Dreamscape in A minor is about the short life of a musically gifted and misunderstood young man. Jeff could make you double over with laughter with his comic timing or play a beautiful and complex piece of music simply by hearing it. Author Judi Loren Grace, Jeff’s mother, skillfully breathes life back into her son. Judi is a natural born storyteller. She carefully and painfully reconstructs Jeff’s life, cut short by suicide. You will cry, smile, and laugh, but more importantly, you will come to understand how dangerous misinformation can be. A mother speaking directly to her son, explains the repercussions of his action. She tells of her journey to heal and understand, delving into the spirit world and turning back to herself to tap the stark reality and consequences of her own denial.
Dreamscape in A minor captures the short life of a musically gifted and misunderstood young man. Jeff could make you double over with laughter with his comic timing or play a beautiful and complex piece of music simply by hearing it. Author Judi Loren Grace, Jeff's mother, skillfully breathes life back into her son. Judi is a natural born storyteller. She carefully and painfully reconstructs Jeff's life, cut short by suicide. You will cry, smile, and laugh, but more importantly, you will come to understand how dangerous misinformation can be. A mother speaking directly to her son, explains the repercussions of his action. She tells of her journey to heal and understand, delving into the spirit world and turning back to herself to tap the stark reality and consequences of her own denial.
Collection of 23 short stories--from classic horror to vampire thrillers, imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, a teleplay, and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt little piece on Little League baseball.
This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony, and his story of exile and homecoming, "My Dream," Charles Fisk explains how Schubert's view of his own life may well have shaped his music in the years shortly before his death. Fisk's intimate portrayal of Schubert is based on evidence from the composer's own hand, both verbal (song texts and his written words) and musical (vocal and instrumental). Noting extraordinary aspects of tonality, structure, and gestural content, Fisk argues that through his music Schubert sought to alleviate his apparent sense of exile and his anticipation of early death. Fisk supports this view through close analyses of the cyclic connections within and between the works he explores, finding in them complex musical narratives that attempt to come to terms with mortality, alienation, hope, and desire. Fisk's knowledge of Schubert's life and music, together with his astute and imaginative attention to musical detail, helps him achieve one of the most difficult goals in music criticism: to capture and verbalize the human content of instrumental music.
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that underlies manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, and other texts, Robert Ford Campany sheds light on how people in a distant age wrestled with--and celebrated--the strangeness of dreams.
From the depths of ink-stained dreams, where the quill dances like a whispering breeze, emerges a collection of verses, a constellation of thoughts that births the luminous tapestry of "Aleph's Elysium" This poetic prelude, a chalice of inspiration, holds the elixir from which the subsequent prose springs forth, a modernist marvel that defies the bounds of the seen and ventures into the realm of the unseen. Surreal strokes of imagination paint kaleidoscopic images upon the canvas of perception. Through this symphony of words, the ethereal curtain lifts, revealing not just the facade of reality, but the very essence that pulsates beneath the surface. The themes, weighty as the Atlas of existence, gather like storm clouds on the horizon - humanity's place in the cosmos, the delicate dance of love, the infinite corridors of dimensions, and the primal rhythms of survival. The once-familiar style dissolves, an alchemical transformation, leaving behind a pyre of syllables, a confluence of consonants and vowels. A conflagration of expression devoid of anticipation, stripped of dreams and desires, as though the hands of fate have woven their final strands. Poetry, in this age of dopamine torrents and numbing stimulants, grapples with its own metamorphosis. Can mere verses, crafted from ink and emotion, find their place amidst a world where the living seem entrapped in spectral shells, wandering through existence like forlorn echoes? Amidst this existential labyrinth, where the cacophony of life's cemetery echoes, a revelation blooms like a desert flower. A clarion call pierces the air, a call to arms against the entropy that threatens to engulf all purpose. It is the moment of reckoning, the juncture where eyes cast around, seeking a lifeline amidst the chaos. A purpose, however absurd, becomes the North Star, guiding the seeker through the labyrinthine corridors of existence. This very essence, this uncharted terrain of purpose, becomes the lodestar of the poet's lyrical soul. With each verse, the symphony of words a testament, the poet confronts the enigma head-on. They grasp at the intangible threads of meaning, weaving a tapestry that blurs the boundaries between the mundane and the sublime. The purpose sought, a beacon in the fog, becomes the heart's anthem, sung with every line, every stanza, every crescendo. And so, within the pages of this collection, the metamorphosis unfolds, a journey from verse to prose, from contemplation to revelation. The poetic whispers that ripple through the soul pave the path toward the realm of "Alephov Elizij," a testament to the power of words to transcend the known, to breach the boundaries of perception, and to forge a connection between the heartbeats of humanity and the cosmic rhythms of the universe. Dear reader, as you embark on this literary odyssey, may you traverse the labyrinth of existence alongside the poet's lyrical subject. May you grasp the quill of inquiry and inscribe your thoughts upon the parchment of understanding. And in the dance between words and meaning, may you find not just answers, but the exquisite cadence of questions that propel you ever forward on the timeless quest to unravel the enigma of existence itself.
