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Reminds me of my happy childhood summers at Sarpy Creek.......2007-05-22
I spent a couple of happy summers at Sarpy Creek as a very young child in the early 1970s while my Dad and teenaged brothers worked road construction in the area. It was our home away from home. Although I remember Sarpy Creek as more of an area than a community, the same things Ira Nelson described of the landscape of the 1920s was there in the 1970s. I purchased this book because of the title--nowhere else on earth have I heard the name Sarpy Creek. I knew it had to be the same place.
I was captivated by the story of days gone by, of a struggling community of neighbors in an ever-changing world. Although the characters and story could have taken place in any small town in America, I enjoyed it more because it took place somewhere that I knew so well and because of the treasured memories I will always have of Sarpy Creek.
On Sarpy Creek.......2005-09-09
This is a wonderful book of early homesteaders in Montana. A true dipiction of a very hard way of life. This area is to this day, still mostly barren and sparsly populated. It is quite a shame that this was Ira Nelson's only novel.
A Montana Treasure.......2004-01-01
Last week while I was coming back from Miles City, Montana, and I saw Exit 72 to Sarpy Creek. I couldn't help but turn off the freeway to see the beautiful landscapes you'll find so wonderfully described in this Montana treasure. If you love Willa Cather, this book is for you. The life of homesteaders out on the eastern Montana prairie is detailed richly with some of the most fully realized women characters I've ever seen in this type of literature. Richly ironic and yet sweetly tender, I thought, too, of Thomas Hardy's *Under the Greenwood Tree* and its evocation of a time long past. The publishers are friends of mine and I thought they were exaggerating when they said what a good book this is because I figured I would have heard of it before if it was worth reading. I was wrong AGAIN. I didn't think anyone could match the lyricism of Jim Harrison's *Legends of the Fall*; you'll find it here. I didn't think anyone could match the hard look at pioneer reality like William Kittredge's short story, "The Stone Corral"; this book does. I didn't think anyone could touch the western romanticism of Owen Wister's *The Virginian"; it's here, too.
A beautiful, powerful novel.......2003-12-24
A deceptively simple novel, this is a profound work of art, an exploration of love and courage and hope; it tells of a farm family in Montana in the 1920's; tells of the connection of people to the land, in all its beauty and richness and harshness; tells of being connected to other people on the deepest levels. I cannot praise this book highly enough: it has depth but is a joy to read. Published first in 1938, it is a real find.
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Sarpy Basin wildlife ecology study
Peter R Martin
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Sarpy Basin wildlife ecology study: Final report
Peter R Martin
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Technical report
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The Unknown Terror
After a long winter spent in the Kellarin colony, the crafty and beautiful Livak is anxious to move on. Now an opportunity is on the horizon. The reclamation of a lost southern settlement is in the offing, but those involved, Livak included, must await the spring arrival of the first ship from the mainland -- an event that will never take place. Unbeknownst to all, the vital trading route to Tormalin is no longer secure. A dire new threat to the colony's survival has arisen. A final battle of strength, cunning and courage challenges Livak and her devoted swordsman-lover Ryshad, one that will force them to take up arms to confront a merciless, many-faceted evil.
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Great ending.......2007-08-01
Some nice surprises. The few things not completely wrapped up in the story were easy to conclude on your own. Very enjoyable.
Big waste of time and money........2004-07-26
This was the most boring book I have ever tried to read. Magic gets explained over and over in almost every chapter. The author described everything in so much detail, the whole plot is lost. I couldn't even finish this thing, about half-way into it I realized I didn't care about any of the characters and already knew everything that was going to happen. Don't waste your money on this crappy excuse for fantasy.
Sorry, but I couldn't finish it........2004-05-21
I liked the first couple books of this series, but by the time I got to this one, I'd had enough. This felt like a romance novel with fantasy trappings more than a fantasy novel to me. Blech.
It was rushed, stilted, and didn't engage me in the least, which is sad -- the concepts of the world are pretty decent.
