You know us. We are your cousin Alice, who tells the story of Nanna's funeral; how all the cars followed Uncle George in the wrong direction, while a priest stood by the grave, waiting to conduct the burial. We are your dad, who you visit on warm summer nights, and he talks about the old days; when he met mum; when he worked in the cane fields. We are the migrant family next door, who laugh till they cry, telling of how, when they arrived in the fifties, they went to the milk bar for a gelati. The owner kept saying "Gilleti" and offering them razor blades. We are the Vietnamese mother who tells you one day how she came to Australia. She quietly talks of three weeks at sea in a small boat, crammed in with twenty others, knees to chest, cold, wet and hungry. We are anyone who has lived in Australia since the 1930s. Often, our stories will be your stories; but some will be strange, different; some will be funny and others will bring tears. We are the story tellers who started with memories that turned into stories. We wrote them down, and learned the frustration when the words wouldn't come; and experienced that magical moment when the words took over, and the story wrote itself. We became authors. Now here we are. These are our stories; our country's living history, by the best historians of all - those who lived it. John McBride (2010)
God.Is he there? This is one of the many questions the author had accumulated in her mind, since her childhood. In 1959, she saw Sri Sathya Sai Baba in Ooty, the beautiful hill station in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu, India. Almost fifty-one years later, in the year 2010, Baba not only narrated this incident to her, but he also narrated one day in her present life, and one day in her future life through a totally unconnected third person in her life. In addition to the above incident, Baba has not only given answers to almost all the questions in her mind, but on his own given clarity to many more age-old questions.The Almighty, and the Almighty alone can describe an event happened in the distant past of her life, or give answers to the questions in her mind. She realized without an iota of doubt that Sri Sathya Sai Baba was God incarnation in the human form. Many more miracles which followed in quick succession confirmed his divinity, and her unshakable faith in him grew stronger by the day. In fact, she had the dharshan of Swami at close proximity many times, but Swami looked straight in her eyes, only thrice. On all the three times, her mind was blank. The first, and the second time was on the same day when Swami went past her, and that too within fifteen minutes duration. The colour of his eyes changed from powerful, light yellow which appeared like glistening marbles the first time to the normal black, soft, and ordinary eyes the second time. Swami, neither gave her any personal interview to ask him a single question, nor did he give her any time to even think consciously because he was spinning her around him with his challenging miracles, puzzling paranormal incidents, and thought- provoking visions which left her no time to ask him anything even in her mind. Honestly, in her bewilderment, she had even forgotten her questions.She occasionally sat in his bhajans. Except during the festivals, she did not buy flowers for him. She did not do aarthi to his photograph. Actually, she did nothing that people do traditionally, but she had inexplicable, and simple love for Swami. Swami in his subtle form has shown her that God not only exists, but is there everywhere, and that all Gods are one, and the same. Swami gave her all the incidents to write about. Half way through, he made her take photographs of important miracles. She thought that he had given her a simple job of writing about some of the breath-taking, bewildering, and stunning incidents in this book along with some photographs confirming them. She started writing in the year 2011. During these six years of writing the book, she has lived through the incidents again, and again. It was only then that she understood Swami's many more mind-boggling revelations.Basically, all those who have faith in Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba will have absolutely no problem in connecting to the incidents in this book as almost all his disciples would have witnessed one, or more miracles in their lives. This book is also for all those who have belief in any God because Baba has celebrated the festivals of all religions in Puttaparthi to show that all Gods are one, and the same besides he has inscribed the symbols of most of the religions in his emblem. The author will feel blessed if Atheists read her book. It does not matter even if they read it as pure fiction, or figment of her imagination because she has been made to achieve an impossible feat in her life - writing a book.
After a mysterious disaster, a young man named Eric finds that he has just as mysteriously developed extraordinary abilities. He starts out trying to help people, but his solitary position in the world isolates him in ways no ordinary human could understand.
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