Soul Sick Nation

Astrology and geopolitics may seem strange bedfellows, but Soul-Sick Nation puts the two together in a masterful hybrid to provide a perspective as extraordinary as modern times.

Human beings tend to romanticize history or idealize historical figures. This is nowhere more apparent than the civil rights era of the twentieth century. The problem is that when we idealize history, we fail to learn from it. The result is that history repeats itself along with its sins and atrocities. The January 6 Capitol insurrection and the current racial reckoning we are experiencing is unoriginal to the American experience. We have been here before. This book seeks to humanize people we have idealized. Readers are invited to challenge racial hatred and injustice in their own context by looking to the lives of historical figures who have faced the challenges we currently face. By examining the self-care practices of personalities like Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Benjamin Elijah Mays, and Martin Luther King Jr., this book examines the practices of introspection and self-work these historical figures engaged in that enabled them to fulfill the body of work they are celebrated for today. By humanizing these historical titans, we can emulate similar practices of self-care and introspection in our own lives that can equip us in continuing the ongoing work of dismantling structures of racial hatred and oppression, and promoting freedom, love, equity, and justice to redeem the soul of a nation.

The untold story of a turning point in modern history--how the brain was discovered to be the seat of human consciousness--from an author The "New York Times" calls "as fine a science writer as we have, in the company of David Quammen and John McPhee."

This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. Its main arguments are that the metaphor of the German nation as a body that needed to be rescued from a deadly poison must be viewed as the conceptual basis rather than a mere propagandistic by-product of Nazi genocidal policies culminating in the Holocaust, and that this metaphor is closely related to the more general metaphor complex of the nation as a human body/person, which is deeply ingrained in Western political thought. The cognitive approach is crucial to understanding the nature and the origins of this metaphor complex because it goes beyond the rhetorical level by analyzing the ideological and practical implications of the conceptual mapping body-state in detail. It provides an innovative perspective on the problem of how the Nazis managed to ‘revive’ a clichéd metaphor tradition to the point where it became a decisive factor in European and world history. Musolff reveals how such a perspective allows us to explain why the body-state metaphor continues to be attractive for use in contemporary political theories.

Have you ever had second thoughts about allowing your child to be vaccinated? There are numerous conflicting arguments about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Dr. Fisher points out the pros and the cons of vaccines to assist parents in making an informed decision. With the global spread of Covid-19 there will be pressure for schools and businesses to require mandatory vaccines. This book demonstrates that your decision should not be taken lightly. While vaccines for diseases brought to the America’s like smallpox, measles, and polio were for the most part effective, many were tainted with toxins or medications to control population. This book also points out that our government in cooperation with many renowned medical institutions injected victims with syphilis, gassed soldiers of color, and tested chemicals on minority communities without their consent or knowledge. This gives me pause when considering current claims of vaccine safety by our government and medical community. I encourage you to read this book. Knowledge is power. The better informed you are, the better the decision you will make for your family.

In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impact of the Civil War on Frederick Douglass' life and thought, offering new insights into the meaning of the war in American history and in the Afro-American experience. Frederick Douglass' Civil War follows Douglass' intellectual and personal growth from the political crises of the 1850s through secession, war, black enlistment, emancipation, and Reconstruction. This book provides an engrossing story of Douglass' development of a social identity in relation to transforming events, and demonstrates that he saw the Civil War as the Second American Revolution, and himself as one of the founders of a new nation. Through Douglass' life, his voice, and his interpretations we see the Civil War era and its memory in a new light.

Does God Still Miraculously Heal? Some Christians claim that God answered their prayer for a miraculous healing; others are puzzled why God didn’t do likewise for them. Miraculous Healing explores the how, why, and the why not of divine healing. Max Sturge shows how it fits into God’s redemptive plan for the world, including how the cross of Christ relates to human pain and suffering. Sturge’s approach to this fascinating and sometimes controversial topic of miraculous healing is biblically sound, enlightening and heart-warming.