This book is a transcript of a hypnotherapy session between Arthur Winston and Edward Peterson. Edward Peterson being the person who is hypnotised. It book is written from a direct recording of the hypnotherapy session. As the session starts, Arthur realises that something is not quite right. His patient, Edward Peterson was in a deep hypnosis, as another person, called Albert, who liked to be known as al, started speaking through Edward. Arthur immediately realised that this was a different person he was speaking to and started asking him questions on his identity. He, al, was unaware where he was and it was though he was under hypnosis too. It wasn't long before Arthur realised he was speaking as though he was from the future. He spoke differently and used strange words, all of which he tried to explain to Arthur. He gives us a graphic portrayal of the future, what becomes of the world he lives in, and a brief history of our future, where after a terrible nuclear war, disease runs wild. A place, a world, where countries no longer exist, and where entire generations live in space, the moon and even mars where some startling discoveries have been made which gives way to new and even more exciting questions, Are we alone in the universe? , Where did we come from? And a story of al's life who shares his opinions of his job, his entertainment, and his personal time, and his ambitions. This is an exciting book, and whether you chose to believe it or not, it changes our opinions, gives us inspiration and ideas, and makes us question that all is not as it seems. All in all, it is a book well worth investing in.

In the fall of 1993, a man named Edward Peterson sought help from Alan Arthur Winston, a hypnotherapist. When Peterson spontaneously regressed to a past life while hypnotized, Winston then utilized a special hypnotic technique called "third witness," which he developed, to take Peterson through several past lives and a future life. All the sessions between the two were recorded.

Peterson disappeared after the sessions, and several years later, Winston was killed in an automobile accident. Winston's daughter sent the tapes of the Peterson sessions to Joseph Robert Cowles. Cowles transcribed the tapes and has now published them in a fascinating book titled Third Witness.

Peterson describes several past lives, beginning with one in which he picked dates in a very dusty environment. Between lives he rested in a void where there was "no time" and "no space," where there was only "I am." He refused to use the word death or refer to himself as dying, saying instead that " Somehow life is a thing that just is, so even when you're dead, you're actually life." There is no death, only "molecular . . . recombinations."

He also says that what we term the past, present, and future exist simultaneously.

In the last session, Peterson moved forward several centuries in the future, where he worked as a specialized miner on a "geosynchronous satellite," one of many such satellites inhabited by former residents of Earth.

Third Witness take readers on an engrossing journey into the past, and provides a tantalizing peek into the future, in the process answering the question of what's life like after death.

Mr. Jablonski's first novel is a fine piece of work: a classic Bildungsroman of the sea, in which 19-year-old Jake Thomas makes his first sea voyage in the merchant marine aboard the freighter "Gulf Trader." A virginal midshipman who has run out on his drunken father and given the finger to his Catholic upbringing in Nebraska, Jake learns about life, women, love, and the sea on his maiden voyage from New Orleans to Valparaiso, Chile and back in about five weeks of the summer of 1967.

Jablonski tells a solid, honest tale, cutting few corners and making fewer narrative missteps. His hero visits a number of brothels, with more and less satisfying results; falls in love with an unearthly beauty in Chile; witnesses at least one killing; trip-sits for a shipmate, then does a tab of acid himself; reads _Crime and Punishment_ and ponders his similarities and differences with Raskolnikov; identifies the soul buddies on board, as well as the baddies to stay clear of; and tries to learn the tricky job of making a "three star fix," in which the sea navigator pinpoints his ship's exact location by sighting familiar stars along the celestial sphere.

Although there are many striking incidents and an occasional exquisite passage throughout this sexually frank but not explicit book, for my money the best chapter occurs in the middle of the story, when Jake visits an infamous whorehouse in Callao known as the Trockadero. Sharp details mingle with hallucinatory descriptions of events and emotions; it would have made a lovely short story by itself.

Jablonski's publisher, Gardenia Press of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has done a mixed job by its author. There are a fair number of typoes, although most of them are not of the leap-off-the-page-at-you variety. His editors seem to have had particular difficulty keeping an apostrophe out of the possessive "its," and they've invariably allowed their word processing software to substitute an open quotation mark for an initial apostrophe (as in " 'Cuz" and "How 'bout you?"). Some of the more amusing ones included egg "yoke," "Universite de Columbia," and "a small steep trail -- not much more than a lama path. . . ." But the cover art is marvelous, and the book is well produced for a paperback.

