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Millennium: Tools for the Coming Changes is a huge toolbox of transformational goodies. First of all, the upcoming shift is described in great detail. Then different methods of transformation are given which apply to the body, the mind and especially the emotions, which is where the greatest challenges are often found.
We're here in this life to transform the consciousness of the world we inherited. Here's the how-to manual. Let's get to it!
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I admit my male machismo played a part in my hesitancy to pick up and read a book about a ballet dancer. There was also my lack of knowledge for ballet, and other personal prejudices. (I have two left feet permanently imbedded in wet clay and I don't speak French.) The story took me deeper than I ever thought I would go into the mind of a dancer and her profession. And I enjoyed it. And I learned. I also gained a greater insight into Nancy's ability as a writer. The few snippets of her writing she let out in class only gave a small clue to the scope of her talent.
I especially admire her characters and their development. She did what she tells her students to do; dig into the cracks and find the diamonds in the dirt. The quality and consistency of the writing carried through the entire book. She left no loose ends, doing a great job on the ending. That took guts. It's a surprise and yet true to the whole story. Although she wrote about a dancer, I can see the same story in most professions, male and female.
Through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Emma Kate Thomas, the reader gets a first class excursion through the world of a New York ballet school and the not-so-mean streets of the big city itself.
Pinard sets her story at the time when the sixties were about to mellow into the seventies, a time when females were being encouraged to find their own drummer and follow that beat.
Emma Kate is a Midwestern-bred gal who hears the promise of that new era, shucking off the fears and dreams of her parents and the possible marriage to her small ballet company partner to experience the chance of a lifetime, a chance for celebrity, a chance to shine big-time.
What Emma Kate finds is that she may not be Cinderella after all.
"Among Daniel's chosen I looked childish and chubby, an ungainly puppy disrupting his swanlike corps de ballet. Even my name was wrong. The dancers in front of me had names like Kendra and Camille and Patrice, which spoken in Daniel's voice sounded like rare species of orchids. He moved among them, tending his hot house, purring and pruning at their loviness, sovereign god of his personal Eden. Emma Kate was a geranium name."
Pinard is an insightful storyteller whose style is easy and comfortable. She handles images and emotions with great maturity considering this is her first piece of fiction.
SHADOW DANCING is an interesting trip into the late sixties, a time when everything seemed so possible, but like Emma Kate, everyone must find what's really lurking in the shadows.
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With thoughts that breathe and words that burn, the author weaves his postulations in a lucid and well-articulated conversational format that takes place between the hero and a fidus Achates type alter ego. At first the tete-a-tete dialogue and "imaginary friend" scenario seems a bit forced, but like Aaron Kamisky once said 'What if there were no hypothetical situations?'.
Schmidt wrote the book in a distinct style meant to make it easy to read, even for his college drop-out friends; a basic familiarity with logical debate and a rudimentary comprehension of late 90's bar vernacular is helpful but not essential. Readers will find themselves swept away by the elegant simplicity of Schmidt's ideas and the accidental artistry of the dithyrambic structure. Whether or not Schmidt's internal revolution ultimately gives us the keys to stripping down ourselves and testing the water, his new insight is absolutely awe-inspiring.
After living in Mississippi for the past three years, I have been amazed at the unique culture of the area - friendly, small town, good, religious people but still so much poverty, racial division and rigid thinking. I highly recommend Tall Cotton for the insight it has given me into the Deep South of sixty years ago and the origins of this culture.
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Bill McGee, a prolific author and veteran of naval service in the South Pacific, has written a book that will do any "Amphibian" proud. He has managed by dint of exceptional research and extensive interviews to perfectly blend the historical development of naval amphibious forces with humorous anecdotal references. You will find yourself chuckling and nodding in the affirmative as you recall your own moments of terror, mind-numbing boredom and outrageous pranks.
McGee tells his story by following the formations of the Flotilla 5 LCTs, LSTs and LCIs from the formation of their crews in the states through their training--or lack thereof--crossing the Pacific, and their arrival and operations in the Solomon Islands group. It is a compelling story of "green" crews, "green" officers, "green" dragons and "green" camouflage.
Throughout this book, you will find yourself saying, "Yup, that was us." Read this book and I will guarantee that you will have a renewed respect for the guy you see in the mirror every morning.
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Bashar "never" agrees to channel through anyone other than Darryl, but with Lyssa he made an exception, which was quite a compliment to her ability and sincerity. It was quite an experience at a later Lyssa Royal session to hear Bashar hop into the session, just as bouncy as ever.
"Greetings! How are you today? What is your excitement? Well?" Bounce, bounce!
His presence was quite a contrast to Lyssa's more usual, and delicate, channeled personality of Sasha, who soothes everything out with her female Pleiadian heart energy and a sense of flowing everything back into gentle wholeness.
Sasha's culture in the Pleiades has spent thousands of years perfecting the fine details of living in a heart-centered society. Today, her society works like a dream, so it comes as no surprise that her ideas work really well.
When Sasha replies to people's questions and concerns, she typically gives them a heart-centered assurance, placing an "everything's all right" overtone onto the subject. Now, anyone can take that tone, many do, and that's about all that some do. With Sasha, however, you also get concrete explanations and advice that really do help you to move from a worry-space up into your heart-space.
Millennium: Tools for the Coming Changes is a guide for transformation into planetary heart-centered awareness. It includes truly eye-opening information on such topics as:
The global consciousness shift
Keys to physical transformation
Keys to emotional transformation
Reawakening cosmic memory
Integrative healing
Creating your preferred reality
Creating abundance and freedom
Releasing conflict and control
Creating healthy relationships
The secret of intimacy
Following your inner excitement
Wholeness and spiritual sovereignty
Opening your heart through a sense of beauty
In fact, the whole book helps you to open your heart, and the whole book was woven together with a sense of beauty. Millennium: Tools for the Coming Changes is a doorway into a better life.