Swimming in the Ocean of the Divine

Swimming in the Ocean of the Divine
Author: Catherine Kominos
Publisher: LULU
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1483410609

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It was January 1, 2000, when author Catherine Kominos received a call from God-an invitation to set sail on an odyssey of discovery, remembrance, and inner growth. Easily seduced by the divine's transcendent gifts, she accepted the invitation. Only after the ship had sailed did the perils of the journey and the sacrifices demanded by it become evident. In this personal narrative, Kominos shares her personal odyssey of spiritual growth and transformation from a Pentagon engineer to guru. Accustomed to looking outside of herself for fulfillment, her experiences showed her nothing external is permanent, nor can the external fulfill the deep longing within for something more. A hero's journey through love, loss, and rebirth, Swimming in the Ocean of the Divine spans adventures through unconceivable calamities, misfortunes, pilgrimages, and moments of unforgettable spiritual bliss. Kominos discovers the power of love, forgiveness, and the courage to face life's challenges with grace.

Swimming in the Ocean of Consciousness

Swimming in the Ocean of Consciousness
Author: Elsio Eybrecht
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2019-09-18
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1982234288

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Are you ready to take a swim in the Ocean of Consciousness? Do you long for clarity? Happiness? Maybe there is an elusive goal that you have had difficulty reaching? To be the person you want to be, on the terms you want, you need to engage your mental, emotional and physical “Self.” If you have ever felt as though you were plateaued or just plain stuck in one or more areas of your life, Certified Holistic Health and Life Coach Elsio Eybrecht explains how to get unstuck and achieve the life you desire and deserve. He takes you by the hand and guides you on a swim in the Ocean of Consciousness to discover your true “Self.” Eybrecht has spent a lifetime pursuing excellence in both his professional and personal life. Swimming in the Ocean of Consciousness is a step-by-step plan to help others attain the same results in less time. From guided meditations to self-evaluation checklists, he kick-starts the reader on his or her own path to greatness. His philosophy begins with reshaping the mindset as the first step to changing one’s life. Eybrecht calls upon his personal experiences as well as knowledge acquired from mentors to work through the unexpected and the negative circumstances that seemingly knock people off kilter and are the sources of most struggle. He is a teacher crafted from the experience of rebuilding his own life from the ground up on more than one occasion and from more than one type of circumstance. His journey has been one of physical battles, spiritual questioning and emotional scars. Like most of people, Eybrecht has had his share of challenges, however he has learned the methods necessary to do more than overcome. He has found that within failure lies one step closer to success. In this book, he shares his insight and clarity as a means of giving back to humanity. In Swimming in the Ocean of Consciousness, he invites the reader to embark on a journey beginning with the first steps necessary to produce the building skills required to create the best version of one’s “Self.”

The Ocean Is Alive

The Ocean Is Alive
Author: Glenn Edney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2016-04-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780473352608

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The Ocean covers over 70 percent of our planet's surface and accounts for 97-99 percent of the liveable biosphere. She is the cradle of our existence and the heart of our blue home, a vast, living and breathing superorganism. The Ocean Is Alive is first and foremost a celebration of the Ocean in all her living splendour. It takes the reader on a fascinating and informative voyage of discovery into the blue heart our planet, from the Ocean's formation more than four billion years ago and the emergence of life deep below her surface, to the incredible diversity and exuberance we know today. But much more than this, it is a journey of discovery into Ocean consciousness: through the evolution of the senses, the emergence of sentient behaviour, and finally an intriguing exploration of what the author calls 'Ocean Mind'. In telling the Ocean's story Glenn Edney draws on his thirty years experience as an Ocean ecologist, underwater naturalist and professional diver to take us beyond the science and into the depths of what it is like to be an Ocean being. Using a combination of personal experience, stories and insights from others, along with guided visualizations, the author weaves a highly readable and thought provoking tale of an Ocean alive to itself, and alive to anyone willing to 'take the plunge'. But no contemporary story of the Ocean would be complete without investigating the current threats to the Ocean's wellbeing. In addressing these issues the author presents a compelling case for recognition of the Ocean as a living being with intrinsic value far beyond the benefits she provides humanity, and offers a new vision for our relationship with the living Ocean.

