Our Holodeck Heaven
Author: Peej
Publisher: Peej
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Total Pages: 22
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur emerging reality is truly bizarre but truly wonderful. See the light Quantum mechanics is throwing on our real world.
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Your Untold Story
Author: Jake Owensby
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2018-01-01
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1640650059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK• Popular author and HuffPost blogger • Good for use by individuals or groups Whether we realize it or not, how we respond to life’s opportunities and challenges, to other people, and to ourselves depends upon the stories we tell about ourselves. Too often, we tell distorted stories drawn from painful experiences or internalized from others’ critical voices. These fake stories diminish our dreams, damage our relationships, and fill us with fear and self-blame. Research shows that people yearn for personal experiences of the holy, and Jake Owensby begins by inviting readers to re-imagine Jesus as friend and lover. He then turns to encouraging readers to hear and tell how Jesus would express their story and the stories of others. Jesus’ story about us is our true story: the gospel, the story of the beloved. It helps us experience the richness of life, see the stranger as friend, and make a difference in the world. Useful for both personal spiritual practice and group studies, Your Untold Story will help expand the soul by engaging imagination and deepening relationships among group members. It is a discipleship tool that will aid any individual or group of spiritually minded people. The missional church requires well-formed disciples; here is a resource to help in that process.
Heaven's Gate
Author: George D. Chryssides
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1351931180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 men and women were found in an opulent mansion outside San Diego, all victims of a mass suicide. Messages left by the Heaven's Gate group indicate that they believed they were stepping out of their 'physical containers' in order to ascend to a UFO that was arriving in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet. The Heaven's Gate suicides were part of a series of major incidents involving New Religions in the 1990s, as the new millennium approached. Despite the major attention that Heaven's Gate attracted at the time of the suicides, there have been relatively few scholarly studies. This anthology on Heaven's Gate includes a combination of articles previously published in academic journals, some new writings from experts in the field, and some original Heaven's Gate documents. All the material is expertly brought together under the editorship of George D. Chryssides.
Heavens on Earth
Author: Michael Shermer
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1627798560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA scientific exploration into humanity’s obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans’ belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality along with utopian attempts to create heaven on earth. For millennia, religions have concocted numerous manifestations of heaven and the afterlife, and though no one has ever returned from such a place to report what it is really like—or that it even exists—today science and technology are being used to try to make it happen in our lifetime. From radical life extension to cryonic suspension to mind uploading, Shermer considers how realistic these attempts are from a proper skeptical perspective. Heavens on Earth concludes with an uplifting paean to purpose and progress and how we can live well in the here-and-now, whether or not there is a hereafter.
Hamlet on the Holodeck, updated edition
Author: Janet H. Murray
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2017-04-07
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0262533480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn updated edition of the classic book on digital storytelling, with a new introduction and expansive chapter commentaries. I want to say to all the hacker-bards from every field—gamers, researchers, journalists, artists, programmers, scriptwriters, creators of authoring systems... please know that I wrote this book for you.” —Hamlet on the Holodeck, from the author's introduction to the updated edition Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck was instantly influential and controversial when it was first published in 1997. Ahead of its time, it accurately predicted the rise of new genres of storytelling from the convergence of traditional media forms and computing. Taking the long view of artistic innovation over decades and even centuries, it remains forward-looking in its description of the development of new artistic traditions of practice, the growth of participatory audiences, and the realization of still-emerging technologies as consumer products. This updated edition of a book the New Yorker calls a “cult classic” offers a new introduction by Murray and chapter-by-chapter commentary relating Murray's predictions and enduring design insights to the most significant storytelling innovations of the past twenty years, from long-form television to artificial intelligence to virtual reality. Murray identifies the powerful new set of expressive affordances that computing offers for the ancient human activity of storytelling and considers what would be necessary for interactive narrative to become a mature and compelling art form. Her argument met with some resistance from print loyalists and postmodern hypertext enthusiasts, and it provoked a foundational debate in the emerging field of game studies on the relationship between narrative and videogames. But since Hamlet on the Holodeck's publication, a practice that was largely speculative has been validated by academia, artistic practice, and the marketplace. In this substantially updated edition, Murray provides fresh examples of expressive digital storytelling and identifies new directions for narrative innovation.
