Escaping Spiritual Oblivion

We live in a world of oblivion, a world of nothingness. Most of us are aware of “human consciousness” that includes an awareness of material and personal conditions and crises. Dr. Cosenza exposes the source and dimensions this false reality that pervades our lives. He is referring to “spiritual oblivion”, a forgetfulness or unawareness of one’s true inherent spiritual consciousness. There is a spiritual world and a material world. Neither world collides or can be inhabited at the same time. One world, the spiritual, is real; the other is material, is untrue and flawed. We cannot live in both levels of consciousness. True spiritual consciousness began with God who created man in His own image, which is Spirit. There are material pressures that can cause us to remain in spiritual oblivion. To escape the unrealities of oblivion, God alone provides ways to grow in consciousness and to reclaim the consciousness we had since He first created us. In his seventh book, Escaping Spiritual Oblivion: Reclaiming True Consciousness, Dr. Cosenza reveal truths of spiritual consciousness, the spiritual values that help us to maintain this consciousness and the false dimensions of spiritual oblivion that threaten to keep us from a life more abundant. Ten specific subtypes of oblivion are presented and evaluated in line with the scriptures. Gently and systematically, Dr. Cosenza guides us back to the real world of spirituality that is opposite what we know to be material or even spiritual-like. Reclaiming a higher place of consciousness enables us to renew our love and care of Almighty God and the values He cherishes for us.

We live in a world of oblivion, a world of nothingness. Most of us are aware of "human consciousness" that includes an awareness of material and personal conditions and crises. Dr. Cosenza exposes the source and dimensions this false reality that pervades our lives. He is referring to "spiritual oblivion", a forgetfulness or unawareness of one's true inherent spiritual consciousness. There is a spiritual world and a material world. Neither world collides or can be inhabited at the same time. One world, the spiritual, is real; the other is material, is untrue and flawed. We cannot live in both levels of consciousness. True spiritual consciousness began with God who created man in His own image, which is Spirit. There are material pressures that can cause us to remain in spiritual oblivion. To escape the unrealities of oblivion, God alone provides ways to grow in consciousness and to reclaim the consciousness we had since He first created us. In his seventh book, Escaping Spiritual Oblivion: Reclaiming True Consciousness, Dr. Cosenza reveal truths of spiritual consciousness, the spiritual values that help us to maintain this consciousness and the false dimensions of spiritual oblivion that threaten to keep us from a life more abundant. Ten specific subtypes of oblivion are presented and evaluated in line with the scriptures. Gently and systematically, Dr. Cosenza guides us back to the real world of spirituality that is opposite what we know to be material or even spiritual-like. Reclaiming a higher place of consciousness enables us to renew our love and care of Almighty God and the values He cherishes for us.

The essays in The Philosophy of Spirituality address spirituality as a subject of philosophical interest independent of religion and respecting diverse spiritual traditions: African, atheist, Indigenous, Indian, Stoic, and Sufic perspectives, as well as Western analytic and continental views.

How does thinking illuminate the spiritual view of life? How does a close examination of key spiritual thinkers help us to live in the modern world? And in what way does philosophy enhance spirituality? In this book, Richard White answers these questions by analysing a range of important philosophers, from Schopenhauer in the first half of the 19th century to Irigaray in the present day. Each chapter examines the work of a single writer and one closely associated theme, such as Nietzsche on generosity, Benjamin on wisdom, and Derrida on mourning. The author looks at philosophy and spirituality in the tradition of continental philosophy, and he views spirituality as something that can be separated from religion. With the rise of reductive scientific materialism becoming ever more prevalent in modern society, White seeks to recover the idea of a spiritual tradition which is not otherworldly but philosophical in nature. The thinkers discussed in this book articulate some of the deepest possibilities of human existence. Spiritual Philosophers offers an approach to philosophy as a spiritual practice, which the author sees as an integral part of our life. As a pioneering work in an emerging field – the philosophy of spirituality -- this book contributes to several key debates surrounding spirituality, theology and the role of philosophy in the contemporary world.

