Heavenly Bodies and Human Things is a collection of poems that delve into living on the dark side. Unapologetically exploring the calm and chaos of the night, echoing the traumas of sexual assault, unrequited love, hope for an ex-lover, and a quest for home in a foreign land, the poems echo the intricacies of human emotions with brutal honesty.

This work (originally published in 1925) contributes to recognition of the feasibility of space travel. Treated are problems associated with leaving the earth, return to earth, free-space flight, circumnavigation of celestial objects, and landing on other celestial objects.

An intriguing visual history of the veneration in European churches and monasteries of bejeweled and decorated skeletons Death has never looked so beautiful. The fully articulated skeleton of a female saint, dressed in an intricate costume of silk brocade and gold lace, withered fingers glittering with colorful rubies, emeralds, and pearls—this is only one of the specially photographed relics featured in Heavenly Bodies. In 1578 news came of the discovery in Rome of a labyrinth of underground tombs, which were thought to hold the remains of thousands of early Christian martyrs. Skeletons of these supposed saints were subsequently sent to Catholic churches and religious houses in German-speaking Europe to replace holy relics that had been destroyed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. The skeletons, known as “the catacomb saints,” were carefully reassembled, richly dressed in fantastic costumes, wigs, crowns, jewels, and armor, and posed in elaborate displays inside churches and shrines as reminders to the faithful of the heavenly treasures that awaited them after death. Paul Koudounaris gained unprecedented access to religious institutions to reveal these fascinating historical artifacts. Hidden for over a century as Western attitudes toward both the worship of holy relics and death itself changed, some of these ornamented skeletons appear in publication here for the first time.

Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the world’s greatest works of art. These masterworks have, in turn, fueled the imaginations of fashion designers in the 20th and 21st centuries, yielding some of the most innovative creations in the history of fashion. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination explores fashion’s complex and often controversial relationship with Catholicism by examining the role of spirituality and religion in contemporary culture. This two-volume publication connects significant religious art and artifacts to their sartorial expressions. One volume features images of rarely seen objects from the Vatican —ecclesiastical garments and accessories—while the other focuses on fashions by designers such as Cristobal Balenciaga, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Madame Grès, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Jeanne Lanvin, Claire McCardell, Thierry Mugler, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Gianni Versace. Essays by art historians and leading religious authorities provide perspective on how dress manifests—or subverts—Catholic values and ideology.

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Transcending Highest Bliss to Lowest Loss Loving Is Love's Higher Consciousness This is in part a lesson of the journey from experiencing blissful Love, the deepest trust and respect in her eyes and smile to it being taken away completely in sorrowful tragedy and given to another. It means losing everything that is wonderful in life that had the most meaning...the muse that lights up her glowing heart. Lessons in miscommunication, loss of the beloved, feelings of despair and Rejection! The journey out of this darkness into light by accepting the essential changing within nature itself. Realising non/attachment, intrinsic flowing life energy, Love streaming consciousness telepathy. The mantra of the book, "Queen of Space, King of Flower Power, Dripping rainbows" was Sharing 'The Greatest Pleasure Is to Give Pleasure;' This book evolves to 'Love is Inside Each of us' Love is ultimately not the 'Love of the Object of Desires, ' but realising Love energy alive in us throughout this Quantum, infinite, perceptive, telepathic, Cosmic experience. Osho says, "It is not a question of being in Love with someone it's about being Love." Love doesn't go into non-existence when s/he walks out the door in scornful anger with blame and determination. That is Reality from where I see it, but I accept the Universe of Grace and stay Open hearted to Love. You really don't exist in her Reality anymore. Standing next to her she's completely unaware you're there and doesn't really care your heart is beating; 'Boom, boom, boom!' What are you doing, does anyone know and can they please enlighten me why; Love changes to denial? Each one is their own Cosmic soul and we were fulfilled in each other's groove grooving in magical bliss. Now you've no feeling to even give me a kiss. I cannot get over this change of feelings from her, why? It's True! Watch the mind, keep some level of Awareness of our responses, still be Kind, Sensitive, be a lovely friend, a Human being of the Universal Spirit, of the Feelings of a Muse's Heart. Do you realise what you're doing? Course you don't you're just loving for ego's infatuation! Keep some Space, Conscious equilibrium going through another sad, disappointing and shocking realisation of the loss of a LOVER She's really let you go and she's never comin' back mate. That's f... impossible for my Mind to grasp! There's No choice but to surrender your heart and spirit, to transcend this super emotional attachment; Throwing delusion in the Ocean to Survive! Swim for your Life, for your sanity of identity. Not guilty there is no guilt in Love your meaning of existence, Cosmic heartbeats and Love Itself fills us up. You suffered too. You did share our ecstatic love. You're being human. I am not blaming you. The Love is inside us. You're the Love. We are all free Love Consciousness. Here & Now in TimeSpace. Spiritual beyond the form, the Mind, duality. 'Hatred cannot cease by hate, only by Love and True forgiveness.' Love has no duality let Mind's objects go, be the Observer in the flow. Know the illusion, be happy. Stop thinking, allow feelings in the heart to transcend the terrible sense of losing Love when it is in us! Love & let live. Iit's that simple. Life force experiencing itself. The Universe Loves us Unconditionally. These books read like a diary of events in Sunny Jetsun's life and are shared openly with the sense of wonder and understanding and his inspired Stream of Consciousness. There's still the Epic, Mystic, Psychedelic, Dharmic, Surreal, Mythical, Supernatural, Buddhist, Poetic, Cosmic Multi*dimensions*.

THIS BOOK TAKES US ON A JOURNEY NEVER EXPLORED BEFORE OUR CONNECTION WITH ALIEN BEINGS FROM MARS AND THERE INTERACTION WITH BIBLICAL FIGURES AND HOW THEY ARE DESCRIBED IN LOST SCRIPTURES FOUND AT NAG HAMMADI AND THE DEAD SEA THIS IS A THEORY BUT I FEEL A PLAUSIBLE ONE. JOIN ME AND PEEK YOUR CURIOSITY WONDER HAS I DID HOW OUR ANCESTORS COULD HAVE HAD SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE COSMOS AND THE UNIVERSE YEARS BEFORE WE DID AND WHY THIS INFORMATION WAS HIDDEN