Download or read book A Return to Innocence written by Kathleen Beales and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1974, after losing his mom to cancer, Billy McMillon, an inquisitive eight-year-old boy with an innate need to be near nature, goes on a sailing expedition with his eccentric grandfather, a famous scientist who is on a mission to uncover the truth behind a mysterious illness plaguing pods of bottlenose dolphins. Suddenly, tragedy strikes, and young Billy’s life is turned upside down for a second time. He’s back in New York, living with his Nana and shedding the memories of his extraordinary adventure with his grandfather. Years later, Bill finds himself looking back on his accomplishments. A marine architect, he seems to have it all—a great career, a beautiful home in New York, a loving wife, and two healthy, well-adjusted daughters. By all accounts, he’s a success. Why should it matter that he hasn’t set foot on a boat in over twenty years, he prefers the countryside to the big city, or that he’s quite reclusive and distant toward his family? When his curious seven-year old daughter, Brooke, urges him to explain the contents of a mysterious box she finds, Bill comes face-to-face with his past, and suddenly, everything matters. A reflective tale of one man’s attempt to build a relationship with his daughter through sharing stories from his unconventional childhood, rich with a bounty of unusual characters set amidst the beautiful canvas of the British Virgin Islands, A Return to Innocence is a whirlwind full of emotion, imagination, and adventure.
Download or read book A Return to Innocence written by Jeffrey M. Schwartz and published by Harper. This book was released on 1998-09-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the verge of a new millennium, in an age of unprecedented affluence, personal freedom and scientific power, millions of us--young and not so young--find ourselves emotionally and morally adrift. Even as our mastery of the material world reaches new heights almost daily, mastery of the inner world--of our own actions, emotions, and deepest hopes--often tragically eludes our grasp. As families come apart, adults become bitter and emotionally detached. Children fall prey to a "culture" of sex and drugs, cynical materialism, and self-destructive nihilism. It increasingly seems that, in the piercing words of Jesus, we have "gained the whole world, and lost our own souls." In A Return to Innocence, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Jeffrey M. Schwartz--a Jewish student of both Buddhist meditation and Christian philosophy--combines 3,000 years of wisdom with cutting edge brain and behavioral research to guide us in recovering our souls, our safety, our integrity and our capacity to love. After a 35-year experiment in unbridled self-gratification that has left a burden of tremendous suffering in its wake, at last we are ready to understand that innocence--in its original meaning of "not harming"--is actually the highest and most difficult of human achievements. The lost art of self-command that empowers us not to harm ourselves or one another is the core teaching of humanity's greatest spiritual masters, including Moses, Jesus, and Buddha. If we value our children, our culture, even our very freedom, we must return to true innocence as our source of inner lightness, clarity and spiritual power. A practical path to this wellspring of inner purity was mapped out 2,500 years ago by Gotama Buddha--in Dr. Schwartz's view the greatest psychologist who ever lived--whose still-fresh insights into human nature can serve as a bridge joining the wisdom of the Bible to the discoveries of 21st century science. A deeply felt, thought-provoking exchange of letters between "spiritual coach" Dr. Schwartz and sixteen-year-old Patrick Buckley, the son of a single mother, frames this fascinating, powerful code for living that shows how the best in each of us can thrive. Spiritual and philosophical ideas become hands-on tools for dealing with real-life dilemmas as Dr. Schwartz addresses Patrick's urgent questions about morality, responsibility, and freedom of choice. This book offers an empowering combination of hope, inspiration, accurate information about the biology of human nature, as well as desperately-needed guidance for keeping that nature on a life-affirming path. To everyone--young and old--A Return to Innocence offers dynamic, concrete solutions for the pain in our hearts, the fear in our streets, and the cynicism that has corroded our ideals. It speaks directly to our longing for a decent, meaningful, and fulfilling life. The traditional values that made civilization possible were thought to be outrageously radical and daring when they were first introduced by revolutionaries like Moses, Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed. . . . Yet those codes of behavior became "traditional"--that is, they got handed down from generation to generation--for one simple reason: they work. And they work because they're based on a highly sophisticated and deeply wise understanding of human nature. We often hear the phrase "Knowledge is power"--but nowhere is it truer than when it comes to knowledge of ourselves. Are we humans primarily driven, or "drivers"? Are we blameless puppets of our genes, our hormones, our childhoods, or do we have the power, and so the responsibility, to choose what we will do? In our day and age, everyone wants to be, or at least appear to be, streetwise, experienced, cool, and cynical. What people don't realize is that the source of the word "innocent" is a place of great power. It comes from the Latin words for "not" and "to harm." True innocence is the highest of human accomplishments. Not doing harm requires the utmost in awareness, effort, and courage. The state of the world begins right here--in the state of your mind.
