Zen From the Heartland Robert L. Schrag, Ph.D. http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3466 en 2009 Zen From the Heartland chronicles chord theory unfolding in a life; mine. Harmony defines our lives; we do not choose that reality, it is the unalterable organizing structure of the universe. We can, as they say in gangster movies, “do this hard, or do this easy.” Most often, when we “do it hard” we introduce discord into our lives by failing to recognize the harmonic elements in every moment of the present. Zen From the Heartland records my attempts to recognize those harmonic moments and to understand what they teach me about living. healing the of of Zen Spirituality metaphysics universe “theoretical physics” “string theory” theory” theory” “nature universe” “super “super string symmetry” “brane “m-theory” “peace mind” http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3466.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3466.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3466.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3466.mobi The God Chord: String Theory In The Landscape of the Heart Robert L. Schrag, Ph.D. http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624 en 2008 String theory [ST] is a relatively recent development in theoretical physics that reveals the fundamental, irreducible building block of the universe to be an inconceivably tiny vibrating string. Everything is built of these strings. Hence, ST posits a universe made of music. This work examines the implications of ST in a landscape seen as remote from physics, the human heart. As such it is an exploration of ST in the harmonic nature of life, existence, love, God and the universe. healing Zen Spirituality theoretical physics string theory metaphysics nature of the universe super string theory brane theory peace of mind universe theory of everything harmony meaning http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.mobi A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901 urn:isbn:0803280041 en 1920 Novels Science Fiction A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into the metaphysical heart of the universe, and a shockingly intimate excursion into what makes us human and unique. After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. As he journeys northward, guided by a drumbeat, he encounters a world and its inhabitants like no other, where gender is a victory won at dear cost; where landscape and emotion are drawn into an accursed dance; where heroes are killed, reborn, and renamed; and where the cosmological lures of Shaping, who may be God, torment Maskull in his astonishing pilgrimage. At the end of his arduous and increasingly mystical quest waits a dark secret and an unforgettable revelation. A Voyage to Arcturus was the first novel by writer David Lindsay (1878–1945), and it remains one of the most revered classics of science fiction. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/901.mobi Before Adam Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2854 urn:isbn:0803279930 en 1907 Novels Adventure A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-Tooth makes his home in Pleistocene Africa, a ferocious, fascinating younger world torn by incessant conflict between early humans and protohumans. Before Adam is a remarkable and provocative tale that thrust evolution further into the public spotlight in the early twentieth century and has since become a milestone of speculative fiction. The brilliance of the book lies not only in its telling but also in its imaginative projection of a mindset for early humans. Capitalizing on his recognized ability to understand animals, Jack London paints an arresting and dark portrait of how our distant ancestors thought about themselves and their world. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2854.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2854.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2854.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2854.mobi The Invisible Man H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34 urn:isbn:0451528522 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells' novel was originally serialised in Pearson's Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/34.mobi A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2990 urn:isbn:1903436605 en 1596 Romance Plays A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2990.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2990.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2990.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2990.mobi Action Comics #1 Charles Wilkins and Ramon Villolobos http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4436 en 2006 Action Comics: Black Zero, Part 1: That Unnamed Feeling Comics witch DC2 Green Lantern Superman Lois Lane Lex Luthor http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4436.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4436.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4436.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4436.mobi Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lewis Wallace http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540 urn:isbn:1404185712 en 1880 Novels History Religion Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. Wallace's work is part of an important sub-genre of historical fiction set among the characters of the New Testament. The novel was a phenomenal best-seller; it soon surpassed Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the best-selling American novel and retained this distinction until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. The central character is Judah, prince of the Hebrew house of Hur. Judah grows up in Jerusalem, during the turbulent years around the birth of Christ. His best friend is Messala, a Roman. As adults Judah and Messala become rivals, each hating the other, which leads to Judah's downfall and eventual triumph. Elements of the story include leprosy, naval battles among galleys, the Roman hippodrome, Roman adoption, Magus Balthasar, the Arab sheikh Ilderim. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.mobi The Aeneid of Virgil (I-VI) Virgil http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076 urn:isbn:0199231958 en -29 Poetry The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half treats the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad; Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.mobi Ancient Celtic Myth, Magic, and Medicine Jonathan Klemens http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3762 en 2008 The ancient Celts were an enchanting and mysterious pre-Christian people with a romantic and legendary history - a people of heroes, wizards, and fairies. These indomitable clans, identified by their language and culture, migrated from Central Europe and populated much of Western Europe, Britain, and Ireland until they were supplanted by the Romans, and later, Christianity. Julius Caesar stated that the Celts (Gauls) were "brave, but headstrong and impetuous." Magic medicine King Author Arthuran Tales Celts Romans Druids wizards farries heroes Britons shamans dwarfs brownies leprechauns diety myth herbs Welsh oak Churchill http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3762.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3762.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3762.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3762.mobi The Art of War Niccolò Machiavelli http://www.feedbooks.com/book/204 urn:isbn:0226500462 en 1521 Non-Fiction War The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtù, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than the public good." To these ends, Machiavelli notes in his preface, the military is like the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents. Written between 1519 and 1520 and published the following year, it was the only historical or political work printed during Machiavelli's lifetime, though he was appointed official historian of Florence in 1520 and entrusted with minor civil duties. