Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9780738715278
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Features amazing case studies of real people embarking on life-changing spiritual journeys: returning to past lives as a Viking, a German WWII soldier, a slave in the American South... reuniting with soul mates and spirit guides... and communing with their immortal souls. As gems of self-knowledge are revealed, dramatic epiphanies result - enabling these ordinary people to resolve illness, explain strange feelings and impulses, find emotional healing, realize their life purpose, and forever enrich their lives with new meaning.
Afterlife of Events
Author: Marek Tamm
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137470186
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Recently, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the past, present and future, broadening historiography's range from studying past events to their later impact and meaning. The volume proposes to look at the perspectives of this approach called mnemohistory, and argues for a redefinition of the term 'event'.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137470186
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Recently, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the past, present and future, broadening historiography's range from studying past events to their later impact and meaning. The volume proposes to look at the perspectives of this approach called mnemohistory, and argues for a redefinition of the term 'event'.
Online Afterlives
Author: Davide Sisto
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026253939X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death. Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with countless acres of cyberspace occupied by snapshots, videos, thoughts, and memories of people who have shared their last status updates. Modern society usually hides death from sight, as if it were a character flaw and not an ineluctable fact. But on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet, we can't avoid death; digital ghosts—electronic traces of the dead—appear at our click or touch. On the Internet at least, death has once again become a topic for public discourse. In Online Afterlives, Davide Sisto considers how digital technology is changing our relationship to death. Sisto describes the various modes of digital survival after biological death—including Facebook tributes, chatbots programmed to speak in the voice of a dead person, and QR codes on headstones—and discusses their philosophical ramifications. Sisto reports on such phenomena as the Tweet Hereafter, a website that collects people's last tweets; the intimacy of sending a WhatsApp message to someone who has died; and digital cremation, the deactivation of a dead person's account. Because we can mingle with the dead online almost as we mingle with the living, he warns, we may find it difficult to distinguish communication at a distance from communication with the dead. The digital afterlife has restored the communal dimension of death, rescuing both mourners and the mourned from social isolation. A society willing to engage with death and mortality, Sisto argues, is a more balanced and mature society.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026253939X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death. Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with countless acres of cyberspace occupied by snapshots, videos, thoughts, and memories of people who have shared their last status updates. Modern society usually hides death from sight, as if it were a character flaw and not an ineluctable fact. But on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet, we can't avoid death; digital ghosts—electronic traces of the dead—appear at our click or touch. On the Internet at least, death has once again become a topic for public discourse. In Online Afterlives, Davide Sisto considers how digital technology is changing our relationship to death. Sisto describes the various modes of digital survival after biological death—including Facebook tributes, chatbots programmed to speak in the voice of a dead person, and QR codes on headstones—and discusses their philosophical ramifications. Sisto reports on such phenomena as the Tweet Hereafter, a website that collects people's last tweets; the intimacy of sending a WhatsApp message to someone who has died; and digital cremation, the deactivation of a dead person's account. Because we can mingle with the dead online almost as we mingle with the living, he warns, we may find it difficult to distinguish communication at a distance from communication with the dead. The digital afterlife has restored the communal dimension of death, rescuing both mourners and the mourned from social isolation. A society willing to engage with death and mortality, Sisto argues, is a more balanced and mature society.
Ghosts of Home
Author: Marianne Hirsch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520271254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
In the Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after WWII - yet an idealized version lives on. This book chronicles the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520271254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
In the Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after WWII - yet an idealized version lives on. This book chronicles the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory.
The Partitions of Memory
Author: Suvir Kaul
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Echoes of the traumatic events surrounding the Partition of India in 1947 can be heard to this day in the daily life of the subcontinent, each time India and Pakistan play a cricket match or when their political leaders speak of "unfinished business." Sikhs who lived through the pogrom following the assassination of Indira Gandhi recall Partition, as do, most recently, Muslim communities targeted by mobs in Gujarat. The eight essays in The Partitions of Memory suggest ways in which the tangled skein of Partition might be unraveled. The contributors range over issues as diverse as literary reactions to Partition; the relief and rehabilitation measures provided to refugees; children's understanding of Partition; the power of "national" monuments to evoke a historical past; the power of letters to evoke more immediately poignant pasts; and the Dalit claim, at the prospect of Partition, to a separate political identity. The book demonstrates how fundamental the material and symbolic histories of Partition are to much that has happened in South Asia since 1947. Contributors: Mukulika Banerjee, Urvashi Butalia, Joya Chatterji, Priyamvada Gopal, Suvir Kaul, Nita Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Richard Murphy, and Ramnarayan S. Rawat.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Echoes of the traumatic events surrounding the Partition of India in 1947 can be heard to this day in the daily life of the subcontinent, each time India and Pakistan play a cricket match or when their political leaders speak of "unfinished business." Sikhs who lived through the pogrom following the assassination of Indira Gandhi recall Partition, as do, most recently, Muslim communities targeted by mobs in Gujarat. The eight essays in The Partitions of Memory suggest ways in which the tangled skein of Partition might be unraveled. The contributors range over issues as diverse as literary reactions to Partition; the relief and rehabilitation measures provided to refugees; children's understanding of Partition; the power of "national" monuments to evoke a historical past; the power of letters to evoke more immediately poignant pasts; and the Dalit claim, at the prospect of Partition, to a separate political identity. The book demonstrates how fundamental the material and symbolic histories of Partition are to much that has happened in South Asia since 1947. Contributors: Mukulika Banerjee, Urvashi Butalia, Joya Chatterji, Priyamvada Gopal, Suvir Kaul, Nita Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Richard Murphy, and Ramnarayan S. Rawat.