Download or read book Return to Innocence written by Elizabeth Roane and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to Innocence Elizabeth Roane Sometimes the keys to our future are held in the past, in things ignored but not silent. When war ended in Europe, Roger, like most young men, returned to his life in Newcastle, married his sweetheart, and began his life of peace after years of turmoil and danger. Then night terrors started, and the distant carnage of World War II invaded his home, his marriage, and his mind. Roger Whitehead's story continues in this long-awaited sequel to In Search of Honor. It maps his journey with God as he wades through war's debris of fragmented memories and half-truths. Riddled with unanswered questions about the family he knows and the one he stumbled into in France, he returns to the continent in search of answers and to silence his ghosts. Join Roger as he faces life's great conflicts between love and hate, life and death, justice and forgiveness, heaven and hell. Travel with him as he unearths his lost history, revealing its beautiful story of lasting love and divine purpose. Witness miraculous convergences between heaven and earth interlocking his past, present, and future into a testimony of ordained destiny. Then experience triumph as a victorious messenger alters the lives of all his loved ones. 1
Download or read book Return to Innocence written by Daniel K, Kennedy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note: This book contains some M/M sexually explicit material. If you choose to buy this book then you are consenting that you are over the age of 18. Escaping an abusive relationship, Andy runs away to his home town of Longton in Stoke. Being able to start again is just the boost he needs to start getting his life back on track after such a tragic past. Jay, an accountant from Fenton, likes the look of Andy when he sees him in the club Crash one night. Can Andy start the new life he has always wanted? Or will a dark shadow from the past come back to haunt him in a very unique way?
Download or read book Return to Innocence written by Philip Parzygnat and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to Innocence is a collection of philosophically motivated thoughts in the spirit of Sine Nomine, Finding Answers, Simple to Complex, and Thought Provoking. The work includes 50 self contained thoughts that should be considered independent of each other.
Download or read book Return to Innocence written by Travis Hill and published by Travis Hill. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexpected visit from Elian's closest companion reveals a frightening tale that is impossible to believe. Except Davis is becoming mortal again, and the The Ellensburg Group, the ancient enemy of night walkers, is behind the "infection" that goes far beyond any threat immortals have faced before. When Davis comes up missing, Elian travels to the Ellensburg's compound near Missoula, Montana to exact revenge. The Ellensburgs have laid numerous traps, but Zedira, Elian's maker and an original Priestess of Alem, along with a small group of other immortals in the area, arrive to lend a hand, hoping to destroy their ancient enemy once and for all. Zedira's revelation of true supernatural power evens the odds, but The Ellensburg Group has always played the long game. 31,307 word vampire novella
Download or read book The Return of Innocence written by Duane Simolke and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comical and magical novel, a young swordswoman learns that, sometimes, going home is the most dangerous adventure of all!
Download or read book William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience written by Sarah Haggarty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press. This Reader's Guide: - Explains the unique development of Songs as an illuminated book - Considers the earliest reactions to the text during Blake's lifetime, and his gathering posthumous reputation in the nineteenth century - Explores modern critical approaches and recent debates - Discusses key topics that have been of abiding interest to critics, including the relationship between text and image in Blake's 'composite art' Insightful and stimulating, this introductory guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who is seeking to navigate their way through the mass of criticism surrounding Blake's most widely-studied work.
Download or read book The Book of Innocence A Channeled Text written by Paul Selig and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this next installment of the Manifestation trilogy, renowned channel Paul Selig shares the words of The Guides as they offer a glimpse of a world that transcends our own limited understanding. The Guides, otherworldly beings with deep spiritual insight, speak directly through Paul, and their message has been transcribed word for word in this revolutionary new volume. The Book of Innocence invites readers to explore a new vision of themselves and the lives they lead—one that is pristine, fundamental, and innate. Instead of being blinded by spiritual and physical distractions, The Guides offer a return to the primal simplicity of a deeper knowing. This powerful book welcomes readers into a paradigm shifting experience of renewal and rebirth, shedding cynicism and conceit in favor of authentic, life-changing innocence.
Download or read book Ceremony of Innocence written by Dorothy Cummings McLean and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riots. Terrorist attacks. Neo-Nazi violence. In modern-day Germany, journalist Catriona McClelland has seen it all while covering the contemporary European scene for a Catholic news organization. Keeping herself above the political fray in her professional life, she has also managed to keep herself from personal entanglements-still hurt from the wounds of a broken relationship. Things come to a head when her boyfriend Dennis, frustrated with a lack of commitment, leaves her for Suzy Davis, an idealistic young Canadian who is involved with a left-wing protest movement. But when Suzy is murdered... who is complicit and who is innocent? Ripped from the headlines, Ceremony of Innocence is a very contemporary novel of Europe on the edge of social breakdown. Train stations are bombed and migrants targeted for violence as journalists and other tastemakers watch from their positions of privilege. Dorothy Cummings McLean's realistic narrative does not describe the feats of heroes. Rather, it unnervingly lays bare the way religious faith and moral reasoning can be easily manipulated and compromised.
