Download or read book Flower Amid the Devastation written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirit-storm causes devastation across a land and the Flower of Life is rent. The quest to find its lost petals and center becomes the basis for this projected trilogy-length work. Drawing upon Southwestern and Eastern Woodland Cosmology, its title Servants of the Flower World, invokes the opposite of Lord of the Rings. It involves the drama of confrontation between good and evil, which takes place in This World and an inverted Flower World, in which the fate of both can go either way. Join us in imagining an alternate world composed of a rich variety of beings, in which the usual pattern of might makes right is upended in unexpected ways, and a coherent, alternative and life-giving vision is offered.
Download or read book Why Go Slow When You Can Hurl to Your Destruction written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a satire, interpreting current events from an atypical, what-if vantage. What if we take our goal to be hurling to our destruction? Why go slow and prolong the pain and suffering of collapsing structures and deteriorating surroundings? Things can be ended more quickly. This is a satirical guide to how to accomplish this, which hopefully calls into questions many commonly held attitudes and behavior.
Download or read book Ten Metadiscoveries We Have Made written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers ten meta-insights about the universe, ones which also resonate with our inner world. Drawing upon the author's interdisciplinary studies and life, we ask what can be said in total? This work serves as an invitation for each of us to explore our own philosophy and identify our own meta-discoveries. When doing such work, we will become more aware and able to actualize our lives more fully.
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 Sleek Back written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-17 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the outback of tropical Queensland, Australia. Finn discovers an archaic preserve. There, a Giant Salamander takes him on an evolutionary adventure through ancient eras that culminates in the time of the dinosaurs. This story embraces the paradox of how smaller animals, like mammals, survived. At the end Finn lives to tell his story and is coaxed back to his sanity, as he explains his wounds to his friends. Read this story to have a fun adventure and deeper insight into our evolutionary and personal journey.
Download or read book Down New River and Another World written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the oldest river in North America, New River, Zoe and Tod take a vacation with their teenage daughter Diana, who is experiencing a heartbreak. The beauty of Appalachia presents a new world in many ways, with intimations of the past and future mixing together. When Diana is swept down river due to unknown causes, an unexpected world opens up. Laden with dangers and tests, the question arises whether another world can help bring love to this one.
Download or read book To the Beginning Journey Through Here written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe and Tod go on vacation, and outside of Yosemite Park have a near death experience. Transported to a Way-Station world, they are joined by an angelic being who becomes their guide. In the afterworld, they experience colors, each producing an exotic experience which challenges their conception of the world. The couple encounter people who still carry their hurts and earthly possessions, which they need to discard. The end holds a surprise for which the reader will have to answer. Read this book to gain a novel perspective on the immediate afterlife.
Download or read book The Films of Derek Jarman written by William Pencak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-10-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Jarman's films explore the possibilities and limitations of same-sex love and self-expression during various historical eras, ranging from ancient Egypt to present times. His work covers a millennium of sexual repression and efforts to escape it. Jarman provides us with a cinematic history of people whose homoerotic passions had a major impact on western civilization in religion, art, politics, philosophy, and war. This book provides background information on each of Jarman's fifteen scripts and films. The chapters are "program notes" to his films from a historical perspective. An interpretation of Jarman's intentions, gleaned from the director's writings and works about him, is also provided. This work reveals Jarman's importance as a keen student of the limits of historical knowledge, and delineates the role of history in inspiring change or preserving inertia in the present struggle against homophobia.
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 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 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.
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 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 Ten Times We Almost Died written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the author's encounters with times he almost died. A reflection on such events, in which we approach the razor's edge between life and death, has something to teach us. The author invites you to explore the meaning of your own life's relationship to death. By his reflections he hopes to open a door to the unexpected discoveries of times we companioned with death, and how they might become life-giving.
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 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.
