Download E-books The Everything Vampire Book: From Vlad the Impaler to the Vampire Lestat - a History of Vampires in Literature, Film, and Legend PDF

By Barb Karg, Arjean Spaite, Rick Sutherland

From Bram Stoker's "Dracula", to Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" sequence, vampires have involved and worried old and young alike for hundreds of years. if it is an evil, sharp-fanged creature who appears to be like from the mist, or a good-looking, erotic individual of poser, the vampire in all its incarnations is without doubt one of the hottest and fascinating characters of literature and picture. Vampires alternately terrorize and turn into items to be idolized and wanted. This e-book examines their infamous heritage and legends, their evolution and portrayal in books, tv, and cinema, and the on going fascination with the 'vampire lifestyle'.

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Download E-books Indestructible You: Building a Self that Can't be Broken PDF

By Tim Ward

Indestructible You is a pragmatic guidebook for making your self so powerful within that life's relentless ups and downs can't shake you and can't holiday you. it is going to assist you discover the robust, motive force of your actual self, and allow pass of every thing that holds you again. The ebook relies routines and practices built by means of Shai Tubali via his examine and paintings guiding numerous hundred participants via psycho-transformational tactics. In essence: lifestyles is like an everlasting seesaw. At each given second you are both up - getting what you will want and feeling strong, or down - discovering your self rejected, weakened and pissed off. we're ceaselessly hoping to bend the legislation of this 'unfair online game' in order that we remain at the up-side of existence. yet this unrealistic insistence is why we endure. Indestructible You unearths find out how to step down from the everlasting seesaw and construct an unbreakable self, a self that is still fearless and robust it doesn't matter what existence throws at you.

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Download E-books A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives PDF

The hugely acclaimed notion chief and English translator of the Dalai Lama exhibits us how compassion works as a strong internal source that could yield striking and compelling benefits—not only for others, yet for ourselves.
 
The Buddhist perform of mindfulness first stuck on within the West after we started to comprehend its many useful merits. Now Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., introduces a tradition with even larger life-changing energy: compassion. according to the innovative path in Compassion Cultivation education at Stanford that Jinpa helped to create, A Fearless center shows us that compassion could be a direction via anguish, a key to powerful healthiness, or even a good way to arrive our goals.
 
but we worry compassion. We fear that if we're too compassionate with others, they are going to benefit from us, and an excessive amount of self-compassion will make us slackers. Pulling from the newest Western examine in addition to conventional Buddhist psychology, Jinpa deals uncomplicated day-by-day practices that would aid readers teach their compassion muscle for a better which means, connection, and success.

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Download E-books The Extra-Dimensional Universe: Where the Paranormal Becomes the Normal PDF

By John R. Violette

UFO sightings and alien abductions, mystical stories and psychic phenomena, the near-death and the out-of-body experience--millions of normal humans around the globe record experiencing those occasions at some point soon of their lives. but, simply because there is not any authorized medical conception to give an explanation for the mystical, the events--and the folk who record them--are ridiculed and pushed aside.

The challenge is not the humans, it is the science.

While a few state-of-the-art researchers and quantum physicists are speculating extra often that those stories are attributable to anything past our world--some type of higher-dimensional reality--any proposed extra-dimensional theories placed forth so far have lacked one key ingredient--expanded consciousness.

Extra-Dimensional Universe offers an increased framework of area, time, and realization. This, for the 1st time, explains how paranormal phenomena can exist. Violette's landscape-altering concept is totally appropriate with the entire findings of contemporary medical research--and historic knowledge traditions--and sincerely explains the technological know-how of paranormal occasions reminiscent of UFOs and abductions, mystical and psychic phenomena, and the near-death event.

Violette even finds that accelerated attention is the major to knowing why a few humans adventure psychic phenomena corresponding to UFOs or ghosts whilst others don't.

An development of the vintage theories of R. M. Bucke and P. D. Ouspensky, Extra-Dimensional Universe is itself destined to develop into a vintage of the technological know-how of spirituality.