Download or read book Beyond Innocence Amis Aboriginal Song in Taiwan as an Ecosystem written by ShzrEe Tan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan aboriginal song has received extensive media coverage since the launch and settlement of a copyright lawsuit following pop group Enigma's allegedly unauthorized use of Amis voices in the 1996 Olympics hit, Return To Innocence. Taking as her starting point the ripple effects of this case, Shzr Ee Tan explores the relationship of this song culture to contemporary Amis society. She presents Amis song in its multiple manifestations as an ecosystem, symbiotic components of which interact and feed back upon one another in cross-cutting platforms of village life, festival celebration, cultural performance, popular song, art music and Christian hymnody. Tan's investigation hinges upon drawing a conceptual line between ladhiw, the Amis term for 'song' - a word vested with connotations of life-force, tradition, ritual and taboo - and the foreign term of yinyue ('music' - borrowed from Mandarin). This difference forms the basis of how Amis song is (re)constructed through processes of modernization, Christianization and politico-economic change. A single Amis melody, for example, can exist in several guises that are contextually exclusive but functionally mutually-supportive. Thus, a weeding song (ladhiw), which may have lost its traditional context of existence following advancements in farming technology, becomes sustained within a larger ecosystem, finding new life on the interacting platforms of Amis Catholic hymnody, karaoke and tourist shows. The latter genres (collectively, yinyue) may not rely on traditional livelihoods for survival, but thrive on a traditional melody's deeper associations to local memory and idealized Amis identities. While these new and old genres are stylistically separate, they feed into each other and back into themselves - through transforming contexts and cross-referenced memes - in organic and developing cycles of song activity. Drawing from fieldwork conducted from 2000-2010 as well as a background in ethnomusicology and journalism, Ta
Download or read book The Temptation of Innocence in the Dramas of Arthur Miller written by Terry Otten and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Ethic of Innocence written by Kristen L. Renzi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature. An Ethic of Innocence examines representations of women in American and British fin-de-siècle and modern literature who seem “not to know” things. These naïve fools, Pollyannaish dupes, obedient traditionalists, or regressive anti-feminists have been dismissed by critics as conservative, backward, and out of sync with, even threatening to, modern feminist goals. Grounded in the late nineteenth century’s changing political and generic representations of women, this book provides a novel interpretative framework for reconsidering the epistemic claims of these women. Kristen L. Renzi analyzes characters from works by Henry James, Frank Norris, Ann Petry, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and others, to argue that these feminine figures who choose not to know actually represent and model crucial pragmatic strategies by which modern and contemporary subjects navigate, survive, and even oppose gender oppression. Kristen L. Renzi is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University.
Download or read book Songs of Innocence written by William Blake and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rage of Innocence written by Kristin Henning and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse "Storytelling that can make people understand the racial inequities of the legal system, and...restore the humanity this system has cruelly stripped from its victims.” —New York Times Book Review Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young people and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of racism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates. She makes clear that unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White America and are denied healthy adolescent development. She examines the criminalization of Black adolescent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair, and music. She limns the effects of police presence in schools and the depth of police-induced trauma in Black adolescents. Especially in the wake of the recent unprecedented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality, The Rage of Innocence is an essential book for our moment.
Download or read book Return to Chewelah written by Janet G. May and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Northwest psychedelic collage: youth culture of the sixties and seventies, free love, open education, fast living, Vietnam, pot, horsback riding, car and plane wrecks, marital challenges, country life, a roasting of medical rehabilitation programs, and many other topics are covered in lyrical and humourous tones. Janet May lived a fast life, broke her neck in a horse riding accident, then put her life back on track after a battle with drugs and despondency. Her narrative has a magical quality that mingles personal struggle with airy summertime memories of life in Washington state's high cattle country." -- Amazon.com viewed August 7, 2020.
Download or read book Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England written by Joanna Picciotto and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joanna Picciotto's Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England is a splendid study of the origins, devlopment, and eventual decline of the Experimentalist tradition in seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century English letters. In tracing out the arc of this intellectual and professional trajectory, Picciotto engages productively with the crucial religious, socio-economic, philosophical, and literary movements associated with the ongoing labors of the `innocent eye'".---Eileen Reeves, Princetion University --
