Born with a curious nature, Dr. Eden began questioning the accepted beliefs and habits embraced by most people on this earth at a young age. His studies of Martial Arts introduced him to Eastern philosophies, earned him a sixth degree black belt, and led him to travel throughout the world in search of spiritual truths. After obtaining his medical license as a surgeon and working with thousands of people in physical and emotional pain, his numerous travels took him to China, Korea, and other Eastern and Asian countries. Through frequent stays in Korean and Chinese monasteries, Dr. Eden learned about Eastern spirituality and the power of the inner being. His knowledge of medicine and desire to help others heal their bodies and their lives sparked in him the aspiration to more fully explore Asian healing methods and to closely examine the path of natural and physiological approaches toward the body and its functions. In Rising Above the Clouds, Dr. Eden generously and passionately shares his wisdom and life philosophy with his readers so that they might also learn to unlock the doors of their own earthly habits and gain access to a higher level of being.
This is part of many conversations that Fabio Eden had with his disciple who was a young good-looking woman. In this book, Dr. Eden explains how devil can easily exist through a beautiful body and harm herself and others under-covered by love and care. This a true story, a true experience. This book should be a manual for every person who ever gets attracted to any superficial beauty.
"On the long road of existence, what have we done to be better than others? What are we living for?If we could make something happen, a relationship, a god-angel friendship... by giving as much as it takes, without considering ourselves anymore, we surely lived.In the end, we can only say that we lived when we lived for others, for someone who is truly worth it, because either he is God or Angel." This is a sample of sensations that Dr Eden achieved throughout life. This simple passage demonstrates his deepest feeling about how humans should behave and feel to reach their ultimate goal of existence in their earthly life. Dr Eden, in his 5th book, which is a compilation of 300 sentences, attracts our attention towards what is the most important thing in our existence, to find our innocence, our purity which we were born with, the one we lost throughout life. By cleaning our body through warm water and proper food or non-food, called fasting, and cleaning our mind through proper thoughts and emptying it from all the thoughts, we can feel this emptiness of our body and mind.According to Dr Eden, humans are full of wrong food inside their organs, and wrong thoughts inside their mind. This heaviness kills their soul first and their body thereafter, without ever understanding what they were living for.Those who can sense this message, can then react and help themselves by putting in practice the 300 sentences of this book. Each sentence should remind us about things that we don't do and that made us lose our purity. Through this purity, we will surely understand what we are living for, and not by some ancestral rituals. Those who don't understand this message, have already ended their existence as a soul and are just waiting for their body to stop functioning as well, and so they can call it the end, so called death. They will never understand what they are living for.This book is a compilation of all the little sentences that Dr Eden wrote in his different books, carrying a great meaning and making you think throughout a whole day. It is not made to be read in a row, one sentence per day will bring you a substance to think over. It can also be used to be opened randomly in any page when you ask yourself a question to which you cannot answer in your own life... the right path will surely appear more clearly.Dr Eden offers us 300 of his best compilations of what he calls wisdom. If one put in action these 300 pages, he would definitely have found the way to eternity, never mind living 300 years on earth...
Mormonism is one of the fastest growing, most misunderstood, and most debated religions of recent times. Even the simple act of defining WHAT Mormonism is (or should be) has been filled with controversy. The author reconstructs the signal events of early Mormonism as perceived from INSIDE the faith.
The core of Mormon belief was a conviction about actual events. The test of faith was not adherence to a certain confession of faith but belief that Christ was resurrected, that Joseph Smith saw God, that the Book of Mormon was true history, and tht Peter, James, and John restored the apostleship. Mormonism was history, not philosophy. It is as history that Richard L. Bushman analyzes the emergence of Mormonism in the early nineteenth century. Bushman, however, brings to his study a unique set of credentials - he is both a prize-winning historian and a faithful member of the Latter-day Saints church. For Mormons and non-Mormons alike, then, his book provides a very special perspective on an endlessly fascinating subject. Building upon previous accounts and incorporating recently discovered contemporary sources, Bushman focuses on the first twenty-five years of Joseph Smith's life - up to his move to Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831. Bushman shows how the rural Yankee culture of New England and New York - especially evangelical revivalism, Christian rationalism, and folk magic - both influenced and hindered the formation of Smith's new religion. Mormonism, Bushman argues, must be seen not only as the product of this culture, but also as an independent creation based on the revelations of its charismatic leader. In the final analysis, it was Smith's ability to breathe new life into the ancient sacred stories and to make a sacred story out of his own life which accounted for his own extraordinary influence. By presenting Smith and his revelations as they were viewed by the early Mormons themselves, Bushman leads us to a deeper understanding of their faith.''A brilliant piece of research and writing by one of America's top historians. It is written with style and felicity, and it deals with all the difficult topics that must be probed in describing and interpreting the controversial early history of Mormonism. It is simply an outstanding work.''--Leonard J. Arrington, co-author of The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints''A brilliant piece of research and writing by one of America's top historians. It is written with style and felicity, and it deals with all the difficult topics that must be probed in describing and interpreting the controversial early history of Mormonism. It is simply an outstanding work.''--Leonard J. Arrington, co-author of The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