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Download E-books Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life PDF

By Mary Schmich

What she wrote used to be humorous and clever and fascinating, so i'd were proud had the phrases been mine." --Kurt Vonnegut, New York Times

The tenth anniversary variation of Mary Schmich's undying recommendation in a brand new package deal designed for the following iteration of graduates.

Wear Sunscreen, now a success video on YouTube.com, is obvious by way of hundreds of thousands of viewers.

It all begun with a column titled "Advice, Like formative years, most likely simply Wasted at the Young," written by way of Mary Schmich and released within the Chicago Tribune on June 1, 1997. published on the net, Schmich's column quick grew to become a world sensation. buddies e-mailed it to buddies, the media picked up on it, and a celeb used to be born. there has been just one challenge: every body notion the column used to be a precise graduation deal with given via writer Kurt Vonnegut.

Eventually, Mary Schmich was once effectively pointed out because the writer. AMP released her recommendation as a present booklet in 1998. the next yr, "Wear Sunscreen" grew to become successful song. 

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Download E-books Creating the Soul Body: The Sacred Science of Immortality PDF

Outlines the foundations and mechanics of the soul physique, the religious car that permits person attention to outlive the body’s demise

• indicates that the traditional Vedic, Egyptian, Hebraic, and Pythagorean traditions shared and understood this religious perform

• unearths smooth technological know-how as purely now awakening to this old sacred science

Ancient peoples internationally understood that exact recognition is rooted in a common box of recognition and is for this reason everlasting, surviving the passing of the actual physique. They engaged in non secular practices to make that transition maximally auspicious. those practices could be defined as one of those alchemy, within which base parts are discarded and better degrees of realization are learned. the result's the production of a motor vehicle, a soul physique, that includes realization past actual death.

These religious arrangements are symbolized within the Vedic, Egyptian, and Hebraic traditions as a divine stairway or ladder, a step by step course of ascent during which the practitioner increases attention by means of levels till it involves leisure within the bosom of the limitless, thereby turning into “immortal.” This non secular method explains the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, for instance, whose reincarnation is proven in infancy via actual and non secular indicators, indicating that the awareness has been carried from one lifetime to the next.

In Creating the Soul Body, Robert Cox maps the religious trip of cognizance in the back of this sacred technology of immortality and divulges the perform of constructing a soul physique intimately. He additionally indicates that this old religious technological know-how resembles complicated theories of contemporary technological know-how, akin to wave and particle idea and the unified box thought, and divulges that smooth technology is simply now awakening to this historical technological know-how of “immortality.”

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Download E-books Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story PDF

By Sera Beak

When one individual dares to talk her fact, it demanding situations us all to reside our personal. With Red scorching and Holy, Sera Beak deals a provocative and intimate view of what it ability to wake up shut and private with the divine in smooth times.
With an extraordinary mix of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and delicate vulnerability—vibrantly combined with pink wine, rock songs, tattoos, and erotic encounters—Sera candidly chronicles the highs and lows of her mystical trip. From the innocence of her early life weigh down on God; via a whirlwind of torrid liaisons and sour break-ups with Christianity, Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism, and the recent Age; and at last into devoted monogamy together with her personal purple scorching and Holy Goddess, Sera stocks transformative insights, encouraging us all to belief our targeted direction and ignite our personal religious love affair.

Sera Beak's luscious writing and renegade religious knowledge that slices via spiritual and new age dogma made her debut booklet The purple Book a breakout good fortune. With Red scorching and Holy she deals a much more own book—an illuminating, hilarious, and specifically totally sincere portrait of the heart-opening strategy of mystical awareness. This scorching and holy e-book invitations you to include your soul, unharness your precise Self, and burn, child, burn with divine love.
 
