Bøger af Kurt Johnson

A collection of talks from the Community of The Mystic Heart Retreat on The Nine Elements of Mature Interspirituality by Br. Wayne Teasdale.

Raystar of Terra, a thirteen-year-old girl fighting against enemies determined to steal the genetic code of the long-lost, deadly nanotechnology that exists in her blood, remains the only Human left on the planet Nem'. Her main antagonist, Godwill, wants to harvest this Human technology for his own power, but to do so, he must kill her. Even though Raystar is facing bone-deep, mean-and-ugly enemies like Godwill, she also has allegiances: REALLY bizarre but loyal friends and an adoptive family, who, like herself, are fighting for survival and carrying hardened scars from both flight and fight. As an alien among aliens, Raystar must ultimately count on her own imagination, intelligence, and fearless perseverance. For her, there are no walls except those created by her own self-doubt, illusory limits that only she can shatter by freeing her unique power and her extraordinary potential as a human being.

This book details the vision of interspirituality within a comprehensive and powerful synthesis of world religions and spirituality, the discoveries of modern science, and the developmental and evolutionary view of history. It is the first book to review and predict the ongoing history of world religions and spirituality in the context of developmental history, the evolutionary consciousness movement, and current scientific understandings of anthropology, human cognitive development, brain/mind and scientific consciousness studies. This book addresses Brother WayneTeasdale's vision of "The Interspiritual Age," a vision that parallels the equally well-known and publicized visions of the world's developmental and evolutionary consciousness movements (known therein as coming "Integral Age" or "Age of Evolutionary Consciousness") and the international humanist movement (known therein as the emerging "international Ethical Manifold"). As such The Coming Interspiritual Age is the first synthesis of interfaith and interspirituality with the popular writings of integral leaders Ken Wilber and Don Beck. The book includes provocative sections regarding the inherent unity within the world's religious and spiritual understanding (especially their shared mystical understandings), the relationship of these and modern scientific studies of consciousness and brain/mind, the developmental and evolutionary views of history, the inevitable ongoing processes of world globalization and multiculturalism, the emergent understanding of the Divine Feminine, the nature of spiritual experience and the reputed spirit realms, and the various predictions around and surrounding the year 2012. The book concludes with extensive "how-to" sections regarding the development and practice of interspirituality as it can happen both within the world's current religious traditions as well as in new, creative and entrepreneurial settings worldwide.

Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and a 2022 Great Group Reads Selection "The Barrens grabbed me from the opening pages and never let go."—Michael Punke, author of The Revenant Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled paddlers she trained with at camp, and she wants to share that experience with her friend and lover, Lee, believing it will draw them closer. But a week in, Holly, the risk-taker, falls while taking a selfie near the edge of a cliff. She is left injured and comatose, and soon dies. Their locator beacon for summoning rescue was smashed in Holly’s fall. It remains to Lee, the inexperienced paddler, to continue the grueling and dangerous trip alone, to save herself and return her lover’s body to civilization and Holly’s family. In their relationship, Holly and Lee had always told each other stories; Lee had called Holly a “storyist.” Storytelling helps Lee endure the rigors of her journey and engage her grief as she explores her relationship with Holly while chronicling her own coming-of-age off the grid in Nebraska with her estranged eco-anarchist father, who is now serving time in prison.

During the 1940s Vladimir Nabokov was an acknowldged experts in Blues, a diverse group of Latin American butterflies. This book, which is part biography, explores the worldwide crisis in biodiversity and the place of butterflies in Nabokov's fiction.