here we see Hirohito as he truly was: a man of strong will and real authority. Supported by a vast array of previously untapped primary documents, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan is perhaps most illuminating in lifting the veil on the mythology surrounding the emperors impact on the world stage. Focusing closely on Hirohitos interactions with his advisers and successive Japanese governments, Bix sheds new light on the causes of the China War in 1937 and the start of the Asia-Pacific War in 1941. And while conventional wisdom has had it that the nations increasing foreign aggression was driven and maintained not by the emperor but by an elite group of Japanese militarists, the reality, as witnessed here, is quite different. Bix documents in detail the strong, decisive role Hirohito played in wartime operations, from the takeover of Manchuria in 1931 through the attack on Pearl Harbor and ultimately the fateful decision in 1945 to accede to an unconditional surrender. In fact, the emperor stubbornly prolonged the war effort and then used the horrifying bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, together with the Soviet entrance into the war, as his exit strategy from a no-win situation. From the moment of capitulation, we see how American and Japanese leaders moved to justify the retention of Hirohito as emperor by whitewashing his wartime role and reshaping the historical consciousness of the Japanese people. The key to this strategy was Hirohitos alliance with General MacArthur, who helped him maintain his stature and shed his militaristic image, while MacArthur used the emperor as a figurehead to assist him in converting Japan into a peaceful nation. Their partnership ensured that the emperors image would loom large over the postwar years and later decades, as Japan began to make its way in the modern age and struggled -- as it still does -- to come to terms with its past. Until the very end of a career that embodied the conflicting aims of Japans development as a nation, Hirohito remained preoccupied with politics and with his place in history. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan provides the definitive account of his rich life and legacy. Meticulously researched and utterly engaging, this book is proof that the history of twentieth-century Japan cannot be understood apart from the life of its most remarkable and enduring leader. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN, Momence,IL, Commerce,GA., Harper Perennial, New York: Forge, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2000. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (24.95). By the author of Zeppelin (1982), and The Gypsy Man (1985). From the Dust Jacket "Set in Newport, Rhode Island, during the social season of the summer of 1941, just before Pearl Harbor. It is the end of an era of glitter and social privilege. Sera, a beauty from a Portuguese fisherman's family falls in love with Russell, a U.S. Navy lieutenant from a status-conscious Newport family, who is stationed at the nearby Naval War College, where secret military scenarios are played out by future commanders. Jake, Sera's girlhood sweetheart stands by powerless as he sees Sera enchanted. And young Sera is swept off her feet by the charming Russell... Jake is enlisted as a counterspy... And Russell... thinks nothing of talking about the Navy's secret war games. After all, they're only games." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Near Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. 348pp., Forge, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2000, BalboaPress. Paperback. New. Paperback. 246 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 0.6in.Truth is stranger than fiction Stranger is, the truth may be happening to many of you right here right now. Reading like fiction, this nonfiction account candidly shares with no embellishment stories of magical, mystical, spiritual experiences such as the appearances of beings of light, prophetic dreams, astral travel, the Sri Yantra (blue pearl), NDE (near-death experience), the master-disciple relationship, and more. The witness and experiencer (author) of Grateful Witness illuminates the process of freeing oneself from misery and illusion, carrying one upon wave after wave of peak experience, breakthrough, illumination, catharsis (processing) and integration. All lead to an attainment of the realization of oneness with God, of God consciousness. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., BalboaPress, Random House, 2005. Audio cd. Fine. 11 hours, 10 minutes on 10 compact discs in original box. Contents as new, box rubbed along edges (very good). From the internet: In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and compassionately render the lives of those who marched. The author of Ragtime, City of God, and The Book of Daniel has given us a magisterial work with an enormous cast of unforgettable characters-white and black, men, women, and children, unionists and rebels, generals and privates, freed slaves and slave owners. At the center is General Sherman himself; a beautiful freed slave girl named Pearl; a Union regimental surgeon, Colonel Sartorius; Emily Thompson, the dispossessed daughter of a Southern judge; and Arly and Will, two misfit soldiers. Almost hypnotic in its narrative drive, The March stunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a country at war with itself. The great march in E. L. Doctorow's hands becomes something more-a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times., Random House, 2005, AuthorHouse. Paperback. New. Paperback. 164 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 0.4in.In White Lies, author Robert Friend uses an almost ethereal tone to describe his narrrators hallucination. The stream-of-consciousness style helps put the reader in the mindset of the narrator, allowing them to see what he does. The manuscript centers on a life of drug use, drinking and crime. Friend is able to chronicle the narrators slow swirl into mental instability. In addition at times, White Lies seems designed to be a caustic political commentary about the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Readers may appreciate the layered, multi-facited aspect of this manuscript. White Lies could be seen as a cautionary tale against drug abuse or any other sort of behavior that endangers oneself. We shall never forget those men and women that give there lives today I remember you. . . . Dedicted to the loving memory of Pearl Gertrude woods 1913-1998 This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Inc.. Paperback. New. Paperback. 106 pages. Dimensions: 8.8in. x 6.0in. x 0.2in.Ruth Steinbergs Frame of Reference is the Holocaust. But the Holocaust is a minor character in these gripping and evocative poems. The major players are the poet and her parents as they learn to live in the aftermath of their dislocation, trauma and loss. With an honesty that adds intensity to the poems, she uses her poetic power to explore the implications and consequences of her history. I was deeply moved by these poems and admiring of the line Steinberg walks: speaking of the unspeakable is a daunting task for a writer and she always avoids the cheap shot, the sentimental, and the overstated. The naturalness of her diction makes the work extremely powerful. -Mary Gordon, author of Pearl and Final PaymentsIn this extraordinary poetic depiction of Ruth Steinbergs memories, impressions and legacies as a child survivor of the Holocaust, the poet shows us how important it is to name the unnamable. Through clear, poetic language, she transforms familiar images and language into a startling expressive language of her own. Through her poetic questions and her frame of reference, she shows us the fragile nature of identity. She bears witness and beckons readers to remember and bear witness alongside her. -June Gould, author of The Writer in All of UsThese indelible, carefully wrought poems of the Holocaust will not leave your consciousness. Seared by memories of her early years, poet Steinberg is weighted with a lifelong sense of responsibility to remain a witness, to remember. Her poems will pierce your sensibility and leave a residue of what it was like, as the writer puts it, to embroider my mind with yellow stars. I am grateful to Ruth Steinberg for this important contribution to Holocaust literature and to poetry. -D. H. Melhem, author of New York Poems This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., iUniverse, Inc., iUniverse. Paperback. New. Paperback. 140 pages. Dimensions: 8.0in. x 5.0in. x 0.3in.Leslie Johnson traveled far away from her urban roots for more than twenty years and this period is re-visited in this collection derived from her day-dreams and aspirations that never surrendered to the distractions imposed by the stresses and imperfections of a hurried existence. These highly personal and secret realms reveal sensitivity, spirituality and personal triumph often undocumented during an unpredictable and sometimes perilous journey spanning two decades. Her writing is a self-conscious and imaginative response to changing landscapes that are often powerful and impossible. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., iUniverse<