The Still Point

The Still Point
Author: Amy Sackville
Publsiher: Catapult
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781582438009

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At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades, her dreams and devotion gradually freezing into rigid widowhood. A hundred years later, on a sweltering mid–summer's day, Edward's great–grand–niece Julia moves through the old family house, attempting to impose some order on the clutter of inherited belongings and memories from that ill–fated expedition, and taking care to ignore the deepening cracks within her own marriage. But as afternoon turns into evening, Julia makes a discovery that splinters her long–held image of Edward and Emily's romance. The Still Point moves through past, present, and future, with dreams revealing a universal simultaneity to the choices we must all make in the faces of love and passion. Long–listed for the Orange Prize, The Still Point is a powerful literary debut, masterfully told in the language of the heart.

Finding the Still Point

Finding the Still Point
Author: John Daido Loori
Publsiher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780834842847

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One of the simplest, easiest-to-understand guides to Zen meditation--with audio exercises to serve as meditation companions. Through Zen meditation it is possible to find stillness of mind even amidst our everyday activities--and this book reveals how. With easy-to-understand instructions, practical lessons, and short-but-sweet tid-bits of useful information, beloved Zen master John Daido Loori shares the way of Zen meditation in terms that even those starting from the very beginning can understand. Guided audio instructions--available for download online--supplement the teachings throughout the book, giving beginners the tools they need to take that first step into Zen practice and meditation.

Finding the Still Point

Finding the Still Point
Author: Tom Harpur
Publsiher: Kelowna, B.C. : Northstone Pub.
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1896836712

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Tom Harpur shows how ancient wisdoms, together with exciting new scientific findings, are combining to show why mere coping techniques are not enough for meeting the stress crisis. Divorced from their spiritual underpinnings and/or religious understanding, such techniques lack the potency which they originally had. Central to a spiritual response to stress is the practice of spiritual meditation in its various forms. While many within traditional Christianity still view meditation with suspicion, Harpur shows it to be one of the lost jewels of a historic treasury of Christian gifts designed for healing. More than that, it is a revitalizing gift, which the church can reclaim for its own sake, and offer the outside church who are seeking identity, meaning and purpose.

Still Points

Still Points
Author: Barry Lee Swanson
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2021-06-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1737285509

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Philip Zumwalt is an accomplished musician, poet, and idealist-a dreamer. Fresh out of college in 1940, he takes a job as a music teacher in a small, rural Illinois town. His plan is to teach for a few years hoping to save enough money to finance his dreams: go to Chicago to become a professional musician and get his pilot's license. These dreams dominate his thoughts until one summer night when he meets Elinor Robinson. Philip and Elinor's forbidden romance-and the specter of war hanging over the country-put Philip's dreams on hold. When he enlists in the Army Air Force, the gifted artist goes on an unpredictable journey of lost innocence. Life and death hang in the balance as he overcomes his fears and spiritual doubts in a desperate effort to survive aerial combat in the maelstrom of the Southwest Pacific Theater. In the end, a single dream remains for Philip: to return home to the woman he loves. Based upon the World War II diaries of the real Philip Zumwalt, this debut novel is a bittersweet tale of the transcendent power of love and reminds us of the immense sacrifices made by the men and women of that era.

STILL POINT

STILL POINT
Author: M. F. Taylor
Publsiher: Author House
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2013-09-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781491814963

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Since his enlightenment in 1986 the author, M. F. Taylor, claiming only to be a witness, has written a number of books related to enlightenment. Still-Point is the latest and the only book utilizing poetry to convey or point to a higher order of consciousness. Most poems in Still-Point are a delightful and unique mix of two apparent levels of understanding or consciousness: our everyday way of knowing, and a profound sense of “Now,” generally hidden from the self. The poems range from the whimsical to sharing the emergent wisdom, expanded insight, and journey discovered through the still-point door.

The Still Point

The Still Point
Author: Laurence Gonzales
Publsiher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1557280819

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Essays deal with the Indianapolis 500, kite flying, capital punishment, aviation, drug addiction, prison, and David Carradine

The Still Point of the Turning World

The Still Point of the Turning World
Author: Emily Rapp
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN: 1594205124

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Like all mothers, Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun. But all of these plans changed when Ronan was diagnosed at nine months old with a rare and always-fatal degenerative disorder.

Dancing At The Still Point

Dancing At The Still Point
Author: Elinor Dickson
Publsiher: Chiron Publications
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-05-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781630516970

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At a time when we are witnessing the return of the World Soul, the rise of feminine consciousness and the re-enchantment of Nature, the friendship between Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson offers us a rare glimpse into the new story yearning to be born. Dancing at the Still Point reveals a remarkable friendship rooted in Soul that is both deeply personal and transpersonal. Prompted by a dream in which Marion told her to write about their friendship, Elinor has succeeded in weaving their shared visions, dreams and insights with the playfulness, challenges, and honesty they shared over thirty-four years. Like all deep friendships, Marion and Elinor mirrored each other while mutually affirming their individual destinies. This is a book that celebrates the gift of friendship as a compelling model for community in these times. As Marion would say, “where soul meets soul that’s love” and love is the field in which we are all called to dance. Elinor Dickson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Jungian therapist, lecturer and workshop leader. She is the co-author of Dancing in the Flames written with Marion Woodman. She lives in Toronto, Ontario