The Lost Masters

Author: Curt Sampson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145160436X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Of all the games ever played in a sporting competition, never has an event been so bizarre and yet so fitting for its historical moment: the 1968 Masters. Anger gripped America's heart in April 1968. Vietnam and a bitter presidential contest sharpened the divides between races and generations, while protests and violence poisened the air. Then an assassin's bullet took the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Cities burned. The smoke had barely cleared when the Masters began. Never was the country more ready for distraction and escape--but could the orderly annual excitement of Palmer versus Nicklaus provide it? For a while, it could and it did--except that instead of a duel between golf's superstars, several unlikely members of the chorus stepped forward with once-in-a-lifetime performances. There was blunt-talking Bob Goalby, a truck driver's son from Illinois and former star football player; loveable Roberto De Vicenzo from Argentina, who charmed the galleries and media all week; and Bert Yancey, a Floridian who'd dropped out of West Point to face his private demons of mental illness. Just as the competition reached a thrilling crescendo, it all fell apart. The Masters, the best-run tournament in the world, devolved into a heart-wrenching tangle of rules, responsibility, and technicality. In a fascinating narrative that stops in Augusta, Buenos Aires, and Belleville, Illinois, bestselling author Curt Sampson finds the truth behind The Lost Masters. It's a story you'll never forget.

Lost Masters

Author: Linda Johnsen
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608684393
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Ashrams in Europe twenty-five hundred years ago? Greek philosophers studying in India? Meditation classes in ancient Rome? It sounds unbelievable, but it’s historically true. Alexander the Great had an Indian guru. Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Plotinus all encouraged their students to meditate. Apollonius, the most famous Western sage of the first century c.e., visited both India and Egypt—and claimed that Egyptian wisdom was rooted in India. In Lost Masters, award-winning author Linda Johnsen, digging deep into classical sources, uncovers evidence of astonishing similarities between some of the ancient Western world’s greatest thinkers and India’s yogis, including a belief in karma and reincarnation. Today ancient Greek philosophers are remembered as the founders of Western science and civilization. We’ve forgotten that for over a thousand years they were revered as sages, masters of spiritual wisdom. Lost Masters is an exploration of our long-lost Western spiritual heritage and the surprising insights it can offer us today.

Masters of the Lost Land

Author: Heriberto Araujo
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1838951474
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
' Powerful' Financial Times ' More twists and turns than a Hollywood spy thriller' Spectator ' A story we all need to hear' New Statesman ' Gripping... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful effect' New York Times ' Excellent' Kirkus Reviews Deep in the heart of the Amazon, an entire region has lived under the control of one notorious land baron: Josélio de Barros. Josélio cut a grisly path to success: having arrived in the jungle with a shady past, he quickly made a name for himself as an invincible thug who grabbed massive tracts of public land, burned down the jungle and executed or enslaved anyone trying to stop him. Enter Dezinho, the leader of a small but robust farm workers' union fighting against land grabs, ecological destruction, and blatant human rights abuses. When Dezinho was killed in a shocking assassination, the local community held its breath. Would Josélio, whom everyone knew had ordered the hit, finally be brought to account? Or would authorities look the other way, as they had hundreds of times before? Dezinho's widow, Dona Joelma, was not about to let that happen. After his murder, she stepped into the spotlight, orchestrating a huge push to bring national media attention to the injustices in the Amazon. Set against the backdrop of Bolsonaro's devastating cuts to environmental protections, Brazil's rapidly changing place in the geopolitical spectrum, and the Amazon's crucial role in climate change, Masters of the Lost Land is both a gripping epic into one of the last wild places on Earth and an urgent illustration of how people are fighting for - and winning - justice for their futures and the environment.

Sleepers

Author: Philip Mould
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description

The Masters

Author: Curt Sampson
Publisher: Villard
ISBN: 0375753370
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. It is the toughest ticket in sports, with black-market tickets selling for $10,000 and more. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers. But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestselling Hogan, reveals in The Masters, a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum façade of this famous Augusta course. And that heart belongs to the man who killed himself on the grounds two decades ago. Club and tournament founder Clifford Roberts, a New York stockbroker, still seems to run the place from his grave. An elusive and reclusive figure, Roberts pulled the strings that made the Masters the greatest golf tournament in the world. His story—including his relationship with presidents, power brokers, and every golf champion from Bobby Jones to Arnold Palmer to Jack Nicklaus—has never been told. Until now. The Masters is an amazing slice of history, taking us inside the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Augusta's most famous member. It is a look at how the new South coexists with the old South: the relationships between blacks and whites, between Southerners and Northerners, between rich and poor—with such characters as James Brown, the Godfather of Soul; the great boxer Beau Jack; and Frank Stranahan, the playboy golfer and the only white pro ever banned from the tournament. The Masters is a spellbinding portrait of a tournament unlike any other.