Not being an experienced seaman (I crossed the Atlantic to Tangiers on a Yugoslav freighter once, but as a 10-year-old tourist passenger), I can't vouch for the accuracy of the descriptions of the crafts and trade, but I wouldn't doubt they are as on target as the rest of the book seems to be.

An admirable effort. I hope Mr. Jablonski keeps writing.

Mr. Jablonski's focal character, Jake Thomas -- a cadet on his first voyage out to sea -- encounters the realities of navel life. With a poet's lust for life, Jake slips in and out third world ports and coastal -- whorehouses, like a young man on a do-or-die mission to lose his virginity. He finds love, lots of love, as he discovers the feminine role as a necessary adjunct to professional seamanship.
This work will surely become known as a fine maritime maturation tale, par excellence. I loved the word portraits Joe Jablonski painted of the good guys and bad guys. Moral codes and the basic philosophical ought are openly questioned throughout this lusty, masterful novel. From this day forward, when I hear the words "Must Read" I will immediately think, "Three Star Fix." It most certainly is -- a "Must Read."

this is an excellent textbook. I am a student studying civil engineering and used this book as required for a class. the book was very inciteful and full of useful information. it was presented in a logical manner and was easy to read and understand. all in all a good textbook.

Dear sir:
please give this book to me. Thanks!
ZHOUHAIBIN
2002/18/01

Father Girzone, who is now retired from the active priesthood, has written an exceptional book on a mysterious and often misunderstood concept, the Trinity. He approaches the subject of the Trinity not as someone tackling its theological nature, but as someone who wishes to demonstrate how the Trinity actively works in the lives of individuals and in the affairs of the world. This is a great piece of literature for the layman who wishes to steer clear of any intricate theological speculation or logic chopping. Girzone's "Trinity" will also make its mark on the scholar hoping to find a simple explanation for the wonderful and ineffable nature and works of the Holy Trinity.

Reading these books, and I have them all. They are just so well written, that you are in the book as you read. To me, they were like taking a nerve pill, so very relaxing. I have learnt alot about the words of our Father & what He expects of us. Mr. Girzone's first book, Joshua In The City, was wrote without anyone but his friends backing him. It became a BEST SELLER on it's own merits. This is one author I'd love to meet, and express how wonderful his books are. They are so good, I find myself hating to finish them. I hope he continues to write more & more.
Sincerely,
Jeanette A. Storaska

Stunning drawings of trout, beautiful styling, monthly hatches for both west and east....Most interesting trout calendar since schweiberts from the early 90's.....recommended

Clearly, Joseph Tomelleri is one of the most gifted artists in America.

His pencil and ink drawings of trout are unparalleled. What precision, attention to detail and vivid color! The fish jumped off the page (so to speak).

Rarely have I seen more spectacular renderings of any fish. These are drawings I'd gladly frame and hang them in my home.

Bravo, Joe!

As I've stated in several other reviews, I used to read this series of books to my much-younger adopted sisters back when they were first in print in the 80s and early 90s. Now that I have a child of my own I have been re-collecting these books to read to him.

TWO WHEELS FOR GROVER centers on Grover's trip to see his cousins in the country (and from the artwork it looks like they had a VERY long drive to get there). Cousin Rosie wants to go bike riding with Grover but since Grover can't ride a two wheeler, he hems and haws every time she asks, making excuses and sadly watching her ride away. Cousin Frank astutely sees through this charade at a later point and offers to teach him how to ride a bike. Grover is of course terrified but gets it, and masters the skill just in time to follow Rosie to Farmer Finn's to get a free kitten.

The artwork is only okay in this book -- could someone explain to me by the way why every character in this book wears clothing except for Grover? -- and the story is good albiet kind of predictable. The one gripe I have with the book as a parent is Grover's getting a kitten without consulting his mother and then bringing it home with him without telling her. There is no mention of this in the book of course, and his mother does not say anything about it, but I for one don't think it is a terrific idea to be presenting this kind of thing as normal and something that happens regularly without consequences. But this is a minor quibble.

Overall this book is good but far from Elliott's -- the strongest writer in this series -- best work. Check out Grover Goes to School for the best he has to offer.

Two Wheels for Grover is the best book in all time. Our Dad reads it to us every single night. We love it and are 14, 11, and 7. Hooray for Two Wheels for Grover!!!