The Children of Noah

The Children of Noah
Author: Raphael Patai
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1999-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780691009681

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The late Raphael Patai recreates the fascinating world of Jewish seafaring, from Noah's voyage through the Diaspora of late antiquity. Patai weaves together Biblical stories, Talmudic lore, and Midrash literature to bring alive the world of these ancient mariners. Illustrations.

With Roots and Wings

With Roots and Wings
Author: Jay B. McDaniel
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2009-06-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1606088424

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In With Roots & Wing, Jay McDaniel brings together insights from the natural sciences, Christian theology, and interreligious dialogue, breaking new ground in the search for a wholistic spirituality for our time. Taking this title from the Jewish proverb--that we must give our children both roots and wings--McDaniel shows how this applies to our spiritual lives as well. With Roots and Wings offers an alternative to the contemporary dilemmas of empty consumerism and rigid fundamentalism, consisting of three basic, interrelated approaches to being: to be rooted in the Earth and religious tradition; to be open to the insights of people of other faiths as well as to share our own; and to become centered on God. McDaniel shows where the new universe story of Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme and the Christian story meet and differ, where they complement, and where they supplement one another. With Roots & Wings shows how to experience both green grace that comes from opening one's self to the rhythms of the cosmos, and red grace symbolized in the crucifixion of Christ--both of which are vital to a Christian ecological spirituality and praxis. Most impressive is McDaniel's ability to absorb and reflect important lessons Christians can learn from Native Americans, from Buddhists and Hindus, from Muslims and Jews. The complexity of the issues he addresses and his ability to explain them simply and clearly makes With Roots and Wingsmust-reading for the general reader as well as ecological activists, clergy, and laity alike. Nothing else comes near it in depth, power, and insight.

The Resonance of Allah

The Resonance of Allah
Author: M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Publisher: The Fellowship Press
Total Pages: 806
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780914390619

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At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean

At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean
Author: Steve Mentz
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2009-10-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441125922

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We need a poetic history of the ocean, and Shakespeare can help us find one. There's more real salt in the plays than we might expect. Shakespeare's dramatic ocean spans the God-sea of the ancient world and the immense blue vistas that early modern mariners navigated. Throughout his career, from the opening shipwrecks of The Comedy of Errors through The Tempest, Shakespeare's plays figure the ocean as shocking physical reality and mind-twisting symbol of change and instability. To fathom Shakespeare's ocean - to go down to its bottom - this book's chapters focus on different things that humans do with and in and near the sea: fathoming, keeping watch, swimming, beachcombing, fishing, and drowning. Mentz also sets Shakespeare's sea-poetry against modern literary sea-scapes, including the vast Pacific of Moby-Dick, the rocky coast of Charles Olson's Maximus Poems, and the lyrical waters of the postcolonial Caribbean. Uncovering the depths of Shakespeare's maritime world, this book draws out the centrality of the sea in our literary culture.

Billion Suns Rising

Billion Suns Rising
Author: Aarthi Bellary
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2022-12-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

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A trespasser enters her life slowly and sneakily, pushing her into a dark tunnel of emotions. Is there light at the end of the tunnel? She navigates through the tunnel and finds beauty, joy and hope in the tiniest of ordinary things. Embracing grief, finding inspiration from the Divine Universe and weaving words into poetry, she takes you through her journey. You can't help but identify that it’s your journey too and together see a billion suns rising and witness glorious dawn. It is mystically sensual.