In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Nicola Denzey Lewis dismisses Hans Jonas' mischaracterization of second-century Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement built on the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. A focused study on the concept of astrological fate in “Gnostic” writings including the Apocryphon of John, the recently-discovered Gospel of Judas, Trimorphic Protennoia, and the Pistis Sophia, this book reexamines their language of “enslavement to fate (Gk: heimarmene)” from its origins in Greek Stoicism, its deployment by the apostle Paul, to its later use by a variety of second-century intellectuals (both Christian and non-Christian). Denzey Lewis thus offers an informed and revisionist conceptual map of the ancient cosmos, its influence, and all those who claimed to be free of its potentially pernicious effects.

Twenty pulse-pounding, mind-bending tales of science fiction, twisted metaphysics, and supernatural wonder from the two-time World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick Award winning author of The Anubis Gatesand On Stranger Tides. A complete palette of story-telling colors from Powers, including acclaimed tale “The Bible Repairman,” where a psychic handyman who supernaturally eliminates troublesome passages of the Bible for paying clients finds the remains of his own broken soul on the line when tasked with rescuing the kidnapped ghost of a rich man’s daughter. Time travel takes a savage twist in “Salvage and Demolition,” where the chance discovery of a long-lost manuscript throws a down-and-out book collector back in time to 1950s San Francisco where he must prevent an ancient Sumeric inscription from dooming millions in the future. Humor and horror mix in “Sufficient unto the Day,” when a raucous Thanksgiving feast takes a dark turn as the invited ghosts of relatives past accidentally draw soul-stealing demons into the family television set. And obsession and vengeance survive on the other side of death in “Down and Out in Purgatory,” where the soul of a man lusting for revenge attempts to eternally eliminate the killer who murdered the love of his life. Wide-ranging, wonder-inducing, mind-bending—these and other tales make up the complete shorter works of a modern-day master of science fiction and fantasy. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Tim Powers: "Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without slowing down the tale. . . . [He] promises marvels and horrors, and delivers them all."—Orson Scott Card ". . . immensely clever stuff.... Powers' prose is often vivid and arresting . . . All in all, Powers' unique voice in science fiction continues to grow stronger.”—Washington Post Book World “Powers is at heart a storyteller, and ruthlessly shapes his material into narrative form.”—The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction “On Stranger Tides . . . immediately hooks you and drags you along in sympathy with one central character's appalling misfortunes on the Spanish Main, [and] escalates from there to closing mega-thrills so determinedly spiced that your palate is left almost jaded."—David Langford "On Stranger Tides . . . was the inspiration for Monkey Island. If you read this book you can really see where Guybrush and LeChuck were -plagiarized- derived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the game. . . . [the book] had a lot of what made fantasy interesting . . .”—legendary game designer Ron Gilbert “Powers's strengths [are] his originality, his action-crammed plots, and his ventures into the mysterious, dark, and supernatural.” Los Angeles Times Book Review "[Powers’ work delivers] an intense and intimate sense of period or realization of milieu; taut plotting, with human development and destiny . . . and, looming above all, an awareness of history itself as a merciless turning of supernatural wheels. . . . Powers' descriptions . . . are breathtaking, sublimely precise . . . his status as one of fantasy's major stylists can no longer be in doubt.”—SF Site

Referring to a Chekhov story that advocates an active life, British- American writer, translator, and journalist based in St. Petersburg offers her perspective on the change from the Soviet Union to the Russian Republic, updated from visits and contacts to early 1997. She describes a country that remains in essence what it had been for three generations despite changes in the government. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Spirits of Heaven and Hell Have Been At War for Millennia. Now, with the Dawn of Christ's Return Imminent, the Race of Men are Unsuspecting Pawns in an Eternal Conflict that could Tilt the Scales for Armageddon!