Lost Masters

Author: Linda Johnsen
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608684385
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242

The Lost Esoteric Teachings of the Masters

Author: Weinz Belardo
Publisher: Weinz Belardo
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
“THE LOST ESOTERIC TEACHINGS OF THE MASTERS” is a revolutionary, ground-breaking, practical guide book that will instruct techniques on how to achieve inner bliss, universal wisdom, enlightenment, spiritual renewal and immortality. The guide safely teaches the awakening/opening/activating of the dormant latent 'Life Force' at the base of the spine/tailbone/coccyx/sacred bone/holy bone/immortal bone/resurrection bone/Luz bone/Ajbu al-Thanab/wonder of the tailbone. This powerful, transformative 'Life Force’ is often labeled serpent power, coiled snake, Kundalini, Holy Spirit, Mukalinda, Bakunawa, dragon, serpent fire, fire of the Holy Spirit, secret fire, baptism by fire, fire within, inner fire/gtummo, yang chi/fire chi, sacred fire, fire element, cosmic fire, divine fire, fire of love, fire of God, presence of God, grace of God, vril, ruah, ruh, Kukulcan, Veles, Fohat, Latifahs infused with Zikr, Shakti, Sakina, Shekinah, Sekhmet, Goddess, Great Mother, unstoppable force, pneuma, orgone energy, universal energy, divine energy, spiritual energy, psychic energy, bioenergy, zero-point energy, perpetual energy, bioelectricity and many other names and terminologies. This real 'Life Force’, when awakened from its slumbering state is often depicted and symbolized as a serpent on a staff, pole, cup; or circulating around the body of a god, goddess or enlightened being. It is also symbolized as a fire or light in ancient monuments, statues, pyramids and temples. These esoteric techniques were known by Shiva, Sherab Miwo, Krishna, Osiris, Moses, Zoroaster, Kuan Yin, Gautama Buddha, Hermes Trismegistus, Lao-Tzu, Patanjali, Jesus of Nazareth, Prophet Muhammed, Milarepa, Rumi, Guru Nanak, Mahavatar Babaji, Saint Germain, Fulcanelli and many other masters, prophets, sages, alchemists, mystics, saints, shamans, medicine women, gods and goddesses. The powerful techniques were lost, ignored, neglected or knowingly suppressed as a means of control. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: After much research and studying of the ancient hidden esoteric knowledge and practice of meditation for seven years, the author, Weinz Belardo deciphered the subtle mechanism that causes ordinary people to experience mystical, cosmic, divine, enlightened state of consciousness. He then began to devise and formalize his techniques to activate the subtle mechanism. On September, 1993, at twenty-three years old, he had an enlightening 'Life Force' awakening that profoundly changed his life. After seventeen years of enjoying peace, ecstasy, inner joy, happiness, great health and wisdom, the author decided to share and teach his techniques publicly. In 2010, he presented his work in a series of workshops around the world. This step-by-step guide book will serve as a surrogate guru/master/teacher so that you may practice these techniques at home without having to travel abroad to seek enlightenment. This no-nonsense book will assist you and save years of meditation and prayer. If practiced with diligence and persistence, the LIGHT of TRUTH will be manifested to you. The activated dormant 'Life Force' will gradually transform the ordinary body into an immortal, everlasting, incorruptible, imperishable, glorified rainbow body with much heavenly joy and happiness. Indeed, the Kingdom of God/Heaven is within.

Persians

Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780809491049
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Ancient history.

Masters

Author: Eileen Wallace
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
ISBN: 9781600594977
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This collection offers field-defining work from 43 master book artists.

Where the Negroes Are Masters

Author: Randy J. Sparks
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Annamaboe--largest slave trading port on the Gold Coast--was home to wily African merchants whose partnerships with Europeans made the town an integral part of Atlantic webs of exchange. Randy Sparks recreates the outpost's feverish bustle and brutality, tracing the entrepreneurs, black and white, who thrived on a lucrative traffic in human beings.