Fortunately, I had the latest Guy Gavriel Kay novel awaiting me, so I dumped this one about 2/3 of the way through.
A Few Slips, But Not A Bad Tumble.......2004-04-27
McKenna's series-ender is enjoyable but not outstanding. Prominently billed as "the fifth and final tale of Einarinn," there are signs throughout The Assassin's Edge that the author was basically ready to move on. Conversely, the book seems to be as much a foreshadowing of further Einarinn tales as a conclusion to the current saga.
Gambler and thief Livak, who opened the series and established much of its tone, also closes it out as first-person narrator in Edge. She and lover Ryshad have spent a quiet winter setting up housekeeping in Kellarin, where Ryshad serves as advisor to young Sieur Temar D'Alsennin and generally makes himself indispensable. Now, spring planting and construction activities are turning Livak's thoughts toward what kind of future the still-struggling colony might offer someone with her rather unconventional skills and interests. She has a few ideas, and they definitely don't include making a career of keeping house. Before she can put her plans in motion, however, a new crisis besets the colony: piracy.
Kellarin's survival depends on a regular exchange of goods and supplies with the Empire. Occupying a mid-ocean island base, pirate leader Muredarch has blocked that vital flow of trade. Wiping out the base to remove the block is easier said than done. Temar won't risk Kellarin's independence by asking any of the Empire's noble Houses for aid, and Archmage Planir decides that Hadrumal's wizards should sit this one out. With help from Livak's old mercenary friends and a few independent-minded Hadrumalians, the colony mounts its own small but determined campaign.
During a preliminary sortie, the Kellarins learn that Muredarch's success is due in part to Elietimm magic. His secret backer is the same vicious Ice Islander who's been plaguing the Empire and Kellarin for more than two years. Not a threat the colonists can counter by force, but a hand-picked assassination team just might do the trick.
This book seems rushed compared to the first four; it could easily have been spun into at least one more installment if McKenna had given it her usual treatment. Edge spends less time than its predecessors on vibrant place and character sketches; reader opinion may split over whether that's good or bad, but it's certainly noticeable. Pacing and plotting are also less carefully managed than in earlier books, twin weaknesses apparent in both the big picture and the little details: the foundation for, or follow-through of, storyline elements is often inadequate. Finally, there are too many secondary narrative voices without enough overall continuity.
On the plus side, the physical action in Edge is vigorous and creative. Magic is back in all three flavors: the colonists' ancient Artifice, its Elietimm variant, and the newer magecraft of Hadrumal. McKenna's decision to avoid a too-pat ending is typical of the fresh fantasy perspective that's helped make the series so entertaining. The Assassin's Edge could have been better, but a writer of McKenna's wit and talent can afford a few slips without coming anywhere near a bad tumble.
The Final Assault.......2004-02-27
The Assassin's Edge is the fifth novel in the Tales of Einarinn series, following The Warrior's Bond. In the previous volume, the Emperor has averted a growing conflict among the Houses over trade with Kellarin, opening such trade to all Houses. Moreover, he has foiled Tor Bezaemar's efforts to hamper the restoral of the magically dormant settlers of Kellarin. Furthermore, he has recognized Temar D'Alsennin as Sieur of his House with Kellarin as his domain and has designated other surviving nobles in Kellarin as cadet branches of House D'Alsennin.
While the Emperor's decisions do not please everybody, D'Alsennin has gained the most from them and Tor Bezaemar has profited very little if any. D'Olbriot lost its monopoly, but still has very good relations with D'Alsennin. Sieur D'Olbriot, however, has released Ryshad from his service, citing conflicting loyalties, yet bestowed a generous parting gift in gold coin and promised an excellent recommendation.
In this novel, Ryshad and Livak have sailed to Kellarin and joined the colony. Ryshad is acting as steward to the Sieur D'Alsennin and Livak has been keeping busy with various activities. She is thinking of becoming a wine merchant, using her contacts in Tormalin and elsewhere to ship the merchandise to her.
