Author: James C. King Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN: 1631358014 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 317
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After being struck by lighting, having open-heart surgery with four bypasses, and surviving a heart attack, I started seeing dead people and spirits. There were several visits from these entities and also many vivid dreams. Windows to the Afterlife began as a journal covering the time period 1992 to 2013. The book is about the paranormal events that happened both to me and to my wife. I realize that a lot of people have had paranormal experiences. Seventy percent of the public believe that paranormal events occur, while about 35 percent believe that that they have experienced something paranormal in their life. By writing this book, I wanted to tell others who have had paranormal things happen to them that they are not crazy.
Author: Diane M. Komp Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company ISBN: 9780310589709 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 130
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As seen on ABC's 20/20 and featured in the March 1992 issue of Life Magazine, this sensitive book tells of a doctor who finds faith through the dying children she treats. Any believer who has asked questions about the innocent suffering of a child will relate to the author's honest quest for faith.
Author: Richard Joseph Golsan Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803270947 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 252
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One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome"?the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life?is that it has been extremelyødifficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails, fascinate and even obsess the French, inflecting not only discussions of the past but of the present as well? In Vichy's Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy's curious persistence in France's national consciousness. He argues that each of these episodes, events, and scandals constitutes a crossroads where history and "counterhistory"?different or competing versions of the past?encounter one another, often with explosive and even destructive consequences.
Author: Donald Antrim Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429954698 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 175
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From "a fiercely intelligent writer" (The New York Times), a wry, poignant story of the difficult love between a mother and a son In the winter of 2000, shortly after his mother's death from cancer and malnourishment, Donald Antrim, author of the absurdist, visionary masterworks Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, The Hundred Brothers, and The Verificationist, began writing about his family. In pieces that appeared in The New Yorker and were anthologized in Best American Essays, Antrim explored his intense and complicated relationships with his mother, Louanne, an artist and teacher who was, at her worst, a ferociously destabilized and destabilizing alcoholic; his gentle grandfather, who lived in the mountains of North Carolina and who always hoped to save his daughter from herself; and his father, who married Louanne twice. The Afterlife is not a temporally linear coming-of-age memoir; instead, Antrim follows a logic of unconscious life, of dreams and memories, of fantasies and psychoses, the way in which the world of the alcoholic becomes a sleepless, atemporal world. In it, he comes to terms with—and fails to comes to terms with—the nature of addiction and the broken states of loneliness, shame, and loss that remain beyond his power to fully repair. This is a tender and even blackly hilarious portrait of a family—faulty, cracked, enraging. It is also the story of the way the author works, in part through writing this book, to become a man more fully alive to himself and to others, a man capable of a life in which he may never learn, or ever hope to know, the nature of his origins.
Author: Michael T. Martinez Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312481935 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 59
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In Windows to Minds, Martinez masterfully uses free form poetry to present perspectives of life that range from pleasantly endearing to shockingly confrontational. He invites readers to open their minds and consider his perspectives, while ultimately challenging them to think for themselves and not take anything he or anyone else says for granted. At the end, he even invites them to put their own perspectives on life into words! Windows to Minds has the power to either demand you turn the pages quickly, or force you to slow down and think. Its brutal honesty may have the same person who nods their head in agreement at some points, shake their head and curse under their breath at others. Perhaps not since Walt Whitman has free form poetry taken such a powerful form. But Martinez is not the next Walt Whitman-he is the first Michael Martinez, and this manifesto of his opinions and perspectives attests to this.
Author: Simcha Paull Raphael Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 153810346X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 529
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Originally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish tradition and mysticism. As both a scholar and pastoral counselor, Raphael guides the reader through 4,000 years of Jewish thought on the afterlife by investigating pertinent sacred texts produced in each era. Through a compilation of ideas found in the Bible, Apocrypha, rabbinic literature, medieval philosophy, medieval Midrash, Kabbalah, Hasidism and Yiddish literature, the reader learns how Judaism conceived of the fate of the individual after death throughout Jewish history. In addition, this book explores the implications of Jewish afterlife beliefs for a renewed understanding of traditional rituals of funeral, burial, shiva, kaddish and more. This newly released twenty-fifth anniversary edition presents new material on little-known Jewish mystical teachings on reincarnation, a chapter on “Spirits, Ghosts and Dybbuks in Yiddish Literature”, and a foreword by the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, Rabbi Arthur Green. Both historical and contemporary, this book provides a rich resource for scholars and laypeople and for teachers and students and makes an important Jewish contribution to the growing contemporary psychology of death and dying.
Author: Kevin O'Neill Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 290
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Can you imagine swapping your body for a virtual version? This technology-based look at the afterlife chronicles America's fascination with death and reveals how digital immortality may become a reality. The Internet has reinvented the paradigm of life and death: social media enables a discourse with loved ones long after their deaths, while gaming sites provide opportunities for multiple lives and life forms. In this thought-provoking work, author Kevin O'Neill examines America's concept of afterlife—as imagined in cyberspace—and considers how technologies designed to emulate immortality present serious challenges to our ideas about human identity and to our religious beliefs about heaven and hell. The first part of the work—covering the period between 1840 and 1860—addresses post-mortem photography, cemetery design, and spiritualism. The second section discusses Internet afterlife, including online memorials and cemeteries; social media legacy pages; and sites that curate passwords, bequests, and final requests. The work concludes with chapters on the transhumanist movement, the philosophical and religious debates about Internet immortality, and the study of technologies attempting to extend life long after the human form ceases.
Author: Ed Krizek Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1477181865 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 171
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Afterlife and Other Stories is a collection of moving, poignant and exciting short stories set mainly in the Philadelphia, PA area. The stories were written and edited with great care over a period of fifteen years. Anyone who has experienced the magic and the heartbreak of living with hope in desperate times will find these stories appealing. Readers who appreciate all aspects of reality including angst and hope will relate to this book.
Author: Trinda Latherow Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0978789830 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 246
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Pieces of the Puzzle: One title, four volumes, and countless stories that tell of both the mysterious and miraculous aspects to our world and us. An epic adventure for the soul. Volume 3 - The Afterlife and Infinite Beyond: The reality of an afterlife is what we can if only first believe and perceive of it to be.
Author: Kevin O'Neill Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 144086859X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 388
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The Afterlife in Popular Culture: Heaven, Hell, and the Underworld in the American Imagination gives students a fresh look at how Americans view the afterlife, helping readers understand how it's depicted in popular culture. What happens to us when we die? The book seeks to explore how that question has been answered in American popular culture. It begins with five framing essays that provide historical and intellectual background on ideas about the afterlife in Western culture. These essays are followed by more than 100 entries, each focusing on specific cultural products or authors that feature the afterlife front and center. Entry topics include novels, film, television shows, plays, works of nonfiction, graphic novels, and more, all of which address some aspect of what may await us after our passing. This book is unique in marrying a historical overview of the afterlife with detailed analyses of particular cultural products, such as films and novels. In addition, it covers these topics in nonspecialist language, written with a student audience in mind. The book provides historical context for contemporary depictions of the afterlife addressed in the entries, which deal specifically with work produced in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Author: James C. King
Author: Diane M. Komp
Author: Richard Joseph Golsan
Author: Donald Antrim
Author: Michael T. Martinez
Author: Simcha Paull Raphael
Author: Kevin O'Neill
Author: Ed Krizek
Author: Trinda Latherow
Author: Kevin O'Neill