Sam Shannon suffers from deep depression due to lack of meaning in his life. A group of six friends knows that Sam has the potential of becoming a spiritual warrior, one who fights evil where it is born on the astral plane of existence. Dave, the leader of the group, tries to encourage Sam to embark on a vision quest to find the purpose of his life. Sam is too fearful to go, having lost control of his mind for three days the last time he touched the spiritual realm. Sam swears never to journey into alternate dimensions again, but a lethal threat to himself and to his friends forces him to break his oath. Dave invites the group to his cabin in the woods with the secret intention of encouraging Sam to overcome his fears. Nan, a woman jealous of Sam's spiritual potential, hires her former boyfriend, Bulldog, to ensure Sam never reaches spiritual warrior status. Dave realizes Nan's intentions to do Sam harm. He and the others plan to save Sam, but Nan, having spiritual gifts of her own, creates etheric prisons that capture the group's minds and souls. Sam learns of his friends' plight and must overcome his fear of journeying into the astral plane if he is to save their souls. Sam must slay his own inner demons before saving his friends, and must also face the more difficult challenge of defeating the evil inside Nan.

Today, online technologies are at the core of most fields of engineering and society as a whole . This book discusses the fundamentals, applications and lessons learned in the field of online and remote engineering, virtual instrumentation, and other related technologies like Cross Reality, Data Science & Big Data, Internet of Things & Industrial Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, Cyber Security, and M2M & Smart Objects. Since the first Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV) conference in 2004, the event has focused on the use of the Internet for engineering tasks, as well as the related opportunities and challenges. In a globally connected world, interest in online collaboration, teleworking, remote services, and other digital working environments is rapidly increasing. In this context, the REV conferences discuss fundamentals, applications and experiences in the field of Online and Remote Engineering as well as Virtual Instrumentation. Furthermore, the conferences focus on guidelines and new concepts for engineering education in higher and vocational education institutions, including emerging technologies in learning, MOOCs & MOOLs, and open resources. This book presents the proceedings of REV2020 on “Cross Reality and Data Science in Engineering” which was held as the 17th in series of annual events. It was organized in cooperation with the Engineering Education Transformations Institute and the Georgia Informatics Institutes for Research and Education and was held at the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia in Athens (GA), USA, from February 26 to 28, 2020.

"Robert Thurman is a living treasure, one of today's most provocative spiritual thinkers." - Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence Robert Thurman, the preeminent scholar and interpreter of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy for the modern world, leads us on a joyful exploration into the nature of reality through Buddha's threefold curriculum of "super-education." "Buddha had to be an educator, rather than a prophet or religion founder, since he had achieved his goal of exact and complete understanding of reality by using reason, experiments to open his own mind, and vision to do so," Thurman writes. "From his own experience, he could help [others] as a teacher by streamlining the process. He could not just transplant his realization into their minds. They could not get their own realizations just by believing whatever he said. He could only provide them with a prospect of full realization along a path of learning and experiencing they could follow-they would have to travel on their own." This book is your invitation to travel that same road. Deeply felt and bracingly direct, it doesn't teach about the teaching-it is the teaching. Get ready to get real, and have fun along the way, as you chart a path to reliable, lasting happiness.

A compilation of knowledge collected from several researchers in the field of interactive systems, offering an overview of the different parts of the environment that must be taken into account to develop a quality interactive systems from the software engineering discipline.