Unfortunately, shipping has become a problem. When the first ship of the season fails to appear on time, the settlers are worried. But when Guinalle receives a sending from Parrail indicating that his ship has been captured, the Kellarin leadership soon looks for the problem and discovers that pirates on Suthyfer are intercepting ships coming to Kellarin. An expedition is formed to clear the islands of pirates and release the captives.
In this story, the expedition leadership finds that the pirates have magical assistance from Elietimm adepts. Once again, Ryshad, Livak and their friends are facing the hostile magic of the Ice Islanders. They decide that it is time to confront these enemies on their own soil.
This is the final volume in the Tales of Einarinn series. However, this world has room for other stories, past or future, and such would surely delight the readership. Let us hope that the author hasn't totally abandoned this world.
Highly recommended for McKenna fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of various forms of magics in conflict, as well some desperate blade work.
-Arthur W. Jordin
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The Time Machine is one of the most enduring works of the English language. A hundred years after it was first published, the book continues to be studied. The 1895 London first edition is used as a basis for the exhaustive annotations and other critical apparatus of the worlds foremost Wellsian scholar. The widely reprinted version of 1924 is also fully accounted for. For most students, one of the chief points of interest is what the novel signified to readers when it was first published and how it relates to Wellss later works. Accordingly, the annotations focus on these questions. The introduction gives in great depth the background of the work and its complex bibliographical history, and a synopsis of the literary conventions that Wells used.
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Important novel historically but now dull reading.......2005-08-04
After 40 years and half a lifetime of being a sci-fi fan I finally got around to reading War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. I'd read a couple of Wells's other books that are less known, such as In the Days of the Comet, a very slow-paced novel without much action compared to the above two in which the earth becomes a peaceful Utopia after passing through the strange gases of a comet's tail. But I had never read his two greatest masterpieces. After I saw the recent Spielberg remake of War of the Worlds, I decided it was finally time to read them.
This book has a notable intro by LeGuin that is readable and informative, and I enjoyed that. The book itself, unfortunately, I found just so-so. I acknowledge Wells's importance and skill as an author, and his importance to the history of sci-fi, but to me this was just pretty dull stuff. I found the future society of the Eloi and the Morlocks to be valid in the sense that they are basically a reductio ad absurdum of present-day capitalist society, but that's about it. I understand Wells was fond of creating future dystopias that, as another reviewer here commented, stood Victorian society on its head, but as I said, this is still pretty thin gruel on which to build a novel. And Wells's style seems an incongruous medium for recounting a story almost a million years in the future, although in War of the Worlds I thought it worked out much better. Wells's somewhat formal and turgid Victorian prose seems an appropriate medium for describing the complete destruction of human society by the Martians.
In many ways, The Time Machine works better as a mood piece than as a science fiction novel, and the final part of the story in which the author travels millions of years into the future when the sun is dying and the human race has finally died out I found to be the most convincing part of the book. The dichotomous society of the Eloi and Morlocks, who represent the twilight of the human race, and were really no longer truly human, are gone, and the sun and earth are now in their twilight as well. This was the most evocative and poignant part of the whole book, and recalled the similar and wonderfully evocative ending in Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, in which the human race also comes to a bittersweet ending by evolving into a strange communal intelligence, thereby leaving the limitations of individual corporeal minds behind.
So while I appreciate Wells's greatness and importance as a founder of the genre and think this is still an important and even epochal book in the history of the field, I find it more gravid with historical significance than readability at this point. Perhaps I'm jaded as so much of modern science fiction wouldn't have been written without it, especially many of the classic time machine stories that followed in the 20th century, but in comparison to a lot of the modern stuff, well, I have to say it's pretty dull sledding. So perhaps I'm just a cultural barbarian, but I can only give it 3 or 4 stars, primarily as I said, beause of its historical and literary significance.