A cat and her sorcerer, a beautiful dream weaver, an evil voodoo priest, a bunch of man-sized rats, an army of really big bugs, a crazed randy rabbit, some dwarves, dragons and angry three-toed sloths, New York City, the woods of Maine, the sands of Arabia and the mythic lands of Avalon all come together for the wildest most epic adventure you ve ever read!!!!
This book traces the intersection of dreams and power in order to analyze the complex ways representations of dreams and paradigms of dream interpretation reinforce and challenge authoritarian, hierarchical structures. The book puts forward the concept of the dreamscape as a pre-representational space that contains anarchistic attributes, including its instability or chaotic nature and the lack of a stable or core selfhood and identity in its subjects. The book situates this concept of the dreamscape through an analysis of the Daoist notions of the “transformation of things” and hundun (chaos) and the biblical concept of tehom (the deep). Using this conceptual framework, this book analyzes paradigmatic moments of dream interpretation along a spectrum from radical, anarchist assertions of the primal dreamscape to authoritarian dream-texts that seek to reify identity, define and establish hierarchy, and support coercive relationships between unequal subjects. The book’s key figures include William Blake, Robert Frost, Jacob and Joseph from Genesis, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jean Rhys, Franz Kafka, and the neurobiologist J. Allan Hobson
Dream Psycles is about self discovery through self hypnosis. This little book will empower you with simple techniques and sound advice that you can use right now to awaken and redefine subconscious patterns that influence your ability to accomplish huge goals in life. In addition to these powerful principles, you will learn: Why many people cannot achieve simple goals in life, while others achieve grand, even spectacular goals with astonishing ease. How we are all essentially hypnotized all of the time, and that this is a normal state of mind that defines a person's life in the form of a Dreamscape. How your Dreamscape is composed of Dream Psycles that not only reflect your overall health, happiness, and fortune in life, but also control these aspects of your being. How set-points work in regulating and governing the mind and body, and how easily you can take control of these set-points once you master the 20 keys to controlling your subconscious mind. How to create a positive, enriching Dreamscape using any of the wide range of modalities, scripts, and techniques fully explained in this book. How to exercise and maintain complete control over virtually every aspect of your life, effortlessly. How to master the art of Thinking Big - to think like a Giant - and how to actualize the ideas that you conceive. This game of life is far too short to worry about what we cannot change, and much too long to live without changing what we can. Today is the day to begin! The techniques presented in this book will help you wake up, shape and master your own Dream Psycles, and enable you to make even your wildest dreams come true! If you would like to purchase this book on CD as a PDF file, along with 90 minutes of companion MP3 audio tracks that you can listen to on your personal computer or MP3 player, please send a check or money order for $15 to: Carl Schoner Dream Psycles, Dept T P.O. Box 4462 Diamond Bar, CA 91765 Please visit the author's website at www.lulu.com/carl-schoner for more information.
