Download or read book Dreams of Distant Lives written by Lee K. Abbott and published by White Pine Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a writer whose language explores the range of life."--Bette Peretsky "Large in scope and meaning and unforgettable."--William Harrison

Download or read book Distant Dreams Ribbons of Steel Book 1 written by Judith Pella and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1835 and Carolina Adams finds herself enchanted by an unlikely suitor...the railroad. Frustrated by society's expectations upon her gender, she longs to study more masculine subjects and is thrilled when her father grants her a tutor. James Baldwin arrives to serve as Carolina's teacher, but of more importance, he is to court Carolina's beautiful older sister, Virginia. Will expectations--and Virginia's southern charm--elicit the hoped-for proposal? Or will James and Carolina dare to acknowledge the mutual interests and feelings growing between them?

Download or read book Distant Dreams written by Alicia Rades and published by Crystallite Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kai Watson is only 16, but she’s never had a real dream in her life. Each night, her spirit leaves her body and travels to a new location. After witnessing the brutal murder of upperclassman Darla Baxter while astral traveling, Kai is determined to stay out of it. She never saw the murderer’s face, and who would believe her anyway? When her travels are replaced with nightmares, Kai must take the mystery into her own hands to find closure. On her search for answers, she continues to bump into Darla’s brother, Collin. If they can’t catch the killer, Kai may never learn to open her heart to him, and she may lose her gift forever.

Download or read book Planetary Dreams written by Robert Shapiro and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quest To Discover Life Beyond Earth. "The 'dreams' that I write of are not the usual ones, the images that come up in our minds involuntarily during certain stages of sleep, but rather the hopes and expectations that we have lavished upon other worlds around us."-from the Preface. The surprisingly long history of debate over extraterrestrial life is full of marvelous visions of what life "out there" might be like, as well as remarkable stories of alleged sightings and heated disputes about the probability that life might actually have arisen more than once. In Planetary Dreams, acclaimed author Robert Shapiro explores this rich history of dreams and debates in search of the best current answers to the most elusive and compelling of all questions: Are we alone? In his pursuit, he presents three contrasting views regarding how life might have started: through Divine Creation, by a highly unlikely stroke of luck, or by the inevitable process of a natural law that he terms the Life Principle. We are treated to a lively fictional dinner debate among the leading proponents of these schools of thought-with the last named group arguing that life has almost surely formed in many places throughout the universe, and the others that life may well be entirely unique to our own blue planet. To set the stage for a deep exploration of the question, the author then leads us on a fantastic journey through the museum of the cosmos, an imagined building that holds models of the universe at different degrees of magnification. We then journey deep into inner space to view the astonishingly intricate life of a single cell, and learn why the origin of such a complex object from simple chemical mixtures poses one of the most profound enigmas known to science. Writing in a wonderfully entertaining style, Shapiro then reviews the competing theories about the start of life on Earth, and suggests the debate may best be settled by finding signs of life on the other worlds of our solar system. He takes us on a guided tour of the most likely sites, from the underground hot springs of Mars to the ice-covered oceans of Jupiter's airless moons. Along the way, he shares a wealth of fascinating stories about the ways in which our views of the heavens have changed, from the theories of ancient philosphers, who argued that the Moon was inhabited, to the current Origins and Astrobiology initiatives of NASA. He describes the probes that will be sent out in the near future in pursuit of the first compelling physical evidence of life beyond Earth, and concludes with a radical suggestion about how this quest might be supported through the next millennium. As we launch into an exciting new era of space exploration, Planetary Dreams offers a thoughtful and entertaining exploration of both the history of our hopes and expectations and a vision of a possible future in which the discovery of life elsewhere will provide a new view of our place in the universe.