Even Better Than "War of the Worlds".......2005-06-29
H.G. Wells had a knack for turning the Victorian worldview upside down. In "The War of the Worlds," Martian invaders assault imperial Britain and slaughter the inhabitants like bushmen in the Kalahari desert. In "The Time Machine," Wells sketched a world where capitalist social relations have led to grotesque evolutionary changes. Both books are throught-provoking and superbly written. They belong to the science fiction canon.
"The Time Machine" tells the story of a Londoner of 1895 who travels 800,000 years into the future, to an age when mankind has split into two separate species. One group, the spawn of capitalist ease and affluence, has been reduced to the mental and physical level of children; the other group has become feral after eons of industrial toil. Neither group is human any longer; culture and intelligence have died out forever. In fact, with the social tables turned, the "lower" orders now use their "betters" as a food source!
Wells' vision of human decline was subversive and eloquent, and offered a wry counterpoint to the Victorian cult of progress. The penultimate chapter -- in which the time traveler voyages 30 million years into the future, to an era when the sun is dying, humanity is long-extinct, and lichens have inherited the earth -- is almost heartbreaking. The book deserves six stars!
The Time Machine.......2005-05-16
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The novel I am reading is the Time Machine and it is about a psychologist who wants to travel through the future.He had a machine that was used to travel through the future. He called it the Time Machine and it was made up of crystal, nickel and part of ivory. it also included two levers to control the Time Machine. When he first travelled through the future he saw gigantic buildings and big trees. He also saw things that were different from where he come from. With the Time Machine, he can do anything incredible like slow down time.
I found the novel a little confusing with the words and it was hard to remember what I was reading. the novel appears to be a good one. what I didn't like about the book was the end of the book. I also had trouble with the vocabulary.When you understand the vocabulary, you will start to get into the book more. my favorite character is the Psychologist because he is the one and only Psychologist who controls the Time Machine. I would rate this book a three because the author didn't explain the book well enough. I would reccommend this book on the shelf to anyone who is interested in science.
The Time Machine.......2005-05-16
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The novel I am reading is the Time Machine and it is about a psychologist who wants to travel through the future.He had a machine that was used to travel through the future. He called it the Time Machine and it was made up of crystal, nickel and part of ivory. it also included two levers to control the Time Machine. When he first travelled through the future he saw gigantic buildings and big trees. He also saw things that were different from where he come from. With the Time Machine, he can do anything incredible like slow down time.
I found the novel a little confusing with the words and it was hard to remember what I was reading. the novel appears to be a good one. what I didn't like about the book was the end of the book. I also had trouble with the vocabulary.When you understand the vocabulary, you will start to get into the book more. my favorite character is the Psychologist because he is the one and only Psychologist who controls the Time Machine. I would rate this book a three because the author didn't explain the book well enough. I would reccommend this book on the shelf to anyone who is interested in science.
The Time Machine.......2005-05-16
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The novel I am reading is the Time Machine and it is about a psychologist who wants to travel through the future.He had a machine that was used to travel through the future. He called it the Time Machine and it was made up of crystal, nickel and part of ivory. it also included two levers to control the Time Machine. When he first travelled through the future he saw gigantic buildings and big trees. He also saw things that were different from where he come from. With the Time Machine, he can do anything incredible like slow down time.
I found the novel a little confusing with the words and it was hard to remember what I was reading. the novel appears to be a good one. what I didn't like about the book was the end of the book. I also had trouble with the vocabulary.When you understand the vocabulary, you will start to get into the book more. my favorite character is the Psychologist because he is the one and only Psychologist who controls the Time Machine. I would rate this book a three because the author didn't explain the book well enough. I would reccommend this book on the shelf to anyone who is interested in science.
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Title: The Time Machine: An Invention, a Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. (book reviews)
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. . . ground-breaking . . . Many times in the course of reading her explications I found myself saying, "Of course, why hasn't someone said this before?" By showing how the sectarian demonization of the "intimate enemies"--Jews and heretics--shaped early Christianity, the book helps us to understand the power of irrational forces that still need to be confronted in contemporary society. -- S. David Sperling, professor of Bible, Hebrew Union College
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From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan's story into an audacious exploration of Christianity's shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.
