I just read "Sister Water" by Nancy Willard. Good book, a few magical, mystical elements to it as well the the story of three generations of the same extended family centering on an old woman coming to terms with the fact her mind isn't what it used to be, plus a murder and a false accusation. Delightful characters was the strongest point of it overall I think.

I am reading: "THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE," by Michael Talbot published in 1991 by HarperPerennial.....This book is one of the most important books of the last decade...It is a groundbreaking book about the universe being in fact a giant hologram containg both matter and consciousness as a single field created by the human mind...".This remarkable new way of looking at the universe explains not only the unsolved puzzles of physics, but also such mysterious occurrences as telepathy, out-of-the-body and near death experiences, "lucid" dreams, and even religious and mystical experiences such as feelings of cosmic unity and miraculous healings." ....so says Larry Dossey, M.D., author of "Space, Time and Medicine....

The book is filled with people who have unexplainable powers of the mind that can perform miracles.....which can all be explained by this theory the author has written about based on the work of two top scientists in this field.

http://www.amazon.com/Holographic...oks&qid=1173426999&sr=8-1

Interesting! Physics and mysticism rolled into one investigation, sounds like a good read, hope you're enjoying it!

You willl not believe what is in this book....There is a chapter in it called: "A Pocketful of Miracles," where the author lists the many people who have possessed powers no one can explain, except by the theory his book explains...

There is this man by the name of "Sathya Sai Baba," a sixty-four-year-old East Indian holy man (in 1991) who can produce out of thin air, lockets, rings, and jewelry and then pass them out as gifts. He can also materialize an endless supply of Indian delicacies and sweets, and out of his hands pour an endless suppy of sacred ash. He can materialize specific objects on request, such as fruit out of season, and even more amazing, hot food, so hot that people sometimes cannot even hold the food. He can make sweet syrups and fragrant oils pour from his hands (and even his feet), and when he is finished there is no trace of the sticky substance on his skin. He can produce exotic objects such grains of rice with tiny, perfectly carved pictures of Krishna on them.

What this all means is that the world is nothing but an objectivized dream, says Yogananda, and whatever your powerful mind believes very intensely instantly comes to pass.

This is someting like "The Science of Mind," book says as well as the many books on Christian Science, or the Unity Church founded by Myrtle Fillmore back in the 1890's in the U.S......Those people who wrote the book, "THE SECRET," are telling us nothing new....I knew about this subject 35 years ago..But all of those books I read are long out of print, that's why these people are getting so much attention and getting rich....They have a movie that you can see on Google Video, called "THE SECRET," that preceeded their book......


By the way, I am also posting on the "Chronicles web site..That's where I found yours posted by "Mouse." I am having a debate with 2 men my age about the moon...They seem to think it is a dead world....I referred them to three books with enough information in them to refute their closed minded beliefs....You can find my post about this under the "Universe" heading and then the "solar system.' I am also known there as "Moebius Tripper.

Also, I noticed that that web site just took down their "Press Release' board where I posted my book and info....Do you know why they did that?

I'm not a member so I'm afraid I haven't a clue, your best bet is probably to get in touch with the board administrators and ask them personally.


As for the book you're reading, it sounds interesting, I must admit I tend to be cynical about a lot of things like miracles, the supernatural and all forms of religion, but at the same time I certainly don't think we've reached the end of a period of discovery and just because science can't explain it now doesn't mean that it won't be able to in the future - one of humanity's biggest problems in my opinion is that we keep thinking we know it all, and then someone goes and discovers something that throws up whole new questions. All the same, I remain sceptical about a guy who can make things appear out of the power of his mind! ;)Although I'd say it ties in to things like people being able to walk on hot coals by focussing their minds on not letting it burn them, but again, I'd want to see before I believed.

Mouse - That's me! I didn't realise they'd taken down the press release bit?!

Edit: It's still there, I seen the thread for your book too.

Thanks Em_J for the information

About that book I am reading: If you read it, it will change your mind about what you think is reality...The author is proving that reality is plastic and can be made to conform to our beliefs....That everything is a an energy field, etc....This is the book to read if you want to open up your mind to what is really going on beneath what we believe to be real.....

I have read many books like this one, but this one "tops the cake" because of the many examples he gives to prove his point.

I have read all of the books of Z. Sitchin who wrote that classic book: "the 12th Planet," as well as all the books by Robert Charroux who wrote the classic: "One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History," as well as 4 others on the mysterious things of our past history....

It is because I have read these kind of books that I was able to write a book of my own based on some of the facts authors like these have written about.

My first novel, unpublished as yet, that I wrote about 25 years ago, is a novel about Lord Francis Bacon being the author of the so-called Shakespearean plays. The story even has the Ark of the Covenent and the Stafff of Moses in it, as well as the Stone of Scone, which was also known as, "Jacob's Pillow Stone," and "The Stone of Destiny," etc...

I notice that you are from Ireland....The Stone of Scone, as you know, was in Ireland for over one thousand years and was used in the coronation of the Irish Kings.....My novel is also about the British Israelite Theory which is no theroy when you look into the facts...Your country has a flag with the "Harp of David" in it for the reason that the last king of Israel's daughter married the Prince of the Tribe of Dan, which was a tribe of Israel that had settled in Ireland...You might know this woman as "Tea Tephi."

You can download a free copy of a book about the British Israelites....The name of the book is: "Judah's Scepter and Jacob's Birthright....I will have to look up the web address on Google for you....Look for it on my next post here....

Will do! Irish history before Christianity certainly interests me.

http://www.giveshare.org/israel/judah/

Great!!.....Just click on the link above and it will take you to the entire book....You will love this I know....Tell me what you think of it when you

look it over.

This book is about "TEA TEPHI" which really goes into the past history of Ireland which hardly anyone knows

http://asis.com/~stag/jerrytea.html

Here 's another web site about Irish History....That Tea Tephi web site I thought had a whole book on her...You will have to do a Google search to find a book about her...Although I did buy one years ago from a company that reprints old books...The company is: Health Research Company located in the state of Washington or Oregon, USA.....I will have to look them up in Google..... http://www.healthresearchbooks.com/


http://www.motherbedford.com/ogths8.htm

i'm reading to kill a mockingbird at the moment

I'm reading Buried Fire by Jonathan Stroud. (still) T'is ok, not as good as his others.

I love that book, I must read it again soon actually as it's been years now, the way they're scared of Boo Radley is excellent, as much as it's about racism and other serious issues like incest and rape, I love the bits where Scout is just being a tomboyish child, inquisitive and funny without meaning to be!

I've never read it! Ever. Not even at school. Just had to read Of Mice and Men and that was it!

I've never read of Mice and Men...I switched schools halfway through third year and missed out on it, that's the one with the two farm hands isn't it?

Yeah. George and Lenny (I think!) I didn't like it much.

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