Download or read book Arctic Dreams written by Barry Lopez and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times–bestselling exploration of the Arctic, a National Book Award winner, is “one of the finest books ever written about the far North” (Publishers Weekly). “The nation’s premier nature writer” travels to a landscape at once barren and beautiful, perilous and alluring, austere yet teeming with vibrant life, and shot through with human history (San Francisco Chronicle). The Arctic has for centuries been a destination for the most ambitious explorers—a place of dreams, fears, and awe-inspiring spectacle. This “dazzling” account by the author of Of Wolves and Men takes readers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of one of the world’s last frontiers (The New York Times). Based on Barry Lopez’s years spent traveling the Arctic regions in the company of Eskimo hunting parties and scientific expeditions alike, Arctic Dreams investigates the unique terrain of the human mind, thrown into relief against the vastness of the tundra and the frozen ocean. Eye-opening and profoundly moving, it is a magnificent appreciation of how wilderness challenges and inspires us. Renowned environmentalist and author of Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey has called Arctic Dreams “a splendid book . . . by a man who is both a first-rate writer and an uncompromising defender of the wild country and its native inhabitants”—and the New Yorker hails it as a “landmark” work of travel writing. A vivid, thoughtful, and atmospheric read, it has earned multiple prizes, including the National Book Award, the Christopher Medal, the Oregon Book Award, and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Download or read book Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul written by Asli Niyazioglu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer ‘Aṭā’ī (d. 1637) and with his help shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their position in the Ottoman enterprise. This book demonstrates that dreams provided biographers not only with a means to form learned communities in a politically fragile landscape but also with a medium to debate the correct career paths and social networks in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Istanbul. By adopting a comparative approach, this book engages with current scholarly dialogues about life-writing, dreams, and practices of remembrance in Habsburg Spain, Safavid Iran, Mughal India and Ming China. Recent studies have shown the shared rhythms between these contemporaneous dynasties and the Ottomans, and there is now a strong interest in comparative approaches to examining cultural life. This first English-language monograph on Ottoman dreamscapes addresses this interest and introduces a world where dreams changed lives, the dead appeared in broad daylight, and biographers invited their readers to the gardens of remembrance.

Download or read book Develop a Positive Mindset and Attract the Life of Your Dreams written by Rachael Reed and published by Rachael Reed. This book was released on 2024-03-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the transformative power of positivity with "Develop a Positive Mindset and Attract the Life of Your Dreams," a journey that transcends the ordinary self-help manual. This comprehensive eBook invites you on an enlightening expedition to reshape your thoughts, actions, and ultimately, your life. With a blend of scientific insight, practical wisdom, and captivating storytelling, this guide is your key to unlocking a world where dreams not only take flight but soar. Why This Book? In a world teeming with challenges and negativity, maintaining a positive mindset is both an art and a science. "Develop a Positive Mindset and Attract the Life of Your Dreams" demystifies this process, offering a step-by-step guide to cultivating a mindset that breeds success, happiness, and fulfillment. Whether you're seeking to enhance your personal relationships, achieve career goals, or simply find more joy in the everyday, this book is your compass. What You'll Discover: The Power of Positivity: Dive deep into the science and philosophy that underpin a positive mindset, and learn how to harness this power to dramatically improve your life. Laying the Foundation: Begin your transformation by building a solid foundation of self-awareness and acceptance, setting the stage for lasting change. Cultivating Gratitude and Overcoming Negativity: Master the art of gratitude and learn strategies to conquer negative thought patterns, turning obstacles into opportunities for growth. Building Positive Relationships: Explore how nurturing supportive relationships can amplify your happiness and propel you toward your dreams. Setting Goals with Positivity: Discover the secret to setting and achieving goals with a positive outlook, making the journey as rewarding as the destination. Embracing Positivity in Challenges: Learn to view life's inevitable challenges through a lens of optimism, building resilience and finding joy in the journey. Living Your Dream Life: Combine all the lessons to create a lifestyle imbued with positivity, where attracting the life of your dreams becomes not just a possibility, but a reality. Why You Need This Book Now "Develop a Positive Mindset and Attract the Life of Your Dreams" is more than just a book; it's a blueprint for a happier, more successful life. Through engaging exercises, reflective questions, and inspiring success stories, this guide offers a practical and accessible path to transforming your mindset and your life. Don't wait for change to come knocking at your door. Grab this book and unlock the door to a future where the life of your dreams is not just a vision, but a vivid reality. Your journey to a more positive, fulfilled, and successful life begins today.

Download or read book Dreams are Letters from the Soul written by Connie Cockrell Kaplan and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this guide book, Kaplan shows readers that when they dream they are connecting with the creative force of the universe, the collective soul. Using excerpts from her own dream journal she describes various forms of dreams which take readers closer to the soul.

Download or read book My Life of Dreams Part One written by Dr Jan L Sorenson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author’s own story told in a fantasy style. It deals with the childhood to adult years of challenges and life’s traditional expectations while creating scenarios of psychological survival strategies, at the same time discovering more about human dilemmas and ways of overcoming issues related to humanity’s separatist behaviour to each other, promoting unconditional love and acceptance in overcoming the opposites. It encourages the audience and the reader to think and live positively without forming any religious intolerance. Accept, be inspired and live.