Another peoples champion with partial insider knowledge trying to work out why the establishment are covering up/avoiding the UFO issue. This ordered thesis is a slice of UFO investigation from 30 years ago - have we moved on? not really. Very much along the lines of Donald Keyhoe and his crusade to highlight the circus that was called the Condon Report. This is someone who sounds credible, more so than our governments. Another essential for Ufoligists

It isn't often that any book can be considered the "most important" or "most influential" in the field that it studies, but Dr. J. Allen Hynek's "UFO Experience" probably does qualify as the most important study of the UFO phenonmenon ever written. Why? Unlike most UFO books which are written by "true believers" who look uncritically at UFOs and whose authors have little or no scientific expertise, Hynek's "UFO Experience" has both the credentials and the objectivity to be taken seriously. Hynek was a respected astronomer at Northwestern University and spent twenty years (1949-1969) as the chief scientific analyst for the US Air Force's Project Blue Book, the government's official study of the UFO phenomenon. What makes Hynek especially believable is that he started out as a skeptic - he thought UFO's were "nonsense" and helped the Air Force to debunk most sightings. But as the years passed Hynek gradually became convinced that some UFO reports were not hoaxes or weather balloons or stars or some other "normal" phenonmena and that they might represent something extraordinary - even ET visitation from other planets. In the late 1960's he became openly critical of Blue Book's handling of the UFO sightings it was receiving. When the Condon Report was published in 1969 and stated that science had nothing to gain from taking UFO reports seriously, Hynek decided to set up his own organization - with as many credible scientists as possible - to continue to study UFO reports in a serious and scientific way. In 1972 he published the "UFO Experience" in part as a rebuttal to the Condon Report's dismissal of the UFO phenomenon. He points out that although the Condon Report claimed that UFO sightings were "useless" to science, the Report couldn't find "normal" explanations for one-third of the sightings it examined, and had to list them as "unexplained". The "UFO Experience" still makes what many people believe to be the strongest scientific argument that UFOs deserve serious study by qualified scientists. Much of the book discusses the "Close Encounter" UFO sightings which clearly fascinated Hynek. A "Close Encounter of the First Kind" was a UFO observed at extremely close range - within 500 feet. Hynek notes that the closeness of the object helps eliminate the possibility that the witness saw an "ordinary" object - an airplane or a star, for example. A "Close Encounter of the Second Kind" is one in which the UFO physically interacts with the witness - their car shuts off, the UFO leaves burn marks on the ground, etc. And a "Close Encounter of the Third Kind" is one in which the witness actually sees "UFOnauts" either inside or outside the UFO. This last category was used as the title of Steven Spielberg's famous 1978 movie - Spielberg was an admirer of Hynek and gave him a cameo role in the movie. The book is well-written, but it is a "scientific" work and the reader should know that it sometimes contains technical and scientific language and theories. Dr. Hynek pulls no punches in his criticism of the Condon Report or other scientists who choose to ignore the evidence he cites. In short, although nearly 30 years have passed since it was published, Hynek's "UFO Experience" remains one of the best-argued scientific examinations of the UFO phenomenon. If you're interested in learning about UFOs, then this book is a good place to start. (A good "companion" volume to this book is the "Hynek UFO Report", published five years after the "UFO Experience" and which discusses actual UFO cases taken directly from the files of Project Blue Book).

I enjoyed this book. Not an opera fan myself, it used the opera culture as a backdrop for an interesting tightly knit plot. The detail used to describe Naples transported me. The twists in the book, the double-life of Michael Ruane as a supporting opera actor and his assumed identity of Don Michel, the uncle from Rome, interweave to create an fascinating tapestry. All of the supporting characters are well drawn. Cross-dresser Piero with his wry smiles and penchant for betrayal was my favorite. The Italian flare for emotion was beautifully illustrated in the Gaetano and Peppino, the two brothers fighting over the multi-layered Rosalia. If there were any weakness in the book, for me it was in Michael's character. He never seemed to know who he was, a man adrift in search of true emotion. While this may be the point, it kept me distanced from him. The only other thread that didn't quite gel for me was the result of the Curlew River Opera. Not knowing whether it was a success or not seemed to mute one of the major subplots. However, that is a minor objection to the volatile love triangle that is played out with Michael as the uncle, and the reversals that come fast and furious as the book climaxes in operatic fashion at the end. Read and enjoy!

I had the opposite reaction to this book: for me it jelled to perfection! The Kirkus reviewer obviously doesn't know any divas or any Italians. I found the book a joy to read -- very funny, colorful, and filled with well-wrought sentences that begged a second perusal. Caldwell kept me right with him through all the outrageous twists and turns of the plot, like a tour of the Neopolitan back passages. If anything, I felt that the section focusing on Michael's ex-lover was the weakest in the book, not the strongest. Maybe you have to be a singer yourself to fully appreciate the tenor's angst and the life-as-aria theme to the book, but I found it delicious fun to read, moving, and memorable.

