Tony Scully's poems in Come into the Light offer an outspoken conversation with the Gospels, arguably the most transformative teaching in our known history. The wisdom of the great masters among us, Jesus, the Buddha, and Mohammed, speak of universal compassion, love, and forgiveness. Jesus preaches that one will find God, not in invoking what amounts to an anthropomorphic idol, but in searching one's own heart, as in his fundamental teaching, "the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21). Tony Scully's poems address Jesus, the central figure of the Gospels, with questioning, irreverence, and occasional confrontation. In his view, many of the stories, even that of the resurrection itself, hinge on miracles, reflecting earlier religions that expected gods to cure illnesses, raise the dead, and even to walk on water, rather than on the powers of compassion, love, and forgiveness that characterize Jesus. In the author's view, the heart of Jesus is proof enough of his transcendence.

As we mature as believers there is a call upon our lives that we must continue to grow in our faith by walking in more light, that is revelation and understanding of who and what God is and who we are in respect of our faith. This call to walk in light is potholed with incorrect and deceiving doctrine that is designed to blind us from the light or keep us from the light entirely. Dr. Gene Herndon utilizes the Word of God to share with us how we can come up to the light and walk in the light so that we can and will experience greater degrees of revelation, understanding and victories.

Peter Buse illuminates the relationship between modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory. He demonstrates how theory allows fresh insights into familiar drama, pairing well-known plays with classic theory texts. The theoretical text is more than applied to the dramatic text, instead Buse shows how they reflect on each other. Drama + Theory provides not only provides new interpretations of popular plays, but of the theoretical texts as well.

Excerpt from Light Come, Light Go: The passion for speculation which, throughout all ages, has captivated the great bulk of humanity, would seem to be an innate characteristic of mankind. It assumes various forms and guises which often deceive those over whom it exercises its sway, and becomes in numberless cases a veritable obsession, causing its victims to devote the whole of their time, thoughts, and money—sometimes even their lives—to its service. Devotees of the simpler forms of gambling, such as are to be procured at the card-table and on the race-course, are often looked down upon by people who are themselves under the sway of other insidious, if more reputable, modes of tempting fortune. For all speculation, whether it be in pigs or wheat, stocks and shares, race-horses or cards, is in essence the same—its main feature being merely the desire to obtain “something for nothing,” or in other words to acquire wealth without work. Gambling, of no matter what kind, is thus a conscious and deliberate departure from the general aim of civilised society, which is to obtain proper value for its money. The gambler, on the other hand, receives either a great deal more than he gives or nothing at all.

What is missing in modern life is the recognition of the sacred in life. Celebrate! is a resource book for individuals, families, and communities to integrate the sacred back into ordinary life through blessing ceremonies and rituals. Sacred ceremonies are the bridge between the material and spiritual worlds reconnecting us to wholeness. The ceremonies included in the book can be used by all cultures and all faiths, marking important life events for children and adults, as well as holidays. Some are familiar ceremonies, and some are new, especially created for times that give meaning to life in the modern world. The section on Creating Your Own Ceremonies assists readers to create personal ceremonies to mark their own life journeys.

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For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime - a perfectly fossilized early primate, older than the previously most famous primate fossil, Lucy, by forty-four million years. A secret until now, the fossil - "Ida" to theresearchers who have painstakingly verified her provenance - is the most complete primate fossil ever found. Forty-seven million years old, Ida rewrites what we've assumed about the earliest primate origins. Her completeness is unparalleled - so much of what we understand about evolution comes from partial fossils and even single bones, but Ida's fossilization offers much more than that, from a haunting "skin shadow" to her stomach contents. And, remarkably, knowledge of her discovery and existence almost never saw the light of day. With exclusive access to the first scientiststo study her, the award-winning science writer Colin Tudge tells the history of Ida and her place in the world. A magnificent, cutting-edge scientific detective story followed her discovery, and The Link offers a wide-ranging investigation into Ida and our earliest origins. At the same time, it opens a stunningly evocative window into our past and changes what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own.

Mysticism & Physics self help non fiction , inner guide to meditation , inner being ,consciousness to non being body where time space forms duality completely annihilate to awareness i am ness into the law of eternity core and source of the mystery of the universe and of life and death and of all duality , eternity is infinite infinity the size vanish into infinity like the ultimate equation of quantum mathematics eternity is infinite freedom from all and everything the real freedom , infinite peace infinite silence rich with intrinsic subtle ecstasy throbbing with eternal life , is infinite bliss that surpass all understanding sacred holy divine is an open relativity not absolute at all because as no begin or end , is the core and source of immortality and resurrection , a human being in essence is eternity itself in mystical union oneness , deathless , and the resurrection is a conscious alchemy not material not physical not gross is a conscious alchemy from unconscious to inner being to consciousness to non being body incorporeal to awareness i am ness into the law of eternity , here into eternity you in essence are back home and enlightenment happen unfold if you hold a body you will be enlightened forever and all unconscious asleep and various hypnosis gone forever , you will live a life of bliss playfulness sacred holy divine after such experience of meditation , here in this book all the inner eternal journey is describe with accuracy through the inner science called mysticism , is an inner science of the inner reality mystery of an organic unity that a human being is , a search research done scientifically factual not esoteric at all , and physics means nature in ancient Greek language the science knowledge of nature , the goal of physics is to know understand how the universe behave and how the inner law forces energy of the universal body behave and affected influence our planet earth and the organic unity , mysticism and physics intersect merge mingled together are indivisible and what emerge is a synthesis of a unique science amazing beautiful complete total never witness before by human kind , that will transform the inner reality and mystery of human being completely and the surface of our objective planet completely in the next hundred years a mystical revolution will unfold a new era a new dawn of civilization intelligence consciousness awareness i am ness that what is all about mysticism & physics ..Angelo Aulisa