You haven't started life; you only believe you have because that's all you know! Things you've come to embrace are the very things keeping you sick, worried, confused, and defeated. Have you wondered why things are the way they are? Ever asked why do I feel up one day, down the next? Life is not the roller coaster you've allowed it to be. You are the operator at the amusement park, learn to apply the brakes to the rides and move toward your destiny. Paying a toll as you go through life is not reality, as you've experienced for years. Take the wheel then shift to cruise control. The toll booths are there to slow you down, so you're going to have to simply push ahead. Embrace wisdom, understanding, and new direction. Finding true life begins now. You're about to escape from living in fictional existence.

Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twenty years later the material was published by Johann Froben (Basel 1518). It was an immediate success and was reprinted thirty times in the next four years. For the edition of March 1522 Erasmus began to add fully developed dialogues, and a book designed to improve boys' use of Latin (and their deportment) soon became a work of literature for adults, although it retained traces of its original purposes. The final Froben edition (March, 1533) had about sixty parts, most of them dialogues. It was in the last form that the Colloquies were read and enjoyed for four centuries. For modern readers it is one of the best introductions to European society of the Renaissance and Reformation periods, with lively descriptions of daily life and provocative discussions of political, religious, social, and literary topics, presented with Erasmus's characteristic wit and verve. Each colloquy has its own introduction and full explanatory, historical, and biographical notes. Volumes 39 and 40 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series - Two-volume set.

Magickal Verse is a collection of poetry and prose that reflects the creative process that has arisen from my chosen spiritual path and the years of study, teaching and experience gathered from a hunger to know who and what I am in this lifetime's journey. I have used the forms of poetry, prose and pathworking as the basis of these writings. I love to use poetry as a tool to directly inspire the subconscious. Much like the dream state this style of expression allows the images to form and the space of response to fill in the blanks for the reader's individual interpretation. A few short stories are included that hold many levels of interpretation beyond the simple tale told; each a lesson to be learned as the reality of the mundane and the surreal nature of the mysteries are revealed.