Rapid Story Development
Rapid Story Development

Author: Jeff Lyons

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1317398882

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This book offers a unique approach to storytelling, connecting the Enneagram system with classic story principles of character development, plot, and story structure to provide a seven-step methodology to achieve rapid story development. Using the nine core personality styles underlying all human thought, feeling, and action, it provides the tools needed to understand and leverage the Enneagram-Story Connection for writing success. Author Jeff Lyons starts with the basics of the Enneagram system and builds with how to discover and design the critical story structure components of any story, featuring supporting examples of the Enneagram-Story Connection in practice across film, literature and TV. Readers will learn the fundamentals of the Enneagram system and how to utilize it to create multidimensional characters, master premise line development, maintain narrative drive, and create antagonists that are perfectly designed to challenge your protagonist in a way that goes beyond surface action to reveal the dramatic core of any story. Lyons explores the use of the Enneagram as a tool not only for character development, but for story development itself. This is the ideal text for intermediate and advanced level screenwriting and creative writing students, as well as professional screenwriters and novelists looking to get more from their writing process and story structure.

The Awakening
The Awakening

Author: Colm O'Connor

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 2015-08-28

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 071716392X

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The Awakening presents a profound yet simple message: how to awaken from emotional imprisonment and find psychological freedom.Many of us feel we are not living life to the full or living it as we should. Haunted by anxiety, we long for lifelines that can lift us out of the mundane into what Seamus Heaney called 'the marvellous'. If you feel like this, then The Awakening may be for you.Drawing on the wisdom of ancient Ireland and using the symbol of the Celtic Cross as an image for how to live, Dr O'Connor shows us that we inhabit both a vertical and a horizontal life, which intersect where the eternal breaks into the everyday and ordinary activities are infused with an extraordinary purpose.Taking you beyond mindfulness and introducing delightful new concepts like 'Mind-Flight', this book uncovers the sparkling jewels buried in the rubble of life's indifference. You can turn a tiny space into a palace, a misfortune into an opportunity, a disability into a blessing and fly when life expects you to fall. The Awakening, like the first light at Newgrange, will illuminate the hidden blessings in what may seem to be your darkened life.

Girl Awakened
Girl Awakened

Author: Suzanne Adams

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-21

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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Samantha Kingston isn't what anyone would call a spiritually-bent millennial. With her perfect boyfriend, perfect job, and perennially-packed social calendar, the world of crystals, downward dogs, chakras and intentions seems as distant to her as Mars. Absurd too, given the sole session she had with a Reiki "healer" who claimed she was well on her way to true love and eternal contentment--an assertion that's made all the more ludicrous when Sam loses her envy-inducing, Insta-ready life in a matter of weeks. But in the throes of Sam's sudden depression, a different realm appears--one in which her late grandfather shows up in her living room, archangels confront her on hiking trails, hot men with glowing auras flirt with her at Target, and a morally bankrupt man who died of alcoholism materializes in her most desperate moments. Is she losing her mind--or is she on the cusp of a radical personal revolution? She doesn't have much time to think about it, as a shamanic astrologer orders her to travel to several power spots around the globe, all of which are meant to take her farther away from the sinister influence of a group of unseen souls and closer to her genuine purpose on Earth--at least this time around. Described as "hugely entertaining" by New York Times bestselling author and contributor to The Secret Lisa Nichols--and "fun, witty, and provocative" by podcast prodigy/The School of Greatness's Lewis Howes--Girl Awakened is the first in a trilogy about spiritual awakening in the modern age. Tapping into the growing interest in divine communication, self-love, and life's hidden truths, the novel takes readers from the sultry streets of Atlanta to the towering pyramids of Egypt, proving along the way that magic and meaning are waiting for us just beneath the surface.What New York Times Bestselling Authors are saying about Girl Awakened:"Girl Awakened is a mystical story that's fresh, inventive and will linger with you long after you are finished reading. Spirit Junkies will relish this exciting new adventure and hunger for more.-#1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Super Attractor Gabby Bernstein "Fun, witty, and provocative! Girl Awakened will get you jazzed about life's bigger questions while taking you on an incredible ride."- New York Times Bestselling Author Lewis Howes "Soul-enhancing, life-affirming, and, most of all, hugely entertaining, Girl Awakened is as impossible to put down as it is to forget. Delivering the greatest spiritual messages through one of the most appealing protagonists in recent memory. Girl Awakened is destined to introduce a whole new genre of literature." -New York Times Bestselling Author Lisa Nichols