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Not Scholarly.......2007-09-21
This book was written without regard for facts and misreprented the sources that were used. Many of the supposed gospels the author quoted were discredited by the early historians of the time. The author quotes them as if they were infallible. This book was written with an agenda and should be put on the shelf with fiction.
an intriguing, non-evangelical look at the Jewish-Christian rift.......2007-09-05
I think the info in this book is exceptional, though I disagree how the author sometimes applies the ingo with her own logic. For example, Pagels claims that it is unlikely that Pilate would have succumbed to pressure from the local Jewish elite -- even while she gives several examples of the historical record in which Pilate does just that.
There were many interesting points that rung with me. I've heard it taught in many circles that Jesus might have been an essene. Pagels handles this issue well on pg. 18. Using certain examples,like noting his association with tax collectors and his actions on the Sabbath, would preclude Jesus being an essene, Pagels writes that the essenes wanted a "Return to strict observance of God's law, especially the Sabbath and Kosher laws that marked them off from the Gentiles as God's Holy people." In fact, Jesus did away with Old Covenant altogether(He. 8:13).
This book is moreso about the Jesus/Israel controversy than it really is about the concept of Satan, which is used in this book as a catalyst to talk about other issues. Basically Pagels makes a contrast between the more general descriptions of Satan in the old testament and the more intricate presentation of his character in the new testament. Says Pagels on p.34, "... the figure of Satan, as it emerged over the centuries in Jewish tradition, is not a hostile power assailing Israel from without, but the source and representation of conflict within the community." Pagels correctly notes that Satan is associated with Jesus' Jewish enemies strongly. Because of her passion for gnostic works, the author attributes the hostility noted in the gospels towards the Pharisees and the like as simply a political premise, rather than a divine one. Pagels seems to take issue that the Romans were seemingly set free from blame, while the Jews take the heat for the crucifixion. Pagels also likes to surmise that works such as the Gospel of Thomas were written at the times the accepted gospels were written (incorrect, of course) and that many of the gnostic works should be held in the same light as the bible (that would be hoping and guessing.... chicky has some real issues with canonicity.)
The author tends to stray away from the subject of the book, however. In reality the focus is much more on the strife between Jesus and the Jewish leadership. I like the preterist slants in this work -- making it known that a great many prophecies of Christ and his judgments were aimed directly at the Jews of his generation, not some future yet-to-be discovered judgement in our time. On page 10, Pagels accurately suggests that when Jesus is speaking of future calamities in Mark 13 or Matthew 24, "..these very catastrophes occcurred as an angry God's punishment upon his own people for the crime of refecting their divinely sent Messiah."
Gnosticism.......2007-07-21
I liked this book as it was easy to read and informative.
I have always wondered why the Marcionite heresy would accept only an edited version of the Gospel of Luke, rejecting the other three Gospels, and after reading Pagels, I now have an idea. I will re-read the Gospels with the prespective of this book.
She spends a lot of time on Valentinian Gnosticism in the last part of the book, which acoordingly drags. Valentinus was a heretic and much weirder than the book describes. His Aeon's, Bythos, Sophia, Horus, and, Ildebaoth, can, charitably, be thought of as metaphorical, but they have always reminded me of something from Lovecraft!
YOG-SOHOTH! Cthulhu fhtagn!
Valentinus was docetic, which is not mentioned, and a dualist who thought matter is intrinsically evil, which is glossed over.
Enough. I liked and learned some things from the book so I reccomend it to serious students of early Christian doctrine. Gnosticism was heresy 1800 years ago and it still is today. 3 stars.
excellent info.......2007-07-12
Sorry that this book didn't make a bigger blaze than it did because the info is so important!