Dying to Really LIve
Author: Duane Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985676148
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A Near-Death Experience Offering Hope For All, Even The Non-Believer . A surprising, true afterlife sage of a young Agnostic, who before his death, seemingly had everything money could buy, when a Stanford Medical doctor diagnosed him with an incurable medical condition. Eventually he was sent home "to get his affairs in order," with 6 months to live." . Being an Agnostic, the young man soon made peace with death, expecting only oblivion when he died. However, he was wrong. Instead of the oblivion he expected, he was taken to an amazing Afterlife. Here he learned how wrong he had been about almost everything. Later. he was sent back to his life on earth with vivid evidence and memories of the afterlife. He was sent back, just as many other Near Death Experience survivors are, to tell people that there is life after death, and, that death isn't anything to fear, it's not the end of anything. In fact, death is quite the opposite. Death is just the beginning of another, new adventure, either there, here or somewhere else, as related in this afterlife saga, on life after death and of after-death communications. . The following excerpted were taken from a recent interview with the author. INTERVIEWER: So, what makes this book and the rest of the NDE Insight Series, different from all the other books about Near-Death Experiences? AUTHOR: Perhaps, if anything, it's because, I died as a Non-Believer in anything religious or spiritual and had no opinion on life after death, either way. In fact, I wasn't expecting anything, Heaven or Hell; just nothingness. However, when I finally died no one asked me, or cared, what I thought. I was just taken to the Afterlife. I had no say in the matter. . INTERVIEWER: In your book, you use the term, After Death Experience, sometimes, in place of Near-Death Experience. Would you explain the difference? AUTHOR: Sometimes these terms are used interchangeably, but someone can have a transcendent experience without actually dying or having an out of body experience. However, in a true after death experience one's body actually dies, yet the person eventually returns with memories of the afterlife. . INTERVIEWER: So what can the reader expect to read in your afterlife saga? AUTHOR: Well, first-of-all, that there is life after death and that it's possible to have afterlife communications with those who have gone on before . INTERVIEWER: Did your experience change you or your beliefs, in any way? AUTHOR: In almost every way possible. Before I died, I thought I had this life all figured out. I believed, "He who has the most toys when he dies, wins." And, when I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, according to that rule, I was doing very well. But, boy was I wrong about having everything figured out. I didn't have anything figured out. In fact, from an afterlife sojourn, I realized had gotten almost everything wrong. . INTERVIEWER: I see there are 4 books in the Series. Are they all about your death and return? ANSWER: No, Book I, "Dying to Really Live" covers my original afterlife sojourn to the the to the other side, plus, having been being taken back there again, three months later, by my Soul Guides. It's basically a saga about an afterlife sojourn. . INTERVIEWER: If Book I covers all that, what are the other 3 three books in the series about? AUTHOR: Book II, "Beyond the Afterlife," tells of what it was like to be back on earth after being in the afterlife. It also is what I saw, did and learned during the additional 4 times my Soul Guides returned me to the Afterlife, over the next few years. Plus, it tells of my initial assignments while I was back on this side. Then, in Book III, I write of my final assignment, in preparation for what I was really sent back to do. . INTERVIEWER: And what, then, was the real purpose of your being sent back. AUTHOR: In short, I was sent back with evidence of the afterlife, to tell my story; to tell people that death is not the end, but a new begi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985676148
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A Near-Death Experience Offering Hope For All, Even The Non-Believer . A surprising, true afterlife sage of a young Agnostic, who before his death, seemingly had everything money could buy, when a Stanford Medical doctor diagnosed him with an incurable medical condition. Eventually he was sent home "to get his affairs in order," with 6 months to live." . Being an Agnostic, the young man soon made peace with death, expecting only oblivion when he died. However, he was wrong. Instead of the oblivion he expected, he was taken to an amazing Afterlife. Here he learned how wrong he had been about almost everything. Later. he was sent back to his life on earth with vivid evidence and memories of the afterlife. He was sent back, just as many other Near Death Experience survivors are, to tell people that there is life after death, and, that death isn't anything to fear, it's not the end of anything. In fact, death is quite the opposite. Death is just the beginning of another, new adventure, either there, here or somewhere else, as related in this afterlife saga, on life after death and of after-death communications. . The following excerpted were taken from a recent interview with the author. INTERVIEWER: So, what makes this book and the rest of the NDE Insight Series, different from all the other books about Near-Death Experiences? AUTHOR: Perhaps, if anything, it's because, I died as a Non-Believer in anything religious or spiritual and had no opinion on life after death, either way. In fact, I wasn't expecting anything, Heaven