Download or read book Dreams that Change Our Lives written by Robert J. Hoss and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever awakened from a dream that left you feeling stunned—a dream so vivid or impactful—so unexpected—that it changes your life from that point forward? Imagine you could ask a question of a dream character, or the dream itself, and watch as a profoundly surprising response appears. Suppose you could take action in your dream to eliminate a recurring nightmare, heal a relationship, or even a physical ailment. The 100 dreamers in this book have! These are what might be called big dreams, stories of life changing guidance, insight and healing; some that reach beyond the senses and even beyond death. They are presented as guideposts along our life's journey, and introduced by 22 internationally acclaimed experts, psychologists, researchers, and best-selling authors from the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD): Deirdre Barrett, Susannah Benson, Kelly Bulkeley, Laurel Clark, Gayle Delaney, Marcia Emery, Patricia Garfield, Robert Gongloff, Bob Haden, Robert Hoss, Ed Kellogg, Stanley Krippner, Justina Lasley, Jacquie E. Lewis, Tallulah Lyons, Wendy Pannier, Alan Siegel, Carlyle Smith, Gregory Scott Sparrow, Jeremy Taylor, Robert Waggoner and Kelly Sullivan Walden.

Download or read book Dreams Beyond Time written by Lee Irwin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams Beyond Time: On Sacred Encounter and Spiritual Transformation offers readers an overview of dreams research as applied to non-ordinary dreams. Lee Irwin describes four basic types of dreaming: normative, mythic, psychic, and transpersonal, and he illustrates each type with specific dream examples. These types of dreaming are then used as a lens to look more closely at additional dream types that indicate dreaming as a process of creative discovery. Through virtual dreaming encounters, latent human potentials are revealed and suggest aspects for spiritual development based on dream recording, interpretation, and analysis. In turn this leads to a metaphysical description that is pan-sentient, illustrating a vivid, living universe of process-becoming in which certain dream types reveal mythic, psychic, and transpersonal capacities as intrinsic to a deeper more awakened sense of intersubjective self-awareness. While dream theories from many diverse authors are explored, the author uses an existential and phenomenological method to analyze dreaming contents in relationship to altered states of mind, trance, out of body and near-death experience, meditation, imagination, and stages of lucid self-awareness. Transpersonal dreams are given considerable attention in relationship to mystical traditions, paranormal research, and the comparative anthropology of self.

Download or read book Dream life written by Donald Grant Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lonely Scum Thinks Alone written by Jacob Tobias and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 23 lyrics/ poems written by Jacob Tobias during 1999 whilst being subjected to homophobic bullying at school.

Download or read book The Dictionary of Dreams written by Gustavus Hindman Miller and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams can be fun and adventurous, but also frightening and distorted, and still again, they can be an endless combination of both. From spitting teeth out (a sign of aging), to creepy, crawly spiders (a sign that one feels like an outsider), dreams can mean much more to us once we learn how to decipher their hidden meanings. Whether positive or negative, The Dictionary of Dreams: every meaning interpreted gives you all the tools, symbols, and their true meanings to translate our cryptic nightly images. Starting with selections from classic texts like Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman Miller, one of the first authors to complete a thorough study of all the symbols that appear in our dreamscape, this updated edition with a board of popular psychics and mediums will feature 5,000 revisions (such as cell phones, computers, televisions, and more) of Miller's original interpretations to bring the book up to speed with our modern life.

Download or read book 10 000 Dreams Interpreted written by Gustavus Hindman Miller and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of various symbols that appear in our dreamscape. This book is a source of information and key to understanding the unconscious impulses that guide us. It offers an introduction to historical dreams, dream types and prescient dreams of the future, all accompanied by colour drawings, photos and boxed sidebars.

