This book of exquisite photographs arises from the premise that unless we love nature, we will not work to save it from exploitation and eventual destruction. The rich mixture of photographs, Zen poems and essays presented on these pages is intended to open our hearts to the wild and the wilderness, and to direct us to the ways in which we can heal the earth. The author is an award-winning photographer and videographer and his art and wildlife photography from the core of a unique teaching programme that integrates art and wilderness training and cultivates an experiential appreciation of the relationship of Zen spirituality to our natural environment.

Homosexuality is one of the most controversial moral issues of our day. The time is ripe for people to think and speak about same-sex attraction in a way that is both biblical and beneficial.

Oceana & The Twenty-Four tell us that the Planet Earth is destined to be an enlightened planet. Oceana is a cluster of 24 enlightened beings in the Heavens and they and other groups are known as “The Guardians” who protect the Earth. Their message is of Love. They tell us how they began coming through Amritam in 1987 and Amritam tells her story about her lifelong love affair with the Divine that led her to study with enlightened masters and to trance-channel Oceana. Oceana mentions keys to how this world will come together through love, forgiveness, healing of the heart, caring, peace, meditation, joy, celebration and happiness. Oceana says that Love and Forgiveness are the biggest things that have to happen on our Earth. They explain how forgiveness raises your consciousness and is the key to awakening. Oceana is “calling” those souls who are ready to receive this important information. As you read this book you may remember why you have come here and what you’ll be doing to help raise your consciousness and awareness. They tell us that meditation is very, very important for all spiritual seekers and spiritual people and how it is important for people to train their mind, to allow them to go inside to their soul and balance mental, physical, emotional and spiritual bodies. In the book Oceana connects with the Absolute who tells us that all people are seeded with love in the heart. Selected great Oceana public talks are included. Also in the book Oceana gives many guided meditations on forgiveness, healing of the Heart and how to connect with your soul and the Divine that the reader can easily do on their own. There are many testimonials from dedicated students so the reader can appreciate such wonderful spiritual masters like Oceana and Amritam.

In Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Paul Kelleher revises the history of sexuality from the vantage point of the literary history of sentimentalism. Kelleher demonstrates how eighteenth-century British philosophers, essayists, and novelists fundamentally reconceived the relations among sentiment, sexuality, and moral virtue. It is his contention that sentimental discourse, both philosophical and literary, posited heterosexual desire as the precondition of moral feeling and conduct. The author further suggests that sentimental writers fashioned the ideal of conjugal love as an ideological antidote to the theories of self-love and self-interest found in the works of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Mandeville. Heterosexual desire and its culmination in conjugal love, in other words, were represented as the privileged means for an individual to transcend self-love and to develop a moral sensibility attuned to the thoughts and feelings of others. At the same time, Kelleher suggests, other pleasures and desires—particularly those rooted in same-sex eroticism—were increasingly depicted as antithetical to conjugal love and, thus, were morally devalued and socially disenfranchised. Kelleher's argument unfolds through close readings of a variety of texts, including Shaftesbury’s Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s the Tatler and the Spectator, Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess, Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, and Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. Although these texts embody diverse rhetorical strategies and thematic concerns, he shows how they collectively reinforce an overarching sentimental ideology: on the one hand, heterosexual desire and conjugal love become synonymous with sympathy, benevolence, and moral goodness, while on the other hand, same-sex desire is pathologized as a selfish withdrawal from procreation, domesticity, sociability, and ultimately, “humanity” itself.

IT'S NOT JUST SEX. IT'S NOT JUST LOVE. IT'S SOMETHING MORE.... But what could be better than sex? How about lovemaking that sweeps people into new realities, producing altered states of consciousness a thousand times more powerful than the most earth-shattering orgasm? Lovemaking so spectacular that it truly is a religious experience? Transcendent Sex is not about the "Tantric method." It is about the best-kept secret in human history: that ordinary people, with no special training, can find themselves in different spiritual realms when making love -- an experience so profound that nothing will ever be the same. It is about sex that triggers episodes identical to the highest spiritual states -- as described in the annals of shamanism, yoga, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam -- including visions, channeling, reliving past lives, transcending the laws of physics, and seeing the face of God. This revealing book tells of lovers who engaged in sex as usual and suddenly found the veil between the worlds torn open. Transcendent Sex, like any other spiritual awakening, changes lives. Atheists have become believers; long-standing psychological wounds have been healed; and the sexually abused have become whole. These are the inspiring, incredible true stories of people who experienced an ecstasy and fulfillment beyond the borders of this world.

Rowan Grace Brown age 34 moves to her father’s native Scotland to begin a new life. Divorced and needing a change she has always loved her father’s country and had planned to move before but didn’t have the courage to do so. Knowing that her Dad’s twin sister Grace would love for her to live with her Rowan takes a huge leap of faith and does just that. Plus there is Alex Corbett, a childhood friend in Rowan Tree, the town where she is going. She has said her prayers that she and Alex will become more than friends, packs her bags and moves to Scotland.