The Veils

Awakening through the Veils takes the reader, step by step, through the mysterious process of awakening. For most seekers, it will be a direct and practical guide towards an actual awakening. For those already awake, it will help to deepen them from where they are now. "During the last ten years, I have had the privilege of following Ric's awakening path, and it has produced a huge transformation in me. I have worked on my inner constraints, freeing the issues that caused me great fear and suffering. Through Ric's guidance, I have been able to walk step by step on a road that leads to awakening to our true nature, creating a life with more freedom and openness. It has been a journey from the shadows to the light. I am completely sure that as you read this book and put your consciousness into it, you will have the same wonderful experience." -Santiago Ardissone, President of the Columbia Foundation on Consciousness and Energy "Of all the teachers, guides, and masters who I have met in my forty years of seeking spiritual fulfillment, Ric Weinman has the ability to map not only consciousness but that most elusive of qualities: awakening. VortexHealing(R) provides a path that anyone can tread to that end. What more can you ask? I thoroughly recommend the VortexHealing(R) path, Ric, and this great book he has written." -Richard Farmer, Founder, Tai Chi Movement for Wellbeing; Dir. Rising Dragon Tai Chi Living Ltd.; Hon. Pres. Tai Chi Union of Great Britain

Thinning of the Veils is a work of spiritual, socially-relevant poetry and memoir. Drawing on personal life experiences, the author weaves a spell of tactile-felt memories that have been instrumental in his growth in awareness. Intermingled with observational looks at patterns of human activity, its poems suggest correlations and differentness uncommonly entertained about conscious and unconscious states.

At times we feel that our lives must have a higher purpose. We long to connect to our own individual Truth. Should one of our life's challenges become extremely difficult to bear, we might refer to it as the dark night of the soul. Sophia is a young woman who has become very dissatisfied and disillusioned with life. She feels trapped. She is then forced to take a journey through the dark night of the soul in her quest for greater meaning. "To be truly free you have to face yourself," the wise old man of the forest tells Sophia early on in her journey. The Veils of Illusion is an allegory; a mystical journey of discovery during which Sophia undergoes many trials and tests, each providing her with the arduous task of learning greater wisdom and new insights. She encounters a variety of unique and intriguing characters along the way, like the majestic Sibyl who reigns over the Land of the Shadows and the gentle Emil who talks with delight of the moon and of the Divine Feminine. Yet Sophia's ultimate goal is to meet her own Shadow self - her unconscious - that which has been hidden away for so long. Shadows are cast only in the presence of light. Will Sophia find a way to see that there is also beauty and wisdom in her own Shadow? Walk with Sophia along the West Road. Weave through the light and dark, and find out if she can free herself from the ties that bind. This story offers hope and inspiration to anybody who walks their own sacred journey of self- discovery. Profoundly moving, this is an enchanting and dream-like portrayal of one person's emotional and spiritual journey of transformation to wholeness.

Enjoy this Good vs. Evil series by USA Today Bestselling epic fantasy romance author Tameri Etherton... To return home, they’ll have to lose their way. The devious god Kaldaar exiled the two people who could bring about his demise. Is he the only one who wishes to have Taryn and Rhoane removed permanently, or are other forces in play that would see Aelinae ruled by the Dark? As Taryn and Rhoane navigate other worlds, they discover secrets that will help them defeat their enemies. Secrets Kaldaar is only too eager to steal for himself. It’s a race across galaxies far from home, all the while tracked by a shadow. With every new world comes fresh dangers, and renewed hope. Zakael watched in horror as Kaldaar sealed the portal behind Taryn and now, he fears what the god will do to his home world. Kaldaar wears a familiar face, yet he is anything but a friend. When he threatens to consume the mad god Rykoto to enact his vengeance on Aelinae, and all who live there, Zakael must make a deadly choice. The longer Taryn and Rhoane are away, the stronger Kaldaar becomes. But the people of Aelinae won’t submit to his rule so easily. Taryn and Rhoane might be far from home, but their combined powers strike terror in a dark god’s heart. Will their Light be enough? Or will Taryn and Rhoane return to a world they no longer recognize? Cutting through the veils of deception can lead to answers… or oblivion. The Veils of Deception is book four in the Song of the Swords epic fantasy romance series. A steamy romantic story with world bending consequences, it does have strong language, and plenty of sexy times. Enjoy!

Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of "transvergence" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose.

Compelling memoir of an American woman and her family moving to Yemen, learning to live in the Islamic culture, and offering hope to Muslim women.

This book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Hélène Cixous is an account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia; Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" muses on a host of motifs, including his varied responses to "Savoir."