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This book wrestles with the question of free will, which a deterministic/materialist vision of the universe denies. Following William James, the author resolves the issue by applying pragmatic ideas which are tested in reality. The core idea of this work relates to its title, that true ideas are tested by seeing where they lead us. Unlike materialism, this view is open to a pluralistic universe. This includes a spiritual dimension, in which our consciousness has a transmissive capacity, or an ability to pick up inspiration from outside itself. All of the above serves as a guide to a richer life, in which we experience harmony with the world by means of an "agreeable leading." Last, the author wishes that this was a book he would have read when he was young, and we invite you to do the same.

The Roman emperor is fearful of a Delphic oracle which states that "From the bones of twelve, a phoenix shall rise that will rule Rome." An imperial investigator is sent to determine the paradoxical threat to Rome--to find the twelve and where they hid the missing bones of their founder. Their disappearances resolve into bones and a surprise murder mystery. Read this work to place yourself in the first century where oracles, bones, and small groups can shake the foundations of empire.

This work sums up a lifetime of teaching and living a philosophy that seeks wisdom, creativity, and beauty. Drawing upon poems, paintings, and examples from sports and fitness, the author invites us to see an ever-expanding and unexpected connectivity between things. A heightened awareness of love and friendship are not omitted. You are invited on a journey, in which we are challenged to delve into essential questions that can guide our living.

This work shares a contemplative journey with an imagined spirit being. The author wrestles with issues in his spiritual life: how to love, how to integrate one's body, how to face failure, and how to finish his life's work. Often it is a crisis that brings answers to these questions and the motivation for doing what is necessary to fulfill them. While writing this, the author is informed of the impending death of his brother. This work, completed after the death, proves to the spiritual dynamic that releases his brother's and the author's creativity into the world.

This book offers a vision of renewal as one encounters the novel obstacles of later life. Issues such as caring for the body are addressed, including the paradox of how a prior solution can become the problem. The basic triad of our biological-psychological reality is also focused upon: how we need to tend to consciousness, mobility, and the social dimension throughout our life. Read this work to gain needful insights and a vision which will help you to live a full life.

This work is a philosophic exploration of a Mystery Stone found near the Lower Shenandoah River. Questions arise as to the origins of the Stone's markings, the nature of beauty, what makes for meaning and what it means for something to be true. One conclusion reached is the universe tests our love by gifting us with humble things that have unexpected significance. Join this exploration which reveals how a Stone can become a portal for beauty and meaning.

The deciphering of marks on a tablet-size mystery stone lead its discoverer to imagine a voyage along its surface. An alternate view of the universe and a rich archetypal realm are revealed. Amid a wide cast of beings, a half-skeletal shaman serves as our guide. The shapes on the Stone touch upon the mystery of birthing, the creature part of our being, the energies of our shadow side, and our hidden soul self. Come, take a fantastic journey with us, following the continuing inspiration of the Mystery Stone found by the Shenandoah River.

These stories are inspired by persons who appear in the Gospels for only a few sentences. It imagines the drama of their encounter with a founder of a world religion at the time of the Roman Empire. Internal worlds are opened up, including a soldier who guards the dead, a madman who lives among tombs, a woman who battles demons, and Levianthan, a storm which would take the founder's life. What surprises us more than 2,000 years later is how much heart and fierce love is present in the lives of these characters.

This heart-warming novella, set in the Pittsburgh area and starting in the 1950's, follows the lives five friends, starting from their high school days, tuned to athletic heroism. It shows the arc of their lives, as they make critical decisions about marriage and career that determine their happiness. Interestingly, the story is told from the point of view of each of the friends, their tales interweaving to make a whole. Importantly, they wrestle with moral issues and how to make a difference in the world. In the end, a surprising project emerges and hope that "Such a day will last forever."

Delphi and Detinna try to retire from the struggle of their times, but become entangled in a movement that resists empire. After a series of action-packed, mathematically calculated escapes, they find themselves at the center of the resistance. Using psychic means they enter the halls of power to topple the empire, but encounter forces much darker and powerful than they had imagined. The result is unexpected and the protagonists find themselves in a place they least expected.

This work explores the meaning of rock art, especially from deep caves of the paleolithic era. It approaches the problem of interpretation by focusing on a key concept, that art and ritual were used to generate life. Interestingly, this work further considers that creativity emerged from the tension between chaotic lines and more formed shapes. Past interpretive frames, statistical studies, and indigenous parallels are summoned to examine this archetypal impulse. We invite you to explore these works as an adventure that opens up your own spiritual dimension and earliest roots.

Those on the periphery of society are not necessarily culturally or spiritually poor. "Street persons" can harbor a rich life-story and genuine philosophic concerns. This work seeks to make public this hidden cultural wealth. We invited persons with hardship to create fiction or, in recounting an experience, to offer an image of hope.. From Clem who writes as he recovers from frost bite in the hospital the humorous "My Little Spot," to Theodora who describes her manic flights in "Olympus" there is real genuine human experience to be found in these pagesThe persons in this anthology are also prophets in their own way, unheralded and un-noticed. But if we listen, we can sense their fire, hear their message. We can marvel too how in these covid-19 times, a poet could foresee write from years ago a poem titled "Apocalypse." with the words:While the sun goddess weeps her last songThe plague has begunPeople in plastic bags heading toward the city dump.I lock myself in my roomThere's something evergreen about these poets and writers. Their message does not die with a given time. We need only to listen from persons who have nothing to profit or gain from our listening. Only we stand to benefit, when we hear the resonance in our souls. So I invite you to enter into a time capsule, an eternity - where voices otherwise lost can now be heard.