The lord of the Alpharia Ocean

The lord of the Alpharia Ocean
Author: K. Shajahan
Publisher: Sha K
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

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Nicky is a thirteen-year-old boy, the son of a merchant navy officer. He loves his father very much. As life goes on happily, a tragedy comes into their life when the pirates hijacked his father’s ship. Nicky's father is being held captive by pirates. The news upset Nicky. To comfort him, his grandmother tells him the story of a savior with supernatural powers who lives in the sea called Sea Lord. As Nicky was hopeless, he believed in that savior at that disturbing time. So he comes to the sea at night in search of that Savior, the Sea Lord. Upon reaching the shore, he decided, to travel a few distances in the ocean and call the Sea Lord. He found an old small wooden boat on the shore. He pushed the boat into the water. And then slowly moved forward on the swaying waves. On that journey across the ocean in a small boat, Nicky moved far from the shore in the flow of waves and reached the deep sea. Though unexpectedly he reached the middle of the ocean, Nicky had no fear at the thought of his father, who was waiting for death in front of the pirate’s gun. As his burning mind was with his father, he didn’t notice that he was in the middle of the ocean. In the serenity of the ocean visible in the light of the moonlight, he hopefully called his savior, the Sea lord. But no one heard his call. Time was running out. He continued that call with hope. He saw no one in the desolate sea. Fear and despair paralyzed him. At that moment, he drank a little water from the ocean without remembering that it was salty seawater. But to his surprise, he tasted the pure water. At the same time, he could see another wonderful thing, blue-colored water like a stream flowing on the surface of the ocean. His boat was on that current. He drank some more water from it again. In that amazing experience, he got a revival again by forgetting everything for a while. In that joy, he called his savior again. This time a large tortoise, his name was also Sea Lord, heard Nicky’s call and came near to his boat and started talking to him. When Nicky is amazed at seeing a talking tortoise, the tortoise tells him that Nicky had accidentally drunk the water of the mystic Alpharia River, which is the divine water of spirits that flows in the ocean. It is invisible to humans. As he has drunk the secret water, there will be some pros and cons as a result. He will be able to hear and talk to ocean creatures and other animals and birds, he can live in the water as he lives on the land, and he can see the roaming spirits. Likewise, there will be trouble, which is that he will be invisible to humans after five days. The tortoise also describes the complex way to get out of that invisibility. But nothing came to Nicky’s thought, which was melting over his father's condition in the clutches of pirates. He told the tortoise of his sad story. Seeing his grief, the tortoise called his friend, the leader of the seagulls, to find a way to help him. Meanwhile, a storm had formed in the ocean. Sea creatures saved Nicky from the storm, taking him on top of a dolphin to a secret mountain range called the Alpharia mountain range in the ocean, which is the source of the Alpharia River. It is a secret place invisible to humans. In the Alpharia mountain range, Nicky saw the soul of a Shaolin monk in the pool of spirits where the spirits came to drink water. Nicky told his story to the spirit and asked for help to save his father from pirates. As the monk was not able to come with Nicky, he taught Nicky a secret martial art called Dragon Kung Fu. Nicky and his ocean friends continue their journey finding a way to locate the ship that was hijacked by the pirates. At that time, another roaming spirit they found in the sea. Nicky requested his help. He gave a solution to find out the hijacked ship. Accordingly, Nicky and his team advanced quickly to locate the ship. At the end of that adventurous and complicated ocean journey, they reached the ship. With the help of the sea creatures, mainly the seagulls, Nicky confronts the pirates by showing his skill of Dragon Kung Fu that he learned from the Shaolin monk. He appears in front of the pirates as an epic character called the Lord of the Alpharia Ocean. Nicky subdues the pirates and releases his father and crew. Although Nicky was able to successfully carry out that mission with the abilities he gained by drinking the waters of the mysterious Alpharia River, there is a challenge to face, the invisibility that happens after five days. He will disappear from human sight. He knows that will be another tragedy for his family and for him To escape from that great trouble, he needs to find and drink special honey that can be seen in the icy Arctic tundra. His friends, the ocean creatures, comfort him by assuring their help in that mission. But before that, there were some more tasks he had to fulfill.

Ocean

Ocean
Author: Steve Mentz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501348647

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our relationship with the natural environment. Our engagement with the world's oceans can be destructive, as with today's deluge of plastic trash and acidification, but the mismatch between small bodies and vast seas also emphasizes the frailty and resilience of human experience. From ancient stories of shipwrecked sailors to the containerized future of 21st-century commerce, Ocean splashes the histories we thought we knew into salty and unfamiliar places. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.