Bøger af Bruce Bernstein

Discovering Your God Self...The Incredible Secrets of Your Spiritual Nature Revealed You are a spiritual being. But what does that really mean? Ultimately, it points to the main purpose of life, which is not supposed to be a secret. It's a process; a wonderous inward adventure leading to discovery, awareness, and higher consciousness. The essence of this process is about overcoming (transcending) the Ego self and reconnecting with the True Self, leading to a conscious connection with the actual essence of our human existence: the God Self. Too many of us are unaware of the vast resources available within and don't realize that it is possible to have more control of our lives. It is easy to be distracted and overwhelmed by all the wonderful activities and experiences our world has to offer - and which we are supposed to enjoy. But they're only supposed to be steppingstones, and not destinations. Context and perspective often are missing. Life is not supposed to be a struggle. Rather than a series of highs and lows, we're supposed to experience our world in a constant state of happiness and peace. Love. But allowing the outer world and its events and activities to dictate our moods, reactions, and even our choices make this a bigger challenge than it's supposed to be. In fact, the outer world can create a veil that hides our true spiritual nature from us, obscuring its guidance and our potential to experience unending happiness, love, peace, and even wisdom. There is a better option. It is possible - preferable - to live from the inside-out. This is how we harness the powerful essence within to actively create the life we want, and to do it from a place of joy. We can have more control over the way our lives unfold. We can be the driver, rather than a passenger. Connecting with your inner essence is the path to higher consciousness. But how? How to make this shift? How do we connect to this vast power within, to the internal essence we all have, and how do we access its guidance? "Discovering Your God Self... The Incredible Secrets of Your Spiritual Nature Revealed" answers those questions, and more. It offers insight into our true spiritual nature and a roadmap to access and use this incredible internal resource. When your inner essence is understood - recognized and its subtle intricacies embraced - the connection to inner guidance is made and wisdom becomes apparent. This is what spirituality is all about. "Discovering Your God Self" is a Path to Higher Consciousness We are complex beings, and our spiritual nature is a big part of that. It is up to us to recognize imbalances between competing inner aspects all have within so that we can make better choices about the experiences we'd like to create, and how to best manifest them. Understanding the elements of this inner foundation of our humanness is the purpose of life. This is the road to higher consciousness and inner peace. Here's some of what you will learn in "Discovering Your God Self"The five inner spiritual elements and their importance in creating your best lifeThe Duality within - the hidden factor that controls our lives and is the root of our struggles, disappointments, and failuresA path to deepened awareness, inner peace, and higher consciousnessMuch, much more"Discovering Your God Self" offers a non-religious path to higher consciousness, peace, happiness, and a self-empowering perspective which, when applied, will lead to positive changes in your life. Note: This book has been measured to calibrate at level 856 on Dr. David R. Hawkins' scale of the Map of Consciousness, which goes from zero, (the lowest level), to 1,000, (the hig

A massive panorama of Native American art from Navajo weaving to Apache basketrySpanning nearly 1,000 years of artistic creativity, this wide-ranging volume brings together 206 artworks that exemplify both exquisite aesthetics and rich cultural histories. The majority of the collection is from the American Southwest-19th-century Navajo weavings, ancestral and historical Pueblo pottery, Hopi and Zuni carved figures, and Yavapai and Apache basketry-along with art from the Pacific Northwest and the first Plains ledger drawings to enter the museums' collections. This book, which features new research and specially commissioned essays and extended captions, developed in collaboration with cultural advisors, reflects the complex and multilayered nature of the artworks in the field of Native American art. Contributions from more than 80 authors from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds, including scholars, culture-bearers, artists, collectors and museum professionals, illuminate details about the living histories of the works. With striking new photography and full-color reproductions, this is a cornerstone publication in the field of Native American art history.

Life keeps knocking 12-year-old Alan down. Can he find the courage to get back up? Orphaned at a young age, all Alan Michaels wants is a place to belong. But the independent, streetsmart kid, who lacks self-confidence, has no clue how to deal with disappointment or a formidable bully who won't back down. And New York City is a tough town to grow up in if you are a kid who doesn't have much. But when he starts training at Sensei Hideki's School of Karate, he hopes his life will change forever. Determined to prove he's got what it takes to become a true warrior, he pushes his body and mind to the limit. But just when the karate school starts to feel like home, tragedy strikes again. Does Alan have the courage and inner strength to overcome the odds stacked against him? ';When you get knocked down, you just keep getting back up You never give up.' Sensei paused for a moment and spoke louder. ';That's what takes real guts.' He stared at Alan intently. ';You know, sometimes failures are your steppingstones to success.'

Each August, one hundred thousand people attend Indian Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the nation's largest and most anticipated Native arts event. One thousand artists, representing 160 tribes, nations, and villages from the United States and Canada, proudly display and sell their works of art, ranging from pottery and basketry to contemporary paintings and sculptures. The history of Indian Market as related in this new publication is the story of Indian cultural arts in the twentieth century beginning with Edgar L. Hewett and the founding of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe in 1909. At the turn of the last century, the notion of Indian art as art in its own right and not ethnography was a foreign concept. With the arrival of the railroad and tourism in New Mexico, two thousand years of utilitarian Pueblo pottery tradition gave way to a curio trade intended for visitors to the area. The curators and archaeologists at the Museum of New Mexico began to collect prehistoric and historic pottery and encouraged potters to make pottery modeled on traditional ideas thought to represent authentic culture. Maria and Julian Martinez countered the idea that art was a matter of studying the past when in 1922, at the first "Indian Fair,"they introduced their revolutionary Black-on-black pottery. Bruce Bernstein links these early developments to Indian Market's ninety-year relationship with Native arts, cultural movements, historical events, and the ever-evolving creativity of Native artists to shape their market.

Kansas-born educator Dorothy Dunn established America''s first Indian art school, thus ushering in the flat-art style by which Native American painters have been celebrated as the first modernists. Reproduced here are over ninety paintings by such prominent artists and former students as Pablita Velarde, Joe H Herrera, Allan Houser and Pop Chalee.