Download or read book Distant Dreams But Closer Realities written by Ronya Henderson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams ... everyone has them. A man dreams of becoming a CEO of a big corporation, a famous athlete, a hero, or the president of the United States of America. Basically, men dream about all things rich and powerful. For women, dreams are more sentimental. Women dream of having a successful career, the perfect marriage, children, and financial freedom to live like a queen. But what if you're a Christian? Do you still have the same dreams? Is it okay to dream about wealth, power, and success? Is there any truth that as a Christian, you can still obtain your dream job, dream house, and dream mate (i.e., soul mate) without compromising your integrity? Can you have morals in a world where if you want to be successful, you're told you must be willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead? Do dreams really come true, or should you just leave your dreams buried in your childhood memories? Or is the reality of life, as a child's nursery rhyme concludes, that "life is but a dream"? Distant Dreams but Closer Realities is a story about Lisha Dillard, a successful African American career woman who decides, against her family's wishes, to move from Louisiana to Los Angeles on a journey of discovering God's will for her life. During her first year, she faces many challenges in her quest. She has her first dose of reality, after finding her dream home, with learning the difference between southerners and westerners. Her next task is finding a job that will provide an adequate salary as well as accommodate her aspiring acting career. She finds what she thinks is a dream job in corporate America. She believes she's working for a company that is not concerned with only making money but also with helping people ... is she wrong? Her next task is finding a church. She prays and then uses an uncommon practice for finding her dream church. The one type of church she doesn't want to join is a mega-church ... but why? Next on her to-do list is pursuing her acting career. Since she's naïve to the entertainment industry, she believes her manager's assurances that she's well connected in the business ... but is it the truth? Eventually, she finds her way to an acting coach who gives her a reality check—unless she has a Hollywood connection and is amoral and skinny, being talented just is not enough. She becomes painfully aware that unless she's willing to compromise her morals and integrity, she will never achieve her dream ... so does she? Since she believes another reason why God told her to move to Los Angeles is to meet her "God-ordained husband," she wonders if and when that'll happen. Then, one day she accidently runs into her neighbor, a handsome single man. They have a two-day whirlwind romance, but his mysterious job suddenly interrupts them, and now she must wait for his return. Is he her dream mate or just a dream? Lisha desperately needs to know God's will for her life. She begins questioning whether or not she actually heard from God regarding moving to Los Angeles, because of all the struggles and challenges she's had to face. After spending one weekend alone with God, she suddenly receives all the answers she been longing to know, but then she gets a phone call that could change everything. Distant Dreams but Closer Realities is entertaining but also will minister to women, as they will identify with this fictional character's struggles and challenges in living life as a godly woman. It addresses some important issues, such as faith, trust, dating, career choices, and family. It's through this one woman's life journey that many women also may learn how to discover their purpose and find their destiny.

Download or read book Pandemic Dreams written by Deirdre Barrett and published by Oneiroi Press. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fascinating little volume explores the stuff that dreams are made of and the role the pandemic is playing in them. The dreams from Barrett's survey are riveting vignettes--from terrifying to touching to hilarious. Her decades of scientific research and clinical practice inform incisive commentary on what these dreams reveal about society's response. She offers simple exercises for managing anxieties over COVID-19 and for inspiring adaption in this unique period of history. A great read!" -Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club DREAM: I looked down at my stomach and saw dark blue stripes. I "remembered" these were the first sign of being infected with COVID-19. DREAM: My home was a Covid-19 test center. People weren't wearing masks. I'm taken aback because I wasn't asked to be a test site. I'm worried that my husband and son (who actually lives out of state) will catch it because of my job as a healthcare worker. DREAM: I was a giant antibody. I was so angry about COVID-19 that it gave me superpowers, and I rampaged around attacking all the virus I could find. I woke so energized! Since the COVID-19 pandemic swept around the world, people have reported unusually a vivid and bizarre dream lives. The virus itself is the star of many--literally or in one of its metaphoric guises. As a dream researcher at Harvard Medical School, Deirdre Barrett was immediately curious to see what our dream lives would tell us about our deepest reactions to this unprecedented disaster. Pandemic Dreams draws on her survey of over 9,000 dreams about the COVID-19 crisis. It describes how dreaming has reflected each aspect of the pandemic: fear of catching the virus, reactions to sheltering at home, work changes, homeschooling, and an individual's increased isolation or crowding. Some patterns are quite similar to other crises Dr. Barrett has studied such as 9/11, Kuwaitis during the Iraqi Occupation, POWs in WWII Nazi prison camps, and Middle Easterners during the Arab Spring. There are some very distinctive metaphors for COVID-19, however: bug-attack dreams and ones of invisible monsters. These reflect that this crisis is less visible or concrete than others we have faced. Over the past three months, dreams have progressed from fearful depictions of the mysterious new threat . . . to impatience with restrictions . . . to more fear again as the world begins to reopen. And dreams have just begun to consider the big picture: how society may change. The book offers guidance on how we can best utilize our newly supercharged dream lives to aid us through the crisis and beyond. It explains practical exercises for dream interpretation, reduction of nightmares, and incubation of helpful, problem-solving dreams. It also examines the larger arena of what these collective dreams tell us about our instinctive, unconscious responses to the threat and how we might integrate them for more livable policies through these times. Deirdre Barrett, PhD is a dream researcher at Harvard Medical School. She has written five books including Pandemic Dreams and The Committee of Sleep, and edited four including Trauma and Dreams. She is Past President of The International Association for the Study of Dreams and editor of its journal, DREAMING.