 
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As a toddler, i used to be head over heels in love with God.  Gaga for God.  In grade university, I used to write down “I (heart) God” on the most sensible of all my homework assignments and within the margins of the notes I handed to my girlfriends approximately which boys we inspiration have been cute.  subsequent to The Little Princess, a children’s bible used to be saved on my bedside desk for nightly reading.  Miracles?  Prophetic dreams?  Angels?  therapeutic the sick?  signal me up for these gigs!  and each Thursday i assumed J.C. dropped by way of my bed room so i may ask him own questions and inform him which sister used to be tense me the most.  i used to be magnetized to rosaries, prayers, and pyramids the way in which different childrens have been to doughnuts, MTV and the Cabbage Patch young children, and each time I observed a non secular determine (priest, nun, Buddhist monk, Hare Krishna) out in public, it'll take a major volume of dedication to not stalk them.
 
while occupation Days in school could come round, my questionnaire could glance a bit anything like this:
favourite subject?  God
favourite hobby?  God
What do you need to be if you develop up?  God
(Okay, there has been a quick time whilst i used to be six years outdated while the reply to that final query used to be “an albino.”  i assumed albinism might make me glow within the dark.)
whilst i used to be a baby, God was once no longer a trust of a paranormal Santa Claus type.  He used to be as actual as my heart.  I felt Him (inside me).  I recognized Him (everywhere). I knew Him (personally).  We frolicked jointly, and that i by no means sought after our rendezvous to stop.  I purely sought after us to attract closer.  i thought i used to be experiencing what many Catholics confer with as “the name” to be a clergyman, so I matter-of-factly trained my parish clergymen and Sunday college academics of my destiny vocation.  They laughed, patted my head, and advised me I couldn’t have heard the decision to be a clergyman simply because I had a vagina.
ok, they didn’t say that final half, yet think me, it used to be implied.
They did inform me that merely males have been allowed to be monks simply because Jesus in basic terms had male disciples (to which Mary Magdalene juts out her left hip and slaps her around cheek with The Gospel of Mary Magdalene).  yet, in fact, i'll constantly be a nun.
 
 
Table of Contents

half One  B.M. (Before Marion)

  1. Divine Wild Child
  2. Mystical Misfits
  3. Trumped through the Tree of Life
  4. The Goddess Is in Da House!
  5. Kali’s Child
  6. My larger Education
  7. Caught purple Handed
  8. The purple gentle District of Divinity
  9. The Sacred Sorority

Part   A.M. (After Marion)

  1. Rouge Awakening
  2. Red evening of the Soul
  3. Blast Off
  4. Red Alert
  5. The purple Tent
  6. Shadow Puppets
  7. Girls simply Wanna Have Fun

16 ½ Roses Are Red

  1. The crimson Block
  2. The crimson Princess
  3. Dragon Fire
  4. A Ruby within the middle of Granite
  5. REDefining Divinity
  6. Burn child, Burn

 

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Download E-books Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die PDF

By David Kessler

     David Kessler, essentially the most well known specialists on dying and grief, takes on 3 uniquely shared reviews that problem our skill to provide an explanation for and entirely comprehend the secret of our ultimate days. the 1st is “visions.” because the demise lose sight of this global, a few humans seem to be having a look into the area to come.

     the second one shared event is preparing for a “trip.” The phenomenon of getting ready oneself for a trip isn’t new or strange. in truth, in the course of our household’ final hours, they could usually think about their approaching dying as a transition or trip. those journeys could appear to us to be all approximately leaving, yet for the demise, they're extra approximately arriving.

     eventually, the 3rd phenomenon is “crowded rooms.” The loss of life usually discuss seeing a room jam-packed with humans, as they always repeat the note crowded. honestly, we by no means die on my own. simply as loving palms greeted us once we have been born, so will loving hands include us once we die.

     within the tapestry of lifestyles and dying, we may possibly start to see connections to the previous that we neglected in lifestyles. whereas loss of life may perhaps appear like a loss to the residing, the final hours of a death individual will be full of fullness instead of vacancy. during this interesting publication, which incorporates a new Afterword, Kessler brings us beautiful tales from the bedsides of the demise that would teach, enlighten, and luxury us all.

 

 

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