This set of stories features a lion who becomes friends with a tricky chameleon. The colorful cast of African animals grows to include a hyrax and hoopoe bird and more chameleons who must find ways survive the many "snakes" of their world. The perennial theme of friendship and the meaning of being a true friend are addressed. These stories seem to move toward a typical ending, then go in an unexpected direction which makes for a wisdom for the day.

In the early Pleistocene era, when fire was invented, a young Firekeeper tends the night fire for the kin. He has a personal intimacy with Fire, with whom he speaks, a being both crafty and true. Two challenges present: he must battle the spirits of the night, and he falls into an impossible love with a woman of the day. Read this book to inhabit the little known stories of our deep history, and to see how human weakness and spiritual strength combine to make us human.

Finn, an independent researcher and explorer, discovers a prehistoric Cave Bear and a human "missing link," in the Canadian Rockies. Declared a shaman, he joins a paleolithic clan, who are threatened by Thunder Heads, mysterious electrical beings. Finn returns to civilization and is placed in a psychiatric hospital. He has no evidence of the truth of his story until he shows something at the very end. Read this, if you would like to have a fun adventure into paleolithic times.

This work offers a novel way to map evolutionary time from life's origin to the first humans. Rather than using a traditional, linear scale in which events bunch up toward the end, a logarithmic scale will be employed that expands our resolution as we come to the present. Such a scale will allow us to detect patterns that would otherwise be invisible. The basic concept of logarithms is not complicated, as we will simply halve units as we move from the deep past to more recent times. Thus, the start of life is placed at four billion years ago, the nucleated cell at two billion years ago, complex multicellularity at one billion years ago, and so on. Remarkably, we find the major events in evolution, along with their supporting evidence, is pulsed with logarithmic regularity--in which each node of change reveals a leap in consciousness, mobility, and social connectivity. Come, journey with us and discover the surprising pattern of evolutionary time, changes that would seem to have no end.

Two lone survivors of a battle fleet make alien contact. Befriending and understanding an alien becomes the key to their survival as they encounter even more remote aliens who are disembodied. This is the start of an Odysseus-like tale, in which the survivors meet aliens in ever more exotic forms.

In the outback of tropical Queensland, Australia. Finn discovers an archaic preserve. There, a Giant Salamander takes him on an evolutionary adventure through the land of the dinosaurs. This story embraces the paradox of how seemingly weaker animals, like mammals, survived. Finn lives to tell his story and to be coaxed backto sanity as he explains his wounds to his friends. Read this story to have a fun adventure and deeper insight into our evolutionary journey.

Zoe and Tod have been married for several years and have successful careers, but something is missing. Zoe has a dream that they should take a trip and that this will help them bring a child into their life. On a fisher boat they experience the Chesapeake with a crabber, and complications ensue. They discover a lost child, Tod becomes captive and Zoe becomes severely ill, but their real battle is with a ghost on the bay. The story ends with an unexpected resolution to their problem.

Two children journey into the world of Little People, who have musical names, crystal houses, and plants that sing. However, giants, stealing from the present and future, soon upset this world and ravage the land. The Little People have courage but no weapons to help their cause. But unexpected help is offered by a Sailfin creature, who has time traveling skills and can reveal the deep past and far future. Read this classic utopian tale, which challenges you to find your true identity and singing name.

Caseness and Narrative contrasts two ways of trying to help persons in emotional distress. The first, called Caseness, sees signs of distress as symptoms without significant meaning, makes a diagnosis in which the psychiatric system names the experience, and then uses methods such as drugging or electroshock to minimize or stop symptom expression. The second way, called Narrative, allows the story to unfold, uses the structure of narrative to frame the process, and then- to avoid the person being stuck--supports the transformative nature of the experience. We invite you to a greater and deeper understanding of what our society has largely chosen to ignore, and which might enable you to help family or friends go through difficult emotional experiences.

In human prehistory, premature children were the evolutionary future. Kinder is an early child, whose survival depends on a fierce mother. Because the father is absent, she offers her child to the Elements for protection. A second child, Huntress, aids in their survival by helping to make an alliance with a young wolf. Dangers in prehistory abound, as human adults were the size of pre-teens, with predators much larger. Read this story to see how the "New Ones" survived to become the future of humankind.

Zoe and Tod go vision questing on a mountain in Yosemite Park and find out that they have died. Transported to a Way-Station world, they are joined by a spirit being who serves as their guide. In the after world they experience colors, each producing an exotic experience which challenges their conception of being. In this in-between world, the couple encounter people, who still carry posessions from earth and have hurts they need to discard. The end holds a surprise for which you will have to answer. Read this book for a novel perspective on the immediate afterlife beyond death.