Awakening Verse
Awakening Verse

Author: Wendy Raphael Roberts

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0197510272

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"Beginning with Isaac Watts's Horae Lyricae (1706) and concluding with the burgeoning poetic print culture of the early nineteenth century Awakening Verse unfolds how evangelical ministers, itinerants, and lay people in colonial British North America capaciously engaged prevailing ideas about literary taste and created a distinct transatlantic poetics grounded in Watts's notion of the "plainest capacity." From the evangelical women who were instrumental in the development of bountiful verse ministries and the creation of poetic coteries to the itinerant ministers for whom poetics and its attendant sociability were central, evangelicals produced new forms of the "poet-minister" and "print itinerancy" that emerged as crucial practices of revivalism and facilitated rearrangements of ecclesiastical, gendered, and racialized authority. Well-known poet-ministers, such the Bostonian Sarah Moorhead and the Virginian James Ireland, reimagined formal poetic elements in the service of saving souls. Others, like Samuel Davies and Phillis Wheatley became enmeshed in critical debates over the racialization of evangelical verse. Countless others, in print and in manuscript, joined with Watts to save poetry from its "profligate" uses. Awakening Verse shows that American literary and religious histories that regularly exclude one hundred years of verse severely impoverish our understanding of early evangelicalism and American poetry. Taking revival poets and their verse as seriously as they and their contemporaries did provides an entirely new understanding of eighteenth-century evangelical and literary culture, one in which poetry serves as one of the primary actors in the creation, maintenance, and adaptation of evangelical culture and religious enthusiasm animates American poetics"--

The Doomsday Calculation
The Doomsday Calculation

Author: William Poundstone

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 031644071X

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From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the future is transforming everything we know about life, business, and the universe. In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers. Now, as the foundation of big data, Bayes' formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy. But here's where things get really interesting: Bayes' theorem can also be used to lay odds on the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence; on whether we live in a Matrix-like counterfeit of reality; on the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum theory being correct; and on the biggest question of all: how long will humanity survive? The Doomsday Calculation tells how Silicon Valley's profitable formula became a controversial pivot of contemporary thought. Drawing on interviews with thought leaders around the globe, it's the story of a group of intellectual mavericks who are challenging what we thought we knew about our place in the universe. The Doomsday Calculation is compelling reading for anyone interested in our culture and its future.

Indigo Awakening
Indigo Awakening

Author: Jordan Dane

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-12-18

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0373210760

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Voices told Lucas Darby to run. He's warned his sister not to look for him, but Rayne refuses to let her troubled brother vanish on the streets of LA. In her desperate search, she meets Gabriel Stewart, a runaway with mysterious powers and far too many secrets.

Realizing Awakened Consciousness
Realizing Awakened Consciousness

Author: Richard P. Boyle

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0231539231

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If, as Buddhism claims, the potential for awakening exists in all human beings, we should be able to map the phenomenon with the same science we apply to other forms of consciousness. A student of cognitive social science and a Zen practitioner for more than forty years, Richard P. Boyle brings his sophisticated perspective to bear on the development of a theoretical model for both ordinary and awakened consciousness. Boyle conducts probing interviews with eleven prominent Western Buddhist teachers (Shinzen Young, John Tarrant, Ken McLeod, Ajahn Amaro, Martine Batchelor, Shaila Catherine, Gil Fronsdal, Stephen Batchelor, Pat Enkyo O'Hara, Bernie Glassman, and Joseph Goldstein) and one scientist (James Austin) who have experienced awakening. From the paths they traveled to enlightenment and their descriptions of the experience, he derives three fundamental properties of awakened consciousness. He then constructs an overarching model that explains how Buddhist practices help free the mind from attachments to reality and the self and make possible the three properties of awakening. Specifically, these teachers describe how they worked to control attention and quiet the mind, detach from ideas and habits, and open themselves to compassion. Boyle's account incorporates current theories of consciousness, sociological insights, and research in neuroscience to advance the study of awakened consciousness and help an even greater number of people to realize it.

The Gates of Doom
The Gates of Doom

Author: Rafael Sabatini

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13:

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"The Gates of Doom" by Rafael Sabatini. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.