Metaphysical Fiction

Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed. As Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson argues, the genre’s freewheeling speculation and systematic world-building make it a unique lens for understanding, examining, and assessing the truth claims of religions in general and Christianity in particular.

Using a compelling novel format, the audiobook demonstrates how to apply lean thinking in a healthcare setting. It illustrates the situations, characters, and plant politics you will most likely face as you progress through your lean healthcare journey. As the story unfolds, you will discover the way of thinking and behavioral changes required to implement proven Toyota Production System (TPS) methods, tools, and thinking in healthcare.

Antoine, la quarantaine, est expert en assurances. Depuis longtemps, trop longtemps, il estime, indemnise la vie des autres. Une nuit, il s'intéresse à la valeur de la sienne et nous entraîne au cœur de notre humanité. Du nord de la France à la côte ouest du Mexique, "On ne voyait que le bonheur" offre aussi une plongée dans le monde de l'adolescence, pays de tous les dangers et de toutes les promesses.

Coping with mental health challenges, Tony Golden is drawn to the positive spiritual energy of the Southwest. But when he becomes a victim of a murderous crime, he has to act fast. His soul arrives on the soul plane, where he faces a big decision to make regarding his future. Tony travels with his spirit guide to relive moments of his life at the Akashic record—the collection of past, present, and future life events—so he can decide whether he is ready to depart or must seek resolution on earth. Has Tony learned all of life’s lessons, or is he destined to return to his physical body?

The Nanima Series is a unique story journalling the inner evolution of a spiritual seeker within the context of her relationships and life. It is set in the equally unique environment of rural Australia and has many important messages about the value of the Earth around us and the earth within us. Both ensure our health and happiness.

This captivating story combines mysticism, quantum physics, and an exploration into the nature of reality. In the early hours before dawn, a scientist secretly slips into a darkened laboratory and steals a strand from an ancient cloth. This cloth has a special and profound origin, one that some would do anything to possess, while others want it suppressed. How could this small, seemingly insignificant item change the course of the world? Years later, a mysterious man appears in New York City. Who is he, what is his connection with the ancient cloth, and why has he arrived at this time?

More than an engaging story, the 7-book Waldmeer Series is a doorway to personal and spiritual growth. Waldmeer is an idyllic coastal village with stunning natural beauty. It is a place of healing with its quiet, repetitive rhythm and has remained relatively undamaged by the outside world. The simple events of Waldmeer belie the far more complex events of the inter-dimensional worlds. These worlds meet and merge.

Niv is God. That doesn't mean he's not human. A twenty-five-year-old computer genius is tormented by an unsolvable bug. Three chance encounters with Smadar and one kiss that saves him from death leave him no choice but to fall desperately in love with her. He gets excited, confused, scared–like a human being, and at the same time begins to understand that he controls reality and manages to direct it as he wishes, time after time. But if he is God, why does Smadar avoid him?

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… ด้วยรัก จิตรัก นำสงบ ด้วยรัก จิตพบ ความอ่อนหวาน

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Die schüchterne Nathalie wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher als Ruhe. Kurzerhand bucht sie einen Meditationsworkshop in einem idyllischen Seminarhaus im Wald. Doch von Entspannung keine Spur. Während der stillen Übungen hört sie plötzlich die Stimmen der anderen, die ihr pikante Geständnisse machen. Außerdem sieht sie Dinge, die der Rest der Gruppe nicht wahrnimmt. Am Anfang glauben alle noch an eine logische Erklärung, bis in Nathalie der Gedanke aufkeimt, dass sie manipuliert wird. Wem kann sie noch trauen? Eine Jagd zwischen Realität und Wahn beginnt, aus der es scheinbar kein Entkommen gibt.

What if all brain disorders were treatable? Few would lament the passing of dementia or autism, but what if the twisted mind of a sex offender or murderer could be cured, too? Or how about a terrorist or maybe a political extremist? What if we could all be "corrected"? Welcome to the Condition: The Complete Trilogy, a series of near-future fiction novels on the cusp of becoming a frightening reality.

Il primo romanzo di Valerio Di Stefano (1964, filologo, iberista e curatore di edizione elettroniche e audiolibri dei grandi classici della letteratura mondiale) ci trasporta nel mondo illusorio di Don Fiorentino, parroco di uno sconosciuto paese e grande appassionato di libri e sigari toscani, e dei suoi tormenti interiori. Tra manie, tic, ricordi e eterni riti quotidiani, il protagonista riceve i suoi fantasmi prima di presentarsi all'appuntamento più importante della propria vita, in un una girandola di eterni ritorni del passato.

Learn how this monk learns to think outside the box. Come along with him as he fights the temptation of an old flame and a dictatorial abbot.

Pregnant with her father's child, 19-year-old Courtney is a girl on the run, willing to do anything to make her way on the road. When a car accident leaves her wounded by the side of a desolate highway, she is taken in by an environmentalist doomsday cult led by the enigmatic Saint Ambrose, a charismatic preacher and ex-environmental scientist who gave up everything after claiming to see the face of God. When he meets the seemingly vulnerable Courtney, he is taken by her beauty and her wounded soul.

Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. The core story is set in Venice in the 16th century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror.

A man discovers that the dead have awareness and are tethered to their body for a year after they die, so he begins a frantic activism to try and convince the world to stop burying their loved ones.

Qui la vita interiore di un veggente e il suo rapporto con gli altri, è commentato alla luce dell'insegnamento delle Guide. Queste ripetono che ogni persona che partecipa a un cenacolo deve assumersi la responsabilità di fare un uso costruttivo di quanto questa esperienza le può offrire, non solo nei confronti di se stessa ma anche nei confronti degli altri.

Книга Две жизни — мистический роман, который популярен у людей, интересующихся идеями Теософии и Учением Живой Этики. Первая часть романа повествует о глубоких духовных поисках героев, горьких разочарованиях, а также дальних путешествиях в поисках истины... Этот текст был написан известной оперной певицей, ученицей К.С. Станиславского, солисткой Большого театра Конкордией Евгеньевной Антаровой (1886–1959). Как вспоминала сама Кора Антарова, книга писалась под диктовку во время Второй мировой войны и являлась знанием, переданным через общение с действительным Автором посредством яснослышания.

Penelope Drayton Spence made a choice years earlier, and picked marriage and family over a promising career as an investigative reporter. Now, divorced and with her children spread around the country, she is having second thoughts. A mysterious call from the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, offers her a second chance at big time journalism. He has a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Post to leave it alone.

In this brilliant retelling of the classic tale about the transcendent power of love, author Stephen Mitchell writes, "There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs.” While the frogs never become princes, over the course of an ordinary marriage, a prince may turn into a frog. However, Mitchell tells of a different kind of love story. This adult fairytale is the story of a meditative frog's love for a rebellious princess, how she came to love him in spite of herself, and how her refusal to compromise helped him become what he was truly meant to be.