Download or read book A Rosetta Key for Ancestral Pueblo History written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-28 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work applies generational mapping to the Ancestral Pueblo, using 15-year intervals. Distinct phases, found in other cultures, will be tested as to their applicability. They include: 1) "Invisible" Beginnings; 2) Establishment; 3) Novel Consolidation and Opening Up; 4) Crisis & Creativity; 5) Empire and Inclusion; and 6) Renewal or Rigidification? These findings will help the reader grasp the temporal flow of the Indigenous Southwest, which might otherwise be piecemeal and lack clarity. In addition to a useful mapping of time, the author brings an archetypal awareness to the patterns used in imagery and shows how it resonates with historical phases. We invite you to take a temporal journey into Pueblo times, to follow the evolution of their culture and cosmology, and to gain a sense of our solidarity with Indigenous peoples.
Download or read book Ten Nodes of Symbolizing Humanity written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work documents the surprising logarithmic pacing of human evolution. Starting at 8 million years ago with the first hominin, we keep halving units, revealing a series of distinct leaps in symbolic capacity. Ten major nodes include the first bipedal humans, the making of stone tools, ornaments, and figurines, the ritual burial of the dead, and drawing images in deep caves. We are given considerable cause to wonder about the beauty and meaning of symbols. Read this book if you want to become open to the deepest layers of symbolizing found in our humanity.
Download or read book On the Mountain and Two Are Missing written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired from their professions, Zoe and Tod take a second honeymoon to find a new direction in their lives. They go to Yosemite and experience its exceptional beauty, but it's tinged with premonitions of death and signs of the spirit world. In the end they meet an indigenous stranger whose identity remains unknown. The man leads them to their vision quest on a mountain, where they experience another dimension.
Download or read book Across the Gulf and Journey Into Un Time written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends since childhood, Zoe and Tod, travel into the mountains of Guatemala where they explore the ways of village life. Invited to witness a Mayan ritual, they enter a deep cave. The New Year is to be brought in by the elders, but time is stopped and the ancient gods demand a sacrifice. In the swirling chaos of un-time, Zoe and Tod have a revelation that will change their lives.
Download or read book LIttle People and the Time Rider written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two friends enter the world of Little People, who have musical names and plants that sing. When the land is invaded by giants who steal from the present and future, the visitors are challenged to help. The clue to survival comes from a prehistoric creature who is a time traveler and who offers a beautiful vision of the future. A classic utopian story, with a lyrical tone, opens the door to an alternate vision of the world that challenges you to find your true name
Download or read book Gifts from the Indigenous written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-27 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work exposes us to the Amerindian world view, offering six awarenesses and six practices. An awareness, such as being in touch with the "shamanic bone soul" and actions such as "mandalic walking" can gift us with an enriching and complimentary world view. Drawing upon the author's own symbolic experiences and after years of study, he presents the essence of what he has learned. This work also draws upon two recent projects, interpreting markings on a stone tablet found near the Shenandoah River in Virginia, as well as a stone formation at Penn Bluff, Alabama, which resonates with Eastern Woodland symbolism. We are invited to enter into the Indigenous worldview, so that we may expand our sense of possibilities in the universe and live a fuller life.
Download or read book Ways We May Be Surprised by Heaven written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book imagines several traits of heaven, a place of consciousness and life beyond death. In particular, It considers the ways heaven might surprise us, such as having a heavenly body, that animals may be in heaven, and that heaven may be to the "the side of us." By considering several such traits, the author intends to show the surprising joy and beauty is closer than we might think.
Download or read book In the Wild and Do One Wild Thing written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe and Tod, who have been married for many years, seek to reignite their relationship with a trip abroad. Zoe wants to go to Europe, and Tod agrees on the condition that they do one wild thing in each country. This leads to complications from accidentally ingesting mushrooms in Dionysian Greece, having their clothes eaten by goats after having a vision of a medieval saint in a waterfall, and a crash amid windmills in Don Quixote's Spain. In the end their adventures and misadventures touch upon an essence of each country and leads them to discover something deeper about their relationship.
Download or read book The Firekeeper written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the prehistoric era, a young firekeeper tends the night fire for the kin. He has personally knows Fire, a being who is crafty and true. Two challenges present, as he falls into an impossible love with a woman of the day and battles the Spirit of the Longest Night. Read this book to inhabit the world of our deep history, and to see how human weakness can combine with spiritual strength to make us heroic and human.
Download or read book Caseness and Narrative written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caseness and Narrative contrasts two ways of trying to help persons in emotional distress. The first, called Caseness, sees signs of distress as symptoms without significant meaning, makes a diagnosis which allows the psychiatric system to name the experience, and then uses strong methods to minimize or stop symptom expression. The second way, called Narrative, allows the story to unfold, uses the structure of narrative to frame the process, and then—to avoid the person becoming stuck––supports the transformative nature of the lived experience. We invite you to a greater and deeper understanding, which may help you, family and friends support each other going through difficult emotional experiences.
