Metaphysical Fiction

ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ ಪಾಟೀಲ್ ಅವರ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಅಕಾಡೆಮಿ ವಿಜೇತ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ 'ತೇರು'. ಈ ಕಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪುರಾಣ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿ, ಸಮಾಜದ ಮೇಲೆ ಪುರಾಣದ ಪ್ರಭಾವ ಮತ್ತು ಪುರಾಣವನ್ನು ಕಾಪಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಮಾನವ ವೆಚ್ಚಗಳು, ಪ್ರಮುಖ ವಿಷಯಗಳಾಗಿವೆ.

Travel into dream with a man haunted by his lost twin sister, and share the insights and power of the subconscious mind. Fathom the uncanny wisdom and power of dream space.

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.

Lyrical, cinematic, and profoundly moving, Flying Colors is for seekers, dreamers, and anyone at a crossroads. If you’ve ever felt there must be more to life and longed for something greater, this novel will inspire you to spread your wings and soar.

In diesem Buch folgt der Leser Elias, einem Mann, der mit den Herausforderungen des Lebens in einer Welt voller Erwartungen und Missverständnisse kämpft. Als Autist fühlt er sich oft missverstanden und verloren, besonders im Umgang mit den sozialen Normen und Anforderungen seines Alltags. Durch die Auseinandersetzung mit seiner Arbeit, seinen inneren Konflikten und seiner Suche nach einem Platz in der Gesellschaft entwickelt er sich weiter. Elias beginnt, sich selbst zu hinterfragen und kämpft mit der Frage, wie er seinen Platz in einer Welt finden kann, die ihn nicht immer versteht.

Don Alvaro, a young but wise man, invokes Satan in a goetic-style magical ritual. Upon seeing the young Alvaro, Beelzebub falls in love with him and assumes the appearance of a beautiful young woman. In the journey that unfolds, Satan, disguised as a woman, tries to seduce Alvaro who rejects his advances lest he lose his precious virginity.

Yawri is an adventurous being who travels the universe discovering new realities. He comes to Earth, exalts in its glorious creation, and joins with its ever-expanding life. Shahten finds Earth, too…but he comes for something else. Believing in his righteous Way, Shahten skillfully mixes lies with truth and sets an insidious plan in motion.

"Atlas Hugged signals a revolution in the way we see the world and our rightful place within it. Not a violent revolution, thankfully, but an intellectual revolution." With these words, David Sloan Wilson invites listeners into a fictional world that mirrors events taking place in the real rapid evolution of worldwide cooperation. Wilson is uniquely positioned to tell this story.

Esteemed archaeologist Cillian McGonegal had gone missing. He was onto a discovery that would shake up what we know about ancient Egyptian mythology, its origins, time, and our place in the world. Then he vanished. After two years, the McGonegal family had given up on ever finding him. Then one day an astounding letter arrived for the other McGonegal brother, Patrick. Cillian was alive, and what’s more, he had solved the mystery of the Serpent Mound. There is danger in this discovery, for not all who want answers have the noblest reasons, as Cillian and his brother will discover.

In Counter-Clock World, time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye", blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first - but their motives are not exactly benevolent, because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave.

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.

Why is there suffering? Doesn't science disprove miracles? What about hell--and the millions who've never heard of Jesus? Is heaven for real? Lee Strobel decided to use his award-winning journalistic skills to investigate the idea of faith and prove that placing our trust in things we cannot see is a solid bet. This teen adaptation of The Case for Faith present hard-hitting findings as well as Lee's journey from skepticism to belief in an easy-to-follow manner so you can make a decision about the Christian faith and theology for yourself.

Magister Coelus, the College’s young and brilliant theorist, finally has a student capable of learning theoretical magery at the level at which he can teach it. He invites her to help him with his current research project, which promises to funnel through the hands of one mage more power than any mage has ever had. Ellen, who knows more about both the theory and practice of magic than a first year student should know, refuses, arguing that the Cascade will do more harm than good.

There is no better time to release book of such magnitude like this one. This world in a state of disarray and full of conflicting information and conspiracies making everyone very confused. What you will find in this book is coming from a man that is in possession of information of great value never shared with this world before. Listening to these short chapters you will quickly realize that this information is coming from someone intuitive with great support of an invisible council.

It's August 1965, and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old shipping containers) where he lives with his girlfriend, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and although his status as a chronicler of all things underground garners him free passage through the territories fiercely controlled by gangs, his trek is nevertheless diverted.

This is a story about how two men from different walks of life learn that neither robes of honor nor the total renunciation of worldly life is required to enjoy the most fundamental human desire—happiness. Happiness is not a philosophical enigma, but an attainable state of the mind and everyone can cherish the greatest joys through the simplest and smallest acts of daily life.

Near some 35,000 years ago, a colony of aliens descends upon the Earth, striking an engagement with Paleolithic mankind. History unfolds through the eyes of Omegan, a watcher, who attempts to guide the "science-blinded" Technocracy from spiritual doom. Morphing from one epoch to the next, Omegan, a spirited Phoebian who lives through a succession of hosts, experiences life through others as ancient myths, biblical accounts, and much pre-dynastic history is corrupted by the presence of these species, and their manufactured servants, the Nephilim.

Satori Stone isn't sure why she is targeted, she only knows her world has been turned upside down. Her neighbor teaches her the art of a mystic, and she becomes one of the most powerful people on the planet, thanks to good genes and the celestial alignment when she was born. Along the way, she meets a man who steals her heart. In a life and death battle, she learns what it takes to manifest her true destiny. Her journey from aimless wondering to purposeful pathing teaches her how to activate the powers that lay dormant within her.

A struggling photographer Thelma searches for direction in her life. She is drawn to a group conducting plant medicine ceremonies on a mysterious farm in Florida’s southern Everglades. After drinking a mescaline tea made from the San Pedro wachuma cactus with the group, she receives an unusual message and meets a young Persian man suffering from kidney failure, named Saman.

A lifelong struggle to unravel the great mystery of life leads the author on a mystical journey in search of the knowledge and wisdom that he hopes will bring him spiritual peace. Through this timeless rite of spiritual passage he finally comes to understand the nature of existence, and in the process, discovers his own place in the universal dance of life. It is a spellbinding chronicle of revelation and discovery that rises to the level of mythic reality. Out of this journey comes a profoundly personal view of creation, of life and death, and of all that lies beyond the stars.