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The Bridge Paradigm : Valerie Christopher
The Bridge Paradigm: A Spiritual Path to Un-Fooling Ourselves and Social Responsibility
For as far back as author and consultant Valerie Christopher can remember, the efforts presented by individuals who inspire and empower others as a result of their goal to improve unfavorable, unsatisfactory or unfair conditions by virtue of their community, business, education and environmental involvement, has deeply uplifted her.
“Recognizing the majority of these people (of any age) never expect to be noticed intensifies my gratitude,” says Christopher. “People see something that they know they have the power to change or improve upon and they choose to do something about it. Sometimes they do it alone. And sometimes it takes a group or their community. Not only are our proactive efforts self-fortifying, they embolden others. That is how positive change takes place and carries on.” In The Bridge Paradigm: A Spiritual Path to Un-Fooling Ourselves and Social Responsibility, author Valerie Christopher thoughtfully puts forth steps towards self-examination so that we are better poised to be effective agents of change in a manner that maintains its viability.
In addition, she describes various scenarios, and countless insidious circumstances and state of affairs that are too often overlooked or discounted. “We see so many things right before our eyes and walk around or past them because they have become part of the everyday landscape. Some people just chalk it up as normal or common,” Christopher explains. In her book she discusses why it is essential for us to determine what kinds of common things are hurting us, and why they should not be considered normal. We have heard the saying: “It takes a village to raise a child.” It takes a community to remind us what we learned from our villages.
Drawing from her own personal experiences as well as cultural and societal influences and confluences, Valerie Christopher takes you on a quest to expand your consciousness and enhance your accountability through the psychological and developmental minefields we all must traverse and master.
Our mental and moral distortions are the result of far too many overlooked or dismissed attitudes, dispositions, and actions. Within these pages, Christopher shares an enlightened approach to resolving the complex challenges we face, both as individuals and as members of the larger human community. She also addresses the compelling and crucial distinctions between what we accept and what we can change. A favorable shift of the core societal archetype is possible, and she explains how we can start the long, healing journey back to accountability and community together.
The Bridge Paradigm exposes the infrastructural conditioning that produces and sustains these errors, and goes on to explain proactive corrective measures. Rather than a quick fix, Christopher offers a thoughtfully constructed means to a deep, evolutionary transformation. Sustainable social responsibility and full accountability on a fair playing field are within our reach. A seismic, life-stirring force for social rebirth, The Bridge Paradigm: A Spiritual Path to Un-Fooling Ourselves and Social Responsibility will resonate with anyone who wishes to play a part in healing what hurts us as a society—reconstructing our cultural perspective and achieving pervasive affective and cognitive transformation.
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The Promise of Fate : Sarah Margolis Pearce
The Promise of Fate
The Promise of Fate is set in the fictional Northern California town of Remington River. A work of historical fiction, suspense and mystery, the story spans nearly one hundred years.
From the rough mining days at the turn of the twentieth century, where the young wanderer, Asper Wingfield, falls for a beautiful Maidu woman, to modern times when another wanderer stumbles upon a long kept secret that endangers his very life.
As the characters’ lives intertwine with events in Remington River, fates are questioned, challenged and accepted.
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We Journey No More : Sahara Foley
We Journey No More : A Time Travel Adventure
When runaway teenagers Don and Janet pull off the road on a mountainside road just outside of Albuquerque for a few hours’ rest, they don’t expect to wake up 1000 years in the future, in a world they can’t recognize.
There, Earth is a desert planet where nomadic tribes are little more than slaves to the Ganu, the powerful and dominant ruling tribe.
When the young couple is befriended by a small tribe, and Don is hailed as their mythical and prophesied savior, the young couple must use all their cunning and resourcefulness to defeat a powerful, cruel enemy and save the lives of their new friends.
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The Excalibur Parchment : Barrie Doyle
The Excalibur Parchment
When does a legend become reality? A famous icon is now the tool to extinguish democracy and freedom across Europe and North America, destroy Christianity along with other religions and force a return to the supernatural bloody faith of the druids.
A lowly 12th century Welsh monk, Thomas, is assigned a task that sets in motion a horrific journey which will test his mettle, his faith and his abilities. He must protect the secret of Excalibur, King Arthur’s sword, and keep it out of the hands of a cruel Druid who seeks the sword’s mythical supernatural power.
Centuries later, American journalist Stone Wallace also has a mission: to prove the existence of the sword, find it, and prevent global disaster at the hands of the reawakened Druids. From Washington to London and Venice to Wales, the hunt for Excalibur gets bloodier and bloodier.