Download or read book Alien Ally written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two lone survivors of a destroyed battle fleet, Mark and Judith, use their "madness" to survive. Befriending and understanding an alien, whose skin and mood are liquid crystalline, becomes the key to their long-term survival, as they encounter more remote aliens who are disembodied. To save their galactic system, they must merge with these aliens and remember their own world, something no others have done.This is the start of an Odysseus-like tale, in which the survivors meet aliens in ever more exotic forms.
Download or read book Transformational Stories written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this work describe depth psychological experiences of persons who often ended up in psychiatric hospitals. Beyond suffering and pain, these person's stories show a spirit and courage which led them to become advocates or artists. Many of the authors are well known and part of a national and international movement, advocating for rights of those in the psychiatric system. This work also includes a handful of professionals who may not have been hospitalized, but have found effective methods to help those in distress. Read this work if you want to see what happens in intense psychological experiences, and how the path to healing has been discovered.
Download or read book Beyond the Portal written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hunter of mystery stones deciphers the markings of a petroglyph, revealing an alternate view of the universe. A wide cast of beings appears, including a half-skeletal shaman who serves as our guide within a rich archetypal realm. The shapes on the Stone touch upon the mystery of birthing, the creature sense of our being, our hidden soul self, and the immortal nature of form. Come journey with us, following the continuing inspiration of the Mystery Stone found by the Shenandoah River.
Download or read book Child of the Elements written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In human prehistory, premature children were the evolutionary future. Kinder is an early child, whose survival depends on a fierce mother. Because the father is absent, she offers her child to the Elements for protection. A second child, Huntress, aids in their survival by helping to make an alliance with a young wolf. Dangers in prehistory abound, as human adults were the size of pre-teens, with predators much larger. Read this story to see how the "New Ones" survived to become the future of humankind.
Download or read book Ten Traits of Empire written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wave of authoritarianism is sweeping the planet, tempting people to choose a dark path. It would be in our interest to know the traits of empires, so we can be alert to its dangers, to prevent and control its rise. Yet we are not taught to name the reality or to identify empire's basic traits. Thus, this work seeks to make clear the traits of the empire path. Then, this work wrestles with questions "Is there a good empire? Is a more utopian vision possible? And, if we are in an empire, how do we resist and build to a better future? We invite you to read this work to understand the flow of history and to gain hope that our world and its children can live in a richer, freer world.
Download or read book Life s Dynamic Vulnerability written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers new metaphors to understand our biological world, one more in accord with scientific evidence, more in harmony with preserving our planet, and one which leads us to live fuller lives. First, it recognizes a "natural extravagance," that life often exceeds our expectation in terms of number, variety, beauty, and capacity for change. Our ability to understand and even to categorize life's many manifestations is often beyond our reach. Such extravagance is accompanied by an important second dimension, life's dynamic vulnerability. Life needs to take in outside energy to exist and is acutely sensitive to the environment with its many vagaries. This vulnerability is paradoxically linked to a dynamism which leads to evolutionary novelty. Rather than emphasizing the end state of evolution in terms of "fitness," this work focuses on the vulnerable process of change itself. In re-envisioning biology, more accurate to the onrush of current discoveries, we offer a vision that better protects and preserves our world. The issue at hand is nothing less than our evolutionary future.
Download or read book The Fragility of Evolution written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his work offers an alternative paradigm for viewing life and its dynamic capacity for change. Rather than focusing on the end result of evolution with concepts such as resilience and fitness, it focuses on the actual process of change, in which life goes through a fragile period. Using plain-spoken language and based on an earlier scholarly work, it examines six biological domains which exhibit fragility and make for evolutionary novelty. They are: 1) the organism's dynamic genome, which exhibits a remarkable fluidity; 2) Symbiosis, involving the creative merger of two types of organisms; 3) Sexuality, in which the merger of sexes produces unique offspring; 4) Multicellularity, which makes for most of earth's macroscopic life; 5) Development, change resulting from the fragile period of immaturity of organisms; 6) The principle of the "head", a holistic/controlling dimension of the organism which is inherently fragile and dynamic; 7) The social dimension with the fragility of cooperative and competitive interactions, and; 8) ecological dimension with its interwoven, delicate web of connections. To this we add a "cumulative dimension" which embraces a spirituality of biology. Teaching our youth and having the public become aware of such a model which focuses on the fragility and sacrificial dimension of dynamic change, would serve to enhance our personal lives and work to increase the chances for the earth and humanity's survival.