Encounter
Author: Shawn Bolz
Publisher: Charisma Media
Published: 2022-01-04
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1636410561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the greatest spiritual battles right now is over perspective—the way you see possibilities, limitations, and what God is doing. This book will help you encounter God in such a way that you are able to walk in His original design for you, which is to not only commune with Him through conversation but to be aligned with His mind. When you share His thoughts and perceptions, you will be able to live the abundant, supernatural, super-empowered life God desires for you. Humans are unique in that we were not just made in the image of God; we reflect His very nature. If we understood our spiritual, neurological, psychological, and even physical connection to God, we could bring solutions to every problem humanity faces—and many would be practical, even scientific, solutions. In this book, Shawn Bolz shares a series of rich, divine encounters that have defined his spiritual perspective so others can be released into new ways of thinking and experience an expansion of their spiritual intelligence. To walk with God, you need to know not only His heart but also His mind. As believers, we were designed to commune with God, sharing not only conversation with Him but also His thoughts and perceptions—to know His mind through His Spirit. When Adam and Eve walked with God in the cool of the day, they didn’t always need the verbal communication that so limits humanity today. They had inner communication from their connectedness. This is the kind of connectedness Solomon, Joseph, Daniel, Esther, and the apostle Paul experienced, and this is what God wants to restore to His people today. This book will help readers gain a fresh vision of their faith so they can walk out their spirituality exactly as God intended and take their place in the coming move of God.
Heaven Before I Die
Author: Michael Oliver-Goodwin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 0557394589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHell of the Harvey
Author: James Hendershot
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1490736344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe great Empire, which now rules over two million galaxies, faces its first internal civil war, as two special solar systems fall under the influence of Demons of Mezokovcshzi. They challenge the Thrones new laws against separation. The Harvey refused to leave the worlds they received when the Empire first formed. Believing that history has proven all wish them genocide, they follow their new false leader, Brnd who meets an unexpected adversary. Acsa, a Harvey university student makes a pen pal from the planet Gorbachyov, who is of Stuart's ancestry. The Harvey goddess Siusan unites them, allowing their bond to cement. They hold hands to show their unity. Brnd discovers this and demands that they appear before Harvey court for execution. Harvey law declares that no Harvey may touch a nonHarvey. Siusan prepares young Acsa and her Gorbachyov friend Golubev for a special war in which they will attempt to save as many Harvey from the Masters ensuing great wrath as possible. For salvation, they must declare their allegiance to the throne. Those who save themselves will be integrated into new worlds throughout all the Empires galaxies and live as equals. They train diligently and suffer through many challenges until her calling is finished.
Heaven on Earth
Author: Richard Landes
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2011-08-04
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 0199753598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMillennialists through the ages have looked forward to the apocalyptic moment that will radically transform society into heaven on Earth. Here, Landes offers a lucid and ground-breaking analysis of this widely misunderstood phenomenon.
The Pegasus-Paradise
Author: Gabriele Breucha
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 3754391399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you remember? When you heard about the Creation Myth of the Genesis in the Bible for the first time in your childhood? Maybe you had some important questions back then, about Eve and Adam and their 'sinful fall from paradise' - but they were hardly dealt with or even answered in the classroom. And yet your questions remained. Therefore, you're now interested in a Genesis that perhaps fits our present and future times a little better. Together with the young divine couple - Thea and Theo - plus their children, this will bring you to the planet Aeon in the solar system named Pegasus, where a completely different and innovative creation of the human species is just about to begin. Following the apple's scent, so to speak . . . Another scene unfolds in the SYS(X)Y planetary system, which certainly shows some parallels to our human history on Earth. Following the story further, you may gain a completely new perspective on the 'creation' of Eve and Adam - as well as of their children. All this, however, is happening on the background of the threatening 'Universal Shockwave', a dangerous inter-galactic war of space-faring civilizations, which had been ignited by an ill-minded super-mutant. His name is Oren the First. Finally, you can witness, how Thea's and Theo's family teams up with their wise and powerful friends, in the all-out attempt to hold up this fire-storm of myriads of burning worlds at the last moment . . . But how can there be any working or even successful plan, in the face of the staggering forces of the Ultra-Empire at the command of the 'Dark Ruler'? And where will all those trials and tribulations lead Thea's and Theo's family? 'A truly heart-warming and inspiring novel!' - A well-versed editor -