The key is Excalibur. Is it real? The battle is waged over two tumultuous centuries. Can the druids force modern societies to embrace their pagan, satanic religion and throw off democracy? Can Stone thwart terrorist attacks on Britain’s Royal Family and will the US Presidency fall into Druid hands?
The Excalibur Parchment. Book 1 of The Oak Grove Conspiracies.
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A Garage Full of Ferraris : Keith Johnston
Every organization needs leadership. The organizations that achieve the most are usually the ones that have the strongest leaders.
This book highlights the careers of a group of people who have achieved significant success in their lives who understand leadership.
You will learn: • How ordinary people overcome obstacles to achieve their dreams
• What role mentors play in your success and how to find a mentor
• How to change culture and bring about change
• The importance of having a vision and how to create a powerful vision even if you do not believe you are a visionary.
• Practical, simple approaches to motivate your team.
The stories in this book are not about the chief executive officers of multinational corporations or world leaders, but rather about people challenged to achieve significant goals by working through other people. These are the people who know how to lead and know how to unleash the potential in their high-performance teams to drive extraordinary results.
Some of the people I showcase consider themselves natural leaders, while others have never thought of themselves as leaders at all, but all of them have faced the challenge of having to use leadership skills to achieve an objective. Their advice comes from organizations of all shapes and sizes because leadership does not come in one form.
You can influence the people working for you and achieve the kind of success that you desire no matter your company’s size. What leaders have in common is they achieve success by influencing people. They show courage in the face of adversity and they dare to be different.
The Anuvi Incident : James Vincett
The Anuvi Incident
Lt. Cmdr Joshua McFinn of the Union Imperial Navy stumbles upon a conspiracy at the heart of the Fifth Fleet, a plan that will lead to war with Humanity’s most implacable and vicious enemy, the Naati, and shake the very foundations of the Union government.
At the same time, Captain William Osatari Bandele and the crew of the exploration vessel HSS Vitus Bering discover a mysterious and powerful alien artifact, hundreds of thousands of years old, in the Neutral Zone between the Hominin Union and the Naati Hegemony.
As both Humanity and the Naati race to investigate and ultimately claim the ancient alien device, the bitter enemies are driven to the very edge of total conflict.
The secrets uncovered during these events will have a profound and lasting effect on the fate of both Humanity and the Naati in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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The Nexus: Samhain : Ian Cadena
The Nexus: Samhain
Max Dane, an eleven-year-old boy turning twelve on Halloween, has just moved to Ravencrest, Vermont where the parnamoral is the norm.
Halloween, also known as Samhain—the night when the veil between our world and the next is the thinnest—is the most magical night of the year. Max’s visions keep taking him back to Samhain during the middle ages where he meets a tortured soul in the form of an eight-year-old boy named Jack.
Max decides he’s going to help release Jack from his torment even if it costs him his own sanity. His only chance at doing that is to traverse the Nexus and brave a fierce entity known as the Knightmare. And to traverse the Nexus he must explore mystical and spiritual practices like drumming, meditation and tarot, which launch him not only through the Nexus but on a journey of self-discovery that he may regret.
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The Diary of Horace Wilt : John Money
The Diary of Horace Wilt is the tragicomic first half of the story of a young man’s attempts to find his feet in this world. And his hands, his legs, his appearance – and even a girlfriend.
Dogged by an awkward name, a scatty mother, the mysterious and seductive Elspeth, a hundred hang-ups and an innate ability to mess things up in the most embarrassing ways, Horace Wilt somehow succeeds.
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Twisted Daisy : C. M. Smith
“Devil Child!”
That’s what Daisy’s mother calls her.
Devil Child. Useless. Loner.
Daisy thinks she’s all these things until she’s pulled into the Sister World. A world just like our own where magic is free to exist and mermaids rule the Undersea.
Here she is valuable. Here the world’s future depends on her. Here she is their only hope.
But not everyone sees her this way. There is a monster terrorising the Sister World and he is intent on destroying Daisy.
And as Daisy grows and learns more about herself the more she fears her mother was right all along.
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Hidden Agendas : Claire Riddick
Hidden Agendas
After the disappearance of her fiancé, Caffrey Hansen’s life is in limbo, until she aids a dying man in a traffic accident on a busy Atlanta street.
With his last breath, the man entrusts her with a tiny disc that can only be read by an alien machine. When Caffrey returns to her office, a stranger touches her face, leaving her sick and disoriented. In a matter of hours, she becomes an unwilling messenger on the run, not knowing who to trust, driven to find people she has never met, intent on protecting a secret she cannot remember.
One man, Brad “Mace” Mason, knows if Caffrey is captured by the alien faction currently controlling the Earth-Hurratt Alliance, the aliens could wipe her mind clean and place her in a new life. Can Mace protect her from such a fate, or is he already too late?
