Bøger af Sebastian De Assis

Suicide can be a seductive anesthetic to put inexorable pain out for good-or it may spiral into a chaotic vortex of regret, deception, and agonizing despair.I'll Never Commit Suicide Again is a magical realism novel exploring varied aspects of suicide through the viewpoint of Lucy, the main character, as she struggles to overcome her own forlorn dilemma. In a circuitous Dantean journey of self-discovery and redemption, her interactions with suicide children, guilt-ridden adults, political and religious martyrs, intrepid warriors, and physician-assisted suicide awaken her to diverse perspectives of the controversial issue of self-annihilation-and a life-changing realization of her own.At a time when suicide rates have reached record-breaking numbers across the demographic spectrum, the approximately 98,000-word manuscript is a fictional exploration of the potentially fallacious delusion of suicide as a means to evade life's challenges and travails. The story employs philosophical, esoteric, and quantum physics elements to guide the narrative.

I am The Beast!I am the master of oppression and domination of the human species who serve my needs with obsequious obedience. I am the essence of Evil and the physical manisfation of Selfhishness and Greed. I am the breeder of competition. I am the fomenter of violence and war. I am the nurturer of biological, mental, spiritual, and ecological diseases. I am the soverign ruler of economic and political activity around the world. I am insatiably starved for consumption and I must produce incessantly in order to survive. I am a god in my own right as I am worshipped around the globe. I am a self-destroying entity whose time of death is imminent. I am the plague of the earth. I am The Beast of the world and my name is Capitalism.

ZENior CitiZEN: Mastering the Art of Aging explores the possibility of strengthening the human spirit while the physical body weakens piecemeal. It is as though the two elements of an individual's life (physical and non-physical) moved in opposite directions.Thus, since old age is an inevitable circumstance of the human experience that cannot be avoided--except by an untimely death--then the way to overcome it is by incapacitating its ability to have a negative effect on the aging person. And for those who can manage to achieve this goal, the end-result is self-empowerment. ZENior CitiZEN offers an alternative roadmap leading to this ultimate destination as time marches on toward a conclusion.

I came from a well-to-do family. I lived in a beachfront house with a swimming-pool, sauna and all the amenities of an affluent life. I studied in the best private schools money can afford. I vacationed abroad, owned boats, cars and motorcycles, and was a member of a yacht club. Then, all of a sudden, I found myself homeless and alone in a foreign country hoping my living nightmare would end soon. Sailing Against the Wind is a memoir about the challenges and rewards of a man's journey of self-discovery. It narrates the author's continual travails and adventurous travels over land and sea from South America to Europe, before coming to the United States to become another valuable thread in the diverse fabric of American society.