or Hell; just nothingness. However, when I finally died no one asked me, or cared, what I thought. I was just taken to the Afterlife. I had no say in the matter. . INTERVIEWER: In your book, you use the term, After Death Experience, sometimes, in place of Near-Death Experience. Would you explain the difference? AUTHOR: Sometimes these terms are used interchangeably, but someone can have a transcendent experience without actually dying or having an out of body experience. However, in a true after death experience one's body actually dies, yet the person eventually returns with memories of the afterlife. . INTERVIEWER: So what can the reader expect to read in your afterlife saga? AUTHOR: Well, first-of-all, that there is life after death and that it's possible to have afterlife communications with those who have gone on before . INTERVIEWER: Did your experience change you or your beliefs, in any way? AUTHOR: In almost every way possible. Before I died, I thought I had this life all figured out. I believed, "He who has the most toys when he dies, wins." And, when I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, according to that rule, I was doing very well. But, boy was I wrong about having everything figured out. I didn't have anything figured out. In fact, from an afterlife sojourn, I realized had gotten almost everything wrong. . INTERVIEWER: I see there are 4 books in the Series. Are they all about your death and return? ANSWER: No, Book I, "Dying to Really Live" covers my original afterlife sojourn to the the to the other side, plus, having been being taken back there again, three months later, by my Soul Guides. It's basically a saga about an afterlife sojourn. . INTERVIEWER: If Book I covers all that, what are the other 3 three books in the series about? AUTHOR: Book II, "Beyond the Afterlife," tells of what it was like to be back on earth after being in the afterlife. It also is what I saw, did and learned during the additional 4 times my Soul Guides returned me to the Afterlife, over the next few years. Plus, it tells of my initial assignments while I was back on this side. Then, in Book III, I write of my final assignment, in preparation for what I was really sent back to do. . INTERVIEWER: And what, then, was the real purpose of your being sent back. AUTHOR: In short, I was sent back with evidence of the afterlife, to tell my story; to tell people that death is not the end, but a new begi
European Cases of the Reincarnation Type
Author: Ian Stevenson, M.D.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601151
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Many cultures accept that a person may die and then come back to life in another form, but Westerners have traditionally rejected the idea. Recently, however, surveys conducted in Europe indicate a substantial increase in the number of Europeans who believe in reincarnation, and numerous claims of reincarnation have been reported. This book examines particular cases in Europe that are suggestive of reincarnation. The first section provides a brief history of the belief in reincarnation among Europeans. The second section considers eight cases from the first third of the twentieth century that were not independently investigated, but were reported and sometimes published by the persons concerned. The third section covers 32 cases from the second half of the twentieth century that were investigated by the author. Many of these cases involved either children who exhibited unusual behavior attributed to a previous life, or adults who experienced recurrent or vivid dreams attributed to a previous life. In the fourth section, the author compares European cases suggestive of reincarnation with those of other countries and cultures.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601151
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Many cultures accept that a person may die and then come back to life in another form, but Westerners have traditionally rejected the idea. Recently, however, surveys conducted in Europe indicate a substantial increase in the number of Europeans who believe in reincarnation, and numerous claims of reincarnation have been reported. This book examines particular cases in Europe that are suggestive of reincarnation. The first section provides a brief history of the belief in reincarnation among Europeans. The second section considers eight cases from the first third of the twentieth century that were not independently investigated, but were reported and sometimes published by the persons concerned. The third section covers 32 cases from the second half of the twentieth century that were investigated by the author. Many of these cases involved either children who exhibited unusual behavior attributed to a previous life, or adults who experienced recurrent or vivid dreams attributed to a previous life. In the fourth section, the author compares European cases suggestive of reincarnation with those of other countries and cultures.
Level 2 (Set)
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781624315510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 21st Century Basic Skills readers support the development of reading skills as they introduce students to vocabulary and content they will use for a lifetime. Let your young readers discover the joy of reading for information as they build reading fluency.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781624315510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The 21st Century Basic Skills readers support the development of reading skills as they introduce students to vocabulary and content they will use for a lifetime. Let your young readers discover the joy of reading for information as they build reading fluency.