As a graduate student, Karen Glumm experienced two grand mal seizures and was placed on medication. After months of reading, Glumm realized she had experienced partial seizures as a child, but had accepted them as a regular fact of life and not a serious medical condition. This acceptance stemmed from her alcoholic parent's coping strategy of hiding deficiencies and deviations from normal behavior in order to continue drinking. Glumm mirrored this in her behavior regarding the new and confusing seizures she experienced. In this medical biography, Glumm relates her erratic behavior as an undiagnosed epileptic, a gradual acceptance of the condition, and her hard-won success as a college student and Ph.D. with humor and honesty.

This book is the first published book by His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, who was Pope and Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church. He began writing this book as articles in the Sunday School magazine, before he joined the monastery and completed it as a monk. "Release of the Spirit," means its release from whatever hinders its liberty and its way to God.

Surely this is the hour when the battleground is in the soul. While the Lord is seeking to work through the quickened spirit. Satan is seeking to work throught the natural, soulish life which has not been brought under control of the spriit.

What are angels like? How many kinds are there? Are mental disorders caused by their influence? Long favored by scholars, this classic has now been rewritten to give us accessible scriptural answers to our questions about the spirit world.

What are spiritual prisons? Spiritual Prisons are holding places for individuals who have been arrested in the spiritual realm. People who are arrested in the spiritual realm often wonder what is taking place with their lives, it seem as if they are doing hard times. Unbeknown to many those who are held as spiritual prisoners are experiencing a strategic spiritual warfare assault launched against them. When a person's life has been caged, it appears many things are out of reach which at one time seem obtainable. The breakthroughs seem so close, but yet obtaining it is difficult. This is the time to make up your mind that “enough is enough” and seek God for your strategic plan of warfare.

The famous author shows how to break the outer man so as to release the spirit within.