Hugh Pearson wrote a painfully honest discussion of that which he uncovered as he took a personal journey to learn how his great-uncle, Dr. Joseph Griffin, 'a wealthy negro surgeon, wielded power in the Jim Crow south.' I both enjoyed and was disturbed by this excellent look back at a grim era in our collective past. Mr. Pearson shares with his readers the pride as well as the conflict he felt upon learning the extremes to which Dr. Griffin chose to resort to fulfill his dreams and aspirations.

Mr. Pearson's style of writing is refreshingly straightforward and in-your-face honest. I was particularly impressed with his impressions of the connection between the Jewish community and the Black community (long an interest of mine,) which haunted him throughout his journey.

In a convoluted way, the story was inspiring. Dr. Griffin went to many lengths and used any means possible to attain wealth, and subsequently power, in an age when power was unattainable to southern Blacks. As the real means of attaining power (education, real estate ownership, political involvement and money) are still out of the reach of many black Americans today, we must ask ourselves how--if at all--have things changed since the days of Dr. Griffin?

I strongly recommend this book to any student of history who would appreciate an accounting of the Jim Crow era, from its last remaining survivors.

Its been a long time since I've read a book that truly captivated and held my attention like "Under the Knife".
Brother Pearson has done the community and humanity a service
with his very real portrayl of the the south and the way in which African-American physicians went through,around and over
discrimination. As an AA physician myself,I read and absorbed the words in this scholarly tome in a much different light than perhaps the average non-physician reader. It was enlightening,

refreshing and down to earth. And lastly, I appreciate Hugh's
avoidance of the usual thou does no wrong image that is often
cast upon our AA heroes. They are "great" men and women who deserve all the praise and glory due each and every one of them,
BUT they are human - and the admiration is even greater when we do not deprive them of this fact.Brother Hugh continue to write
great pieces for all of humanity. Yours in peace...

At this side of the millennial threshold, wading through the deepening waters of change, the issue of reexamining the nature and future of the church is foremost on the minds of theologians, church educators, ministers, and denominational leaders. What will the church look like at the midpoint of the next century? Will the structure of the church require change to survive? Will the mission and functions of the church change? Will the institutional church survive its own success or succumb to a structure too rigid to adapt to the winds of change? Understanding the Church sidesteps contemporary conversations of the sociological dynamics of the church or the usual speculation as to generational shifts within the body. Being a compilation of papers presented at a 1997 colloquium at Grace Bible Chapel in St. Louis, Missouri, the book reviews basic questions about the nature, structure, and functions of the church. The seven essays that make up the chapters of the book do not stray far from the biblical text for interpretations and prescriptions on rudimentary questions about the church from a strictly Protestant theology. The book begins with an almost apologetic chapter on the necessity of maintaining the primacy of Scripture in understanding the nature of the church and any interpretations as to her form and function. This foundational chapter limits its understanding of the church not only to a Protestant theology, but more, to that of the Brethren Church (and even narrower, the Open Brethren, at that). This self-limited understanding of the nature of the church is the book's greatest weakness. The following chapters explore further the nature of the church from a strictly biblical theology, and issues of the identity, nature, and character of the local church versus the universal church. The final two complementary chapters examine issues concerning the autonomy and the interdependence of local churches. Rather than providing a new vision for the church in the 21st century, the book offers up a 19th century conservative evangelical biblical theology of the church typical of what would be found in a sophomore year systematic theology course at a Bible college. The "biblical ideal" for a 21st century church that appears in the book's subtitle seems to be a call for a return to an idyllic "first century church"-the yearning to return to the days of a fabled ecclesiastical Camelot. Some will find comfort in the certitude that a propositional systematic biblical understanding of the church provides. Unfortunately, such a stance is inadequate in helping churches deal with the overwhelming complexities that the church faces in the 21st century.

In Understanding The Church: The Biblical Ideal For The 21st Century, Joseph Vogl and John Fish effectively collaborate to address such fundamental questions as what is meant by "the church" within a Christian context, the purposes of the Christ in founding the church, what resources were endowed with its creation, and did Christ intend that the function of the church be essentially connected with its nature and purpose. With scripture having primacy in exploring these issues, Understanding The Church then addresses the nature of the church, the character and life of local churches, as well as the autonomy and interdependence that govern interaction between the churches and within the broader Christian community. Originally presented as a series of essays for a colloquium sponsored by Grace Bible Chapel in St. Louis, Missouri, Understanding The Church is a welcome addition to contemporary Christian studies reading lists and reference collections.