An interesting take on the subject........2007-06-12
I felt that this book was a little more to do with the use of the concept of Satan and demonic forces, rather than an explanation of the origins of these forces. So be aware of what you're getting. It's a great book and I highly recommend it, but make sure its content is what you're looking for. It connects biblical references to Satan and other demonic forces in tandem with anthropological, sociological and psychological theories regarding the Us/Them phenomenon. Interesting ideas are presented regarding biblical writers incorporating Satan as a source of evil behind enemies of Christianity or other Christian or Jewish forces that were on opposing ends of the writers of the New Testament, and the evolution of the use of Satan as perceived enemies of Christianity moved from Jewish authority, to Romans, to other 'heretical' Christians. Some other reviewers that have cited this as a demonstration that Satan is a Christian concept are quite mistaken, and I'm surprised that they walked away from a book that explicitly points out the origins of demons and evil forces outside of the realm of Christianity and predating Jesus with this impression. The book is easy to read, and the ideas are well presented and substantiated. I do agree with one other reviewer that there are other popular conflicting ideas out there which are just as well founded and not mentioned or accounted for in this book, so I wouldn't recommend reading this book in a vacuum.
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Important work from 1924 detailing the history of the Devil and exactly how the entity originated. Graves explains many things like where hell is, why we believe evil thoughts to come from the Devil, the concept of after-death punishment, the Devil as twin brother of God, why the author of evil, according to the Bible, is not the Devil but God Himself! Controversial, but extremely well-researched. A thought-provoking work, which every thinking person should consider exploring. Don't accept the reality of the Devil blindly - read this book and decide for yourself if he exists! This scarce book has been in print for as much as $79.00, but we make it affordable here.
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A historical Exposition of The Devil and His Fiery Dominions. Disclosing the oriental origin of the belief and future endless punishment; also, an explanation of the pagan origin of the scriptural terms: bottomless pit, lake of fire and brimstone, chains of darkness, casting out devils, worm that never dieth, etc.
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SATAN SCRUTINIZED.......2006-02-19
KERSEY GRAVES HAS ENCAPSULATED "THE DEVIL" IN A CONCISE EASY TO READ MANNER. THOUGHT PROVOKING TO A TRADITIONAL BELIEVER AND ENHANCING TO SOMEONE ALREADY AWARE OF HIS ORIGINS. KERSEY GRAVES GIVES THE READER SCOPE TO CHALLENGE HIM/HERSELF AND COME OUT WITH A MUCH MORE REALISTIC AND BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE DOCTRINE OF SATAN THE DEVIL - THAT OLD SERPENT AND DRAGON OF REVELATION. I THOROUGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANY STUDENT AND THE BOOK HAS A WIDE MARGIN FOR NOTES.
Understanding the Devil.......2001-01-07
The Biography of Satan is ideal for Christians, Athiests, Pagans, Witches/Wiccans & Satanists alike, giving a fantastic insight into the developement and roles of the Devil in all his forms throughout history. It describes the root mythologies and evolution of Satan, Hell etc as we understand them today in simple, digestible terms. It gives an understanding of the antagonist and his origins and dispells his cloak of shadows, describing the assimilation of classical figures and concepts of malevolence and the church's demonisation of ancient deities during the middle ages. The development of the snake symbolism and origins of the concepts of eternal damnation & the fires of hell were fascinating. Well researched, easy to understand, it's a definite must-have for anyone at all with an interest in ancient and/or modern mythos.
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"Ecstasy (Samadhi) is not a nebulous state, but a transcendental state of wonderment, which is associated with perfect mental clarity." The diminutive size of this book belies the extreme depth of its contents: the practical and urgent nature of the teachings provided here are as potentially transformative as a lightning strike. The serious spiritual investigator will find essential steps leading to the direct experience of the mysteries of life, death, karma, suffering, and the root of existence: the Emptiness or Void. This is not merely a recitation of theories or doctrines: it is the practical experience of the author, as acquired through the awakening of the consciousness, and is in accordance with the universal wisdom taught by all the great spiritual messengers throughout time and space.
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