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/204.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/204.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/204.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/204.mobi The Prophet Kahlil Gibran http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843 urn:isbn:0394404289 en 1923 Poetry The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.mobi Siddhartha Hermann Hesse http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374 urn:isbn:0553208845 en 1922 Novels Philosophy Religion Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical, style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (gotten) + artha (meaning or wealth). The two words together mean "one who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals". The Buddha's name, before his renunciation, was Prince Siddhartha Gautama, later the Buddha. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama". Source: Wikipedia This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.mobi Discourse on the Method René Descartes http://www.feedbooks.com/book/677 urn:isbn:0872204200 en 1637 Non-Fiction Philosophy The Discourse on the Method is a philosophical and mathematical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Searching for Truth in the Sciences (French title: Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences). The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis" ("I think, therefore I am"), which occurs in Part IV of the work. (The similar statement in Latin, Cogito ergo sum, is found in §7 of Principles of Philosophy.) In addition, in one of its appendices, La Géométrie, is contained Descartes' first introduction of the Cartesian coordinate system. The Discourse on the Method is one of the most influential works in the history of modern science. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natural sciences could evolve. In this work, Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism which had been revived from the ancients such as Sextus Empiricus by authors such as Al-Ghazali and Michel de Montaigne. Descartes modified it to account for a truth that he found to be incontrovertible. Descartes started his line of reasoning by doubting everything, so as to assess the world from a fresh perspective, clear of any preconceived notions. The book was originally published in Leiden in French, together with his works "Dioptrique, Météores et Géométrie". Later, it was translated into Latin and published in 1656 in Amsterdam. Together with Meditations on First Philosophy (Meditationes de Prima Philosophia), Principles of Philosophy (Principia philosophiae) and Rules for the Direction of the Mind (Regulae ad directionem ingenii), it forms the base of the Epistemology known as Cartesianism. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/677.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/677.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/677.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/677.mobi Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183 urn:isbn:B001AAWVRY en 1615 Novels Humor/Satire Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.mobi The Royal Book of Oz Ruth Plumly Thompson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1934 urn:isbn:0486417662 en 1921 Novels Young Readers Fantasy The Scarecrow decides to search for his family tree and winds up discovering that he is the long-lost Emperor of the Silver Island. Along the way, he meets such colorful characters as the A-B-Sea Serpent, the lumpy mud men, Sir Hokus of Pokes, and others. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1934.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1934.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1934.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1934.mobi Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz Robert J. Evans http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1944 urn:isbn:0738822558 en 2003 Novels Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1944.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1944.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1944.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1944.mobi The Forest Monster of Oz Robert J. Evans Chris Dulabone http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1946 en 2003 Novels Fantasy Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1946.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1946.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1946.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1946.mobi The Tin Woodman of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/322 urn:isbn:0688149766 en 1918 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/322.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/322.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/322.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/322.mobi The Lost Princess of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/320 urn:isbn:0688149758 en 1917 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/320.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/320.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/320.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/320.mobi The Patchwork Girl of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/315 urn:isbn:0688133541 en 1913 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/315.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/315.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/315.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/315.mobi The Emerald City of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/231 urn:isbn:0688115586 en 1910 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/231.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/231.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/231.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/231.mobi The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197 urn:isbn:0688166776 en 1900 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and deposited in a field in the country of the Munchkins. The falling house kills the Wicked Witch of the East. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.mobi The Magic of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/323 urn:isbn:0688149774 en 1919 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/323.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/323.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/323.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/323.mobi The Scarecrow of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/317 urn:isbn:0688147194 en 1915 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/317.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/317.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/317.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/317.mobi The Road to Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/218 urn:isbn:0688099971 en 1909 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/218.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/218.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/218.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/218.mobi Glinda of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/324 urn:isbn:0688149782 en 1920 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/324.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/324.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/324.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/324.mobi Ozma of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/205 urn:isbn:0688066321 en 1907 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/205.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/205.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/205.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/205.mobi