ALSO AVAILABLE AS A KINDLE EDITION. Over seven years in the making, this book was written at the bequest of The Risen Collective, which has been the primary force behind its orchestration. The Collective is composed of over 1,500 non-terrestrial beings, plus inestimable devas of various ranges of intelligence, status, self-awareness, and time-spans. Subtitled 21st Century Reports from the Afterlife Through Contemplative, Intuitive, &amp; Physical Mediumship, this seminal and even controversial work speaks directly and factually about the greatest spiritual event of one's earthly life: that of transition, formerly known as "death." It presents an entirely new -- and yet entirely ancient -- view of life after death, and is proving to be consistent with modern physics, psychology, and demonstrated non-ordinary sources of information, such as controlled remote viewing, channeling, and mediumistic communication. Aspects of modern quantum physics, such as "entanglement," are clearly evident within the dynamics of the living dialogues between the authors, psychotherapist/medium August Goforth, and his partner, Tim Gray, who was a writer and editor on Earth before his transition almost 20 years ago. Among the many astonishing aspects of this loving and unusual relationship has been Tim's many literally physical manifestations into the life and arms of August. Other intriguing issues explored in this complex and fascinating book include: 
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<li>Exquisitely detailed descriptions of Tim's transition experience and his current Risen geography, a spiritual realm of a highly-vibrating level of non-terrestrial existence.</li>
<li>How to connect with our loved ones once thought lost.</li>
<li>Grief, bereavement, and the troubled subject of self-exiting.</li>
<li>Intensive psychospiritual exploration into the ego-mind and Authentic Self.</li>
<li>"Liberation Dramas," or spirit rescue.</li>
<li>The Pastime of Reincarnation.</li>
<li>Contributions by Krishnamurti and other highly advanced non-corporeal entities.</li>
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The Risen: Dialogues of Love, Grief & Survival Beyond Death: 21st Century Reports from the Afterlife Through Contemplative, Intuitive, and Physical Mediumship

Gray, Timothy

Goforth, August

Religion & Spirituality

Tempestina Teapot Books

In Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim, Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and letters as well as his own close readings of Gary Snyder's well-crafted poetry and prose to track the early career of a maverick intellectual whose writings powered the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Exploring various aspects of cultural geography, Gray asserts that this west coast literary community seized upon the idea of a Pacific Rim regional structure in part to recognize their Orientalist desires and in part to consolidate their opposition to America's cold war ideology, which tended to divide East from West. The geographical consciousness of Snyder's writing was particularly influential, Gray argues, because it gave San Francisco's Beat and hippie cultures a set of physical coordinates by which they could chart their utopian visions of peace and love.Gray's introduction tracks the increased use of “Pacific Rim discourse” by politicians and business leaders following World War II. Ensuing chapters analyze Snyder's countercultural invocation of this regional idea, concentrating on the poet's migratory or “creaturely” sensibility, his gift for literary translation, his physical embodiment of trans-Pacific ideals, his role as tribal spokesperson for Haight-Ashbury hippies, and his burgeoning interest in environmental issues. Throughout, Gray's citations of such writers as Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, and Joanne Kyger shed light on Snyder's communal role, providing an amazingly intimate portrait of the west coast counterculture. An interdisciplinary project that utilizes models of ecology, sociology, and comparative religion to supplement traditional methods of literary biography, Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim offers a unique perspective on Snyder's life and work. This book will fascinate literary and Asian studies scholars as well as the general reader interested in the Beat movement and multicultural influences on poetry.

Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim: Creating Countercultural Community (Contemp North American Poetry)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University Of Iowa Press

Back Works: The Illustrated Guide to How Your Back Works and What to Do When It Doesn't. In this volume, Dr. Timothy Gray explains how to treat a "back attack", and how to maintain a healthy spine. Illustrated with line drawings.

Back Works

Bookpartners

Were the urbane, avant-garde poets of the New York School secretly nature lovers like Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Annie Dillard? In Urban Pastoral, Timothy Gray urges us to reconsider our long-held appraisals of Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and their peers as celebrants of cosmopolitan culture and to think of their more pastoral impulses. As Gray argues, flowers are more beautiful in the New York School’s garden of verse because no one expects them to bloom there.         Along with the poets whose careers he chronicles, Gray shows us that startlingly new approaches to New York City art and literature emerge when natural and artificial elements collide kaleidoscopically, as when O’Hara likens blinking stars to a hairnet, when painter Jane Freilicher places a jar of irises in her studio window to mirror purple plumes rising from Consolidated Edison smokestacks, or when poet Kathleen Norris equates rooftop water towers with grain silos as she plans her escape route to the Great Plains.       The New York School poets and their coterie have become a staple of poetics, literary criticism and biography, cultural studies, and art criticism, but Urban Pastoral is the first study of the original New York School poets to offer sustained discussion of the pastoral and natural imagery within the work of these renowned “city poets” and also consider poets from the second generation of the New York School—Diane di Prima, Jim Carroll, and Kathleen Norris.     Moving beyond the traditional boundaries of literary criticism to embrace the creative spirit of New York poets and artists, Gray’s accessible, lively, and blithely experimental book will shape future discussions of contemporary urban literature and literary nature writing, offering new evidence of avant-garde poetry’s role within those realms.

Urban Pastoral: Natural Currents in the New York School (Contemp North American Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. Music can function as an escape from the outside world or as an explanation of that world. Listeners who identify with the music’s message may shape their social understandings accordingly. Rock critics like Greil Marcus and Peter Guralnick, the titans of rock criticism, tap this fluid dichotomy, considering the personal appeal of roots music alongside national ideals of democracy and selfhood. So too do many other critics, novelists, and fans, explaining to themselves and us how music forms our selves and the communities we seek out and build up. In It’s Just the Normal Noises, Timothy Gray examines a wide array of writing about roots music from the 1960s to the 2000s. In addition to chapters on the genre-defining work of Guralnick and Marcus, he explores the influential writings of Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock, the editors of No Depression magazine, and the writers who contributed to its pages, Bill Friskicks-Warren, Ed Ward, David Cantwell, and Allison Stewart among them. A host of memoirists and novelists, from Patti Smith and Ann Powers to Eleanor Henderson and Dana Spiotta, shed light on the social effects and personal attachments of the music’s many manifestations, from punk to alt country to hardcore. The ambivalent attitudes of rock musicians toward success and failure, the meaning of soul, the formation of alternative communities through magazine readership, and the obsession of Generation X scenes with DIY production values wend through these works. Taking a personal approach to the subject matter, Gray reads criticism and listens to music as though rock ‘n’ roll not only explains American culture, but also shores up his life. This book is for everyone who’s heard in roots rock the sound of an individual and a nation singing themselves into being.

It's Just the Normal Noises: Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music (New American Canon)

Arts & Photography

Music

Stress, short tempers, impatience, and greed--these are elements that have their origin in what is having an effect on all of us. That thing is discontentment. Matthew 6:33 addresses this condition and provides us with the answer to discontentment by looking through the lens of God's perspective. It is sure to enlighten, challenge, and encourage the reader.

Seek Ye First the Kingdom: God's Way to Finding Contentment Based on Matthew 6:33

Covenant Books

What if you felt you were losing your mind for your country?  In The Isolated Variable, the author describes how he felt he was doing just that in 1990 and again in 1992. There was a period of dormancy in which he had time to write about it. Have you ever wondered what a clinical term like loose association really means? The Isolated Variable takes the reader through another harrowing round of what the author experienced in 2012 as it was happening, with startling authenticity. Experience the peace he felt as he comes to grips with the initial stages of recovery from a psychiatric relapse. Understand why recovery is always ongoing.

The Isolated Variable

Memoirs

Tate Publishing

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